Answers to Frequently Asked Questions about the Pauling Therapy for Heart Disease

Canadian medical doctors, Willis and Paterson, as early as the 1940s and 1950s during a period when scientific interest in the vitamins (especially vitamin C) was running high, conducted controlled clinical experiments with animals and humans. These doctors knew the major functions of vitamin C in the body and they were able to show that the lack of vitamin C in the diet causes atherosclerosis in Guinea pigs, and that vitamin C supplements reversed atherosclerosis in human subjects. They were ignored but the science was first rate, especially for the time.

Pauling and his associate Rath, proposed and tested their unified theory, (which is largely based on findings that led to the 1985 Nobel prize in medicine), under tightly controlled, repeatable experimental conditions with Guinea pigs. These experiments proved that low vitamin C intake causes heart disease. These results were published in peer-reviewed scientific journals.

The truth is that while completely ignored, excellent science is behind every aspect of the Pauling claims and invention.

Note: We submitted (under the auspices of the Vitamin C Foundation) a comprehensive proposal in 1998 to the United States National Institutes of Health Office of Alternative Medicine. Our proposal, if funded, would have fairly evaluated the Pauling claim in a clinical setting. We proposed running two tests simultaneously using two different medical doctor (principal investigators) at two different clinics. One on the East coast and the other on the West coast. It would have been hard to deny results from such a Government/NIH sponsored BI-trial. We found medical doctors willing to conduct the study. However, we were turned down by the U. S. Government - twice.

Pauling and Rath, knowing why and how plaques form in blood vessels invented so-called Lp(a) binding inhibitors. Their three U. S. patents explain how these non-toxic substances act as plaque solvents.

Briefly, Lp(a) has lysine (and proline) receptors. You can think of a chemical receptor as a simple lock and key. Only one key (e.g. lysine) will fit into the lock (receptor on the Lp(a) molecule.) There may be multiple receptors on the molecule, but once they are all filled up with keys (lysine or proline) the Lp(a) molecule looses its ability to bind with any more "keys." When all the Lp(a) locks have keys, Lp(a) will no longer be able to create plaque.

Once Linus Pauling learned that Lp(a) has receptors for lysine, he knew how to counter the atherosclerosis process chemically. His invention, the Pauling Therapy, is to increase the concentration of this essential and non-toxic amino acid (and proline) in the blood serum. Lysine and proline supplements increase the concentration of free lysine and proline in the blood. The higher the concentration of the free lysine (and proline) in the blood, the more likely it is that Lp(a) molecules will bind with this lysine, rather than the lysine strands that have been exposed by cracks in blood vessels, or the other lysine that has been attracted to the Lp(a) already attached to the blood vessel wall. According to Pauling, a high concentration of free lysine can destroy existing plaques.

It is important to keep all this in perspective using the Pauling/Rath Unified theory. If you are not getting enough vitamin C to produce collagen, and your blood vessels are wearing down, then the Lp(a) plaque is of great benefit to you. Simply removing plaque without restoring the vein or artery to health is like tearing a scab off a wound. You do not want to remove the scab until after the tissue underneath has started healing. Your body needs sufficient vitamin C so your arteries can heal.

The Unified Theory blames mechanical stresses (high blood pressures, stretching and bending, etc.) on the blood vessels for exposing lysine that Lp(a) is attracted to. This explains why plaque doesn't always form. Atherosclerosis is a healing process. Like a scab, plaques form after a lesion or injury to the blood vessel wall.

Here is our speculation:

1. The Lp(a) proline binding site was discovered after the lysine binding site, and not until 1996 was proline shown to be a strong binding inhibitor by researchers at the University of Chicago. (Pauling died in August 1994.)
2. Unlike vitamin C and lysine, which are essential, meaning we must get some in our daily diet to live, the human body can make Proline. This makes it harder to determine a safe dosage on an individual basis because each person may be making different amounts of Proline in his or her cells.

Linus Pauling filmed this video no doubt because he believed that early cardiovascular products being developed, and coming on to the market at that time, would be ineffective; he wanted to set the record straight. These products claim to be based on this discovery, and yet they contain much less than sufficient amounts of the key ingredients (e.g. vitamin C and lysine) to effect the cure he felt possible.

The video is notable because Pauling, without notes, gives a one hour dissertation covering the unified theory. He begins with the 1985 Nobel prize, tells the story of vitamin C, and ends with his three case histories that are now published. These cases illustrate how high-dose lysine intervention essentially cured 3 heart patients.

The presentation can be understood by most audiences. Health professionals or those currently suffering heart disease are the primary audience.

The Tower founder invented his pleasant tasting drink formula for his own personal use and subsequently formed the Tower the company to manufacture and distribute Heart Technology.

Heart Technology combines many ingredients recommended by Linus Pauling on the video, with those previously published in HOW TO LIVE LONGER AND FEEL BETTER, into a single product that resembles Tang. (Tang is a drink mix developed for NASA.) The Tower formula includes proline, carnitine, Co-Q10, Vitamin E and Vitamin A along with vitamin C and lysine. Taste is enhanced by the herb Stevia, and for what ever reason, together in this formula, the anecdotal results have been outstanding. While a newnecdotal reports are highly encouraging, we think the objective before and after Lp(a) measurements are convincing. Lp(a) drops in many people, and it isn't supposed to. (Warren Levin, MD) We are investigating whether these results, at high dosage, can be repeated.

It is interesting that Linus Pauling himself alerted Tower's founder to the "Lp(a)" threat during a day the two spent at Pauling's Malibu ranch in the early 1990s. Pauling mentioned the experiments that were on-going and said that if the experiments panned out, it would mean that "heart disease could be eradicated." And yes, those experiments did pan out as published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

There is compelling evidence that heart by-pass, and even angioplasty are very dangerous. Neither procedure was proven before being adopted by the medical profession (Julian Whitaker, Health and Healing). No doubt these procedures have saved lives, but over the past six years we have noticed an abnormally high percentage of patients experiencing a stroke within one week of heart surgery. Many die. We are not aware of any problems with the patients who have adopted, and maintain the Pauling Therapy. (We have heard of relapses, but so far in every case, the person stopped the Pauling Therapy, perhaps due to expense or because they were feeling so good.)

Stents worried us, but many people with stents implanted have started Heart Technology, seen their Lp(a) reduced, and tell us that in their opinion, a "miracle" has happened. They have become well. See Testimonials

Before your doctor inserts a stent, ask him or her about the recurrence of plaque with the stent. We believe that Restenosis is higher than it would be without the stent. This is predicted by the Pauling/Rath Theory.

It is our strong recommendation that you get well using the Pauling Therapy before stents become necessary.

Observation 1: There has been an enormous collective effort and combined intellect of medical researchers working on the great problem of heart disease, yet CVD remains the top killer in the USA. (Obviously this research has been headed down wrong paths, but it is hard to believe that all these people have overlooked the Vitamin C Connection to heart disease. Ignorance perpetuates itself.)

Vitamin C (and possibly lysine) can be added to the IV Chelation drip, and many doctors do add the Pauling Therapy. If you are getting Chelation, you should insist on vitamin C and lysine for the best results. Putting the Binding Inhibitors directly into the blood stream, with no loss in the gut, is probably the most powerful way to apply the Pauling therapy.

Since this procedure is being studied, it is strong evidence that cardiovascular doctors are entirely ignorant of the nature and true cause of heart disease. Cardiologists have no idea that heart disease is chronic scurvy, and that plaque growth is a simple natural healing process. When they cut (by pass) or damage the arteries (angioplasty) they are surprised that the scab (atherosclerotic plaques) reforms.

To the extent the radiation interferes with that arterial wall's ability to heal normally, such treatments make success from Pauling's cure impossible. (The Pauling therapy relies on the artery healing itself.) And although hard to believe, maybe this is the idea? Keep heart patients ill in order to perpetuate a lucrative income stream.