Is Heart Disease Chronic Vitamin C Deficiency?
According to researchers at the Linus Pauling Institute, heart disease and stroke are symptoms of a Vitamin C deficiency, also known as Scurvy!2,3 Strange as it may sound, the evidence supporting their hypothesis is compelling. We present it here, for educational purposes, because it is so interesting. According to their hypothesis, degenerative heart disease is chronic low-grade scurvy.2 It is the “chronic” part–the fact that this deficiency occurs slowly over time–that leads to atherosclerotic plaques. Cholesterol is put there on your blood vessel wall by the body as a repair mechanism–it is the body’s attempt to seal a crack or weak spot that has resulted from an inability of the body to produce the strengthening collagen, which in turn is the result of a Vitamin C deficiency. Cholesterol, the substance of which atherosclerotic plaques are made, is not by itself dangerous (it is, in fact, what your brain is made of). It is the presence of oxidized cholesterol on the arterial wall
