Why having high cholesterol isn’t always bad
High cholesterol is bad, right? Not always! In this week’s ultrawellness blog, Dr. Mark Hyman explains the surprising truth about cholesterol and tells you which tests you really need to determine your risk of heart disease. For more, see www.ultrawellness.com
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Mark Hyman FTW!!!
Ye man theres some really brain dead “Physicians” out there. Do your own research and you’ll end up knowing more than a GP on a specific topic.
Mine is over 270 and my HDL is only 40 My trygl is 290–very high and i am fine at 69 not a big drinker, quit smoking many years ago my dad has close to the same thing and is now 99 years old and healthy, no drugs and I do not take a thing because I get pains in my stomach from the pills, all of them. My Mom’s side all died young with low cholesterol, heart attacks for the men in their 40’s and 50’s so I don’t by the drug drug theory, they seem to be hard on the body even if they lower it.
theres no such thing as “good” and “bad” cholesterol, LDL and HDL are lipo PROTEINS, thats transfer cholesterol from point A to point B and vice versa. Sugar causes inflammatory responses in your arteries and cause LDL to transport cholesterol from your liver to the artery. If you avoid cholesterol and animal fats from your diet, LDL and cholesterol will get oxidized and build up as plaque in your arteries.
Good info! The truth!
i agree 100% with what you said :)
except for one thing where you said saturated fats were bad but saturated animal fats are good and healthy
thank you so much this makes sense I was gonna start wiyth Lipex but hearing so much bad reports was scared to , mine is 6.7 whatever that means? anyway Im not gonna take it ! diet excercise !
that’s exacly what i ment, how long you have to live isn’t really a factor if you have slighly high cholesterol, as long as you keep it under control you should be fine but this doctor was just pushing drugs on me even though i’m healthy in every other way
he said he’d get back to us with further arangements, his clinic wasen’t that big or busy, in fact it was pretty run down
he doesn’t need to call you back. There are tons of people breaking down his door in order to get cholesterol lowering medication because the media told them so. Do you need to do that?
My grandparents both had cholesterol numbers in the high 400’s and both lived over 90, and one is 99 right now. What does cholesterol have to do with this? I don’t know if I will ever live that long, not because of cholesterol, but because of this b-i-t-c-h called “life”.
that’s australian mesurement btw
i have heditary high cholesteral and some quack specialist told me i wouldn’t live to 21 with a cholestrol level of 8 if i didn’t go on medication,” if you go on medication, you’ll live a normal life”. he didn’t even call back to arrage further appointments after my blood test
Can someone help me? I love to eat proteins. I eat 2-3 eggs almost every day and I usually have some broiled/stewed chicken for dinner. For lunch, I usually have whatever is laying around (which is bad, I know :( but I hate cooking the night before and refridgerating food then popping it in the microwave. I dunno…)
It takes time to build up all the evidence for a theory. After the publishing of Darwin’s On Origin of Speices, it took us almost a century to come up with the modern evolutionary synthesis.
Peer review doesn’t count?
“This is why scientists call medicine a RELIGION.”
I have NEVER heard a scientist call medicine a religion. You got a source for that?
it’s all about the money
I worry alot about the potential side effects of “big pharma” prescription drugs, I have always gravitated toward a natural alternative. For the longest time I had no idea that such an alternative even existed for cholesterol! I thought Rx was the only choice. Sterolyn is brilliant no side effects at all for me. I really appreciate this product.
A rational and logical thought process must be used in order to determine if people’s claims are THE truth. Truth is ascertained by a systemic process, not by somebody’s opinion, or how many journals they wrote.
So you see, facts and truths are not relative to a study or a journal; they are NOT relative at all. They are ascertained from a systemic process of resolution.
If the cholesterol medical hype was based on the scientific method, then evidence, facts, and truths, would be used to develop what would be called a Theory of Cholesterol & Heart Disease. This theory, as all scientific theories, would be able to explain existing known facts and be able to produce TRUTH statements. This doesn’t necessarily mean it would provide proof for all domains; but it does mean that we would definitely have at least 1 truth statement!!
All those journals the littlemunchkin was yapping about are available via online subscriptions. It’s medical research sponsored by big pharma; nothing else. Conclusions are drawn on studies based on probability, statistics, and very crude approximations. Hence, there is NO TRUTH, or FACT, or PROOF. There is only BELIEF. This is why scientists call medicine a RELIGION. This is what the medical community doesn’t want you to know. Medicine has very little to do with the scientific method.
Well this is the issue of today’s evidence-based medicine, where we only see the evidence the big pharma companies want us to see. People are clueless to this fact and have belief in what they are wrongly led to accept as TRUTH. But it’s nowhere near truth; let alone proof of anything. Medical research is NOT science; it’s big pharma research to figure out how to treat symptoms with drugs. It’s NEVER about understanding the root cause.
I have high choles. and i been eating low fat and high carb for years. Doctor wants to put me on lipitor but i think about it.
Intresting discusion. At first i didnt understand what you ment by 1 truth but after looking it up i know now. You didnt ask him to give proof which is more complicated. but only a truth stmt. So this should be easy for him then cuz he even sais he has proof. oh well, people always say they have proof but always have nothin.
littlemunchin,
Yeah, you come here stirring up the board with BIG TALK of medical journals, statistics, library books, non-existent proofs, and you when I call you up on your claims, you start calling me a nut case. Then you complain like a little child that I called you names. Wow! You have serious psychological issues and a superiority complex.
You were asked MANY times to show 1 TRUTH statement, but refuse to. Instead you RUN and HIDE. You’re a LOSER!
Go ahead, show me YOUR MEDICAL CLAIMS OF PROOF. Just do it and end this discussion in a hurry and make me look like a fool why don’t you? And I will give you $1000.
Show us the scientific proof.
Now go hide under your mother’s dress and cry cause you have been exposed as a fraud.
If your medical claims have any iota of truth to them, then you will post them here for EVERYONE to see and then you will have put my foot in my mouth for me and shut me up once and for all.