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Matthias RathMatthias Rath, M.D. (born 1955 in Stuttgart, Germany) is a controversial German physician. Rath has practiced at University Clinic of Hamburg, Germany and the German Heart Centre ( Berlin). His research focused on the causes of artherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.
Cellular NutritionRath has made numerous comparative studies of humans and animals and found that animals that can synthetise Vitamin C naturally do not suffer heart attacks. Humans do not have this ability, thus need to obtain the Vitamin C from a balanced diet. Rath presently advocates increased intake of Vitamin C to prevent artery hardening, arteriosclerosis , heart attack and stroke. Rath argues that Vitamin C deficiency in Western diets causes micro lessions in the artery walls, which instead of being repaired are filled up with fats which later harden through calcification leading to typical symptoms of high blood pressure (reduced artery wall elasticity) and heart disease complications. ControversyRath research remains controversial among medical circles by virtue of his anti-pharmaceutical industry position. He claims the pharmaceutical industry tries to address symptoms rather than the causes of heart disease, which can be cheaply remedied by improving dietary intake. However, further research on Dr Rath branch of cellular medicine needs to be made to corroborate or refute Dr Rath finding in regards to the causes and treatment of heart disease. The Cellular Medicine is yet to mature as a hard science science, and thus suffers from insufficient peer review to support his claims. Franc Ulrich Montgomery (chairman of the Marburger Federation, roughly translated as Federation of German Physicians ) and Michael Bamberg (executive of the German Cancer Foundation)have demanded a legal procedures to be taken against Dr Rath's methods and nutritional food supplement preparations following the death of a child (Dominik Feld) suffering bone cancer metastisised to the lungs. The child's parents prior to his death, had taken their son off chemotherapy treatment and put him under Dr Rath's nutritional supplement therapy. Dr Rath Wiki article in German Dr Rath's treatments have not veriable sources as to his therapeutic claims made outside a limited range of practioners. The role of nutrition is not clear as to whether it is either preventive factor or definitely a curative therapy with a veriafiable track record of success/effectiveness with sufferers, especially in advance stages and or terminally ill patients External Links on Codex Alimentarius
A dissenter's view on the "EUROPEAN LEGISLATION FOOD SUPPLEMENTS DIRECTIVE" The controversial side of vitamin supplements Information flyer 14 pages on the Codex Alimentirius potential to ban the usage of vitamins as nutrional supplements.
Potential for Food Supplement Ban on the Horizon August 2005 in the European Union Dissenters argue that the Codex Alimentarius is under undue influence of Germany's pharmaceutical industry; German pharma industry has the potential to affect the outcome of Codex Alimentarius at European which later will become an international standard by virtue of its adoption by the WTO. Please note that Germany's pharmaceutical industry has the greatest vested interest on this outcome.
In August 2005, everything in Europe is about to change. Over 300 bioavailable nutrient forms present in over 5,000 safe vitamin and mineral products that include a large number of the safest, most readily absorbed and most effective, food-derived forms will be banned from the market. It stems from radical legislation passed in Europe by member State governments in June 2002 known as the EU Food Supplements Directive (FSD). The list of banned items includes natural vitamin forms such as mixed tocopherols (natural vitamin E), carotenoids and methylcobalamin, all forms of sulphur, boron, vanadium, silicon and most trace elements, the most readily absorbed and safest forms of calcium, magnesium, zinc, selenium, chromium and molybdenum. It will severely limit the doses of vitamins and other nutrients allowed in products, removing all high-dose products from the market. It will include future restrictions on nutrient forms other than vitamins and minerals such as fatty acids, amino acids, enzymes, probiotics, phytonutrients, etc." [..] Full article Other discoveriesRath has also made discoveries on the role of Lysine and the propagation of cancer cells -see link below "discoveries". Lysine has been found to block the enzymes secreted by cancer cells that dissolve connective tissue (collagen) which stops their spread (metastasis). Rath is a former student of Nobel Prize Winner Linus Pauling, he is also the Director of Cardiovascular Research at the Linus Pauling Institute. Capsule CommentaryHeart Disease as an evolutionary adaptation
My discovery of the Ice Age - vitamin deficiency - cardiovascular disease connection will eventually lead to the eradication of heart attacks, strokes and related cardiovascular diseases.2,3 Starting 2.5 million years ago the Ice Ages dramatically influenced the gene pool of the human race. Blood loss through the vitamin deficient and scorbutic vascular wall was the greatest threat to the evolutionary survival of man. Inherited disorders leading to cardiovascular and related diseases became Nature’s response to protect the vessel wall during thousands of generations of extreme vitamin deficiency. The Ice Age - Cardiovascular Disease Axiom says: "Inherited disorders leading to thickening of blood vessel walls or protecting the vessel wall in another way during vitamin deficiency originated during the Ice Ages or were greatly favored during that time. These diseases can be prevented and treated by optimum intake of vitamins, particularly vitamin C." Dr Matthias Rath, A New Era in Medicine (1993) Rath M. Journal of Orthomolecular Medicine, 8:134-135.
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Rath discoveries with special remarks -the role of lysine on the expansion of cancer. "The Victory Is at Hand" Illustrated pamphlet withdescription of cancer metastasis and how to contain it, by Dr Rath
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