I agree. They are attacking the wrong thing. Colesterol is produced by the body and is a balm and lubricant. If there is irritation of blood vessels then it is layed down on the vessel surface to reduce the irritation (which is why they recently discovered that taking antibiotics is more effective than restricting colestrol). Reducing colerstrol is not the correct solution to this, reducing the irritation is the correct solution. As an example if you have arthritis where excessive calcium is being laid down in joints, you don't cut your calcium intake, you attack the reason that it is being misplaced.
Marshall sol wrote: > Everything I have read about Cholesterol lowering drugs aside from drug > company promotional stuff, says they do not reduce the overall death > rate. In fact they can themselves cause death from side effects. So it > might make a difference or not to one individual, but in studies they > don't reduce the number of deaths. So, maybe one person who might have > had a heart attack didn't have one, but the next guy died from the > anti-cholesterol drug. Even the original longterm Framingham study said > the same thing, but I'm relying on my notoriously unreliable memory. > > I've been amazed here at my husband reporting men he works with who've > been put on one of the chol lowering drugs feel like total crap, so then > the doctors put them on something else to relieve those side effects, > then something else to relieve the side effects of the drug given for > the original side effects, and pretty soon the person is taking at least > 3 rather heavy duty Rx meds. Not the direction I'd take myself. > sol > > Pat wrote: > > > This is very interesting about cholesterol not being the bad guy. > > What about all the drugs out now...do studies not show they lower > > heart attack? They sure do think they're wonderful. That was > > interesting about bran too....I find though that one spoonful a day is > > enough for regularity and I'm pretty certain that the incidence of > > diverticula and hemorrhoids is reduced with enough fiber in the diet. > > Maybe some people can eat enough veggies and fruits but I've found > > only bran or Metamucil wafers (yuck) do the trick. > > -- > The Silver List is a moderated forum for discussing Colloidal Silver. > > Instructions for unsubscribing are posted at: http://silverlist.org > > To post, address your message to: silver-list@eskimo.com > > Address Off-Topic messages to: silver-off-topic-l...@eskimo.com > > The Silver List and Off Topic List archives are currently down... > > List maintainer: Mike Devour <mdev...@eskimo.com> >
