Posted on 10/30/2007 8:07:22 AM PDT by qam1
Yup, and eating a balanced diet with daily exercise and exposing one’s self to work in the cold and the heat will do more to control (reduce) blood fat than any pharmco ‘magic pill’.
Thanks for the link. Interesting.
Thinking of Burgess Meredith in “Grumpier Old Men”: “I’m 95 years old and you bring me this sloppin’ foam (light beer)? Every day for breakfast I smoke a cigarette and I have a pound of bacon! For lunch I have a bacon sandwich! For a midday snack I have more bacon....a whole damn plate! And I usually drink my dinner! According to all those flab-belly experts, I should’ve took a dirt nap years ago. Yet they keep dyin’, and I’m still here!”
Thanks for any information. As a user of Simvistatin (only prescription I have ever taken) in the last 90 days, I can be a FReeper case study. I will research more. Thanks again.
I totally disagree with that statement. I can't take ANY of the statins and no doctor has ever told me that.
Same here, but I used Red Yeast Rice and Lecithin capsules. Back to normal the next test.
My former cardiologist tried to prescribe cholesterol lowering drugs for me even though he’d never tested my cholesterol level. He just ‘thought’ I probably had high cholesterol.
Me too. My doc actually told me not to change my diet and just take the pills. I ignored his advice.
Just wondering.
I agree, I used to take statins but found out I felt like he** all the time and then I started getting muscle pains which made me stop taking them immediately. This is the sign of a potentially deadly side effect and can, at the least, lead to permanent muscle damage and at its worst can kill you. I got my cholesterol down through a small change in diet and walking regularly(at least 3 times a week, usually every day).
I told my Doctor I was never going to take statins again and he tried to fool me my saying he was going to prescibe a different drug, it was simply a statin under another name and I knew this. I dropped that Doctor and started seeing another one and told the new one up front I wasn't going to take statins.
I hope it doesn’t happen, but you are at more risk for a myocardial infarction than you know.
My advice to you is get your LDL below 100 asap.
Denial is not an effective long term strategy. In fact, it’s deadly re: this subject.
I am speaking from experience.
Red yeast rice when produced using the 'Went' strain of Monascus purpureus contains significant quantites of the HMG-CoA reductase inhibitor lovastatin which is also known as mevinolin, a naturally-occurring statin. It is sold as an over the counter dietary supplement for controlling cholesterol (See ref.: Medicine Net). There is strong scientific evidence for its effect in lowering blood levels of total cholesterol, low-density lipoprotein/LDL ("bad cholesterol"), and triglyceride levels (see below). Because an approved drug is identical to the molecule it is therefore regulated as a drug by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Red Yeast rice with none of the downsides.
Sarcastic?
One needs to escape America and AMA propaganda to see how and what people actually do eat in other societies.
IMO Americans are grossly overdiagnosed and overmedicated, and cholesterol is one of the biggest myths of all. It's an issue in continual medical dispute, was actually said NOT TO BE A PROBLEM a few years ago, then it was made a problem again, and now the allowable numbers have been ratcheted down so low that large percentages of the American population are taking anti-cholesterol medications, which is precisely the point of the article above.
Viewed from afar, America has become a paranoid hypochondriac nation and is prescribed WAYYYYYY too many drugs.
“We won’t be satisfied until every man woman and child throughout the world is on these important medications.”
I get a feeling you don’t.
Do a little reading and you will find that high LDL is a significant contributor to the 1.5 million heart attacks in the US each year. 500,000 die each year.
If high cholesterol is not a major driver of heart attacks, then what is?
Publish a paper with your studies and you will be rich and famous!!!
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