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The Pauling Therapy: Essentials Formula

Question: from Jim

Can you tell me how your product compares to:

The Pauling Therapy: Essentials Formula manufactured by Douglas Laboratories, a world-class facility that follows strict Standard Operating Procedures and Current Good Manufacturing Practices (cGMP) and is compliant with state, federal and world-wide regulatory bodies. The laboratories are ISO 9001 certified and ISO 17025 accredited.
More info at saveyourheart.com.

Thanks for your valuable input

Answer: from Warren

I assume that you are referring a comparison between their Essentials Formula and our Cardio-Klenz?

(By the way the SOP's etc of Douglas Laboratories would be similar to ours.)

The Essentials formula is basically a very simple high dose Vitamin C/amino acid mix and may I say...very expensive for what it is.

The issue of high dose Vitamin C particularly using ascorbic acid is quite a controversial one with many varied opinions. Our R & D people including Prof.Dr.A Munem Daoud who is our chief researcher and one of the worlds top bio-scientist are adamant that high doses of Vitamin C is not a good thing...unless you are ill at which high doses for a short period is fine.

The reason for this is that it reacts in the stomach and amounts in excess of around 400mgs a day of ascorbic acid can actually create free radicals. In other words it will help 'mop up' free radicals up to a certain level and then over that it will actually generate them.

This problem can however be overcome by using the calcium ascorbate form of Vitamin C which has a different action in the stomach.

It is not as simple to eliminate plaque as indicated on the website you gave. Just high doses of Vitamin C combined with a few amino acids will not do it. It will help but the high doses of Vitamin C may have other implications further down the line.

If it was a good solution we would be producing a similar product...because it is so cheap to make! For example, ascorbic acid is only about 1/30th of the cost of some of the ingredients we use in Cardio-Klenz.

We could sell a product like this for about 1/3rd of what they are selling theirs for.

Anyway, what is needed for good heart health is a combination of really potent ingredients. Such as methylating agents to bring down homocysteine. This product has nothing like this but it is why we use TMG in Cardio-Klenz.

Also, there is nothing to help strenghten the overall cardiovascular system such as Reservatrol of which there is 50mgs in Cardio-Klenz.

There are no enzymes which is crucial for good efficacy. This is because the delivery system they are using renders enzymes inactive...but, also they are very expensive particularly the Nattokinase which help break down fibrin in the blood.

There are no specialized herbal extracts which are known for helping improve the strength of the heart and circulation system such as grape seed extract...and, the list goes on.

May I suggest that you carefully examine the ingredients for Cardio-Klenz and this will help you better follow what I am trying to explain.

Hope this helps.

Reader Comments (2)

A few years ago I read up on Pauling and his use of high doses of vitamin C to help the heart. So I tried it for awhile - following their directions, taking high doses of ascorbic acid - until it causes diarrhea, then back off the doseage a little. But that kept my bowls messed up anyway. So if I was at a Urinal wanting to urinate, it was all I could do from s$%*ing in my pants. After a few days of that, I quit the high doses of ascorbic acid. Also I found a lot of information about the controversy of Paulings recommendation of high doses of vitamin C. This was during my search for high quality supplements that actually work, and are not just hype. I have found those supplements and will stick with Xtend-Life. Thanks for all the work you guys do to make the 'quality' supplements, and for maintaining high standards.


Bill Runyon

Raleigh, NC, USA

July 24, 2008 | Bill

Thanks Bill for those comments.


By the way I should have mentioned in my earlier answer that they have made a mistake in their ingredient list. The have 450mgs of folic acid. I assume that they really mean 450mcgs. Which is 1/1000th less. 450mgs of folic acid would be extremely dangerous.

July 24, 2008 | Warren Matthews

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