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From "The Great Cholesterol Con" by Malcolm Kendrick...

• Medications that lower cholesterol also increase mortality.

• Autopsies comparing Japanese men and American men with the same degree of atherosclerosis showed that atherosclerosis isn’t predictive of heart disease, since the Japanese men died of heart disease at only one-sixth the rate of the Americans.

• Cholesterol is a vital substance that the body needs for maintaining brain synapses, synthesizing vitamin D, providing structural integrity to cell membranes, creating sex hormones, and helping to digest food.

• LDL and HDL are actually lipoproteins, not forms of cholesterol.

• Statins can cause muscle disintegration and death.

• No link has been established between saturated fat and heart disease.

• Omega 3 fatty acids and moderate alcohol consumption reduce the risk of heart disease.

• A study of 450,000 people (13,000 of whom suffered strokes) demonstrated no association between blood cholesterol and stroke.

• In Japan, a study showed a 64% reduced chance of stroke in the group eating the most cholesterol compared to the group eating the least cholesterol.

• In studies that include data on nearly 750,000 people, the highest mortality rates actually occur in people with the lowest cholesterol levels.

• The Framingham study shows an over 400% increase in mortality for every 1mmol/l drop in cholesterol.

• Women have higher cholesterol levels on average than men yet have lower rates of heart disease. This isn’t attributable to sex hormones, since even women without sex hormones have lower rates of heart disease.

• There isn’t much evidence to support the hypothesis that HDL is protective against heart disease. In fact, there is evidence that high HDL levels are found in some people with heart disease.

• The global MONICA study from the World Health Organization shows that Switzerland (the country with the highest average cholesterol levels in Europe) has the second-lowest rate of heart disease. Russia has the second-lowest cholesterol level and the highest rate of heart disease in Europe.

• The EUROASPIRE study showed that smoking and having diabetes are the true risk factors for heart disease. High cholesterol levels and high blood pressure were not predictive of heart disease.

• Heart disease is actually a response to injury. It consists of endothelial damage and blood clot formation. The lipoprotein known as “lipoprotein (a)” forms strong blood clots. People with genes for Lp(a) expression and high Lp(a) levels have a 650% greater risk of developing heart disease.

• Statins do not save lives in women.

• Statins are extremely dangerous in pregnancy and cause birth defects.

• Statins don’t reduce mortality in men without heart disease.

• In men with pre-existing heart disease, statins only lower the risk of death from all causes by 0.66% per year.

• People taking cholesterol-lowering drugs tend to end up dying at higher rates from violent deaths (suicides, accidents, etc.) because cholesterol is important for brain health and the production of serotonin.

• Statins can cause polyneuropathy, muscle pains, heart failure and possibly cancer.

• Stress is a major cause of heart disease. Persistent and severe stress makes it two and a half times more likely that someone will have a heart attack compared to someone who is not stressed.

• Negative stress leads to HPA-axis dysfunction (involving high cortisol levels), which leads to metabolic abnormalities and raised blood clotting factors, and then to increased risk of death from heart disease.

• The role of blood clots in heart disease is emphasized by the fact that nearly every drug that reduces the risk of dying of heart disease is basically an anti-coagulant.

• Social dislocation, as is found in forced relocation and the erosion of social cohesion, may be the most significant stressor involved in heart disease.

• Other forms of stress and causes of heart disease include low social position, lack of emotional support, social isolation, anger, cigarettes, and cocaine.

Source: http://samsnyder.com/2011/06/02/the-great-cholesterol-con-by-dr-malcolm-kendr...



Ohh, by the way, I know people that have done heavy doses of cocaine and their hearts get screwed up pretty quickly. If they make it to the hospital for heart problems, they get a pacemaker to fix their rhythm, but not the heart enlargement.

Another guy with uncontrolled diabetes that's on numerous meds to control symptoms floats around the 200+ blood sugar range with 1000+ cholesterol already had a bypass 10+ years ago. Everything that's happening to him, happened to his father 10 years later. It's like gluttony for food, poorly chosen food and proportions, brings death closer. Fix the uncontrolled sugar spikes, control diabetes, and cholesterol is more normal. Another big one is poor thyroid function. Hypothyroidism = 2nd largest cause of elevated cholesterol. This is old news too.

Source: http://www.csa.com/discoveryguides/thyroid/overview.php