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Anyone had experience on these?
Good? Bad?
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Thanks Chris, will have a look at those shortly.
JD, it seems as though that the mention of cholesterol been a bit high that GP's want you to get on statins ASAP. I don't get why alternatives aren't offered first. Ive know so many people on statins that have had some awful side effects from them that they have had to stop taking them. Maybe you are one of the lucky ones?
JD, it seems as though that the mention of cholesterol been a bit high that GP's want you to get on statins ASAP. I don't get why alternatives aren't offered first. Ive know so many people on statins that have had some awful side effects from them that they have had to stop taking them. Maybe you are one of the lucky ones?
the was a rage for prescribing statins a few years back, but it's mostly died away.
When I was on them, I started getting upper arms pains several months later. The locum I saw said "I bet you're on statins", and took me off them again. No problem with my cholesterol levels since. In fact when the locum looked back in my files, there never had been any problem, so I don't know what they were for in the first place.
One possible downside is occasionally you take out insurance where one of the questions asked is "Have you ever been prescribed statins?" I usually have to ring the insurers up and explain that I was, apparently incorrectly, and my cholesterol levels are fine. This is tedious.
When I was on them, I started getting upper arms pains several months later. The locum I saw said "I bet you're on statins", and took me off them again. No problem with my cholesterol levels since. In fact when the locum looked back in my files, there never had been any problem, so I don't know what they were for in the first place.
One possible downside is occasionally you take out insurance where one of the questions asked is "Have you ever been prescribed statins?" I usually have to ring the insurers up and explain that I was, apparently incorrectly, and my cholesterol levels are fine. This is tedious.
"I want to know first what evidence there is that dietery cholesterol affects bodily cholesteral?"
What a very, very good question. it is accepted by main stream science that a high cholesterol diet influences your blood cholesterol.
let me tell you a story:
Many years back a group of Cambridge students went to Iceland to live with the Inuits who have a high cholesterol diet and yet have a low incidence of heart disease and low blood cholesterol. The student group lived mainly on whale blubber which is high in cholesterol and what happened to their blood cholesterol?........it FELL. I have never seen this study published or quoted.
The relationship between diet and blood cholesterol is ill understood.
Statins and grapefruit juice........reacts adversely with Simvastatin....the other statins are fine to take with grapefruit juice.
My advice.....if you can take statins without some of the unacceptable side effects, then do so.
What a very, very good question. it is accepted by main stream science that a high cholesterol diet influences your blood cholesterol.
let me tell you a story:
Many years back a group of Cambridge students went to Iceland to live with the Inuits who have a high cholesterol diet and yet have a low incidence of heart disease and low blood cholesterol. The student group lived mainly on whale blubber which is high in cholesterol and what happened to their blood cholesterol?........it FELL. I have never seen this study published or quoted.
The relationship between diet and blood cholesterol is ill understood.
Statins and grapefruit juice........reacts adversely with Simvastatin....the other statins are fine to take with grapefruit juice.
My advice.....if you can take statins without some of the unacceptable side effects, then do so.
Nailit...there "might " be an association between high blood triglycerides and high blood pressure.......there might. Best i can do.
There is an association between high BP , heart attacks and strokes.
Fro what you have said naillit...if you can take statins then do so, bur if you can't because of the side effects you can take Ezetrol which lowers you blood cholesterol without side effects.
There is an association between high BP , heart attacks and strokes.
Fro what you have said naillit...if you can take statins then do so, bur if you can't because of the side effects you can take Ezetrol which lowers you blood cholesterol without side effects.
>>> Many years back a group of Cambridge students went to Iceland to live with the Inuits . . .
Inuits in Iceland? Were they on holiday there then?
(Inuits aren't found in Iceland. Perhaps you meant Greenland?)
Anyway, that 'research' has been largely discredited by Bjerregaard, Young & Hegele in their study ("Low incidence of cardiovascular disease among the Inuit – what is the evidence?"), which concluded that it was far more likely that the incidence of death from cardiovascular disease was far higher among Inuits than elsewhere.
Inuits in Iceland? Were they on holiday there then?
(Inuits aren't found in Iceland. Perhaps you meant Greenland?)
Anyway, that 'research' has been largely discredited by Bjerregaard, Young & Hegele in their study ("Low incidence of cardiovascular disease among the Inuit – what is the evidence?"), which concluded that it was far more likely that the incidence of death from cardiovascular disease was far higher among Inuits than elsewhere.
Buenchico...forgive me......Greenland.
This is a good example where one can pick a link to a website which supports one's argument. i have not read the study that you chose, but there are others that dispute their findings.
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this is an example. The relationship between dietary fats and blood cholesterol is ill understood and certainly not straight forward.
whe there are opposing views on medical topics by medical "experts" it means that the truth is un known.
This is a good example where one can pick a link to a website which supports one's argument. i have not read the study that you chose, but there are others that dispute their findings.
https:/
this is an example. The relationship between dietary fats and blood cholesterol is ill understood and certainly not straight forward.
whe there are opposing views on medical topics by medical "experts" it means that the truth is un known.
