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Summary: Valuable Info on Arginine Badly Compromised by Errors
Review: “The Arginine Solution” is very well-written, easy to read, and could save many lives, as well as improving the quality of many lives. The authors make a solid case for the use of L-arginine as a safe supplement that lowers blood pressure and prevents atherosclerosis, and cite good peer-reviewed articles in medical journals profusely. I now use L-arginine myself. So why the 2-star rating? The authors have been taken in by what is called the biggest fraud in the history of medicine, the diet-heart fraud. Other books available make it quite clear that eating saturated fat and cholesterol do not cause atheroslerosis, and that high serum cholesterol (below 400 mg/dL) does not cause atherosclerosis or heart attacks. For example, there is Robert J. Moore, “Heart Attack”, 1989; Russell L. Smith, “The Cholesterol Conspiracy”, 1991; Kilmer S. McCully and Martha McCully, “The Heart Revolution. The Extraordinary Discovery that Finally Laid the Cholesterol Myth to Rest and Put Good Food Back on the Table”, 2000; Uffe Ravnskov, “The Cholesterol Myths. Exposing the Fallacy that Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease”, 2000; and Charles T. McGee, “Health Frauds: Uncovering the Biggest Health Scam in History”, 2001. Because of the total confusion over cholesterol and saturated fat, the usefulness of this book is seriously compromised. The authors even went so far as to compare L-arginine to lovastatin, calling the latter “the gold standard” for lowering cholesterol levels (p92). The truth is that in both of the reports on the two placebo-controlled clinical studies published so far, the total death rate of patients on lovastatin was higher than for patients on placebo. A further problem is the continual admonishments to “see your doctor”, “ask your doctor” as though more than 1 physician in 100 would have the slightest inkling of the benefits of L-arginine. If you are to depend on your “doctor’s” endorsement of L-arginine, you will be very disappointed. Most of you will have to make your own decisions. The physiological diagrams photoreduced for this paperback edition are unreadable, even with a magnifying glass, because they are too small and lack resolution (see p80). The authors also caution men not to use L-arginine in conjunction with sildenafil (Viagra), but provide no experimental evidence whatsoever for their opinion, along with the usual “ask your doctor” about the combination, as though most MDs would know. My personal experience is that the maximum allowable dose of sildenafil, 100 mg, is effective for me, with the side-effects of abdominal pain, blurred vision, and headache; while 50 mg of sildenafil taken with 1 g of L-arginine is even more effective, and has no side-effects.
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Summary: Opinion about Joel M. Kauffmans review !
Review: A Mr. Joel M. kauffman who wrote that other books prove that eating saturated fat and cholesterol do not cause atherosclerosis is not only misleading but could very well be deadly to anyone believing this. Unfortunately a lot of the information proving just the opposite, was obtained during autopsies. His saying that books by doctors speaking about the "diet-heart" fraud, in other words that diet plays no part in atherosclerosis, and a cholesterol below 400 mg/dl is satisfactory has been proven wrong by many, many deaths. These "doctors" who would say this probably comprise only 1 or 2% of doctors. All others would tell you the opposite. Most valuable information comes from research scientist, not practicing doctors, although many may also be in a practice too. Doctors are to busy treating "symptoms", rather than knowing cures. After their initial training and after going into practice, they are so busy that they can't possibly stay up with the latest treatments. If you go to a doctor you know I am telling the truth. They schedule an appointment for you, and at the same time schedule many others for the same time. If you don't get your questions asked in a minute or less, the doctor is busy writing prescriptions, and getting ready to leave for the next patient who is already waiting in another exam room. The only way many of them know anything about new medications, are by the salesmen/women who interrupt YOUR oppointment time, often, trying to sell their products by getting a doctor to prescribe them.
I do agree with Mr. Kauffman that if you ask a doctor about an alternative treatment, such as L-Arginine, he/she will not even know what you are talking about, even though one doctor won a Nobel Prize in 1998 for his study on L-Arginine and it's ability to produce nitric oxide, and improve you circulatory system, including Blood Pressure, and an over-all improvement in heart function.
My reason for a 4 instead of a 5 is because some of it, as Mr. Kauffman said, was hard to see and read.
Pleas READ ALL you can find on this subject before making up your mind on this or any form of alternative treatments or combinations of both.
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Summary: Arginine = cardio health
Review: I heard about arginine, ornithine and carnitine at the gym. Then I read up on the three. The Arginine Solution by Fried gave me the best explanation of how/why arginine is necessary for good heart health. I found it easy to understand. I am sold on the benefits of these three amino acids such that I can't say enough about how good I feel. I've lost weight, have more energy and feel like I have more potential physically. Now, I am an advocate for taking my health into my own hands. I was also told about a source, Papanature that offers a variety of brands and dosages, plus additional documentation on all their products. I stand by their service and know that the ease in ordering has only helped me stay with this healthy regeime I am being so successful at.
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Summary: It worked for me
Review: In a couple of the areas (sexual potency) mentioned as the benefits of taking L-arginine has worked for me, & it doesn't have the side-effects of taking drugs although there is a chapter in the book that cautions those people who have certain problem conditions. It's not a overnight cureall but seems to work in the body in a natural way.
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Summary: Fascinating, excellent, but totally ignorant of Vitamin C
Review: This book is fascinating, loaded with important information. But they stay single-mindedly focused on arginine and nitric oxide, no doubt wary of diluting their message with other important facts. Here's one: Chronic vascular disease is the long-term result of damaged collagen from too little Vitamin C, leading to artery lesions patched up by Lipoprotein(a) with LDL cholesterol heaped on top. Did you know that acute scurvy leads to the same result, only much quicker? The root cause of heart disease was strongly proven by a landmark guinea pig study in 1992 by Matthias Rath at the Linus Pauling Institute, replicated in a genetically-mutated mouse study in 2000 at U North Carolina. And to reverse it, you take adequate Vitamin C, lysine, and proline. Sure, it appears that extra arginine is helpful for the 100% of us who have accumulated vascular disease from a life of ignorance and malnutrition, but what if we were to totally clear our arteries? How much extra arginine would we need then? No answer -- and the question is not even asked because they don't even mention Rath & Pauling, appalling in a 21st century book on heart disease.If you're serious about reversing heart (artery) disease, read Matthias Rath's excellent Why Aminals Don't Get Heart Attacks, but People Do. Short answer: they manufacture Vitamin C in their liver, and we don't. (Except for other high-order primates, and notably guinea pigs, which don't either.) We have to take 5-10 grams per day to make up for our limitation, and a whole lot more when we're sick or poisoned.
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Summary: Fascinating, excellent, but totally ignorant of Vitamin C
Review: This book is fascinating, loaded with important information. But they stay single-mindedly focused on arginine and nitric oxide, no doubt wary of diluting their message with other important facts. Here's one: Chronic vascular disease is the long-term result of damaged collagen from too little Vitamin C, leading to artery lesions patched up by Lipoprotein(a) with LDL cholesterol heaped on top. Did you know that acute scurvy leads to the same result, only much quicker? The root cause of heart disease was strongly proven by a landmark guinea pig study in 1992 by Matthias Rath at the Linus Pauling Institute, replicated in a genetically-mutated mouse study in 2000 at U North Carolina. And to reverse it, you take adequate Vitamin C, lysine, and proline. Sure, it appears that extra arginine is helpful for the 100% of us who have accumulated vascular disease from a life of ignorance and malnutrition, but what if we were to totally clear our arteries? How much extra arginine would we need then? No answer -- and the question is not even asked because they don't even mention Rath & Pauling, appalling in a 21st century book on heart disease. If you're serious about reversing heart (artery) disease, read Matthias Rath's excellent Why Aminals Don't Get Heart Attacks, but People Do. Short answer: they manufacture Vitamin C in their liver, and we don't. (Except for other high-order primates, and notably guinea pigs, which don't either.) We have to take 5-10 grams per day to make up for our limitation, and a whole lot more when we're sick or poisoned.
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