The idea of your doctor prescribing cholesterol lowering drugs for fatty deposits on your liver astounds me. But of course, that is what is taught in medical schools whose primary source of funding comes from the world pharmaceutical industry: the way to treat health virtually all conditions is to prescribe patented approved medications which happen to be made by . . . guess who.
The way to treat fatty liver deposits is NOT by abnormally forcing the body to make less cholesterol. Instead, it should be achieved by proper cleansing and detoxing the liver proper diet and exercise, and making sure to keep the bile ducts open and flowing. See:
http://www.tbyil.com/Liver_and_Bowel_Cleansing.htm
Among other dietary considerations, you should eat a mostly raw, mostly vegetarian diet and eliminate or greatly reduce alchohol, dairy products, sugar, fatty meats, and bleached refined flour.
Other things to do for the liver:
- Coffee enemas - help open the bile ducts so bile and toxins can be released properly.
- Coconut oil - a wonderful item everyone should take, it helps maintain a good bile flow.
- Beetroot juice - is also good for the liver and bile flow.
- Turmeric - is a cancer fighter itself, especially for smokers, and it helps regulate bile flow.
- Milk thistle - is a must as it helps protect the liver and actually regenerate it
- Alpha lipoic acid - another liver supplement that also helps fight cancer
- Selenium - a third liver supplement that is good against cancer too.
When it comes to your husband's situation, I would say that lowering cholesterol by mainstream drugs which are not found in nature and thus inimical to the human body is also a typical mainstream approach of managing symptoms instead by forcing the body to behave abnormally, often at the expense of causing other conditions leading to still more medications and treatments, of seeking a lasting cure.
High cholesterol, which has pretty much been elevated to a health myth in order to promote highly profitable and often dangerous statin drugs, is but one indicator of heart attack and coronary disease indicators. Most statin drugs force the body to produce less amounts of all cholesterol, both good and bad, and that can be a bad thing indeed. While excess LDL and total cholesterol are risk factors, so is low HDL cholesterol, which is often a result of cholesterol lowering drugs.
Other risk factors, besides excess LDL/total cholesterol and low HDL cholesterol, include:
- Excess glucose
- Excess homocysteine
- Excess C-reactive protein
- Insufficient Vitamin D3
- Insufficient Vitamin K
- Elevated triglycerides
- Low blood EPA/DHA
- Low testosterone and excess estrogen (in men)
- Excess insulin
- Nitric oxide deficit
- Excess fibrinogen
- Hypertension
- Oxidized LDL