Well, we will have to agree to disagree on this issue. Quackwatch, from my POV, is an essential website which has helped debunk many New-Age-oriented notions such as Pauling's claims re megadosing of vitamins etc. And processed supplements are hardly a palaeo concept.

 

Geoff




 
> Date: Fri, 22 Jan 2010 06:25:36 -0600
> From: [log in to unmask]
> Subject: Re: glycation
> To: [log in to unmask]
> 
> Thanks for the material on denatured supplements.
> Otherwise I was rather astonished by a referral to quackwatch, apparently a
> propaganda and misinformation arm of the cartel of pharmaceutical, medical,
> and insurance monopolies and their imposed dominant paradigm of "medicine."
> 
> Pauling's view has it's paleo component as well. His research on formation
> and removal of arterial plaque led him to believe early man in the tropics
> had sufficient dietary vitamin C, while with diffusion of humans throughout
> the world resulting in dietary changes - most specifically vitamin C not
> being as abundant - we evolved a new method for dealing with arterial
> lesions, essentially laying down of lipoprotein(a) in a manner akin to
> patching pot holes in roadways. Pauling found supplementation of 8-16 gms C,
> 3 gms lysine, 1.5 grams proline will in the course of a year or less remove
> arterial plaque. I certainly know of clinical applications that have done
> the job with Dr Hotze in Katy, Texas. Pauling-Rath hold that the two aminos
> facilitate repair of arterial lesions resulting in the plaque dropping off.
> A year's worth of those supplements is under $100- while a month's worth of
> statins (which do nothing reducing plaque while they do facilitate
> congestive heart failure for sure and mounting evidence suggests they
> compromise inner defenses otherwise preventing some cancers).
> 
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 5:08 AM, Geoffrey Purcel wrote:
> 
> >
> >
> > Linus Pauling was one of those who heavily promoted supplement-use:-
> >
> > http://www.quackwatch.com/01QuackeryRelatedTopics/pauling.html
> >
> > Geoff
> >
 		 	   		  
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