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Cholesterol & Statin, the Truth.

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BRIBIE ISLAND WRAP

BRIBIE ISLAND WRAP

Statin drugs lower cholesterol? Yes. But is that actually a good thing? Lowering cholesterol help lower heart disease? The new study finds ‘link between high cholesterol and heart disease ‘inconsistent’. The article was issued in Science daily 14 Mar 2022.

https://www.sciencedaily.com /releases/2022/03/22031412070

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Recent studies actually show the opposite that higher cholesterol is associated with lowering All-cause of mortality and assist better cognitive function in the later years. The American Heart Association journals issued this article ‘Higher Total Serum Cholesterol Levels Are Associated with less severe strokes and lower All-Cause Mortality.’ https://www.ahajournals.org/ doi/10.1161/STROKEAHA.107.

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Does lower cholesterol improve longevity? There is no evidence to that either. Why is there a standard prescription for Statin? Doctors follow evidence-based medicine and the only evidence they’re looking for is, does Statin lower cholesterol? Yes, and there is the assumption that cholesterol causes heart disease, therefore it must be a good thing to lower it. And that is a false assumption. Doctors need to follow their standard of care, which is to prescribe a statin if a patient’s cholesterol is over 200. Doctors can’t get in trouble even if patients get ill from the prescriptions as long as doctors follow the standard of care.

Real cause of heart disease and plaques are inflammation. A low grade chronic inflammation which is associated often with insulin resistance and or oxidated stress. All these three go hand in hand. There is correlation between cardiovascular disease and these three things. There’s a very weak correlation between cholesterol and cardiovascular disease.

Healthy LDL (low-density lipoprotein) cholesterol should be recycled by Liver, but the damaged oxidised LDL is smaller than the receptors of liver so it doesn’t get absorbed. So, the damaged LDL then regarded as a foreign intruder and cleaned by Macrophage/white cell, then it becomes ‘foam cell’ but the problem is these foam cells become lipid plaque on the inside of arteries.

The milligrams of total cholesterol and LDL won’t give you a big picture. Despite your good diet if your LDL level is still high. You need to check ‘Small LDL-P’ and ‘LDL Size’ count. Oxidized LDL can only be reduced by the immune system. Statin reduces total healthy LDL particles which leads less LDL to oxidize. But the liver need LDL to produce cholesterol which is a raw material for making hormones, vitamin D, testosterone and estrogen. Statin drug blocks an enzyme (HMG-CoA reductase), which also blocks the production of cholesterol. Statin doesn’t help to get rid of damaged oxidated LDL and this is the problem. This block also affects the production of CoQ-10, CoQ-10 is involved with 95% of all the energy production in the body. When you reduce CoQ-10 you reduce the overall energy production in the body. If you take Statin you also want to consider taking CoQ-10 supplement. The muscles of the body use a lot of energy because we are moving all the time. So statin drug will cause muscle fatigue, muscle pathology and weakness. The most important muscle is the heart and we take Statin drugs because we’re afraid that the cholesterol will block the artery and shut off the oxygen delivery for energy production but now we take a drug that actually shuts off the energy production and the delivery to the heart. Now the heart has to work harder and we often get heart pathology like cardiomegaly and things like that. Another very hard-working organ is the liver; Statin drug interfere with the production of cholesterol and block the energy production. One more place uses more energy than any other is your brain. It’s two percent of your body weight uses 20% of all the energy in your body. So you could take the Statin drugs and they can interfere with all of these or you could adjust your diet. There are number of natural remedies which can improve your cholesterol. To name a few, Astragalus, Hawthorn, high quality omega-3 and Red yeast rice powder. If you want to discuss further, please drop by the shop to speak with me or make appointment with one of our naturopaths. Call 07 3410 0521. Shop 13, 19 Benabrow Av, Bellara. A corner of a medical centre and Blondie hairdresser, on the same block as the Skin Cancer Clinique.

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