Millions Join Ranks of High Cholesterol Patients
This letter sent to editor of the Olympian, local newspaper by Joseph Hattersley pretty much sums it up. Sadly many are going to be duped by the escalating statin drug scam. The push to provide these over the counter and the lowering of cholesterol threshold levels is just some marketing tricks at the expense of our health.
Chris Gupta
-----------------------"Bad LDL cholesterol must now be lowered below 90,[i] turning millions of healthy people into profitable drug-taking patients. Now, why would God give us LDLs if they only kill us?[ii] LDLs serve the necessary function, particularly for elderly people, of strengthening immunity,[iii] partly by carrying needed antioxidants such as vitamins C, E, A and B6[iv] [v] out to the artery walls.
"Given adequate thyroid hormone, LDL-cholesterol converts to the anti-aging steroids pregnenolone, progesterone and DHEA (dehydroepiandrosterone). These are required to help prevent heart disease, senility, obesity, cancer and other chronic degenerative diseases of aging.[vi] LDL cholesterol also produces sex hormones and much more.
Further, our LDL cholesterol is perfectly safe until we expose it to oxygen. That fact was discovered in the 1970s.[vii] But "Scientific Medicine never liked the discovery, and so the doctors simply ignore the truth. LDLs get exposed to oxygen in several ways.[viii] The most common is through already oxidized food that we put into our mouths.[ix] A second is through the metabolic conversion of the essential amino acid methionine.[x]
Statin drugs, which millions may be asked to take, can inflict disastrous long-term worsening of health on patients. The HMG co-A reductase mechanism they use is the same bodily machinery that converts LDL cholesterol into vitamin-like Coenzyme Q10. Written up in the Physicians'' Desk Reference, CoQ10 is the best preventive of congestive heart failure.[xi] [xii] The PDR states it is "essential for the health of all human tissues and organs. CoQ10 also cures life-threatening cancers[xiii] and much more.
Joseph G. Hattersley
7031 Glen Terra Court SE,
Olympia, WA 98503-7119[i] The Olympian 2004; July 13, page A1.
[ii] Hattersley JG. Preventing heart attacks, strokes and sudden infant death. Townsend Ltr for Doctors 1991; Dec: 982-986.
[iii] Lancet 1997; Oct. 18.
[iv] Witting LA et al. The relationship of pyridoxine and riboflavin to the nutritional value of polymerized fats. Amer Oil Chemists' Soc 1957; 34: 421-424.
[v] Ravichandran V, Selvam R. Increased plasma lipidperoxidation in vitamin B-6 deficient rats. Ind J Exp Biol 1991; 29: 56-58.
[vi] Lee L. Safe and unsafe oils. 1997.
[vii] Peng SK, Taylor CB. Cholesterol autoxidation, health and arteriosclerosis. World Rev Nutr Diet 1984; 44:117-154.
[viii] Hattersley JG. Acquired atherosclerosis: Theories of causation, novel therapies. Jour Orthomolecular Med 1991; 6:83-98.
[ix] Taylor CB et al. Spontaneously occurring angiotoxic derivatives of cholesterol. Amer J Clin Nutr 1979; 32:40-57.
[x] McCully KS. Vascular pathology of homocysteinemia: Implications for the pathogenesis of arteriosclerosis. Am J Pathol 1969; 56:111-128.
[xi] Hattersley JG. Lowering cholesterol with Lovastatin: The wrong approach. Jour Orthomolecular Medicine 1994; 9: 54-57.
[xii] Langsjoen PH. et al. Long-term effectiveness and safety of coenzyme Q10 therapy for idiopathic dilated cardiomyopathy, Am. J. Cardiol. 1990; 65:521-523.
[xiii] Lockwood K, Moesgaard S, Folkers K. Partial and complete regression of breast cancer in patients in relation to dosage of coenzyme Q10. Biochem Biophys Res Commun (US). 1995(Mar 30); 199(34): 1504-1508.
See also:
Cholesterol drug warning issued
Cholesterol Drug & Muscle Pain
Cholesterol Does Not Cause Coronary Heart Disease
What's a little cholesterol amongst friends?
Statin Drugs & Coenzyme Q10 Depletion
Coenzyme Q10 Parkinson's disease
posted by Chris Gupta on Friday July 16 2004
updated on Saturday September 24 2005URL of this article:
http://www.newmediaexplorer.org/chris/2004/07/16/millions_join_ranks_of_high_cholesterol_patients.htm
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