Dear Dr. .........,
I worked for an international company in their Research and Development department.
Because I was a chemist, the company had to give me physicals every year.
About mid-way during my career, I was told to watch my diet because my cholesterol was high.
So I did the margarine (bad advice), low saturated fat diet recommended to me by my/their doctors.
Also took up exercising (jogged 5 miles, 3 time/week). Fractured a disk doing this healthy thing... had to stop. Pain for 25 years now.
During these endeavors, my cholesterol went UP!
One morning, I complained to my wife that I didn't like the margarine on my toast. She said, "Then use butter, it's not much." So I did...
The results of the next physical was a surprise! For the first time in years, my cholesterol was down... even though I stopped exercising months earlier.
Then I complained about breakfast not sticking till noon, so I decided to have eggs for breakfast.
Next physical... again... my cholesterol went down! (Was still too high though.)
So My doctor(s) gave up on diet alone management of cholesterol and put me on Provocol. I did not want to have a heart attack.
About 4 years into the Provocol routine, I started noticing that my memory was going, especially my short term memory.
I was scared!
Here I had a technical job that required sharp thinking and I felt like I was getting Alzheimer's FAST! Can you imagine my fears trying to provide for my wife and daughter?
I took gingko biloba, which helped some, especially in the beginning, but the symptoms kept getting worse! Then to other memory enhancing pills like phosphatidylserine and phenylalanine. They helped a little, but the symptoms kept getting worse!
Then I got a letter from an associate in England containing a newspaper article stating the side effects of statin drugs: loss of short term memory, loss of time, ..... THE EXACT SYMPTOMS I WAS EXPERIENCING. I immediately threw out the Provocol and after about 7 months my memory and mental capacity came back!
So I (and many others according to the newspaper clipping) am adversely affected by statins.
STATINS ARE BAD DRUGS THAT SHOULD BE AVOIDED AT ALL COSTS!
Here's my theory on cholesterol.
- It's needed by your body to fight off infections.
- Your brain is built with it.
- The liver pumps out cholesterol at night, only 10% of the cholesterol in your blood can come from diet.
- I believe the liver over-reacts to not having enough cholesterol in your diet... much like the pancreas panics when sugar level is too high so it pumps out too much insulin. The panicked liver over-reacts from low blood levels of cholesterol and pumps out too much cholesterol.
Two things will keep my cholesterol down... 1) Staying away from sugars and simple carbohydrates. 2) Eat some saturated fats... not a lot, just what your body tells you to.
So this business as to WHEN to take statins is a diversion from the truth.... DON'T EVER TAKE STATINS.
We're dumb enough!
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