Diabetes epidemic, anyone?
("But we lowered the evil cholesterol, now didn't we?")
Posted on 04/03/2022 8:30:29 PM PDT by ConservativeMind
A novel therapy has been found to reduce harmful plaque in arteries and change its composition so it is less likely to rupture and cause a heart attack, following a clinical trial.
The HUYGENS study treated high-risk patients over a 12 month period and was successful in a number of ways by combining commonly used statins together with a cholesterol-lowering drug called Evolocumab, which is already available to patients.
Using a new imaging method, researchers were able to view a change in the biology or composition of the harmful plaque in the arteries following treatment, not only reducing its size but changing it from hot to cold, rendering it effectively scar tissue and stable.
Lowering cholesterol is an important strategy in helping mitigate risk factors, but the new therapy was highly effective in reducing cholesterol ratios down to 0.7mmol/L, which is lower than the current clinical guidelines of less than or equal to 1.8 mmol/L suggested in the first instance.
Plaque consists of cholesterol, fatty substances, waste products, calcium and the clot-making substance fibrin. It typically builds up on artery walls over many years and can clog or damage your arteries, which limits or stops blood flow to your heart muscle.
"It is important after a heart attack to lower cholesterol as much as possible and with this new therapy, we can reduce it to an extent we haven't seen before while also stabilizing plaque, making it less likely to burst. This is a new frontier in therapy," Nicholls said.
He adds: "If you've had a heart attack, you are twice as likely to die prematurely compared to the general population. These findings show that plaque reduction and stabilization was doubled for high-risk patients who had already experienced a heart attack, making it effective for those who need it most."
(Excerpt) Read more at medicalxpress.com ...
Translated: Even if you don’t have a genetic predisposition for CVD, you will soon be able to keep your crappy lifestyle and “just take another pill” for what ails ya. /s
Yep: That right thar is why the US leads the world in the inversely proportional relationship between life expectancy & medical expenditures.
(the more we spend, the lower the life expectancy goes, even before the virus)
I grow more & more frustrated with the state of medical research in this country, as all the hallmarks of corporate influence are there.
Put another way, if all the research laboratories in the US were tasked with finding novel ways of dealing with a growing problem of excess ballast water in ships after a voyage, we’d have 1001 ways of how to mitigate the water and dispose of it...
...and perhaps a brave few without concern about the future of their careers might ask the question,
“Why can’t we just fix the leaks?”
If you thought you were dependent upon your doctor before, just you wait. /s (that, and the medical discrimination to follow for those who don’t play ball)
2 years from now, if you used the drug Evolocumab call our malpractice lawyers today for your settlement money. On tv late at night, every night.
Being a monoclonal antibody (injectable), evolocumab is a different game from popping a pill that you get from your pharmacist.
Diabetes epidemic, anyone?
("But we lowered the evil cholesterol, now didn't we?")
Scar tissue can be rough and the thing clots form on.
Vitamin K-2
what does K-2 do?
You need Vit k with Vit d to prevent “hardening of the arteries”
I am eating a double American cheese and butter sandwich on wheat bread as I read this.
Thanks, I been taking K somewhat as suppsoedly K with D prevents kidney stones- I didn’t know k helped with arteries too-
At least you didn't say that the clot shots are causing heart attack numbers to shoot through the roof.
We have to keep the press telling the ones seeing heart attacks that the jab has NOTHING TO DO WITH heart attacks. It's the lifestyle, not the vaxxxxxine.
Now go get your perfectly safe booster.
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What makes you think heart attacks have increased? Do you have any evidence?
Vit K2. There’s a difference between K and K2. What K2 does is keeps calcium from going into soft tissues and arteries and drives it into the bones and teeth. It will also work to extract any calcium in the soft tissue and arteries as well. So it’s important to take it if you’re taking Vit D3. D3 makes calcium more bioavailable but if the calcium is not going to the teeth and bones, you’re going to be worse off. So take your Vit K2 if you take Vit D3.
It’s K2 with MK7 that you want. With D3.
I use “Koncentrated K” (k-vitamins.com)
About cholesterol, I’ve been watching videos by Dr. Paul Mason. The problem with LDL is it can go bad, then it forms the plaque. Avoid carbs and seed oils and it won’t go bad.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DXKJaQeteE0
LDL is normally recycled by the liver within seven days. Good LDL has an identifying protein wrapped around it that receptors in the liver recognize. This protein can become damaged by high glucose and oxidized oils. Once damaged, the receptors no longer recognize it, so it stays in the blood, and ends up in the walls of your arteries.
I beleive that is what I take k2- I pckked it up because it supposedly stops stones
Thank you for that. I will. Check that brand out
Vitamin K2 helps with hard plaques, not soft plaques.
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