Much like a freeway that displaces residences which once were there, the receptors of vision are eliminated to make way for new blood flow. This is a foundation of macular degeneration.
When we see bleeding gums and easy bruising, it’s a sign of destruction of the collagen which maintains the strength of vascular walls. This collagen is produced through the use of natural vitamin C.
When there’s obstruction of the vessels, we often look to the accumulation of cholesterol, for which statin drugs are routinely dispensed. The main focus is on LDL cholesterol, which isn’t really the culprit. The cholesterol which needs to be considered is the very low density (VLDL) cholesterol.
VLDL cholesterol is the true plaque producing cholesterol, and found wherever pressure against the wall of the blood vessel creates a need for reinforcement. This would include where vitamin C components are lacking, creating weak vessels.
If we’re seeing visual decline as well as easy bruising and bleeding gums, it’s easily understood that coronary vessels are also being adversely affected. We can stop heart disease and reverse the damage without the costly drugs which carry so many adverse reactions, if we just consider meeting the nutritional needs of the human body.
The majority of your lab studies only show total cholesterol, HDL, and LDL. To get VLDL levels, add the HDL and LDL, then subtract this from the total. Most of the plasma triglycerides are in the VLDL component, thus the reason we see higher cardiovascular damage when triglycerides are elevated. The preferable range for triglycerides is between 70 and 100 with VLDL under 20.
I know this may be too scientific for the average reader, but it’s important to know what your doctor may not be telling you. When instructed to take statin drugs, consider the fact that vitamin C has a better track record in lowering dangerous cholesterol than the expensive statin drugs, which are handed out randomly to all ages, destroying brains, nerves, muscles, and hearts.
Dr J. C. Paterson was the first to identify scurvy as the culprit of cardiovascular obstruction in the early 1940’s. He found that an almost absent vitamin C in the diseased aorta was the probable cause. In 1953, another Canadian, Dr G. C. Willis in Montreal, found that with vitamin C he could dissolve the plaque in Guinea pigs, which like humans don’t make vitamin C. In 1954 he demonstrated that it could be regressed using the first of heart X-rays.
The medical community has tried to emphasize that scurvy has been done away with, but we see subclinical scurvy every day. Instead of reversing the disease using the natural means of restoring vitamin C levels, we continue to treat symptoms through use of drugs and unnecessary surgeries.
Easy bruising, especially in the elderly, leaky heart valves, degenerative eyesight, bleeding gums, with elevated cholesterol and triglycerides should raise a red flag suggesting scurvy. All of these things are preventable and treatable.
Often times we look at the family tree and suggest our problem is genetic, when in reality we are eating the same way our family, suffering the same diseases, has been eating. You can’t continue to do the same thing over and over again and expect a different outcome. When we come against barriers to health, it’s time to step back and re-evaluate.
Much of this knowledge is a threat to pharmaceutical and medical profits. Because of this, many who would divulge the truth, find themselves at odds with some rather well funded opposition. One doctor in particular received attacks by local doctors, which eventually lead to a fitness to practice trial, with the result of being found guilty of misconduct without a single lay complaint, even with 200 written testimonies to the happiness of patients having seen reductions of cholesterol in their arteries. Those testimonies were ignored.
These trumped up charges often lead to the revocation of a license to practice. As all should be aware, a license gives the licensing board control over what you can and can’t do. If the board sets policy contrary to sound practice, following those sound practices puts one in violation and subject to discipline. Many therapies which are standard, like statins for diabetics have no foundation in medical benefit, but are expected to be followed by the doctor or else they’re to be disciplined.