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I have started back on my plan again - being very conscious of what I eat - fruit and yogurt in the morning, lunch and dinner is salad/veg and lean proteins. NO simple carbs at all (bread, flour, pasta, rice, sugar etc etc). My body cannot handle them at all- they become very addictive and I cannot handle it.
Please let me know what I can do and if RYR could be the cause?
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I have started back on my plan again - being very conscious of what I eat - fruit and yogurt in the morning, lunch and dinner is salad/veg and lean proteins. NO simple carbs at all (bread, flour, pasta, rice, sugar etc etc). My body cannot handle them at all- they become very addictive and I cannot handle it.
Please let me know what I can do and if RYR could be the cause?
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New to the board, but have a question! Hope someone can help me. Is having too low cholesterol not very good. I just received my blood results back and my total Cholesterol was 122. My HDL was 60, TRI-64, LDL WAS 49, AND CHOL TO HDLC RATIO WAS 2.0. I just want to know if I have to worry about this. Feed back would be nice.View Thread
The article in full:
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/260624.phpView Thread
He told me that based on the recent SATURN trial, his medical network (the largest in the country) has decided to recommend Lipitor in high doses to patients with known CAD. The trial results show that both Lipitor and Crestor showed a regression of arterial plaques. I asked for some reading material and he gave me the link below. Very interesting and good to know!
I have a few issues with SATURN, it was relatively small (1,100 participants) and had a cohort percentage of 29% which can be a bit high. In any case, this is a major revelation.
http://www.medpagetoday.com/MeetingCoverage/AHA/29718View Thread
A University of Arizona research team has made a novel discovery in brain cells being treated with statin drugs: unusual swellings within neurons, which the team has termed the "beads-on-a-string" effect...
http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/releases/260422.phpView Thread
http://healthland.time.com/2013/04/26/air-pollution-and-hardening-arteries/View Thread
This paper breaks down the reasons for the decrease and found that 40% of the deaths prevented was due to advancement in medical treatment which was preventing deaths. Also, 54% was based on the reduction of risk factors and 6% was unknown.
So with 40% coming from the advancements in treatment, what made up the rest. 30% was due to a reduction in Hypertension, 28% was directly attributed to a reduction in serum cholesterol and 15% in the reduction of smoking. These three areas make up 73% of the deaths prevented from heart disease by cintrolling risk factors. The actual number of deaths prevented by controlling cholesterol was 95K second only to 105K from a reduction in Hypertension.
This is very interesting and I recommend reading it if you have a chance. Don't forget to look at the tables, it is very interesting.
http://www.nejm.org/doi/full/10.1056/NEJMsa053935#t=articleDiscussionView Thread
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http://podblog.blogs.hopkinsmedicine.org/2013/03/23/mummies-and-atherosclerosis/View Thread
In a nutshell, while death rates from heart disease were in decline in the US, per capita milk consumption was also in decline.
But while death from heart disease was declining, per capita consumption of all cheese was skyrocketing.
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I have tried several "diets" including WW but nothing would lower the cholesterol and improve my blood chemistry. I was also taking fish oil for about a year. Then in early January 2013 I decided to try to do a plant-based diet as much as possible and also not consume dairy. I read Dr. Fuhrman's "Eat to Live" and there are some radical views in the book (for me) but the basis of the book was where I started. I was seriously trying to improve my blood chemistry and was hoping to lose at least 10 lbs. I told my cardio about this and he was glad. He told me to wait 3 months and let's see the results. I did and at the end of March had my blood lipid panel done. To my shock, my total cholesterol had fallen from 198 down to 119. I have never had cholesterol under 178 for the past 20 years - ever since I have been having it routinely profiled! Also my LDL cholesterol (really bad stuff) went from 104 down to 56. My triglycerides were unchanged and my HDL went down about 30 pts.
All I can say is that only eating meat protein (of any kind) 2 or 3 times a week in the evening only has done something that 80 mg of Lipitor has been unable to do for years. I guess if you don't put it in your system, it will not end up in your blood!!
It has made a believer out of me.View Thread
According to the article, the Justice Dept has filed suit against Novartis for holding "educational events" on fishing trips and Hooters restaurants.
Hooters? Maybe it was continuing medical education in physiology?
http://www.medpagetoday.com/Washington-Watch/Washington-Watch/38747?utm_contentView Thread
The tide is turning in this fresh article dated 3-19-2013
http://www.euronews.com/2013/03/19/statins-lowering-cholestorol-raising-debate/View Thread
http://cardiobrief.org/2010/12/08/abbott-subsidiary-pays-41-million-penalty-for-niaspanadvicor-kickbacks/View Thread
Volume 111, Issue 8 , Pages 1221-1229, 15 April 2013
http://www.ajconline.org/article/S0002-9149%2812%2902655-0/abstract
Here is the abstract. You need to buy (or go to a medical library) to read the whole thing.
Based on the cardiovascular (CV) outcomes data derived predominantly from 3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase inhibitor (statin) trials, guidelines have set low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol targets at successively lower levels over time. Recent data have demonstrated that more-intensive statin therapy (and, consequently, lower LDL cholesterol level) is more effective at reducing CV events than less-intensive statin therapy. Although the average LDL cholesterol level for a United States adult is 119 mg/dl, within the "normal" range (90 to 130 mg/dl) per the United States National Cholesterol Education Program—Adult Treatment Panel III guidelines, data from fetal studies, diet studies, contemporary hunter-gatherer populations, and other mammals have suggested that the "normal" physiologic range for LDL cholesterol in humans is likely 50 to 70 mg/dl. Low LDL cholesterol levels have been sporadically associated with an increased risk of cancer, hemorrhagic stroke, and other complications in population studies and clinical trials. However, statin clinical trials have generally not demonstrated correlations between on-treatment LDL cholesterol levels and safety. Clinical data have suggested a linear relation between LDL cholesterol lowering and CV risk reduction, supporting a favorable risk/benefit ratio for attaining very low levels of LDL cholesterol to minimize the risk of CV events. In conclusion, clinical trial evidence demonstrating the efficacy and safety of LDL cholesterol lowering to a very low level is essential to ascertain the benefits and risks in reducing the residual risk of vascular disease.View Thread
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