Monday, September 08, 2008
It seems that almost every day I read a new article about how to "aggressively" treat people who are considered high-risk for heart attack. These bold new programs profess to attack heart disease from every angle or teach you how to start your own "Manhattan Project" to nuke heart disease.
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You are suffering from a severe Vitamin K deficiency that is resulting in your
progressive coronary calification. I would suggest you start taking 5 - 10 mg of Vitamin K daily to interrupt the calcification process.
That's also one very nasty Lipoprotein (a) value(231)!........are you taking niacin and non-flush niacin? (You probably would benefit from both). In addition, in my patients with elevated Lipoprotein(a), I treat with mega-doses of Vitamin C (10,000 mg/day), L-proline and L-lysine per Linus Pauling's protocol.
Finally, you are increasing your risk of infection, accident, neulogical disease, cancer and death by "nuking" your LDL down to such a ridiculously low value
(58) via a statin drug. Obviously that is having no effect on your coronaries and the long term health risks of maintaining that low of an LDL are considerable.
Randy Ice P.T., C.C.S.
Vintage Medical Group
Temecula, Calif,
(951) 676-3748
Randy:
I hear you on the Vitamin K and even K2 and am about to start a regimen. I am also on 3g niacin and dosing Vitamin D to 60ng/mL. My next blog will reveal my current regimen in its entirety. But, I gotta admit I am a little leary of the Pauling/Rath prescription for Lp(a). I get the lysine binding site argument but just have not seen compelling data from independent researchers. Perhaps you could direct me. God knows I have to get after Lp(a) to beat my heart disease!
Regards,
HeartHawk