1. Did you know that "it has never been proven that high cholesterol contributes to heart disease? Therefore, drugs that lower cholesterol have no benefit for the heart." So says Dr. Bruce West, cardiologist from Monterey, CA. Having treated 30,000 patients, he has concluded that the fortunate ones are the ones who have not been given cholesterol lowering drugs.
2. Did you know that your brain is half cholesterol? And that cholesterol lowering drugs prevent your brain from this supply of cholesterol that is necessary for the brain to function properly? Could this explain why Alzheimer's and Dementia have become so widespread in our country? And the medical community is now pushing to lower the accepted level of cholesterol below the already low standards that the drug company researchers had previously set.
3. Did you know that when you eat sugar, your body produces insulin to help you use or store the sugar, but if there is more insulin in the blood vessels than is needed to digest the sugar, the insulin irritates the blood vessel lining causing deterioration? When that happens, the body sends LDL cholesterol to mend the spot. After that has happened repeatedly, the amount of buildup in the blood vessel (called plaque) causes the vessel to become narrow and make the circulation through the vessel difficult and may even cause a blockage, or "heart attack". The cholesterol is not the culprit. Instead, cholesterol is acting as a bandage to repair an injury. The secret to preventing or removing the plaque is not decreasing the amount of cholesterol in the body, but rather, changing the diet so that the surplus insulin will not be circulating in the blood.
4. Did you know that 75% of the cholesterol in our bodies is produced within the body and that only 25% comes from the food we eat? Doesn't it seem reasonable that the Creator must have had a purpose in planning for us to have that much?
5. Did you know that the cholesterol in your skin is transformed into Vitamin D by the sun for healthy bones (unless you wear sunscreen which prevents that from happening)?
6. Did you know that cholesterol is such an important substance that it is contained in practically every cell in the human body? The Honolulu Heart Program study, published in the August 2001 issue of The Lancet, states that "the long term persistence of low cholesterol actually increases the risk of death". Normal cholesterol levels should run between 150 and 250, but the pharmaceutical companies are telling us they should be between 80 and 130. Dr. West, in his September 2005 Health Alert magazine says that that level is "dangerously low. Cholesterol is needed to produce stress hormones and when levels drop below 100, people with cancer or other serious diseases succumb to the disease. If your cholesterol is below 130 and you are on a statin drug, ask your doctor to stop the prescription now."
7. Did you know that cholesterol levels are either normal or below normal in half of all heart disease patients? In recent studies of people over 75, those with the highest cholesterol were the healthiest? ( Dr. Bruce West- Health Alert)
Dr. David Williams (writer of the Alternatives magazine) says, "The cholesterol theory of heart disease has been dead for 20 years. It was shot full of holes when scientists showed that the majority of people who suffer heart attacks have normal cholesterol levels. This makes cholesterol-lowering drugs irrelevant and useless. He goes on to say, "I've been waving a red flag about cholesterol-lowering drugs since August, 1991, when I first discovered they are not only ineffective, but potentially deadly. (They can rob the heart of an important nutrient, CoQ10, that powers its beating.)
"Meanwhile, 13 million people in this country remain on cholesterol drugs, and millions more are being urged to start taking them. It will be a long time before an official about-face comes. Tragically, hundreds of thousands of people will go to their deaths following this old-school advice in the false belief they're being protected."
Posted by Muryal Braun
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