There was a fantastic thread on this forum several months ago about a lot of this sort of stuff. From it, I learned about a book called "The Great Cholesterol Con" by Dr. Malcom Kendrick. I've been reading it a little by little for the past several months. Not dry reading at all, since his British sense of humor is rather charming. There is no such thing as "high LDL," but having low LDL is very dangerous and could be a sign of disease. He shows how as Japan has increased its cholesterol intake over the past several decades, the rate of heart disease has decreased. He dispels that benefits of HDL vs LDL is nonsense, shows how LDL actually protects one's body, and shows how statins (like you were taking) do not decrease one's chance of death at all, but actually raises it by 1%. It's all a sham.
I've learned that Hawthorn berry helps high blood pressure. Actually, if I was told that blood pressure is as much of a sham as cholesterol, I wouldn't doubt it. My doctor has been trying to get me on statins and I won't do it. Actually, I was taking red yeast rice as a natural statin. Not because I believe that LDL is bad, but I thought that if I could reduce it a bit, they'd leave me alone about it. Well, over the past couple of months, I've developed some nerve pain in my arms and I wonder if taking red yeast rice supplements have affected this.
Another book I'd recommend is " Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients" by Ray
Moynihan. I bought this book and read the first two chapters before starting the book by Kendrick. Interestingly, the book doesn't seem to reference Rockefeller, the one really responsible for mucking up Western Medicine over a century ago.
There was a fantastic thread on this forum several months ago about a lot of this sort of stuff. From it, I learned about a book called "The Great Cholesterol Con" by Dr. Malcom Kendrick. I've been reading it a little by little for the past several months. Not dry reading at all, since his British sense of humor is rather charming. There is no such thing as "high LDL," but having low LDL is very dangerous and could be a sign of disease. He shows how as Japan has increased its cholesterol intake over the past several decades, the rate of heart disease has decreased. He dispels that benefits of HDL vs LDL is nonsense, shows how LDL actually protects one's body, and shows how statins (like you were taking) do not decrease one's chance of death at all, but actually raises it by 1%. It's all a sham.
I've learned that Hawthorn berry helps high blood pressure. Actually, if I was told that blood pressure is as much of a sham as cholesterol, I wouldn't doubt it. My doctor has been trying to get me on statins and I won't do it. Actually, I was taking red yeast rice as a natural statin. Not because I believe that LDL is bad, but I thought that if I could reduce it a bit, they'd leave me alone about it. Well, over the past couple of months, I've developed some nerve pain in my arms and I wonder if taking red yeast rice supplements have affected this.
Another book I'd recommend is " Selling Sickness: How the World's Biggest Pharmaceutical Companies Are Turning Us All Into Patients" by Ray Moynihan. I bought this book and read the first two chapters before starting the book by Kendrick. Interestingly, the book doesn't seem to reference Rockefeller, the one really responsible for mucking up Western Medicine over a century ago.