We have discussed alternative medications in the past. My wife who is 58 has been trying to not be placed on statin drugs for high cholestorol. Her physician is now scaring her as her levels are over double what he wants them to be. Some of what I have read personally state that cholestorol is needed to ward off alzeheimers. One of her great aunts had alzeheimers and we suspected her sister my wifes grandmother as being undiagnosed. My wife is resonably inclined to stay away for statin drugs but we are also equally scared of her numbers.
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Doctors lie
People die
Perhaps the greatest contributor to Alzheimer's are statin drugs.
This is known. It is fact.
Our brain is made up of Cholesterol.
Doctors tell us to stay off eggs, red meat, seafood, as soon as we hit 40-50 to start us on our Mental Detrioration journey then they lie and blame it on Cholesterol (instead of our shit meatless diet!!) and say cholesterol is double and have to uppend our meds.. all my friends' parets were told the same thing. How convennient and coincidence doctors all use the same SCRIPT!!! SCRIPT, guys!
DOCTORS LIE!!!!
Good for you l😀
Never go on statins. You can't get off. If your cholesterol is high you're just eating too much. Just stop eating and drinking so damn much. Most people need to cut their calories in half. It's a simple solution, but hard to pull off. Also, if you are not doing both cardio and weight training, your body is rusting. You've gotta move.
Simple, but seemingly impossible for most people to pull off.
Stay away from doctors. They'll tell you you have cancer just to sell you treatment. Diet and exercise. If you can't do that, you're done. Your doctor will only make it worse.
Please know that the numbers these doctors are pushing for are way lower than in the past. Too low. I have an 86 yo friend who had a stent put in. He was having symptoms again. I gave him the vitamin c and l-lysine protocol that u/JohnTitor17 posted. Within ONE day he could feel his feet again. Within two days, he was walking his long driveway pulling his trash can to the street. His wife said he worked more than he had in a long time. He said he felt ten years younger. That was two days into the treatment. That was the beginning of last year. He does it roughly every 8 weeks for two weeks. He will be 87 next month. It works.
Hi u/NewbombII
This is the way to clear your wife's arteries quickly, regardless of cholesterol levels.
How I 100% cleared out my father-in-law's arteries in 4-weeks. His scheduled Heart Stent procedure: Cancelled. FAQ ~ PLUS 20+ GAW user Testimonials in the comments.
Thanks for the tag Trump4evergirl.
I'll be posting the protocol again soon.
Thank you for answering the tag!! Much love!
Do your research on which fats to eat.
As a principle: stay away from seed oils, and stock up on butter, tallow and lard.
Cream every day. I mean it. There was just a study mentioned yesterday on this board, that proves a 24% better outcome, re: dementia, for people who consume just cream in their coffee every day. https://greatawakening.win/p/1ASFcpGwuA/the-brain-needs-fats-a-25year-st/c/
Same with real butter on your food, I expect.
Cholesterol enters the bloodstream as a protective measure, when there is inflammation. It is used in the fibrin > fibrinogen buildup of scabs, so is released to repair micro-injuries. So, address the amount of carbs in the diet, because, sugar, for example is a spiky molecule that attacks small bloodvessels.
I have seen testimony from people who were threatened with statins, because of some misinterpreted test-results, who went carnivore (don't forget the fats - most noobs do) and turned things around in just three weeks. TMI, but you want your poop to slide out effortlessly.
BUT. get someone to monitor the blood-cholesterol (or do it yourself, and get used to the lingo) who knows all this stuff. Many doctors don't. Know the difference between good cholesterol and 'bad' cholesterol, for example.
Also good to remember sugar causes inflammation and is added to everything. Then your body ups it’s cholesterol production to deal with all the inflammation caused by the sugar.
Yeah, I just explained why sugar causes inflammation: the sugar molecules are sharp and spiky, they tear at the micro-vessel-walls. AKA capillaries. Injury sites become inflamed.
Insulin is the body's mechanism to squirrel the sugar away in the form of fat. That is also a defensive manoeuvre. At least: it turns the harmful sugar into 'less' harmful fat.
Sugar's micro-injuries injuries explain why diabetics lose their extremities. Insulin no longer works, so the vessel-damage to small, far-away blood vessels becomes pronounced, more inflamed, and eventually hopelessly corrupted.
Inflammation sets off all the repair mechanisms, and one of those is the release of blood-cholesterol - which, one can imagine the body ferrying building blocks for repair - la bit like cement trucks coming down the high-way to the building site. Cholesterol is like the raw materials if you like, in the supply-line that is the circulatory system.
This paradigm also views cholesterol in the light to which was designed for: cholesterol is used in the making of brain and nerve tissue, and it is integral in the formation of Vit. D in the skin. Also: Vit D is needed in every cell of the body. SO, cholesterol is entirely misunderstood in its role.
The takeaway? 'High cholesterol' readings need more definition. High WHICH cholesterol is the first question - which will point to one's diet. But also: What are the insulin readings? Any symptoms? Look for inflammation markers - is the patient frequently taking anti-inflammatory medications, because of - what are the symptoms? etc. Frequent headaches? Sore joints?
YOUR BRAIN....
IS 60% FAT...
u/#banhammer
Doctors baffled at statin-users becoming dementia patients.
Right...
I am a retired Registered Nurse of 35+ years in the profession. I have familial high cholesterol, off the "charts". My doctor tried everything to get me on statins, scare tactics galore. I do not take statins nor will I ever take statins. I take the Linus Pauling Vit C/L-lysine cardiac protocol twice annually at higher dose for 4-6 weeks to clean out my arteries and continue it at a lower dose year round. Also take Citrus Bergamot, Olive Leaf extract and Plant Sterols.
I keep my triglycerides and LDL lowered within parameters and get my HDL elevated within parameters but most importantly I watch my lipoprotein A (you have to ask to have included in your bloodwork) to keep it down as far as possible. Cholesterol is not the problem. It is inflammation that causes the problem.
My Dad lived to be 96, I am the youngest in a family of 6, all have familial high cholesterol. My oldest sister is 79. If you have metabolic syndrome, heal your biodome, eat healthy, limit sugar, mild exercise daily if possible, supplement as needed, and avoid big pharma whenever you can. Oh and my Doctor... he now says I'm healthier than him, guess what he is on statins for familial high cholesterol. Please do your research you will ultimately know more than your Doctor.
This is what I was just typing as you posted.
My FiL believed the doctors, re Statins and is now hopelessly demented.
Nattokinase. Lowered my friend 40 points in a month at 12000 iu daily.
ALL LIES!!
Sorry i'm just pissed off at all the lies. OUR BRAIN IS MADE UP CHOLESTEROL
So They tell you the opposite and you become sick and then they blame it on Cholesterol
Eat 5 eggs a day , throw that Statin in the garbage, you can be of perfect health and only thing is high cholesterol and you'll live a healthy long life mentally and physically.
I'm sick of people still believing in all the lies.
I eat 4 steaks/week, chopped meat, lots of bacon and 2 dozen eggs /week and NO sugar or carbs, everything perfect since high school.. imagine that. Cholesterol is good for you. Sugar is BAD for you. Fruits and Veggies have sugar and pesticides, unless you live in Asia where they're organic, you can live without it..just lots of butter, lard,, and no seed oils whatsoever.
Yes, I eat the MOST expensive food in America.. why do you think they're so expensive? Because THEY don't want us eating these food at all. THEY want us sick and dependent on THEM. They EVIL!!!
Your BRAIN needs cholesterol to keep from deflating.
Also, alcohol, being a solvent, dissolves your brain, you get jolly dopamine from finding this magic juice to boot.
So, that gets peed out
So you were pissing your brains onto the wall in the parking lot, that time.
People with high cholesterol actually LIVE LONGER. There is a study somewhere to this effect.
https://youtu.be/r1mKC92tW0A?t=1
He is good.
I personally eat over a pound of bacon each week. I eat about two dozen eggs per week or sometimes a little bit more. I eat as much red meat as I possibly can. I never touch chicken as it is horrible for you.
The doctors said I was going to be on statins, metformin, and blood pressure medicine for the rest of my life.
I used to have type two diabetes, high blood pressure, and they said high cholesterol. I have cured them all myself just from my diet. I have lost 35 pounds. I am sixty years old, and I am in better shape than most thirty year olds.
Cholesterol is actually good for you. Your brain needs cholesterol to survive. People that have low cholesterol have neurological problems. Good cholesterol used to be three hundred to three fifty. They keep changing the definition of what is good so they can get more people to take their medication.
I would never see a doctor for anything unless it was a broken bone and something I could not fix myself.
There are lots of doctors that are good people, but they do not know what good medicine is because they were never taught it in medical school. They are only taught to push drugs to treat symptoms. They are taught to be moneymakers for the pharmaceutical industry. They are not taught to be healers.
Stay away from all seed oils. Stay away from CANOLA. Stay away from enriched wheat flour, and any bread that has more than four ingredients. Riboflavin is horrible for you. Stay away from anything that has corn syrup in it. I almost completely cut potatoes out of my diet. Almost no rice at all. I never eat anything out of a box. Spinach and kale are horrible for you, beans are really bad for you, as they cause inflammation within your heart and your blood vessels. The only vegetables I eat a lot of are onions, mushrooms, and garlic.
I only cook with butter, bacon grease, lard, or beef tallow. Sea salt is great for you as it has essential minerals. Pink himalayan salt is also great for you. Table salt is terrible. You really cannot have too much salt in your diet. The doctors don't know what they're talking about and do not listen to them. Salt is essential for neurological health. Salt is essential for producing stomach acid.
High calorie intake is not a problem, as long as it is something your body can process and you can work it off to build muscle. You don't need to diet. All you need to do is eat healthy.
If you're great grandparents didn't eat it , you should not eat it.
If you havent done this, fast before you have bloodwork done. I deliberately did this myself so I could see how my numbers changed on my test.
Then compare numbers yourself if you have access to the charts. If not, ask for them.
Its good to intermittently fast anyway. Check into.
Yes, fasting before a blood-test is important, speaking from experience.
Years ago, I went for a blood test, to obtain a driving licence - and it showed high blood sugar. LOL, I had just had a fast-food side of fries before going to the lab. Also, fit and healthy, so definitely not a permanent condition.
Diet normally low-carb, BUT felt the need to eat something, literally fortify myself, (and on-the-spot access meant fast food) - before having a needle stuck in my arm. Literally was NOT looking forward to the needle.
I viewed the result as an entirely false alarm - a spike - , and therefore I swore off all needles, including the 'exploratory blood tests', because I despise idiots: Especially ones who believe that THEIR education trumps MY education AND knowledge about my own body, thanks. They get all supercilious and know-it-all. I told them I had literally just eaten some potato. But they got all concern-y and wanted to do MOAR tests.
Just for context: last night I ate a foot of drooiwors (literally dried sausage, with lots of fat) some fresh sausage from the butcher, and for vegetables I had some olives and a small glass of tomato-juice. Not overweight.
So you see, potato-based fries (yes that takeaways uses dripping) can be good at times. BUT it does spike the ole' blood-sugar.
Didn't be afraid of the numbers. Cholesterol, as others have noted, is a necessary component, part of the body's cellular repair processes. High cholesterol simply means the body is actively repairing itself- which is why it is correctly seen as a sign of internal damage. That said, it is a symptom of the body's work to fix itself, not the cause of damage. Lowering the cholesterol is lowering your body's self-repair functions.
Kind of like saying that ambulances are correlated with deaths in the city, so obviously we should reduce the number of ambulances. The true reason for the damage could be anything major or minor, depending on other symptoms she may have.
Here are a few blog posts about cholesterol and statins from my go-to health guru: https://darkovelcek.wordpress.com/?s=Cholesterol
Statins are all about primary prevention of disease versus secondary. I would never take a statin solely because my cholesterol was high. If I had high cholesterol plus history of stroke or CAD, then there seems to be a significant mortality benefit. Not sure I would even take one then, but would at least consider it.
All I can tell you is, both of my parents were on statins. Both of them got dementia. Did one cause the other? I don't know. Will I ever take statins? Hell, no!
You can reverse their dementia by getting them off statins, chaing their diet completely to Keto Carnivore and eating 5 eggs a day. Our cells regenerate no matter what age, we can reverse it and self-heal w/ the right nutritions. That's how great God made us and man lied to us to keep us down and dependent on the evil system.
Unfortunately, it is too late for my parents. They passed away years ago.
I’m so sorry 😞
Thanks, fren. This all happened before I became an anon and found out about statins. I wish I'd have known sooner.
I hear you.. I didn’t even know until recently when Covid happened just how bad the lies were. My mom started taking statins 2 years ago and started acting real dramatic and highly emotional and temperamental. We stopped her a few months later after showing her all the side effects of the drug and made her change her diet. I’m sorry it was too late for many especially pre-Covid times or back then 90s, 2000s, nobody knew we all kinda just went along with what doctors say.
Never again will I take anything a doctor says at face value. Question everything.
Yep. And did you ever notice when one goes to the doctor, the doctor never asked what's your diet like? Like one time my dad had tummyache, went to the doctor, and instead of asking what was the last thing he ate, doctor started saying he needed MRI, Xray, etc I told my dad to get the heck out of there quick.. he left and is fine. Thank God.
giving blood regularly lowers cholesterol... I also recommend Nattokinase.
but plz share these with her. (4th one is long but well worth listening to)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4B99VXdtZ9I
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aIOPCiBJDSs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x0Umqu0Z0OY
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OJ2RMY8WsFs
My cholesterol at last visit was 276 and triglycerides at 436 and all he said was less bacon and less beef and more exercise. No drugs just take it easy on higher cholesterol meats. So maybe get another opinion.
He doesn't know what he is talking about.
and months later
Always good to lose weight by exercising and eating less
Don't take ozempig, 1 in 10,000 go blind
I say - don't look at different meds. Look at alternatives to meds. Walking/exercise can lower cholesterol. Benefiber can lower cholesterol. There's so many ways...just don't listen EVER to MDs. Go with naturopaths or functional medicine docs. And, everyone's right. You need cholesterol for brain function.
Pro tip: Get the statin prescription. Have your wife tell her physician that she’s taken them for 2-4 weeks. Have your wife tell the physician that the muscles in her forearms hurt, badly. If that doesn’t work, then have your wife tell the physician that the muscles in her thighs now hurt more than her forearms. Have your wife take Nattokinase if she has high cholesterol (over 280).
tldr; Low cholesterol is a sure marker of early death! This is the take away for the Norwegian 10 year HUNT 2 study that ended in 2011.
Thyroid hormone is used by the body to produce steroid hormones; some of the most powerful defenders against cancer and diseases in general. These include pregnenolone, progesterone, DHEA and testosterone. They all have similar anti-stress, anti-inflammation, anti-cancer effects. Thyroid hormone converts cholesterol into pregnenolone. Subsequently, pregnenolone can be converted into all of the other steroids. Obviously, without thyroid hormone and adequate cholesterol, none of these steroid hormones can be produced.
It would seem then, that attempting to lower cholesterol would be a foolhardy thing to do, and in fact it is. The 10 year Norwegian HUNT 2 study uncovered that one of the surest markers of early mortality is low cholesterol. Concluded in 2011, the study was so persuasive that it could not be ignored, though the FDA did its best to do so. It took them until 2015 to acknowledge it and completely reverse their position on cholesterol – a position held for some 50 years – officially removing the “upper limit” on cholesterol consumption. Why did none of us get the memo? Why did none of our doctors? Thanks FDA.
Here's the HUNT 2 study, and here is Malcolm Kendrick’s summary of it. I can highly recommend Kendrick’s books The Great Cholesterol Con and Doctoring Data on cholesterol and statistical abuse. Also see this paper by the modern medicine contrarian, A Midwestern Doctor who is always drawing well researched and sourced lessons from what he calls "the forgotten side of medicine." The deeper sections are behind a pay wall, but what's free should be eye opening.
The story of statins is a containable case study of how the medical system operates hand-in-glove with big pharma and our captured regulatory agencies. And, don’t even mention the media. Even after the FDA’s reversal, statins remained the biggest pharmaceutical money maker. That is until Covid, which was an even a bigger swindle and boondoggle. The cancer industry is bigger yet, with even greater incentives to deny and obfuscate the truth. Is there any reason to believe that these people exist to help you? There might well be, but assumed goodness on their part should not be your default position.
Anybody concerned about having high cholesterol should know that this situation has long been associated with a deficiency of thyroid (hypothyroidism). "The thyroid hormone is required for using and eliminating cholesterol, so cholesterol is likely to be raised by anything which blocks the thyroid function," wrote Dr. Raymond Peat. He recommends supplementing with a dessicated thyroid supplement (dry powdered thyroid gland pressed into a tablet) to convert cholesterol into valuable hormones.
Finally, the compound HMG-CoA is a metabolic intermediate on the biosythesis pathway that creates co-enzyme Q, cholesterol and testosterone (among other hormones). Originally, statins were known as HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors for the simple reason that they block, or even shut down HMG-CoA. Understandable if the goal is to slow or stop the production of cholesterol, and if it can be done without serious consequences. But it can’t be: CoQ10 is absolutely required for cells to generate ATP and for keeping blood pressure down; testosterone makes men fertile and keeps stress hormones in check; and cholesterol is the body’s raw structural material. A regular "high" cholesterol statin dose is anywhere from 20-80mg. The outcome for the patient is almost zero CoQ10 in his body.