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"For one thing, many researchers harbor doubts about the need to drive down cholesterol levels in the first place. Those doubts were strengthened on Jan. 14, when Merck and Schering-Plough (SGP) revealed results of a trial in which one popular cholesterol-lowering drug, a statin, was fortified by another, Zetia, which operates by a different mechanism. The combination did succeed in forcing down patients' cholesterol further than with just the statin alone. But even with two years of treatment, the further reductions brought no health benefit. "
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Ralph Lotz wrote:Vitamin D:
1) does not block COQ10 production (statins do)
2) does not activate genes that destroy muscle (statins do) IS YOUR HEART A MUSCLE?
3) 5,000 IU Vitamin D caps cost 6 pennies a day - LIPITOR costs $2.50 to $3 a day
4) 7.62x39mm AK-47 cartridge 11 cents
Ralph Lotz wrote:...Day after day year after year people come to this forum asking questions about cholesterol because they have been brainwashed into believing that cholesterol causes heart attacks.
...CHOLESTEROL-PHOBIA is the biggest con since the Federal Reserve.
Another effect of ascorbic acid must be mentioned. The level of cholesterol in a persons blood varies inversely with the level of the ascorbic acid in the blood. When I learned of this I decided to perform an experiment on myself. My cholesterol level had been running at 240 units for several years. My doctor told me he could give me a drug to lower the cholesterol level but he was afraid of the damage that might be done by the drug. An experiment had been reported that a person's cholesterol level depended on the amount of white sugar ingested. With this information in mind, I decided to eliminate sucrose in my diet as much as I could in our culture while I arbitrarily set my intake of ascorbic acid at five gram per day. Much to my doctor's surprise, my cholesterol level fell from 240 units down to 180 units. I know of similar experiments with similar results. Also I have not had a cold since I have been taking the larger amount of ascorbic acid.
An experiment had been reported that a person's cholesterol level depended on the amount of white sugar ingested. With this information in mind, I decided to eliminate sucrose in my diet as much as I could in our culture while I arbitrarily set my intake of ascorbic acid at five gram per day. Much to my doctor's surprise, my cholesterol level fell from 240 units down to 180 units. I know of similar experiments with similar results.
Re: Do Cholesterol Drugs Do Any Good?
Total cholesterol is a single, easy to determine (& probably accurate), and a totally objective measure of vitamin C intake.
Thank you Emil Ginter! http://www.vitamincfoundation.org/forum/viewtopic.php?f=9&t=152
eDOC wrote:In all my med career never prescribed a cholesterol lowering drug.
coronary events, stroke, or revascularization) was reduced by 21% (absolute risk reduction, 1% per year; number needed to treat 102 to prevent 1 event each year).
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