"Cardiovascular DIY Fix" -♪"How can you mend a broken heart?"♪♫
DO NOT REMOVE ATHEROSCLEROTICÂ PLAQUE UNTIL YOU HAVE DEALT WITH THE CAUSE OF DAMAGE AND STRENGTHENED YOUR ARTERIES Using cholesterol-lowering drugs (or any other mechanism) to remove cholesterol content from arterial plaque before rebuilding the arterial walls is acting against your body’s own survival tactic. If you are not getting enough vitamin C to produce sufficient collagen to maintain the integrity of your arteries, then the atherosclerotic plaque “repair patch” (containing Lp(a) and LDL cholesterol) is saving your life! Lowering cholesterol will somewhat reduce plaque build-up, but simply removing plaque without first restoring the artery to health is like tearing a scab off a wound.Your body first needs sufficient vitamin C to heal and strengthen your arterial walls.
An holistic plan
- Stop damaging your artery walls
- Repair and strengthen your artery walls
- Attend to factors contributing to the chronic damage / inflammation of your arterial walls.
   Cholesterol and saturated fat are NOT the “Darth Vader” of ischaemic CVD
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- NEWSTARTS plan. Attend to diet, lifestyle & emotional state – Nutrition, Exercise, Water, Sunlight, Thoughts, Air (oxygen), Rest, Trust God, Sex.
- More anti-inflammatory, antioxidant-rich fresh fruits / vegetables and spices (ginger, cinnamon, garlic, turmeric, red pepper)
- More omega-3 fat.  Today’s “Holy Grail” of health. Anti-inflammatory O3 from oily fish, fish oil supplements, flax or chia seed, walnuts;
- Omega-6 GLA fats from evening primrose, blackcurrant or borage oil) provides anti-inflammatory DGLA fat
- Body “invaders”  Infective microbes, toxins from various sources (pesticides, herbicides, smoking, drugs, artificial sweeteners etc.) unnatural electromagnetic fields, chlorinated water +++
- Toxic fats. Especially found in processed foods, restaurant fare, and typical grocery-store unsaturated vegetable oils, more so when used for frying.
- Too much sugar. Glycation of sugar leads to damaging AGE’s (Advanced glycation end-products).
- Too much meat / dairy. Homocysteine (amino acid abundant in red meat, milk and its products) is worsened by B-vitamin deficiency.
- An overly-acid-forming diet.  Vegetables and fruit are mostly alkaline-forming (especially watermelon and lemons!) Meat, dairy, nuts, alcohol are mostly acid-forming.
- Stress. Â Oxidants are introduced via emotional / physical trauma.
- Lack of dietary antioxidants. Mainly vitamins A, B, C, D, E, K, and CoQ10, also polyphenols and carotenoids in fruits and vegetables. Used to counter damaging oxidants from all sources. Supporting trace minerals include selenium (in brazil nuts), zinc (in pumpkin seeds), manganese, copper, iron.
- Boost immune system
- Repair / Strengthen the arterial walls –
- Supply sufficient dietary Vitamin C to make collagen. This binding connective tissue molecule, comprised of vitamin C, and the amino acids proline and lysine, provides integrity for the artery walls (also bone, tendons, ligaments, skin) and decreases significantly with age.
- Guavas, oranges and kiwis are your best natural sources of vitamin C. However, Nobel prize winner Dr. Linus Pauling recommended adults take at least 3g vitamin C / day (i.e. which requires taking a supplement). The Rath-Pauling therapy is a cheap, high-dose therapy to help those who already have or suspect CVD, supplementing at least 5 or 6 g vitamin C and at least 2g of the amino acid lysine each day.
Atherosclerosis / CVD involves weakened arterial walls due to a vitamin C deficiency
