Thank you so much for this Wendy. I am one of those people who
regularly has triglycerides in excess of 700. My cholesterol levels
haven't been checked in a while, but I am currently awaiting results
which will be my 'baseline' for the coming year.
It really irritates me that people make assumptions about things. Bad
liver-oh you must drink (I don't)..High triglycerides- you must eat a
lot of fatty food (I don't)...when I got mono as a kid, there were
people who called me a slut, even though I was the epitomy of
homeliness. <g> Grrr... but I digress. I appreciate your analysis, Wen.
How have things been for you lately? Still working?
Wendy wrote:
Please take note that this "study" means nothing.
Those interviewed weren't asked if they'd ever had a bad reaction from
taking those combinations. And the study didn't assess whether patients
were taking medications inappropriately.
The question asked was not whether anyone has had any complications from
interactions between drugs and nutritional supplements, but rather if they
took them together. An even bigger question is, Why can't the prescription
drugs be dropped if a nutritional supplement will work just as well?" Also,
Bob, be very cautious when taking statins or any other cholesterol lowering
drugs. Cholesterol is not your enemy. Your body produces cholesterol when
it needs it. Cell walls are almost pure cholesterol. Different forms of
cholesterol are used for different things. LDLs are your bodies "patch"
material. If your LDLs are high, you have damage that your body is patching
until it can properly heal. HDLs are the "old bandages" being sent back to
the liver to be reformed into another type of cholesterol. Tryglycerides
are the form of cholesterol that is used when transporting or storing
cholesterol. If your LDLs are high and your HDLs are low, that means that
your cells are deteriorating and not being repaired. If your HDLs are high
and your LDLs are low, that means that there is little new damage and what
was there is healing fine. Statins and other cholesterol lowering drugs,
inhibit your body's ability to synthesize cholesterol. It is like shooting
the messenger. It doesn't "cure" or "fix" anything and may inhibit your
ability to heal. There are certain cases where cholesterol lowering drugs
are called for. For example, certain thyroid disorders cause the thyroid to
erroneously call for massive amounts of tryglycerides. Tryglyceride counts
can be in excess of 1000, over thicken the blood and cause blockages and
interfere with the oxygen/CO2 exchange in the lungs. Bad news. Cholesterol
lowering drugs are needed here since the blood cholesterol levels are being
elevated in error. However, under normal conditions, cholesterol counts
only give an indicator of what else is going on in your body. Manipulating
them does not correct the condition that caused the concern. Prescribing
cholesterol lowering drugs is like giving a child the test answers, then
proclaiming that the child is learning when he passes the test. (Note: this
analogy was not meant to be a call to anyone to go off on a rant of our
pathetic public school system. ;-) )
Wendy
--
"The world is my country, all mankind are my
brethren, and to do good is my religion."
Thomas Paine (1737 - 1809)
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