I had a Coronary Artery Calcium scan (CAC scan) done in January of 2022. My score was bad, 563, indicating likely significant coronary artery disease. A few months ago, I tried the high dose Vitamin C (4,000 mg/day) and L-Lysine (4,000 mg/day) for four weeks. This therapy had been mentioned on GAW a few times in the past year or so. I had a follow-up CAC scan done on Tuesday, my new score is 698. I'm not too happy. This therapy may have worked for some people, but seems pretty clear it didn't work for me. I also did a round of a lemon juice/garlic elixer earlier in the year. If anyone else has tried the Vit C-Lysine therapy and have results to report, please post here. Thank you. (now I need to figure out what to do with a few bottles of Vitamin C and Lysine; I had planned on doing more rounds of the "therapy" if it had shown ANY positive results. I guess it could be argued "well, just think how high it would have been if you didn't do that therapy!" :) )
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There is an important piece of information you don’t know and can’t know. Over the three year period between scans your score might have been over 698 at some point.
I don’t know enough to say what you should do at this point. But, with that much elapsed time between data points I don’t think it’s possible to make a fair conclusion on the vitamin C - Lysine protocol. It might, at the very least, prevent new plaque deposits from forming and eventually calcifying.
Yes, I realize that it could have gotten much worse, and then better. What is interesting is that before I did the therapy, my blood pressure had gone down to a good level, possibly from taking Vitamin K, but I don't know. I'm going to start doing regular blood pressure testing again to see how it changes.