Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S.
See book keywords and concepts |  Natural Prescription for High Cholesterol
For high cholesterol, high triglycerides, and low HDL:
Niacin as inositol hexanicotinate: 400 mg, three or four times daily OR
Niacin: 300 mg, three times daily
Essential fatty acids: At least 1 g of omega-3s, balanced with 200 mg omega-6s
Vitamin C: 1 -3 g
Vitamin E: 400-800 IU
L-carnitine: 2-3 g
Pantethine: 300 mg, three times a day Exercise
Low-carb diet: Make sure to include plenty of important fats like omega-3s (fish and fish oil), omega-9s (olive and macademia nut oil), and garlic. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Conditions like "high cholesterol" aren't diseases at all (they're simply descriptions of blood chemistry), and artificially lowering high cholesterol with statin drugs has been scientifically found to offer absolutely no net health benefit whatsoever. Breast cancer is so frequently misdiagnosed that for every one woman helped by cancer screening and treatment, ten are harmed by it (click here for the story), and Restless Legs Syndrome is so routinely marketed and hyped that people who hadn't even heard of the disease two years ago now think they need patented chemicals to treat it. |
Dr. Abram Hoffer, MD, FRCP (C) and Dr. Harold D. Foster, PhD
See book keywords and concepts |  Significantly, high cholesterol is not a vitamin deficiency disease, although niacin in very large doses can reduce it, compared to the amount needed to reverse pellagra in new patients. The association between cholesterol and niacin levels was soon corroborated at the Mayo Clinic by Dr William Parsons Jr.16 This paper is now considered the first major revision of the vitamins-as-prevention paradigm to include vitamins-as-treatment.
Hoffer's research in niacin therapy for high cholesterol levels derived from his earlier work in treating schizophrenia. |
David W. Grotto, RD, LDN
See book keywords and concepts |  HIGH CHOLESTEROL: Patients with high cholesterol were placed on a diet high in avocado for seven days. These patients showed a significant decrease in total cholesterol, LDL ("bad") cholesterol, and triglycerides. These patients also showed a significant increase in HDL ("good") cholesterol. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  DISEASE" shall mean any observable symptoms, real or imagined, that can be expressed as a number requiring chemical modification. high cholesterol (a number), for example, will be called a disease named, coincidentally, high cholesterol.
"BREAST CANCER SURVIVOR" shall mean any woman who isn't immediately killed by the chemotherapy.
"GENETICALLY ENGINEERED" shall be banned from the English language, as the phrase only misleads consumers. From now on, "genetically engineered" shall be replaced with the word, "organic. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Conditions like "high cholesterol" aren't diseases at all (they're simply descriptions of blood chemistry), and artificially lowering high cholesterol with statin drugs has been scientifically found to offer absolutely no net health benefit whatsoever. Breast cancer is so frequently misdiagnosed that for every one woman helped by cancer screening and treatment, ten are harmed by it (click here for the story), and Restless Legs Syndrome is so routinely marketed and hyped that people who hadn't even heard of the disease two years ago now think they need patented chemicals to treat it. |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts |  However, you can still have high cholesterol if none of these conditions apply.
A lipid (fat) test can be taken on a blood sample to determine your cholesterol levels. This test measures levels of triglycerides (fat in the blood), high-density lipid protein (HDL, good cholesterol), and low-density lipid protein (LDL, bad cholesterol). Cholesterol levels are measured in milligrams of cholesterol per deciliter of blood (mg/dL) and fall into the following catergories:
• Desirable level: Cholesterol in the blood is less than 200 mg/dL. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | Newestfinding: According to the Treating to New Targets study, a five-year international survey of 10,000 adults who had high cholesterol, LDL levels that are even lower than 100 mg/dL may be better. All of the participants in this study received the cholesterol-lowering medication atorvastatin (Lipitor) daily—half took just the minimum dose of 10 mg and the other half took the maximum dose of 80 mg.
The participants who took the low dose reduced their LDL cholesterol levels to a respectable 100 mg/dL, on average. Those who took the higher dose cut their LDL number to 77 mg/dL. | | Much of the health information that we get is distorted so that drugs are the first choice we consider for, say, depression, high cholesterol or high blood pressure—even if there are safer effective alternatives, such as exercise or a healthy diet.
Drug ads use statistical gimmicks to exaggerate benefits. I saw an ad that claimed a certain pill would lower your risk of a heart attack by 33%. Technically, that's correct, but the actual clinical study indicated a drop in risk from 3% to 2%. In absolute terms, that's only a one-percentage-point reduction. |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts | | However, in cases of simple high cholesterol, you should try diet modification, herbal remedies, and increased exercise rather than acupuncture treatments.
Diet: Celery, shiitake mushroom, seaweed, daikon radishes, sunflower seeds, onions, and dates are all recommended. Avoid fatty, oily foods and egg yolks. o o r~ m
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Diet: Eating a high-fiber diet that includes vegetables, fruits, whole grains, nuts, and seeds is one of the best ways to correct high 3 "SI cholesterol. Brown rice, beans, and oats are also high in soluble M^jlfir fiber and bind to cholesterol. | | Those with a family history of gallstones, who are overweight or have high cholesterol, or who have inflammatory stomach conditions such as Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, are more at risk. Women who have had several pregnancies or who are on a birth-control pill are also more susceptible. The symptoms of gallbladder disease vary widely from mild discomfort to a severe pain that usually begins after eating. A poor diet, especially one high in fatty foods, is a contributory factor to the disease. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | What you can do: If you're older than 55 and have diabetes, high cholesterol or other stroke risk factors, ask your doctor about starting daily low-dose (81-mg) aspirin therapy. In patients who have never had a stroke or heart attack, and who do not have hypertension, diabetes or elevated cholesterol, the risk of hemorrhage may outweigh the potential benefits of aspirin.
•Alcohol. Moderate alcohol consumption has been shown to benefit the heart, but it does not curb stroke risk.
What you can do: Men should limit their alcohol intake to two drinks per day...one drink per day for women. |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts | | Garlic: To control high cholesterol, garlic should be considered as a first choice in herbal 516 therapy. Add it to salads, soups, and sandwiches, eating it raw whenever possible. Taking
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Q two garlic cloves daily—pressed, chopped, or diced—should be effective, but it may take I O two to three months before you see a difference. Garlic is also widely available in pill or • capsule form, which can be taken at 500 mg twice daily When taken internally at high, • |— therapeutic doses, garlic may interfere with certain anti-thrombotic drugs. | | The specific medication used depends on the type of high cholesterol, which is measured as different lipoprotein types, that a patient is suffering from. If triglycerides are high, niacin and fish oil are used. Some of the side effects of cholesterol medication, especially from statins, are becoming well known. They include liver enzyme abnormalities due to liver damage and generalized muscle pain. These occur in some individuals but not all.
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Herbs: The herbs listed below are available from Chinese pharmacies and online. |
Ray D. Strand
See book keywords and concepts |  Have you ever considered who educated you about the risk of high cholesterol? Who is taking out that full-page ad in USA Today to tell you the importance of lowering your cholesterol? Pharmaceutical companies. Why hasn't someone taken out a TV or newspaper ad to inform you about the importance of lowering your homocysteine? There is not nearly as much money to be made in the sale of vitamin B12, vitamin B6, and folic acid. Sad to say, we are caught in the ripple effects of the economics of medicine. Could this possibly have been the underlying reason that Dr. | | Could patients who begin a consistent exercise program and a healthy diet while taking supplements actually improve their high blood pressure, diabetes, and high cholesterol to the point of being able to avoid taking some medications? The medical literature certainly supports this approach.
Almost all physicians agree that patients deserve a fair trial of healthy lifestyle changes before beginning medication for such chronic conditions. In reality, however, most physicians merely give lip service to lifestyle changes in their office even as they are writing out prescriptions. |
Marshall Editions
See book keywords and concepts | | Complications of diabetes: Each type of diabetes predisposes a person to complications, including cardiac, renal, and neurologic problems, infections, retinal damage in the eyes, and high cholesterol and triglycerides. Those with diabetes should be regularly checked for these complications and referred to a specialist as needed. Most of the associated problems can be prevented by keeping the blood sugar level in a normal range. a
Historically, Chinese medicine descriptions of diabetes are much the same as those of Western medicine. |
Mehmet C. Oz., M.D. and Michael F. Roizen, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  As a result, we're prone to infections and arterial damage and less able to cope with common stresses we could normally fend off— like hypertension or high cholesterol, or even cigarette smoke.
For a disease like diabetes to develop in the first place, it must have had a selective advantage for those who had it. In the Ice Age, it's theorized, blood sugar actually helped us. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | That's because many major pharmaceutical companies have found that it is more profitable to fund research and development for new drugs that treat chronic illnesses, such as diabetes, arthritis and high cholesterol.
Self-defense: Write to your representatives in Congress and tell them that you support efforts to boost incentives (via tax credits and other means) for pharmaceutical companies to develop new antibiotics.
To write to your congressional representatives online, go to www.firstgov.gov. |
Too Profitable to CureBrent Hoadley, Ph.D.
See book keywords and concepts | | Follow the reaction of the food industry to the hot topic of the day, be it obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, depression, high cholesterol, etc. If you are the "victim" of one of these hot topics, consider yourself a target. Both the pharmaceutical industry and the food industry have you clearly in their sights. Consider this example of targeting: besides the use of cholesterol-lowering pharmaceutical products, the food industry jumped into the fray of the high-cholesterol brouhaha with their contention that eating oatmeal lowered cholesterol. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | The international study on rimonabant was led by Jean-Pierre Despres of Laval University in Sainte-Foy, Quebec, Canada, and involved more than 1,000 overweight or obese patients who had untreated high cholesterol The participants were placed on a low-calorie diet and given either daily rimonabant (at doses of 5 or 20 mg) or a placebo.
Don't look for a quick fix from the drug store. Combining therapies seems to be much more effective than drug treatment alone.
Susan Yanovski, MD
Rimonabant helped participants lose an average of approximately 15 pounds during one year. |
Connie Bennett, C.H.H.C. with Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D.
See book keywords and concepts |  We tend to hear a lot about the dangers of high cholesterol, but I daresay most Americans don't know that very low cholesterol is unsafe, too. When people's LDL cholesterol falls too low—less than 70mg/dL— they may develop transient global amnesia, meaning that they forget who they are.
Years ago, in the early 1980s, when cholesterol-lowering drugs first hit the mass market, studies found an increase in suicides, homicides, and automobile accidents. But those results were somehow overlooked in the rush to prescribe these "wonder" meds. | | My grievance is when we aggressively treat high cholesterol numbers and not patients, and when we overprescribe these drugs for healthy people, especially women. Statins should be prescribed and chosen with great care and scrutiny. They may have many side effects, including changes in liver function; muscle pain or weakness; memory problems; depression; shortness of breath; and, on rare occasions, even death. | | Furthermore, I'm eager to correct the misconception about the dangers of high cholesterol that's been so widely accepted by an unsuspecting public. As a board-certified cardiologist, certified nutrition specialist, and antiaging specialist, I can tell you this: there are far more significant and devastating causes of coronary artery disease than cholesterol, and too much sugar and high blood sugar levels are at the top of the list. | | Not enough people know that high triglycerides are an even bigger risk factor for a heart attack than high cholesterol," says Dr. Fratellone, former executive medical director of the Atkins Center for Complementary Medicine.
"People are walking around with normal cholesterol, normal LDL, normal HDL, and high triglycerides, and that's why they have a heart attack. The only way to decrease your triglycerides is through diet: You need to restrict refined carbohydrates and sugar. | | The truth is that, over time, consuming too many sweets and refined carbohydrates could cause even more profound clogging of your heart vessels than high cholesterol levels ever could. Too much sugar can give you heart disease. What's more, it can get you there much faster than cholesterol.
To be sure, cholesterol does play a role in developing heart disease, but in my opinion, it's only a minor player. And unfortunately, its role has been overexaggerated by the scientific community, as well as the media. |
Brigitte Mars, A.H.G.
See book keywords and concepts |  It is used in the treatment of constipation, cough, erectile dysfunction, high cholesterol, tuberculosis, and wheezing.
Topically, the leaf, bark, or hull can be prepared as a wash, compress, or poultice to treat athlete's foot, eczema, impetigo, herpes, ringworm, scabies, tooth weakness, and wounds. A salve made from the green hulls is excellent for getting rid of fungal problems like athlete's foot, jock itch, and ringworm. Walnut leaf can be made into a facial wash to reduce enlarged pores, a hair rinse to get rid of dandruff and to darken graying hair, or a gargle to treat tonsillitis. | | Alfalfa is used to treat anemia, arteriosclerosis, arthritis, blood pressure problems (high or low), bruising, celiac disease, high cholesterol, colitis, diabetes, fatigue, fever, indigestion, jaundice, menopause symptoms, menstrual problems, obesity, osteoporosis, peptic ulcers, and varicose veins. It also helps remove excess uric acid from the body.
Topically, alfalfa is used as a moistening bath herb, facial steam, hair rinse, and poultice for wounds. | | Bladder wrack is used in the treatment of anemia, asthma, Candida, catarrh, constipation, cough, cysts, edema, fatigue, goiter, heartburn, high cholesterol, hormonal imbalance, hypertension, hypotension, hypothyroidism, lymph node enlargement, nail weakness, obesity, rheumatism, and tumors. Because bladder wrack helps stimulate a sluggish metabolism, it can be helpful as part of a weight-loss program. It also can be used as a breast cancer preventive and to encourage convalescence. |
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