The most basic motivation of every living thing is to reproduce...reproduce...and reproduce itself.

In human females, much of the body is, obviously, specially designed for this purpose. A product of one specialization is her breast milk, which has no synthetic equal in its ability to aid the growth and health of the infant.

But, there is one aspect of a woman's specialization that is almost universally ignored -- she can produce small amounts of the mineral ascorbates of "Vitamin C" in her own body, it seems evident to us.

This supply of mineral ascorbates, although inadequate for full development of the infant, must be essential for its survival. Indeed, some of the ascorbate is produced in the placenta, with the result that the baby has some 400 millimoles of ascorbate per liter of blood on the day of birth, although the baby will have little or no ascorbate thereafter.

The National Academy of Science reports that mothers' milk contains, on average, 40 mg. of Vitamin C per liter. Furthermore, you may be sure that this "C" is present as mineral ascorbates, not as the somewhat intolerable ascorbic acid. This intake of mineral ascorbates is of major importance to the young infant, who can use it in a thousand ways, especially to develop the connective tissue, which is 30% of the protein of his body. In addition to many other ways, including stepping up of his resistance to disease. Yet the usual formula sold as imitation mothers' milk, has very little Vitamin C and it certainly is not present as mineral ascorbates.

Evidence now shows that throughout a woman's early life her coronary arteries are protected against the scurvy that causes men to start accumulating plaque in their arteries, sometimes as early as in their 20's. In a woman, such clogging does not usually start until the late 40's, when she is beyond the normal childbearing age.

Long ago, researcher, Dr. E. Cheraskin, told me that "the body is never wasteful". In other words, what the body produces is for the purpose of contributing to the life process, that, if it will not so contribute, it halts, or radically restricts such production.

I am inclined to think that after a woman is past childbearing age, the body loses interest in furnishing her with her full requirements for extended life and really good health. Of course, the body does aid her in furnishing ascorbate for a child in her milk, because the young child cannot enjoy full development of its brain and body structure without it. But, once the child is weaned, it must largely starve for ascorbate, with never quite enough to aid in full growth and resistance to disease.

But, because she is programmed to produce children, the woman apparently produces small amounts of ascorbate through most of her early life, especially as she reaches puberty. However, as her production of estrogen comes to a halt, she then enters a period of great susceptibility to atherosclerosis, clogging of the coronary arteries. We do not believe that this is because she is now without estrogen. Rather, we think it is because her modest production of ascorbate has also come to a halt. THE BODY HAS ACCOMPLISHED ITS PRIME PURPOSE -- PRODUCING A BABY. So it places her in the same category as her husband, who has probably never produced any measurable amounts of ascorbate.

Of course, we do know that this lack of estrogen renders the woman less interested in sex, and perhaps, a little less feminine in other respects. Doctors have sought to meet this need by prescribing estrogen, often with small amounts of the male hormone, progesterone. Harvard University reports that this hormone therapy also greatly benefits the coronary arteries and reduces clogging drastically.

However, the Harvard report adds that estrogen therapy increases the risk of breast cancer by about 43%, which about ties the score. Basically, the woman just switches her mode of death from heart attack to cancer.

My associates and I think we have the solution to this problem. We believe that administering estrogen simply "fools" the body into believing that a baby is still ahead, and that ascorbate production should still be maintained. So, while this has the beneficial effect of preventing the clogging of arteries, it upsets the delicate balance of the immune response that keeps the body's cells under control and inhibits the wild cellular replication that we call cancer.

Woman are special in many ways. They have complex hormonal rhythms which control their physiological and mental states which are necessary for sexual activity, pregnancy, and child rearing. Their anatomical structures are specialized for intercourse, fertilization, pregnancy, and milk production. Each of these special processes in one way or another requires mineral ascorbates. Accordingly, my associates and I have concluded that if women want to avoid both heart attack and cancer, the most logical course is to ingest substantial amounts of the mineral ascorbates, which are highly beneficial to the body at any age.

Since we regard hypoascorbemia as the number one major ailment that affects all humanity, we know that women (and men) can ingest multigram amounts of these substances with the confidence that they are meeting one of their most basic needs.

Hypoascorbemia, the "hidden scurvy", is almost totally ignored by medicine. This "scurvy" attacks men approximately 10 years earlier than it does women.

Most researchers think atherosclerosis affects women later in their lives due to the abandonment of estrogen production. This may be described as the old error of post hoc, ergo propter hoc, after this, therefore, because of this...

But my associates and I do not believe that estrogen has such power. During a 77-year life span, 72,000,000 gallons of blood pass through the coronary arteries. This causes an abrasive action on the intima, the lining of the arteries. To repair this damage, the cells of the intima are replaced every two or three days to repair this damage. However, as these cells may lack the mineral ascorbates necessary to form truly health replacement cells, the intima starts to bleed.

The body strives valiantly to meet this challenge, so hemorrhaging is gradually halted. But scar tissue forms on the surface of the arterial lining. It is this scar tissue that first collects a small amount of Protein A, as the Linus Pauling Institute discovered. The Protein A is quickly followed by cholesterol, lipids (fats), and calcium, in approximately equal amounts. These three layers compose the plaque that destroys most of us, as it shuts off the flow of blood to the heart.

Let me give you some preliminary proof: I have been taking 10 grams of mineral ascorbates on a daily basis for more than 25 years. Also for many years, my employees have received monthly supplies of their ascorbate requirements, generally at lower levels.

Ten people over the age of 40(ages ranging from 42 to my age at that time, 82) were tested, and one woman, age 55, with a mean average of 55.8. Eight of them, including me, showed zero levels of calcium plaque, one man showed a level of 97, and one woman a level of l55. Even these two scores were well below the level of 260 to 450 of calcium at which even mild symptoms are manifest, as you can see by the chart.

Accordingly:

We challenge any physician in the world to have 10 of his patients of the same approximate age group checked out by the same Ultrafast CT Scan technique, and get even 2 or 3 of the 10 with 0 calcium levels.

Where, in all the annals of medicine have any such results been reported?

You may search the literature endlessly, to no avail.

Of course, it will take hundreds of similar results to convince slow-moving medicine that they have been "barking up the wrong tree", that it is not the essential substance cholesterol that, of itself, causes the plaque anymore than it is the equally essential calcium. (Do they tell you to lower your calcium intake?) Indeed, there has been a recent finding that people with the really low cholesterol levels have poorly functioning brains. For sure, those who have been selling this baloney seem to suffer from the same cerebral problems. Doctors make too much money getting you into their offices to check your cholesterol, plus devising futile methods to reduce your susceptibility to this great killer... to give up this income easily!

Medical researchers "cannot see the forest for the trees". For more than 30 years they have embraced the stupid theory that cholesterol, per se, causes clogging of the arteries.

Here is the logical explanation of atherosclerosis, which I have been involved in understanding for some 27 years.

But, despite the beautiful faces and bodies that emerge with many of our children, not a single one of us is ever perfect. Some 4,000 genetic diseases encumber all humanity to varying, individual degrees.

Yet, every living person suffers from at least two of these inborn errors. They are hypoascorbemia, inability to produce mineral ascorbates, as do some 99.9% of other animals, and hypouricasemia, inability to produce uricase, the enzyme that controls excess production of uric acid, the antioxidant that induces gout, principally in men.

A Wasteland

We can manage to keep the symptoms of gout under fairly good control, but in meeting the needs of the major disease that dooms most of us to great travail and premature death, hypoascorbemia, our medical "science" is one vast wasteland. Indeed, the very physicians who would advise us about our health show their incompetence by dying, on the average, before they are 60 years old. This is an age at which they have reached less than half of their theoretical life expectancy of 140 years, or 7 times 20, our period of maturity, as live other animals who produce copious amounts of ascorbate in their own bodies.

A Mixed Bag

Yet researchers are finding that women given hormone-replacement therapy, which principally consists of estrogen and small quantities of the male hormone, testosterone, are largely free of this plaque, and that their risk of dying from cardiovascular disease is 53% lower.

However, the risk of death from breast cancer, The Harvard Health Letter reports, of those on hormone therapy for 10 years or more, is "43% higher than in non-users". This would seem to largely cancel out the benefits of such therapy.

But what is happening to an older woman who develops plaque in her arteries, the principal cause of heart disease? It is our conclusion that this is due to her halted production of mineral ascorbates. (See chart.)

Since babies are no longer being produced, the chief motivation of the woman's body, the need for this vital life substance, ascorbate, is less acute. So, unfortunately, her coronary arteries, indeed, her whole body, loses this life-extending protection.

But, because of the early protection of her body, the woman still lives 6 to 8 years longer than a man.

Less than one thousand years ago, the average woman would be dead in her early 40's, the time at which she now tends to enter the menopause.

The eminent health researcher, Dr. E. Cheraskin, of the University of Alabama, has said "the body is never wasteful", that it does not produce substances for which there is no particular need. Since the woman of the past was due to die in her 40's, there was no great need to produce mineral ascorbates to protect her arteries, since they could last a few years after the end of menopause quite well.

So, when doctors come along and give estrogen to a woman after she has largely ceased production of the hormone, the body can be misled into thinking that pregnancy is ahead, so it's necessary to produce small amounts of the mineral ascorbates to aid development of the fetus. But it is now quite evident that this small amount of ascorbate, although probably essential to survival, is grossly inadequate for full, healthy development of the child.

Catching Up

However, in her later years, at about age 60, the woman catches up with a man. A UCLA cardiovascular researcher reports, in the level of plaque. But she still tends to live longer than a man, probably because the flow of blood to her heart has been slowed for a shorter period of time. Thus, the heart, indeed, her whole body, has more strength and endurance.

Four enzymes are utilized in the liver of most animals for the production of ascorbic acid, although this highly reactive acid, then, undergoes a fifth stage of reaction with minerals in the liver to produce the neutral mineral ascorbates. Thus, the ascorbates are the true Vitamin C, or liver metabolites, as produced in 99.9% of other animals, which can then circulate in the blood without irritation. These mineral ascorbates are then more readily accepted by body cells, since the minerals with which they are complexed, such as potassium, sodium, calcium and magnesium, all essential to cell function, all act as transporters of ascorbate through the cell wall. The cell, we remind you, is the basic unit of life, and there are some 70 trillion cells in the average body.

Fooling Mother Nature?

What must happen with women taking hormone replacement therapy is that their bodies are fooled into thinking that they are still of child-bearing age and will, consequently, tend to resume their production of ascorbate to help the fetus in the womb. But resumption of ascorbate production, instead of aiding a non-existent fetus, helps prevent what I have described as The Hidden Scurvy that is radically shortening the life of every living person.

Indeed, I have stated that everyone in the world, who does not die from some accident, will die of scurvy. That is because we are shorted on this vital substance while even in the wombs of our mothers. I have some tangible proof of this.

To the children of my second wife, Ymelda, 13 children have been born. At least 11 of these grandchildren were born to mothers who took, daily, 8 to 10 grams of mineral ascorbates during their pregnancies. The oldest of these, Felicia, 19 years old, has been graduated with high honors from high school.

A straight A student and mathematics whiz, she has such astounding strength and agility that she has been offered training in karate for the Olympics.

All eleven are honor students, which is not a coincidence. They received the mineral ascorbates at the most important time of their lives, facilitating full brain, body, and muscle development.

So, lacking the application of the mineral ascorbates, our society is daily producing a mass of children who emerge from the womb with at least one strike against them. With inadequately developed minds and bodies, they shall have to cope with an increasingly complicated world.

Summarizing:

So, careful, unbiased examination of the biochemistry involved will show that:

1. Women produce small amounts of mineral ascorbates in their bodies until they go through the menopause. The best proof of this is that, unlike men, their arteries remain comparatively free of plaque until they are in their 40's.

2. This ascorbate helps maintain the integrity of the intima (lining) of the coronary arteries, so that no bleeding resulting from the abrasive action of blood transfer occurs. (In a 77 year life some 72,000,000 gallons of blood are pumped through the arteries.)

3. When a woman has gone through the menopause, both estrogen and ascorbate production are obviously halted, so bleeding of the intima of the coronary arteries tends to occur. As bleeding stops, alternately, scar tissue is formed. This scar tissue then collects, sequentially, the cholesterol, lipids, and calcium, which compose the plaque. Ultimately, this plaque can so block the flow of blood to the heart as to induce death.

4. Estrogen therapy must fool the woman's body into believing that she is still of childbearing age, so ascorbate production is resumed. Thus, ascorbate protection of the intima is, also, resumed, and little or no plaque accumulates.

5. However, although the body has been fooled into resuming ascorbate production, its immune system is so confused that it is thrown out of balance, so the immune response malfunctions, and a high percent-age of cancer of the breast occurs.

My Solution:

So, the solution to the problem is so obvious as to escape the bright minds of many learned but drug-oriented physicians: Instead of dangerous estrogen, give the patient large amounts of mineral ascorbates, 5 to 10 grams daily, and great benefits can surely be obtained.

This procedure is not at all comparable to estrogen therapy, since all humankind suffers from the genetic defect that, unlike more than 99.9% of other animals, we cannot produce really adequate amounts of mineral ascorbates in our own livers. This is clearly an unsolved genetic defect that shortens the life span and reduces the capability of every person on this planet. However, it can be greatly alleviated by the ingestion of mineral ascorbates.

But, you may say that estrogen intake increases a woman's interest in sex. Yes, but this is an artificial expedient. Her body is designed for reproduction.

Once the childbearing period has passed, she does not need the sexual urge, the body reasons, because she cannot produce more children! So, thus, the intake of estrogen to make life more interesting is fraught with the danger of malfunction of the body, with unhappy results such as cancer and, sometimes, a long list of undesirable consequences not fully equated by the medical profession.

Addendum:

Very recent studies confirm a considerable difference between woman and men, often with regard to relative survival rates. The New England Journal of Medicine reported in its July 22, 1999 issue that a study of 385,000 heart attack patients showed that woman under 50 were more than twice as likely as men to die before being discharged from the hospital. With advancing age, these differences diminished, but they persisted until approximately age 75, at which point they tended to even out.

A second study covering over 12,000 patients who had heart attacks or severe chest pain known as unstable angina, showed that woman often have symptoms that are atypical to those of men, which makes diagnosis much more difficult when they show up to the hospital, often leading to much different outcomes.

Accordingly, it becomes more and more important that woman, especially with advancing age, fortify their bodies with the mineral ascorbates which they can no longer at all produce.