I’ve got high cholesterol, first caught when I was 28. Exercise and diet weren’t enough. Although I applaud this medical breakthrough I am concerned about any solution that will, to some effect, encourage people to exercise even less than they do now.
Why bother? They just absolutely showed the known cause and the known cure. - Eat less and exercise.
If the high levels are not affected, then it is not from overeating and a lack of exercise.
The real problem is high levels being normal in that most cholesterol is manufactured by the body and the excess is then reabsorbed in the intestine.
Current lowering drugs prevent or disturb the reabsorbing, thus lowering cholesterol levels in general.
Now, finding a drug that could modify the body’s manufacture of cholesterol would be a real asset, and not just making your stupid lifestyle choices risk free.
Its kind of like spending trillions to medicate and treat a totally 100% preventable disease like AIDS.
I wonder if this enzyme can be found in the compounds used in chelation therapy.
The “depth charge” against high cholesterol is a substance called “guar gum”, a common food additive that prevents clumping in powdery food items.
It is a water soluble fiber that can be bought as a powder over the internet. It tends to strongly bind with bile to prevent its re-uptake by the small intestines. One of the primary components of bile is cholesterol.
Guar gum is mixed with a non-water soluble fiber like Metamucil, and consumed with a cholagogue like olives, that cause bile to be secreted into the intestines in quantity.
Consuming this twice a week will radically lower cholesterol levels. After a few weeks of this, then Omega-3 (not 6) fish oil is consumed in quantity for a few more weeks. This raises the level of good cholesterol into a better balance with the bad, which is also medically important.
Eliminating a large quantity of bile also has the added benefit that bile tends to concentrate heavy metals and other toxins, which would otherwise also recycle with the bile.
Another bile excreting solution are coffee enemas, but that is well detailed elsewhere on the Internet.
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Another “miracle cure” that we’ll never hear about again.
If you are overweight and trying to lose weight, wouldn't you WANT fatty acids to be released from fat cells? How else are you ever going to get rid of the fat?