High Cholesterol Support Group
High cholesterol is the presence of high levels of cholesterol in the blood. It is not a disease but a metabolic derangement that can be secondary to many diseases and can contribute to many forms of disease, most notably cardiovascular disease. If you have high cholesterol, join the community to find support and share your experience.
With so many people taking statins, its interesting to find out how all this cholesterol lowering business got started.
Back in the 1950's a bio chemist named Ancel Keys was convinced that cholesterol caused heart disease. Keys researched different countries and compared cholesterol levels with death rates from heart disease. This is known as the famous seven country study.
The relationship of cholesterol and heart disease was undeniable. But there was just one minor problem. The world has more than seven countries.
Data was available on 22 countries, but Keys kicked out the countries that did not support his theory. He left out contries like the Swiss who had higher cholesterol and consumed higher saturated fats, yet had less heart disease.
The public accepted the idea that cholesterol was the villian and a new market was born. Lowering cholesterol. $$$
Today, half of all heart attacks happen to people with low to normal cholesterol, and nearly half firt time heart attacks happen to folks with their "bad" cholesterol well below the guidelines.
So the reason we take statins is our perception that if we lower our cholesterol, we are become more healthy and have a longer life. But are we?
I challenge everyone reading this to stop and think about it. Meanwhile, keep a tight grip on your wallets.
As a retired Medical CEO once told me, "Its all about money"
Back in the 1950's a bio chemist named Ancel Keys was convinced that cholesterol caused heart disease. Keys researched different countries and compared cholesterol levels with death rates from heart disease. This is known as the famous seven country study.
The relationship of cholesterol and heart disease was undeniable. But there was just one minor problem. The world has more than seven countries.
Data was available on 22 countries, but Keys kicked out the countries that did not support his theory. He left out contries like the Swiss who had higher cholesterol and consumed higher saturated fats, yet had less heart disease.
The public accepted the idea that cholesterol was the villian and a new market was born. Lowering cholesterol. $$$
Today, half of all heart attacks happen to people with low to normal cholesterol, and nearly half firt time heart attacks happen to folks with their "bad" cholesterol well below the guidelines.
So the reason we take statins is our perception that if we lower our cholesterol, we are become more healthy and have a longer life. But are we?
I challenge everyone reading this to stop and think about it. Meanwhile, keep a tight grip on your wallets.
As a retired Medical CEO once told me, "Its all about money"
Half of the people having a heart attack do not have high cholesterol. People are told this will cause heart attacks and they scare people into taking them.
Liptor has been proven to cause memory problems and it is listed that some can cause depression and muscle aches and pains.
I am taking cinanmon pill, fish oil and non flush niacin.
The drug companies are making millions from people. It has been pushed on me for years.
Ann
Zetia simply blocks the digestive track from absorbing cholesterol in the diet, while statins prevent the liver from making cholesterol. Both of these methods completely bypass any metabolic gains, and are artificial reductions in cholesterol.
The statins and zetia create a rosey lab report, and there is a perceived benefit, creating a customer for life.
But is the drug really preventing a heart attack? The drug companies boast about 47% reductions in heart attacks and strokes. And when the CUSTOMERS see that, they automatically think that taking the drug will reduce their individual risk by 47%.
Not so fast. Statin proponents only show the customers the data they choose, and kick the rest of the data under the rug.
More about that later.
Ann