Owen,
I have just found significant evidence that major aspects of the cardio therapy attributed to Pauling were actually developed or hypothesized by Rath previous to his association with Pauling, including the identification of lipoprotein(a) as the primary risk factor in cardiovascular disease and especially the addition of lysine to chelate lipoprotein(a) from the artery wall (he used lysine to isolate lipoprotein(a) chemically while still in Germany). Rath did most of the actual research while they were working together. I think it would be gracious of you to acknowledge Rath's contribution on your website as a primary driver of this discovery. I don't know what implications this has for your book. I have not read it yet, and hope that you have some of Rath's chronology in it.
http://www.drrathresearch.org/research/ ... icine.html
Regards
Jonathan
Yes, there is much truth to what you say, however, I have a copy of a letter between Pauling and lead researcher Biesegal, regarding Rath's claims (this letter was given to me by Pauling's daughter Linda Kamb) which provides a good record that Rath himself made claims of discoveries he had very little to do with as a medical student and minor member of Biesegal's team.
No doubt Rath brought this to Pauling's attention, but Rath was trying to use Pauling's name (for the same reason we use it) to give the discovery credibility. He wound up getting into a legal fight with the Paulings, and I can tell you that when Rath came out with his product line, it had VERY small amounts of lysine and proline (and even vitamin C). When the now founder of Tower Labs called Rath's company, they said these amounts were " the maximum doctors would tolerate." In other words, Rath's company formulated their products based on marketing reasons, and not on what they felt or knew would be most efficacious.
That is why I came up with the term "Pauling therapy" to stand for the HIGH DOSE of vitamin C and lysine that Pauling recommended. So no, I do not give Rath as much credit - because it was Pauling who realized and emphasized the high dosages - the Pauling therapy. (If Rath did have this recognition, why did his product line not adopt it? If he had, there would be no Tower Laboratories. This answer as to why the dosages were so meager is the reason Tower decided to form, to provide high-potency products.)
So, it is the Pauling/Rath unified theory, and we do not hide that, but the key to miraculous results are dosage. Dosage. Dosage. To my mind, that was Pauling's important contribution.
