Curt. Please keep on keeping on. All of us send our very best wishes for your continued health and well-being. Goddess Bless. Greetings to Angie. (You can start breathing again!). Fred and Joanne.
On Sat, Jan 12, 2019 at 11:31 AM Curley McLain via Mercedes < mercedes@okiebenz.com> wrote: > Good info! Thanks Peter! > > Peter Frederick via Mercedes wrote on 1/12/19 9:54 AM: > > Turns out that heart disease and cholesterol are "associated", but the > linkage is quite weak, and people with genetically very low serum > cholesterol are as likely to have heart disease as the rest of us. > > > > Coronary artery disease is appearently an inflammetory disease, totally > unrelated to serum lipid levels. It is not caused by cholesterol, and the > mechanism by which plaque forms on the artery walls isn't well understood, > partially because the medical community is driven by fads and > pharmacuetical companies as much as science and the "cholesterol causes > heart disease" school resulted in the sale of huge amounts of statins and > no research on actual mechanism. There has always been quite a bit of > resistance to that theory anyway, as the "do dairy fat" crowd deliberately > left Scandanavia and Germany out of their research data -- high dairy fat > intake, low heart disease rates that didn't fit the "theory" that saturated > fats cause heart attacks. > > > > I've had high cholesterol since I was in my 20s and have zero heart > disease. Nada. I had a bout of viral congestive heart failure the other > year when my left ventricle was very weak for most of a year, but it's > returned to normal. Not a trace of clogged arteries. > > > > I suspect trans fats are much more of a problem as they poison lipid > metabolism. and removing them from the food supply tracks very closely with > the great reduction in coronary artery and heart disease. I have avoided > trans fats since the early 70's on the advice of the PhD student in my > research lab, who was a membrane lipid specialist. > > > > > > > > At any rate, be aware of the symptoms of coronary artery disease and > don't hesitate to head for the ER if they become noticable! A day or two > in the hospital and some stents if necessary are vastly preferable to a > myocardial infarct, whatever the source (and they can happen from artery > wall collapse rather than plaque, too). > > > > Peter > > > _______________________________________ > http://www.okiebenz.com > > To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ > > To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: > http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com > > -- Fred Moir Lynn MA Diesel preferred _______________________________________ http://www.okiebenz.com To search list archives http://www.okiebenz.com/archive/ To Unsubscribe or change delivery options go to: http://mail.okiebenz.com/mailman/listinfo/mercedes_okiebenz.com
