[ConservativeMind]

I can personally state I reversed to “0” a Coronary Artery Calcium score in the 80s by daily taking a 333mg calcium citrate supplement, 2,500 - 4,000 IU of Vitamin D, and Vitamin K (3,000 mcg) / K2-MK4 (2,000 mcg) / K2-MK7 (200 mcg), for two years. I did have with two months of a supplement with Vitamin K (5,000 mcg) / K2-MK4 (25 mg) / K2-MK7 (0.5 mg), which provided the dose of each K component very close to a study that reverted 50% of coronary calcium in 12 weeks in mice.

As my checks were three years apart, I do not know when it truly resolved.

Do note that a calcium plaque is applied over ruptured soft plaques as a patch. This is not what appears to be happening with the heart valve issue described in this thread. Soft plaques also need to be addressed, and those can be targeted with a variety of diet and supplement changes.

Finally, I do have to suggest that if fundamental changes are not made to diet, and ideally, exercise and sleep, supplements alone cannot counter the totality of bad you are accomplishing against your body. In noting the diabetes and statin use of those far worse off in the study, I can’t help but think this is part of what is happening. When the American Diabetes Association pushes high carb diets (with added medicine to temporarily blunt the effects) and even dietitians pushing supplemental nutritional shakes on diabetics with 90+% carbs made up of only maltodextrin (a worse Glycemic Index score far worse than sugar), we have lulled the world into thinking you can “eat as bad as you want, because a neat trick makes it all better.”

I hope this is useful knowledge for those taking such supplements or in these truly concerning health states.

[ConservativeMind]

A post from another thread in which I bring out the research on the things I highlighted above.

https://freerepublic.com/focus/news/4044326/posts?page=40#40

[ConservativeMind]

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[EEGator]

Calcium blocks Magnesium absorption, a vital mineral.
It helps activate the parasympathetic nervous system away from the sympathetic nervous system.

[Dr. Sivana]

I assume this also applies to calcium based antacids (e.g. Tums)

[Grampa Dave]

Wonder if this is another “backdoor” financed study to put more seniors on Statins?

They are now admitting behind closed doors, “(obscure studies)” that high cholesterol probably does not kill us.

Do statins decrease heart problems with aortic valve stenosis!:

LDL-C does not cause cardiovascular disease: a comprehensive review of the current literature:

Uffe Ravnskov,Michel de Lorgeril,David M Diamond,Rokuro Hama,Tomohito Hamazaki,Björn Hammarskjöld, show all

Pages 959-970 | Received 11 Jan 2018, Accepted 31 Aug 2018, Accepted author version posted online: 10 Sep 2018, Published online: 11 Oct 2018

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ABSTRACT
1. Introduction
2. Does high total cholesterol cause atherosclerosis?
3. Does high TC cause CVD?
4. Does high LDL-C cause atherosclerosis?
5. Does high LDL-C cause CVD?
6. Does cholesterol-lowering treatment lower risk of CVD?
7. Does FH prove that high LDL-C causes CVD?
8. Has CVD mortality decreased after the introduction of statin treatment?
9. Conclusion
10. Expert commentary
11. Five-year view
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Introduction: For half a century, a high level of total cholesterol (TC) or low-density lipoprotein cholesterol (LDL-C) has been considered to be the major cause of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease (CVD), and statin treatment has been widely promoted for cardiovascular prevention. However, there is an increasing understanding that the mechanisms are more complicated and that statin treatment, in particular when used as primary prevention, is of doubtful benefit.

Areas covered: The authors of three large reviews recently published by statin advocates have attempted to validate the current dogma. This article delineates the serious errors in these three reviews as well as other obvious falsifications of the cholesterol hypothesis.

Expert commentary: Our search for falsifications of the cholesterol hypothesis confirms that it is unable to satisfy any of the Bradford Hill criteria for causality and that the conclusions of the authors of the three reviews are based on misleading statistics, exclusion of unsuccessful trials and by ignoring numerous contradictory observations.

https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/17512433.2018.1519391

[Sparticus]

But did the study control for participants personal pronouns? </sarcasm>

[Seaplaner]

Thanks, CM, for a valuable and personal post.

Vitamins D3 and K2 are our friends.

To which, I include fish oil and Magnesium.

[Exit148]

How about if one has had a TAVR— trans aortic valve replacement?