The Cholesterol-Dogma is at Odds
with Key Phenomena in Cardiology
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Animals – as opposed to humans – can convert ascorbic acid from glucose in their livers. Ascorbic acid (vitamin C) is essential for the production of collagen, the reinforcement molecules of the blood vessel walls and the body. The devastating effect of vitamin C deficiency on the blood vessel walls of sailors has been known for centuries as scurvy.
The only reason why this basic knowledge has not been applied to protect and stabilize the blood vessel walls of millions of people today is the fact that vitamin C is not patenteable. In other words. The spreading of this knowledge threatens the largest and most lucrative market of the pharmaceutical inbestment business: the multi-billion dollar market place of cardiovascular disease.
Thus, conventional pharmaceutical medicine is limited to treating the symptoms of cardiovascular disease while ignoring the root cause — blood vessel weakness.
