t1tot4 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

You are a quack my good sir.

85711 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

And there is no good or bad cholesterol people! There is only one type. There are 2 different CARRIERS, LDL and HDL. LDL takes cholesterol to places in need, and HDL recycles it and takes it back to the liver, as cholesterol is a very complex molecule to make, so that your body saves energy by recycling it. On a side note, athletes should have a higher cholesterol count, as they are constantly building new cells. Cholesterol is also needed to maintain your myelin sheath.

85711 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Did I mention plaque is mostly made out of calcium? Also, SickRussian, Type 2 diabetes is entirely cure-able, managable, and usually your own damn fault for eating crap. No, its not genetic. I hate when people say 'I'm diabetic and fat because my parents were.' I say 'No, your fat and diabetic because you adopted the same lifestyle that made your parents fat and diabetic.' And as far as your liver is concerned, its not out to kill you. This would be counterevolutionary. Yay fat!

85711 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Also, taking a statin to lower your risk of heart disease and get rid of plaque is not logical for another reason; rhabdomyolosis. So you think that high cholesterol clogs your arteries...so that means your heart needs to be stronger in order to move blood past those 'plaques.' But if you take something which weakens your muscles, and your heart is a muscle, you weaken the heart, which means blood is not pumped as efficiently....

85711 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

When a cell or artery or anything in your body gets damaged, your body gets rid of it and has to make a new cell. YOU NEED CHOLESTEROL to build a cell membrane. So if you have high cholesterol, you are probably damaging your body in some way. Try not smoking, drinking alcohol, or ingesting fluoride, chlorine, fried foods, fast acting sugars, transfats etc, as these all cause arterial and cell damage.

85711 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

The only people that need statins are those with familial hyperlipidemia, where the total cholesterol levels reach 350 or higher. For the other 99.9 percent of us, we do not need to be worried about the numbers so much as the size of the particle, and that can only be regulated by diet. You do not want cholesterol molecules too small, because they will get stuck in arteries where nutrients would normally get transported.

sgtusaf86 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

who paid you? ASSHOLE!

exxodus29 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

This is exactly pharaceutical companies are a big fraud. Why do you think the FDA is so against natural treatments? Exactly,because natural treatments like herbs can't be controlled or patented by drug companies therefore interferring with their profits. Doctorsgo to medical school and learn what drug companies want them to learn, which is drugs and surgery. They are not even required to study nutrition. It's all about the money with drug companies. I don't care what you say.

exxodus29 (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

Now I know you are an idiot if you don't think pharmaceutical drugs are toxic. They all are. From the most powerful prescription to the supposedly harmless over the counter drugs they are all toxic to the body. And let me ask you this. What did people do before all of these miracle pills came to be? And no one is suggesting to let anyone die of anything. I don't care what you say or how much knowledge you claim to have,the primary source of bad cholesterol is animal products and processed foods.

sickrussian (November 30, 1999 at 12:00 am)

me and my family get to enjoy a life with no smallpox, whooping cough, polio, measles, type b meningitis... who do u think funded all of this research and development? Do you even have a clue what pharma companies end up profeting after taxation, paying staff, paying research, payment of running and operating QC labs and the list goes on? Again.. who pays for that? the government? no! pharma companies do! they make sure ungrateful people end up living longer to bad mouth them further.