Well said, Lena. So many people worry about high cholesterol when they should be more concerned with vitamins to strengthen their veins and arteries as you explained below. Smitty
On Sun, Jun 5, 2011 at 3:53 PM, Guyot Léna <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Dianne, > I'm no doc, only Lyme diseased lab-rat, but somewhere I read that plaque in > arteries is the body's way of making a patch on weak spots in arteries and > veins. It was mentioned that rather than the current focus on cholesterol > which is the material in the plaque 'patches', people should take lots of > vitamin C, as that helps heal the weak spots. From that, I'd tend to think > that aneurisms might also be helped, as it was a weakness in the beginning > that created the ballooning of that particular vessel. This is just > speculation, but as I'm doing 15 g of sea salt and vitamin C a day to kill > Lyme (it works) I'm hopeful that it may also ward off vascular issues. My > dad had an aortic aneurism, so, like you, I wonder. > > Be well, > Léna > > On Jun 5, 2011, at 9:18 PM, Dianne France wrote: > > I have a family member (64yr) that has been diagnosed with a heart > aneurism. It is fairly large but the VA won't do anything until it gets > larger. I wanted > to ask if anyone is familiar with this problem and what natural approaches > might help this condition. I don't know what they can do for this > condition. > My cousin died of an aneurism of the spleen when he was 42. I don't know > if this runs in families. > > Dianne > >
