Re: mms and the heart

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".........certainly a hundred times better than the idea that
cholesterol drugs will make you less likely to have a heart attack."

I disagree. I also followed the alternative mind set that cholesterol wasn't to blame for heart attacks and stroke, until I went on a high protein diet and my cholesterol level (and all lipids) plummeted from 285 to 205 and then I began doing some searching. I'm not taking the main stream view just to take it, I'm taking the researched view. Though it was supported by a pharmaceutical, the first study below was a placebo controlled study - and is very impressive when you consider they only followed the individuals for six months.

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2007/05/070502172322.htm

Cholesterol-lowering Drugs Reduce Risk Of Stroke, Heart Attack

ScienceDaily (May 8, 2007) — People whose cholesterol improved after one month on cholesterol-lowering drugs called statins reduced their risk of stroke and heart attack, according to research presented at the American Academy of Neurology's 59th Annual Meeting in Boston, April 28 -- May 5, 2007.

The study enrolled 4,731 people within one to six months of having a stroke or transient ischemic attack, or mini-stroke, and with no history of heart disease. Half of the participants received the cholesterol-lowering drug atorvastatin and half received a placebo. The participants were then followed for an average of four and a half years.

For each 10-percent decrease in LDL, or low-density lipoprotein "bad" cholesterol, the risk of stroke was reduced by four percent and the risk of heart attack was reduced by seven percent. The average decrease in LDL cholesterol after one month on atorvastatin was 53 percent.

"These findings reinforce the importance of controlling cholesterol," said study author Pierre Amarenco, MD, of Denis Diderot University in Paris, France, and Fellow member of the American Academy of Neurology. "It's encouraging to see that reducing cholesterol so quickly can have positive long-term effects."

People with higher levels of HDL, or high-density lipoprotein "good" cholesterol, at the beginning of the study and after one month had a lower risk of stroke.

The study was part of a large study called the Stroke Prevention by Aggressive Reduction in Cholesterol Levels (SPARCL) trial.

The study was supported by Pfizer Inc, the maker of atorvastatin.

Adapted from materials provided by American Academy of Neurology

Here's a five year study done in the UK:http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn2502-cholesterollowering-drugs-slash-he...

About one third of all heart attacks and strokes in people at high risk can be avoided by using statins to lower blood cholesterol. The benefits are the same, whether a patient is male or female, or classed as having high or low cholesterol levels.

These results are from a major five-year study of 20,000 British people aged 40 to 80 and were first presented at a meeting of the American Heart Association in November 2001, and reported in New Scientist. Now full details of the work have been published in The Lancet.

Here's one for two years on heart attacks: http://www.diabetes.org/diabetes-research/summaries/beishuzen-cholesterol.jsp