Travis
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If vitamin c levels are sufficient, is one protected from the mechanical stress of high blood pressure due to stimulants? Or more broadly, is there any mechanism by which CVD could be induced that is NOT dependent on vitamin c levels?
In a general way, but the definition of 'cardiovascular disease' is so broad that this wouldn't negate the Pauling mechanism; there are immunological attacks besides, and cholesterol deposition has little to do with it. Even withing a Pauling framework, I think a person can imagine a scenario where enough damage could be induced to cause a full-blown aneurysm despite greatly accelerated collagen synthesis. Pauling had focused on the most common form, and had implicated low ascorbate as the most common cause.
I would imagine that consuming 2+ grams of ascorbate per day while avoiding wheat and ω−6 fatty acids would near-completely eliminate any future risk of cardiovascular disease.