‘One of the greatest discoveries in Medicine’

Two‐time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling (1992)

The beginning

Between 1990 and 1992, Dr. Rath – together with two­time Nobel Laureate Dr. Linus Pauling (†1994) – published several landmark discoveries about the role of vitamins and other micronutrients in the global battle against cardiovascular disease.

This new scientific concept defined long­term vitamin deficiency as the primary cause of the development of atherosclerosis. This new understanding about a common root cause of cardiovascular diseases provided – for the first time – answers to some of the most important open questions of cardiology. Among them:

• Why are infarctions of the coronary arteries, leading to heart attacks, the most frequent form of cardiovascular disease?

• Why do the dangerous atherosclerotic plaques develop in the arteries but not in veins?

•And, most importantly, why do animals not get heart attacks, but humans do?

This work led to what the two­time Nobel Laureate described as one of the greatest discoveries in medicine.

The world’s first patented technology for the prevention and treatment of cardiovascular disease that included ascorbate and other micronutrients: the patent was awarded to Dr. Rath and Dr. Pauling by the US Patent Office in January 1994 (A).

Two years later, in 1996, this discovery was confirmed in a clinical study in 55 patients with cardiovascular disease. Vitamin C in combination with certain other micronutrients was able to halt the progression of coronary artery disease. In some cases, the calcium deposits in the coronary arteries completely disappeared (B).

This was the first time ever that the natural reversal of coronary artery disease with a defined micronutrient combination was documented.