Cholesterol: It is increasingly evident that the emperor has no clothes

If you have a history of cardiovascular disease in your family, or if you are on medication for cholesterol then you must read this.

Here's an excellent article about cholesterol by Dr. Mercola"

"For the past half century, cholesterol has been touted as a grave health hazard, and dietary fat and cholesterol have been portrayed as being among the “deadliest” foods you could possibly eat.

This may finally change, as limitations for cholesterol will likely be removed from the 2015 edition of Dietary Guidelines for Americans. It’s about time really, as 60 years’ worth of research has utterly failed to demonstrate a correlation between high cholesterol and heart disease.

Not only does undamaged natural cholesterol not cause heart disease, it is actually one of the most important molecules in your body; indispensable for the building of cells and for producing stress and sex hormones, as well as vitamin D.

Cholesterol is also important for brain health, and helps with the formation of your memories. Low levels of HDL cholesterol have been linked to memory loss and Alzheimer's disease, and may also increase your risk of depression, stroke,violent behavior, and even suicide."Full article by Dr Mercola here

How to determine your cardiovascular risk

If you live in the USA and want to be independently tested for cholesterol and other measures of heart health, you are welcome to contact me because I can arrange this for you, explain the results and help work out an intervention that is best for YOU.  If you live elsewhere, then you will have to consult your doctor.

More articles about the cholesterol myth here:

GaryMoller.com - Health, Fitness - Naturally!: Can statin ...

blog.garymoller.com/2013/05/can-statin-cholesterol-lowering-drugs.html

• Can statin cholesterol-lowering drugs cause localised motor neuropathy?

GaryMoller.com - Health, Fitness - Naturally!: The evidence ...

blog.garymoller.com/2012/03/evidence-grows-that-cholesterol.html

• "Those with the highest cholesterol levels were found to be 35 per cent less likely to die than individuals with the lowest levels. Those with ...

GaryMoller.com - Health, Fitness - Naturally!: Cholesterol ...

blog.garymoller.com/2012/06/cholesterol-lowering-statins-are.html

• "What this all means for statin drugs, which mainstream medicine has ridiculously dubbed 'miracle drugs,' is that their cholesterol inhibiting ...

GaryMoller.com - Health, Fitness - Naturally!: More evidence ...

blog.garymoller.com/2015/.../more-evidence-that-statins-are-neither.htm...

• We have provided a critical assessment of research on the reduction of cholesterol levels by statin treatment to reduce cardiovascular disease.

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Has your doctor told you about this? - Memory loss and depression with lipid-lowering agents

"Prescribers are reminded that the risk of psychiatric reactions associated with lipid-lowering agents is not limited to statins. The symptomatic onset of psychiatric reactions, particularly memory loss and depression, can occur within days after initiation of treatment with statins, fibrates, or ezetimibe. Reports have been received where the symptoms occurred within four days after commencing treatment with ezetimibe. However, reactions can occur up to one year after initiation of treatment. In most reported cases, the symptoms resolved upon discontinuation of treatment. It is suspected that memory loss and depression are due to a reduction of brain cell membrane cholesterol, rather than direct adverse effects of the lipid-lowering agents themselves.

It is important that patients are advised to inform their prescriber immediately if they experience symptoms suggestive of depression, memory loss, or other psychiatric reactions. Prescribers should consider the lipid-lowering agents as a possible causal explanation in patients presenting with psychiatric symptoms, particularly memory loss or depression."

References

1. Tatley M, Savage R. Psychiatric reactions with statins, fibrates and ezetimibe. Drug Safety 2007:30(3):195-201.
2. Australian Adverse Drug Reactions Advisory Committee (ADRAC). Ezetimibe and depression – a possible signal. Aust Adverse Drug React Bull 2006;25(5):19. www.tga.gov.au/adr/aadrb/aadr0610.htm

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Gary Moller comments:
If you are a regular reader of this blog you will be aware that I am not a fan of lipid-lowering medications. Why on Earth would any doctor prescribe these drugs to an otherwise healthy person, let alone a person with health issues is beyond me. Especially when there are perfectly safe alternatives for all but a few cases of high cholesterol.

Meanwhile, health experts keep lowering the cholesterol bar for when to prescribe lipid lowering drugs. Now there is barely a single male (and many women) over 40 years who has not got "high" cholesterol. As the report above indicates, cholesterol is essential for life and it is not without consequences to start interfering with it chemically.

Fact:
Every cell in your body, including the brain cells, needs cholesterol to function.

Depression, confusion, baying at the moon, aching legs and impotence. Are these adequate reasons for staying away from these drugs which are wrongly being promoted (pushed?) as safe and effective for the treatment of conditions like hyperlipidema (High cholesterol)? If you are on lipid lowering drugs, has your doctor adequately explained the possible health risks?



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