Cholesterol

If you are a typical Australian adult, your total cholesterol level is around 5.20 (mmol/L). Where before this was considered as normal these days it is considered as borderline-high with the recommendation to take cholesterol lowering ‘statin' drugs.

Only a few years ago the limit was 5.70 regarding anything below as being normal.

What a coincidence that the drug companies have an interest in this new Cholesterol Epidemic - their best selling drugs (Statins) belong to this area including their best selling drug of all times named Lipitor! Another coincidence is probably also the $ 25 billion dollars they earn with this.

Now nobody would imagine they make all this money by telling healthy people they are now sick and need medication!?

Be very careful with cholesterol lowering drugs

Why?
Low cholesterol is a significant problem and when low it can lead to: Depression, Heart Disease in women, Stroke, Aggressive behaviour and high suicide rates. Cholesterol levels are considered low when they drop under 4.60. The Lancet published a French study in early 1989 showing that elderly women with high Cholesterol lived longer and the death rate was 5 times higher in women with low cholesterol than with high cholesterol.

Cholesterol lowering drugs have side effects as every drug has and saying that a study started in 1991 was stopped and never restarted as they found out that there were more deaths from the drug than positive results in the changing of the cholesterol levels.

Animal Studies show that there is a higher rate of Cancer (especially breast cancer) with cholesterol lowering drugs.

Cholesterol lowering drugs are dangerous for the heart as they reduce Co-enzyme Q10 (Co-Q10) in our body. Co-Q10 is an Enzyme that is essential for our muscle function and to balance our liver enzyme production. It simply keeps our muscles healthy - and our heart is our most important muscle! Co-Q10 also helps to transfer energy from the food we eat into our cells.

Cholesterol is essential for the function of every cell and membrane in our body and it's important to keep it in a healthy balance => not to high and not to low.

Studies found that Low Cholesterol under 4.65 have twice the risk of becoming a stroke than people with cholesterol levels above 5.9. The same study also found out that patients above 7.2 have twice the risk of a stroke than patients with 5.9.

High Cholesterol above 6.2 is connected to heart diseases in men but not in women or over 70 years old! The recommendation for over 70 year old is cholesterol above 7.7 and HDL (the good Cholesterol) at least 30% of the total cholesterol.

Cholesterol in the normal range is not detrimental for the heart or involved in any other diseases. We can not live without it! It activates Vitamin D the number one cancer preventing method and is the ancestor for all of our body own essential hormones.

A lot of perfectly healthy people have cholesterol readings above 5 mmol/L.

So what's the answer if your doctor wants you on Lipitor? How can you get healthy cholesterol levels?

Here is another problem as you mostly will get Red Yeast Rice as a natural alternative to Lipitor! Red Yeast Rice can lower your cholesterol as well under the healthy level and this again can weaken your muscles and again the heart as it is a muscle!

There is a much better option to manage your Cholesterol:

Doing this the total cholesterol will sometimes lower (if necessary) but more important HDL Cholesterol (the Good one) rises and the LDL Cholesterol (the Bad one) falls.

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