Is high cholesterol bad Why?

Answer 1

A "high cholesterol" level is not necessarily bad. There are several types of cholesterol and there are two especially important species, the concentrations of which carry their own, independent risk of heart attack, clot formation, hardening of the arteries, and stroke.

This country has a very serious problem with its wealth care system, specifically that most medical doctors are more interested in getting rich than keeping up with the medical literature or telling their patients the truth. The job of the typical doctor, whether he is a GP or a specialist, is to prescribe their patients as many drugs as possible. Doctors keep very careful records on how many prescriptions they have written for drugs for which there is no generic equivalent. That information is relayed to the drug manufacturer and/or distributor (The company that physically makes a drug is not necessarily the same company that promotes and distributes the drug.) through the drug companies' sales representatives. If a doctor pushes enough of a particular drug that does not have a generic equivalent, he will usually receive cash payments and/or free lavish vacation packages.

This is what everyone needs to know and do to avoid taking a drug the almost certainly do not actually need:

1) See your reqular quack ASAP and demand that he order the following tests -a. Total cholesterol + HDL + LDL. Anyone older than about 25 has already had this test performed, but have it redone if it has been over a year. From your test results, divide the total cholesterol result by the HDL result. If that ratio is greater that 5.0 for males or 4.4 for females, then your risk of getting Heart disease or of making it worse is worse than average. Buy or borrow a good book on how to increase your HDL. Eating eggs yolks does not increase ones total cholesterol and it raises the HDL. Same thing with true nuts (which grow in trees; peanuts are not nuts). -b. Total triglycerides. This is the amount of fat in your blood not including any cholesterols. -c. Homocysteine and Folate. These are usually related, and ones homocysteine level is an independent indicator of Heart disease, arterosclerosis... stroke. If your folate is normal or high and your homocysteine is high, then you are missing one or both of two genes that must be present for your body to methylate folic acid. The treatment is simple; you will need to take N-methyl-folic acid every day for the rest of your life. A lot of people have this genetic disorder - up to 12% of the population. Homocysteine will kill you regardless of how good your cholesterol numbers are. -d. Lipoprotein (a). This specialized protein, which may be chemically bonded to the protein in LDL and vLDL, is another independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. One of the bad things it does is accumulates in the blood vessels' walls where it inhibits plasmin generation. The inhibition of plasmin is absolutely known to increase the chances of clot formation. Thank God that my Lp(a) level is just about as low as is ever seen at 0.3. Its concentration ranges from 0.2 to 200; the higher the worse off you are. So far, no one has found anything that anyone can do to reduce the level of this evil stuff - your level seems to be purly genetic, however; there is some evidence that fish oil may reduce the level (Only take purified fish oil. I won't take any that hasn't passed the United States Pharmacopia (USP) standards, so look for that on the label and it should be purified by [vacuum] distillation.) If your Lp(a) is high, then you must be more diligent in keeping your homocysteine level as low as possible, your HDL as high as possible, and ensuring that as little cholesterol as possible is oxidized.

The most important your Dr. hasn't told you is that only oxidized LDL and vLDL particles penetrate the arterial wall, which initiates a cascade of events that results in an arterial plaque. You can take all the statin drugs you want and it won't do one bit of good if you exercise too much, do not get enough powerful antioxidants, or if you consume oxidized cholesterol.

Yes, I said exercise too much. In my opinion, more than 3 hrs of very strenuous exercise per week is too much. Strenuous exercise is a very oxidative process. Don't believe me? Look at the dumbasses who run everyday or workout all the time and tell me they don't look older than their chronological age.

You need the most powerful antioxidants the body can tolerate. Clearly, no one should drink hydrazine, snort aluminum dust, breathe hydrogen gas (although that actually won't hurt you), or eat sodium borohydride. In my opinion, you should take 200 mg of alpha lipoic acid and 1000 mg of vitamin C every morning and every evening. I take an additional 100 mg of alpha lipoic acid and 1000 mg of C an hour before exercise. Lipoic acid is something our bodies make - it is already in you. Heat animal flesh and animal products like eggs as little as possible to avoid oxidizing the cholesterol therein. Finally, check the internet and avoid foods that contain fatty acids with more than 22 carbons. Any fatty acid longer than that cannot physically fit into a mitochondrion and is oxidized by oxygen in the peroxizomes where it produces hydrogen peroxide.

If you don't want to live like Dick Cheney, you have to educate yourself and do not depend on the average quack to help you. Finally, if it were I, I would never take a statin drug, Plavix, or Coumidin (warfarin, or rat poison - look at the label of a box of rat poison). The statins were developed to treat the disease hypercholesterolemia. You do not need a statin if your total cholesterol is below 500 mg/dL, and you must take CoQ-10 with the statin since all statins inhibit your muscles from making enough of it. I also take three (3) aspirin tablets every day to prevent cancer.

Answer 2

A "high cholesterol" level is not necessarily bad. There are several types of cholesterol and there are two especially important species, the concentrations of which carry their own, independent risk of heart attack, clot formation, hardening of the arteries, and stroke.

This country has a very serious problem with its wealth care system, specifically that most medical doctors are more interested in getting rich than keeping up with the medical literature or telling their patients the truth. The job of the typical doctor, whether he is a GP or a specialist, is to prescribe their patients as many drugs as possible. Doctors keep very careful records on how many prescriptions they have written for drugs for which there is no generic equivalent. That information is relayed to the drug manufacturer and/or distributor (The company that physically makes a drug is not necessarily the same company that promotes and distributes the drug.) through the drug companies' sales representatives. If a doctor pushes enough of a particular drug that does not have a generic equivalent, he will usually receive cash payments and/or free lavish vacation packages.

This is what everyone needs to know and do to avoid taking a drug the almost certainly do not actually need:

1) See your reqular quack ASAP and demand that he order the following tests -a. Total cholesterol + HDL + LDL. Anyone older than about 25 has already had this test performed, but have it redone if it has been over a year. From your test results, divide the total cholesterol result by the HDL result. If that ratio is greater that 5.0 for males or 4.4 for females, then your risk of getting heart disease or of making it worse is worse than average. Buy or borrow a good book on how to increase your HDL. Eating eggs yolks does not increase ones total cholesterol and it raises the HDL. Same thing with true nuts (which grow in trees; peanuts are not nuts). -b. Total triglycerides. This is the amount of fat in your blood not including any cholesterols. -c. Homocysteine and Folate. These are usually related, and ones homocysteine level is an independent indicator of heart disease, arterosclerosis... stroke. If your folate is normal or high and your homocysteine is high, then you are missing one or both of two genes that must be present for your body to methylate folic acid. The treatment is simple; you will need to take N-methyl-folic acid every day for the rest of your life. A lot of people have this genetic disorder - up to 12% of the population. Homocysteine will kill you regardless of how good your cholesterol numbers are. -d. Lipoprotein (a). This specialized protein, which may be chemically bonded to the protein in LDL and vLDL, is another independent risk factor for cardiovascular disease. One of the bad things it does is accumulates in the blood vessels' walls where it inhibits plasmin generation. The inhibition of plasmin is absolutely known to increase the chances of clot formation. Thank God that my Lp(a) level is just about as low as is ever seen at 0.3. Its concentration ranges from 0.2 to 200; the higher the worse off you are. So far, no one has found anything that anyone can do to reduce the level of this evil stuff - your level seems to be purly genetic, however; there is some evidence that fish oil may reduce the level (Only take purified fish oil. I won't take any that hasn't passed the United States Pharmacopia (USP) standards, so look for that on the label and it should be purified by [vacuum] distillation.) If your Lp(a) is high, then you must be more diligent in keeping your homocysteine level as low as possible, your HDL as high as possible, and ensuring that as little cholesterol as possible is oxidized.

The most important your Dr. hasn't told you is that only oxidized LDL and vLDL particles penetrate the arterial wall, which initiates a cascade of events that results in an arterial plaque. You can take all the statin drugs you want and it won't do one bit of good if you exercise too much, do not get enough powerful antioxidants, or if you consume oxidized cholesterol.

Yes, I said exercise too much. In my opinion, more than 3 hrs of very strenuous exercise per week is too much. Strenuous exercise is a very oxidative process. Don't believe me? Look at the dumbasses who run everyday or workout all the time and tell me they don't look older than their chronological age.

You need the most powerful antioxidants the body can tolerate. Clearly, no one should drink hydrazine, snort aluminum dust, breathe hydrogen gas (although that actually won't hurt you), or eat sodium borohydride. In my opinion, you should take 200 mg of alpha lipoic acid and 1000 mg of vitamin C every morning and every evening. I take an additional 100 mg of alpha lipoic acid and 1000 mg of C an hour before exercise. Lipoic acid is something our bodies make - it is already in you. Heat animal flesh and animal products like eggs as little as possible to avoid oxidizing the cholesterol therein. Finally, check the internet and avoid foods that contain fatty acids with more than 22 carbons. Any fatty acid longer than that cannot physically fit into a mitochondrion and is oxidized by oxygen in the peroxizomes where it produces hydrogen peroxide.

If you don't want to live like Dick Cheney, you have to educate yourself and do not depend on the average quack to help you. Finally, if it were I, I would never take a statin drug, Plavix, or Coumidin (warfarin, or rat poison - look at the label of a box of rat poison). The statins were developed to treat the disease hypercholesterolemia. You do not need a statin if your total cholesterol is below 500 mg/dL, and you must take CoQ-10 with the statin since all statins inhibit your muscles from making enough of it. I also take three (3) aspirin tablets every day to prevent cancer.