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Title: What is HDL and LDL?
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Published: Feb 20, 2014
Author: wisequack
Post Date: 2014-02-20 22:20:19 by Tatarewicz
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What’s in your wallet? My wallet is the happy home to a torn $5 bill, lint, a well-used business card from Lorenzo Oss-Cech (lawyer), my driver’s license with a photo that would terrify small children and most pterodactyls, a ticket stub for Monster Truck Rally, a photo of Raminator (the bestest truck of all), Donna Summers Fan Club membership, plastic, a receipt for a Raminator T-shirt and in a wee clear packet, tucked away near the lint, I keep some pills. Emergency pills just in case I happen upon a heart attack or a stroke, mine included. What is in that packet is a trade secret but I will reveal that, of the three emergency pills I carry at all times, one of them is a “statin.” (To know what the other two are you must either send me $1,349+HST or go to www.wisequacks.org.) By now most of you know of statins, commonly referred to in playgrounds as “3-hydroxy-3 methylglutaryl-coenzyme A reductase inhibitors.” But I will heretofore refer to them as statins, if you don’t mind. Should, one day, you be wheeled into the ER, in the throes of the common yet deadly heart attack or stroke, you will be given a statin immediately upon your arrival unless you happen to have been in my hockey rink and I happened to have remembered my wallet. There are those who feel that statins should be in the water. They are just that helpful with dealing with these two very common killers. But not always. As doctors we love to see you get high. We also love to see dense patients as we strive to be dense doctors — some denser than others, eh Sealey? HDL High Density Lipoprotein is a good… no, it’s a GREAT cholesterol. It reverses cholesterol transport and gobbles and scavenges up the foamy cholesterol that lurks about your blood system hoping to form plaques that leads to clots that lead to trouble that lead to me opening my wallet and digging through the lint. HDL is the anti-Crisco. Those of you with naturally high levels of HDL (thanks to your genes) are fortunate. LDL We despise the deadly Low Density Lipoprotein, the bad cholesterol. This is the main target of a statin. This is the anti-Christmas reunion. Those of you with high levels of LDL are unfortunate. While statins can help knock down LDL, they don’t do much for HDL. For decades, medicine has searched for a way to help us elevate our HDL. Well… In fact, wouldn’t it be great if there was a medication that could elevate HDL and lower LDL all at once! Well… Well, you read it here first folks. Finally there is!! Every so often a medication comes along that has the potential to change medicine and our lives for the better. There are some journals that always catch a doctor’s attention. Anything with the word New England or Lancet on it means serious business. Anything with Teen Tiger on it means serious problems. The December 16, 2010 edition of the New England Journal reported on the results of use of a medication called anacetrapib. It astounded researchers by lowering LDL by 40% while raising HDL by a stunning 138%! It had a superb safety profile and those in the study, on anacetrapib, had significantly lower cardiovascular events than the others. A medical event is not a good thing like a Monster Truck event. Medical events include heart attacks, strokes or your canoe flipping over while you’re navigating rapids that you were unaware were ahead of you as your buddy, Roy, who sat in the bow forgot to warn you that the river you were about to canoe was a Class 3 river. But this is so New England Journal-excitable that large international studies are being conducted now. (In fact, the only way you can get anacetrapib is if you’re chosen for a study.)
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#1. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
Half of all heart attacks happen to folks with LOW cholesterol. This pseudo science full on attack on cholesterol is based on bias and baloney studies. You need a full work up to even understand your LDL and HDL production. Cholesterol is found in every single cell, helps make the protective coating, promotes a healthy nervous system, and moves all of your sexual hormones through the body. Just because cholesterol is found at the scene of the crime doesn't mean it is the culprit. In the womb it is cholesterol that makes organs. There are $29 billion reasons why Big Pharma wants you to believe you need a statin drug. Sheesh, Eskimos live on a diet of blubber and fat and have virtually NO heart disease, unless they move down to the lower 48 and start eating crap. Folks, your bodies are miraculous and each body produces cholesterol continually. You need it and your body knows what you need and how much you need. Some need more than others, like the elderly need cholesterol to keep optimum brain function. If you are over producing cholesterol, this is an indication that you need to make dietary changes for optimum health. Anacetrapib, like a statin, is not a fix all for folks to eat a bunch of crap with a happy pill to alter the damage from what is being consumed. " If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11 "Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
If you get a heart attack, insist on magnesium! Ronald Grisanti Mon, 25 Mar 2013 10:45 CDT If you end up in the emergency room with a heart attack, make sure you insist on a 2 cc injection of magnesium sulfate. In double-blind, placebo-controlled scientific study, they looked at 273 patients who were admitted to the hospital for a heart attack. The study published in one of the most prestigious medical journals revealed that after 4 weeks, the people who received the magnesium, only 7% died versus 19% who did not get the magnesium. That means magnesium cut the death rate a walloping 63%. What was interesting is the fact that the study indicated that the people in the study were give far less than the 2 cc of magnesium recommended above. Furthermore, the injection of magnesium decreased arrhythmias by 55%. Remember having a heart arrhythmia is one issue doctors are seriously concerned about following a heart attack. In another study in the same medical journal approximately ten years later revealed that magnesium produced a 24% reduction in the number of deaths in one month after the heart attack. Besides the proven benefits for victims of a heart attack, another study showed people who were given IV magnesium had a 76% reduction in death from a fatal blood clot. And by the way this same study showed that aspirin made no difference. ________________ Take your magnesium daily - at least 500 mg. It's involved in over 300 chemical functions in your body. (Magnesium Glycinate)
Excellent. Magnesium is important. I read in an article that, "Every single cell in the human body demands adequate magnesium to function, or it will perish. Strong bones and teeth, balanced hormones, a healthy nervous and cardiovascular system, wellfunctioning detoxification pathways and much more depend upon cellular magnesium sufficiency. Soft tissue containing the highest concentrations of magnesium in the body include the brain and the heart—two organs that produce a large amount of electrical activity, and which can be especially vulnerable to magnesium insufficiency." Increase in dietary magnesium sounds like it would be beneficial to decrease the chance of a heart attack happening.....well I should have kept reading because this is the case. National Institutes of Health website states that: Some observational surveys have associated higher blood levels of magnesium with lower risk of coronary heart disease [50-51]. In addition, some dietary surveys have suggested that a higher magnesium intake may reduce the risk of having a stroke [52]. There is also evidence that low body stores of magnesium increase the risk of abnormal heart rhythms, which may increase the risk of complications after a heart attack [4]. These studies suggest that consuming recommended amounts of magnesium may be beneficial to the cardiovascular system. Flouride in water depletes natural magnesium concentrates and also causes the body not to bind with magnesium as the body needs. " If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11 "Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
Barley Reduces LDL Cholesterol ZARQA, Jordan—Increasing consumption of barley products should be considered as a dietary approach to reduce low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol concentrations, according to researchers after conducting a meta-analysis of randomized, controlled trials (Eur J Clin Nutr. 2010 Oct 6. doi:10.1038/ejcn.2010.178). Researchers from Department of Clinical Nutrition and Dietetics, Faculty of Allied Health Sciences, The Hashemite University in Zarqa, Jordan, found barley and beta-glucan isolated from barley lowered total and LDL cholesterol concentrations by 0.3 mmol/l (P<0.00001) and 0.27 mmol/l (P<0.00001), respectively, compared with control. The type of food matrix used did not affect the cholesterol-lowering abilities, according to the researchers. In this analysis, 11 eligible randomized clinical trials published from 1989 to 2008 were identified from nine databases. Barley is a cereal grain with a nutlike flavor and a chewy, pasta-like consistency. Its appearance resembles wheat berries, although it is slightly lighter in color. The propionic acid produced from barley's insoluble fiber may be partly responsible for the cholesterol-lowering properties of fiber. In animal studies, propionic acid has been shown to inhibit HMG-CoA reductase, an enzyme involved in the production of cholesterol by the liver. By lowering the activity of this enzyme, propionic acid helps lower blood cholesterol levels. Beta-glucans, polysaccharides abundant in barley has been shown to help lower cholesterol by binding to bile acids and removing them from the body via the feces. Bile acids are compounds used to digest fat that are manufactured by the liver from cholesterol. When they are excreted along with barley's fiber, the liver must manufacture new bile acids and uses up more cholesterol, thus lowering the amount of cholesterol in circulation.
#2. To: Tatarewicz, abraxas (#0)
#3. To: ratcat (#2)
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#4. To: Tatarewicz (#0)
-Alex Kurtagic
#5. To: abraxas, abraxas, christine (#1)
Several years back I tested HIGH, and my doctor gave me free samples of CRESTOR. But before I took anything I consulted christine, and she pointed out the pseudo science to me. 6 Months ago I tested normal, having never taken anything or allowed BIG PHARMA to bill me and our health insurance provider big wampum for yet another drug that may be pulled from the market after enough guinea souls fall over dead. I finally told my insurance company and my doctor that I not only wear a NO CODE-DO NOT RESUSCITATE" Medic Alert necklace, but I won't take anything or undergo any procedure that promises to extend my life. If it minimizes my pain then fine, but anything else is a step in the wrong direction. I've been married since I was twenty years old. What the Hell do I have to live for? Half of all heart attacks happen to folks with LOW cholesterol. This pseudo science full on attack on cholesterol is based on bias and baloney studies.
#6. To: Tatarewicz (#5)
Tatarewicz ping.
#7. To: abraxas, Jethro Tull (#1)
Cholesterol is found in every single cell, helps make the protective coating, promotes a healthy nervous system, and moves all of your sexual hormones through the body. Just because cholesterol is found at the scene of the crime doesn't mean it is the culprit. In the womb it is cholesterol that makes organs. There are $29 billion reasons why Big Pharma wants you to believe you need a statin drug. Sheesh, Eskimos live on a diet of blubber and fat and have virtually NO heart disease, unless they move down to the lower 48 and start eating crap. Folks, your bodies are miraculous and each body produces cholesterol continually. You need it and your body knows what you need and how much you need. Some need more than others, like the elderly need cholesterol to keep optimum brain function. If you are over producing cholesterol, this is an indication that you need to make dietary changes for optimum health. ^^^^ Half of all heart attacks happen to folks with LOW cholesterol. This pseudo science full on attack on cholesterol is based on bias and baloney studies. You need a full work up to even understand your LDL and HDL production.
To question is to value the ideal of truth more highly than the loyalties to nation, religion, race, or ideology.
#8. To: HOUNDDAWG (#5)
LOLOL I've been married since I was twenty years old. What the Hell do I have to live for?
To question is to value the ideal of truth more highly than the loyalties to nation, religion, race, or ideology.
#9. To: abraxas (#3)
great info, ab. thanks for posting it. i really need to take the daggone magnesium oil that i bought months ago.
To question is to value the ideal of truth more highly than the loyalties to nation, religion, race, or ideology.
#10. To: ratcat (#2) (Edited)
Ty Bolinger explained on C2C that cholesterol is not the problem but rather high levels of sugar in diet and, blood. Sugar "drills" holes in artery wall which cholesterol patches up but then keeps on accumulating until artery is blocked. So to avoid heart attacks, avoid excess sugar consumption. After doubling my magnesium citrate to 300mg my tachycardia episodes decreased substantially, Doc said supraventricular tachycardia was due to short in heart and initially prescribed bisoprolol 5mg and later diltrazem, CD 180 as an alternative to catheter ablation (burn). After increased Mg no longer have to slap snow in face and hold for a minute to restore regular pulse; restores itself in seconds after initial "shock" wave (after just thinking about stinging snow).
#11. To: Tatarewicz (#10)
This concurs with the the advice of my nutritionist. His findings indicate that consistently high levels of triglycerides are a much more accurate indicator of a future cardio-pulminary incident than is the LDL number or the HDL / LDL ratio. Ty Bolinger explained on C2C that cholesterol is not the problem but rather high levels of sugar in diet and, blood. Sugar "drills" holes in artery wall which cholesterol patches up but then keeps on accumulating until artery is blocked. So to avoid heart attacks, avoid excess sugar consumption.
#12. To: christine, 4 (#7)
I haven't a clue what to believe. Nearly each one of us buys into one medical theory that is counter balanced by a different one stating something completely opposite. In the end we are our own judge and jury as to what goes into our bodies, this based on advice and research. I'm convinced my previous diet of mostly red meat and dairy (very low carbs) was contributory to my scare. Since then my diet has changed, I haven't gained a pound, exercise continues and my cholesterol numbers are on the low end of the acceptable values. I dumped red meat, eggs and dairy and for an AMA approved diet. So far, so good, my one year anniversary has come and gone and I'm still gracing the planet with my presence :) Sheesh, Eskimos live on a diet of blubber and fat and have virtually NO heart disease, unless they move down to the lower 48 and start eating crap.
#13. To: Tatarewicz (#10)
No doubt , sugar addiction is an epidemic plaguing many Americans. As an alternative I would suggest clove honey... The farmers market in new Braunfels sell a particularly sweet honey . Add a dash a cinnamon to that honey and you'll be doing yourself a real favor.
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#14. To: Tatarewicz (#10)
Some of those prescription drugs are real 'bad news' for your body. If you get a chance, read Dr. Sherry Rogers' book "Is Your Cardiologist Killing You?" I try to take at least 500 mg of magnesium per day. And I need to cut back more on sugar, in the form of chocolate. At least I have eliminated high fructose corn syrup, which was causing major problems heading toward type 2 diabetes.
#15. To: ratcat (#14)
Docs dare not depart from what research and books say, and you know who's producing the information.
#16. To: Tatarewicz (#15)
Not all the information. That's why Rogers' books are hard to find -- only available from The Power Hour (Joyce Riley) or Prestige Press. There's more 'alternative' information out there now that the masses are seeking it. They know the current medical model isn't doing anything good for them.
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