Cholesterol and Statins
Leo
03-13-2017, 06:59 PM
Something I have been a bit curious about lately and done some looking into but seems that statin drugs are the number one prescribed medication in the US, UK and pretty much the most widely used medication of all time. Apparently everyone has high cholesterol or has risk factors. So I dug into things a little bit... One thing is that it is clear that the pharmaceuticals have it made.... 8 of the 9 board members who decided what levels of LDL are considered high had ties back to the manufacturers of the statin drugs... Also that the side effects are under reported and insidious since they often take months or years to appear.
The other thing is that the statins do their work high up in the HMG-CoA pathway and it is not just the production of cholesterol that you're reducing... CoQ10 is one of many different enzymes that the liver produces that becomes inhibited...
The other thing that comes into question is how effective statins really are at preventing what they're supposed to help prevent which is heart disease... I'd say in the end they're not, because it hasn't kept people alive longer, people are still dying from heart disease, having heart attacks and strokes and I don't think cholesterol is hardly the whole story... I feel that is simply food we eat and that we eat too much of it and then we're more and more sedentary. I think that has the most impact over our health...
Not trying to convince anyone that there is foul play at work with pharmaceutical companies (there is but...). I am curious to hear what other think about there mere facts that so many people are taking these drugs and those who had side effects and other issues surrounding "high" cholesterol.
Anyway, most of the opposition DO have something they want to sell you, like a natural cure exists. I did come across an excerpt that was a more down to the finer points...
Anyway, I don't think that there is a magical diet for the most part... I do think we're far better off eating less and definitely taking in less sugar... If there's anything that holds true is that sugar seems to be culprit in just about any chronic disease...
Anyway, like to hear everyone's thoughts on the subject...
The other thing is that the statins do their work high up in the HMG-CoA pathway and it is not just the production of cholesterol that you're reducing... CoQ10 is one of many different enzymes that the liver produces that becomes inhibited...
The other thing that comes into question is how effective statins really are at preventing what they're supposed to help prevent which is heart disease... I'd say in the end they're not, because it hasn't kept people alive longer, people are still dying from heart disease, having heart attacks and strokes and I don't think cholesterol is hardly the whole story... I feel that is simply food we eat and that we eat too much of it and then we're more and more sedentary. I think that has the most impact over our health...
Not trying to convince anyone that there is foul play at work with pharmaceutical companies (there is but...). I am curious to hear what other think about there mere facts that so many people are taking these drugs and those who had side effects and other issues surrounding "high" cholesterol.
Anyway, most of the opposition DO have something they want to sell you, like a natural cure exists. I did come across an excerpt that was a more down to the finer points...
Anyway, I don't think that there is a magical diet for the most part... I do think we're far better off eating less and definitely taking in less sugar... If there's anything that holds true is that sugar seems to be culprit in just about any chronic disease...
Anyway, like to hear everyone's thoughts on the subject...
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