LookingGood! said:
Sure I have read up on it but you seem to be zig zagging away from what I was implying.
Does your current "protocol" impact your lipid profile in a positive way?
Do you take or have ever taken statins? You are at or around 50 yrs correct?
How can you be sure that these smaller, timely doses of vitamin C are the imposing influence?
If you do not have a lipid issue then you are saying that they sustain your normal levels?
Thanks for your time.
Vitamin C isn't going to lower total cholesterol, but instead do very beneficial things as an anti-oxidant, and anti-inflammatory. Although, any doctor who looks solely at total cholesterol, probably also has a bunch of thirty-year old scientific journals lying around his/her office. Most knowledgeable cardiologists are abreast of newer information concerning things like oxidized LDL, LDL/HDL particle size and ratio, Lp(a,) C-reactive protein, homocysteine etc. as being far better predictors of coronary heart disease. Incidentally, none of these things in fact are greatly affected by statins.
Yet, simple over-the-counter vitamins such as vitamin C can help lower CRP, vitamin B3 can help lower Lp(a). Of course, vitamin B6 and B12 can also help lower homocycteine. This cheap, yet effective, atherosclerosis prevention all comes without the common statin-related side effects, such as myopathy, rhabdomylosis, memory loss, transient global amnesia, neurodegenerative disorders etc.
A patient, in fact, could live their whole life without ever injesting a single statin, but without vitamin C, or B vitamins, there's a greater potential for disease and early mortality.