Thank you so much for taking the time to write this. My doctor is a
Cardio-pulmonary specialist and a true believer in the use of vitamins
and doesn't always live by the conventional "wisdom" or whatever the AMA
may be pushing. I will question himeabout this next time I see him.
I was never able to get my cholesterol under 200, no matter how I
changed my diet or excercised. The Quaker Oats commercial shows a man
had lowered his count a whole 6 points after a month. wow. But then if
cholesterol has nothing to do with heart disease, it's all moot. That
would make life easier.
Vytorin is simvastatin (works in the liver) and Zetia (works in the
digestive tract). I had tried Crestor, but after reading up on it, found
that most sites referred to it as the most dangerous drug on the market,
"do not take this drug" was a common warning. Extreme shoulder muscle
pain stopped my using it.
I've been supplementing my diet with 200mg of CoQ10 for 4-5 months
(specifically directed by my doctor), and that counteracts the fatigue
side effects.
Cutting Burger King and MacDonalds completely out of my diet has helped
me to feel generally better in day to day life. I NEVER thought I'd lose
that craving. Last time I had a BK fry (soy batter dipped, fried in the
cheapest, highest saturated fat available) it tasted raelly, really bad.
I will check out Ravnskov's book.
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John Hermanson
Camtech Photo Services, Inc.
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Chuck Norcutt wrote:
> I hate to say it but, if I were you, I'd be very concerned instead of
> elated. You might want to read a book called "The Cholesterol Myths"
> by Swedish physician Uffe Ravnskov. Not a crackpot but a well published
> researcher (mostly in the Lancet) who will show you that the emperor has
> no clothes. Furthermore, at levels of total cholesterol of 110 I would
> be very concerned that you are setting yourself up for potential health
> problems unrelated to heart disease. Total cholesterol levels below 180
> are statistically associated with increasing death rates from many
> causes. In fact, if you're over the age of 65 or 70, the people who
> live the longest are the ones with the highest cholesterol levels. See:
> <http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/entrez/query.fcgi?cmd=retrieve&db=pubmed&list_uids=11502313&dopt=medline>
> which is just one of many studies which demonstrate this point. You can
> also see that the researchers are extremely timid in their conclusions
> lest they be seen as bucking the conventional wisdom.
>
> But it really shouldn't be a surprise. Cholesterol is a critical
> building block for the nervous system. Something else that's critical
> throughout your body is Coenzyme Q10 the production of which is also
> reduced by statin drugs since it is produced along the same metabolic
> pathway as cholsterol.
>
> In 1998 I had a triple bypass and was put on Lipitor to bring down my
> cholesterol. I stayed on it for about 7 years but I believe that the
> Lipitor (a statin drug just like Vytorin) is responsible for long term
> muscle aches throughout much of my body. I can't prove that but it
> caused me to start probing deeply into the statin drug phenomena which
> is now like a steamroller pushed by drug industry money. Unfortunately,
> good science seems to be something that has been pushed over by the
> steamroller. See the following paper by Richard Smith, former editor of
> the British Medical Journal
> <http://medicine.plosjournals.org/perlserv/?request=get-document&doi=10.1371/journal.pmed.0020138>
>
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