Comments on: Truth About High Cholesterol & Statins Drugs like Lipitor

By: soccer4life1424

soccer4life1424 — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:23:29 +0000

jkhn

By: kezzazz27

kezzazz27 — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 23:48:19 +0000

Yes, he did talk about HDL and LDL, at about 2:25.

By: kezzazz27

kezzazz27 — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:56:36 +0000

I’ve been on Lipitor, then switched to simivastatin. I have had serious digestive problems and leg pain since taking them — about 6 months. I’m a little worried about stopping because my doc told me it can be dangerous to stop…and would be a lifelong medication. I am just going to taper down and quit. I’m making the best lifestyle changes that I can — stop smoking, exercise, eating mediterranean type diet, and EXERCISE some more.

By: TheKakuroMaster

TheKakuroMaster — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:50:11 +0000

Yeah, I am starting to look into the effects of statins drugs because I recently started taking one. It is part of a triad of health problems I was diagnosed with: hypertension, Type 11 Diabetes, and low HDL levels. At the time, I didn’t think too much about being prescribed a statin (pravastatin) because I was in pain from the diabetes and and if the doctor said I had a cholesterol problem I took her at her word.

By: TheKakuroMaster

TheKakuroMaster — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 22:05:26 +0000

Funny thing, though, is that she acknowledged that my LDL and triglyceride levels were okay, but it was the HDL of 24 which was concerning her. I wonder if there are specific dietary or exercise regimens I can start to raise my HDL without drugs.

By: firethower99

firethower99 — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 21:48:33 +0000

Statins do lower cholestrol, but they raise a lot of people’s liver enzymes. Not enought to cause damage but that’s what happens in most cases. I understand that some people are gentically predisposed to getting high cholestrol what happened to exercise and eating healthy. people now days just want to pop a pill and not have to work for the resluts. I lowered my cholestrol 45 points from exercising and eating right daily. It took me 8 mths but i got it down w/out any drugs.

By: Denisehealthnut

Denisehealthnut — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:51:56 +0000

Remember the word balance when you do exercise because there is such a thing as too much exercise. That’s the complexity of this amazing machine the human body that we’ve all inherited. Balance is key… too much water, too much exercise, too much food definitely a no go.

By: aceofspd

aceofspd — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 20:25:05 +0000

quite the low fat diet

By: 1youjay

1youjay — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:47:10 +0000

PART 1
This video is a huge step towards the full story about stains and vascular disease. I wish to add: the many form of initial injury (cholesterol is not one of them) that provokes inflammation that sets in motion the cascade of events ending in atherosclerosis. .

By: 1youjay

1youjay — Tue, 09 Mar 2010 19:04:34 +0000

PART 2
Recently statins benefit was found to be due to it’s anti inflammatory property quite modest though, on par with aspirin. Omega 3 long chain fatty acid outperforms stains by a long shot. Natural dietary and supplements of anti inflammatories and antioxidants minimize LDL oxidation as well as inflammation. Only oxidized LDL will become part of plaques but only part.