Dear Owen,
I have been doing Pauling Protocol for a couple of years and just now came across this passage and wondered if it was valid:The relation of the mortality ratio for all causes of death to increasing vitamin C intake is strongly inverse for males and weakly inverse for females.
Despite my doing the protocol my Lp(a) is still off the charts. 131 mg/dL
Many thanks,
One explanation may be that women generally live longer than men. Any improvement in a woman's longevity would appear less than the improvement a male can attain. I don't think those statistics (regarding vitamin C intake) can be used to say vitamin C doesn't work in women.
As far as your still elevated Lp(a), all the more reason to keep taking the Pauling/Rath invention of Lp(a) binding inhibitors, eg. vitamin C, lysine and proline.
Tell me more about the Pauling Therapy product and dosage you have been taking? From our experience, it is probably the amino acid proline that eventually lowers Lp(a). And we suspect the Lp(a) values are inaccurate from big labs as the FDA allows them to "compute" rather than actually measure the value.
A more important measure is total cholesterol, which is 180 mg/dl on the optimal amount of vitamin C (Thank you E. Ginter/Linus Pauling). If your total cholesterol is elevated, it is a strong clue that you are not taking enough vitamin C.