Remedy: Never go to doctor, never take a test nor pill. You will live worry-free, happy life. And when it's your time to go, you just go. Do not play their game. Being afraid kills you faster than any 'sickness'.
That’s what I’ve gravitated to. I will admit that some therapies can be helpful, notably injections (shudder, shudder) for wet macular degeneration that my wife takes.
Hilarious take on the insanity of the pHARMacy propaganda. It was an alert for me that my next dr appointment is probably going to result in still another reason for them to call me a difficult patient. They've been fretting about my lack of statin participation for a while now. Good to have more ammunition! 💕
Cardiologist questioning me cynically “why aren’t you on statins?” Me: ‘They don’t work.’ “Oh so you know more than the medical community? Every cardiologist I know recommends them.” ‘The latest research is clear. They don’t work at preventing heart attacks. And they cause massive side effects.’ Cardiologist…reviewing my chart. “Why haven’t you been vaccinated.” ‘I am scientifically literate.’ Cardiologist “I am not here to debate vaccines.” ‘My apologies. I thought because you raised the issue, you were.’ “What is the point of me treating you if you won’t do what I tell you to do? Will you?” ‘How in the world can I answer that? I have no idea what you are going to tell me to do! I will say this - I will listen and go home and research what you say and make a decision based on your recommendations and my readings.’ “so you think your readings should override my diagnosis?” ‘Well, I am more up to date on statins than you seem to be. So in that sense, quite possibly.’
😂 Sounds like my visits! They literally wrote "Difficult Patient" at the top of my chart with a list of reasons why. First one being that I refuse all vaccines...and it's all downhill from there...😂 we've had a similar cholesterol convo...since my Doctor is vocally Christian, I hit her with "I'm trusting it all to God." Eye rolls ensued. And "Difficult Patient" diagnosis. 😂
The two most widely prescribed statins are simvastatin and atorvastatin. Atorvastatin increases risk for ALS seventeen fold, and simvastatin twenty three fold. There’s even one statin, Lovastatin, that increases the risk for ALS 107 times!
In today's world of EMF, this is an issue as our microglia (neurons) get dehydrated and need all the water and help they can get to fire correctly.
My mom was on a low dose Lovastatin for a good twenty years. I say with a lot of certainty it led to her dementia. There has been no ‘family history’ in the women on my mother’s side of the family of dementia or memory related dis-ease. Both my mom (in 2021) and my grandmother (in 2003) passed away from congestive heart failure. They were old, in their late 80’s and early 90’s respectively, and their heart stopped beating.
There’s a lot of ALS now in people who got the EUA mRNA ‘vaxxines’. A “known” person who passed away recently from ALS was the actor Eric Dane who played “Dr. Mark Sloan” on Grey’s Anatomy. He was 53, he openly supported getting the Jabs on social media as well as doing PSA’s for NBC.
Also, a woman I know, a chef with a cooking school in Oaxaca Mexico, passed away last year from ALS, not long after her 70th birthday. She too got the EUA mRNA ‘vaxxines’.
Sarah... Excellent post. It is hard to believe that TPTB are ramping up the "cholesterol" myth again to push more statins. I had hoped this was dying down, but then we are seeing a continuation of the vaxxx madness.
I was in private practice when these meds first came out and were being pushed by every MD in the US. As an example of the madness of the time and today, too, it may be of interest to share an anecdote about one of my patients from the late 1980s. One day, I entered an exam room to find one of my elderly cataract patients in obvious despair. This 80+ year old lady had been placed on a statin and was literally in tears as the drug was costing her more than $300/month at the time and she was wrestling with paying for food and rent or this "must take" drug. I told her to stop the statin - there is and was no benefit to an 80 year old being treated with these poisons (it will increase patients in the dementia wards, however). These products do not increase wellness, length of life, quality of life, etc. I went on a crusade against these things for several months with my patients and, then, began to get calls from local cardiologists... Why are you telling our patients to stop their statins? Me: "Because they are of NO benefit to these elderly people". The reply was: "True, but this is 'standard of care' and it is important that patients stay on these meds."
Over my 50+ yearsin medicine, things have only worsened... Avoid white coats and blue lights.
If by some miracle the overall population (which is already hooked on drugs) was becoming more healthy over the last 3-4 decades due to the preponderance of constant drug use, then one could say hell yes, drugs work miracles.
What we have facing us is the exact opposite. More and more drugs are making the population sicker and sicker (along with other reasons). Here's the thing; the body regulates over 80% of its cholesterol needs by making its own. Once again, we have the monsters of medicine wanting us to believe they know better than the magnificent body does as to how to run its own show.
This is why I avoid all drugs and vaccines and doctors and testing...forever. You want health? Stop poisoning yourself with big pharma poisons. Doctors are clueless when it comes to providing answers that will secure you a healthier life.
Birth to death…Big Pharma has never been “for our health” but they certainly endeavor to *use* us no matter our age. They have money-making drugs to peddle so why not target anyone found to have a “problem” no matter the age of the person. They want us sick, dying, and suffering because we represent dollar signs for ever more of their drugs.
Yes. And, this cholesterol canard has been going on for decades. I remember back in the 1990's (1980's?) wondering where the hell they got their supposed "proper" cholesterol levels numbers, or why cholesterol was a significant number at all
Investigating it at the time, I concluded that they made it all up. But, it all ties into the cardio industry which makes untold amounts of money for treating the "effects" of so-called high cholesterol.
As Dr. Nortin M. Hadler documented in his 2004 book, The Last Well Person (and, his updated 2008 version, Worried Sick,) giant longitudinal studies done in the 1970's and 1980's showed no significant (in the statistical sense) of any heart surgery over simple diet and exercise regimes.
An anecdote regarding Dr. Hadler- my best friend's dad went into the hospital for leg surgery, and suffered a heart attack while there. Cardiologists were called, and a triple-bypass surgery scheduled. Desperate, my friend's mom called in Dr. Hadler (who she never liked because he opposed mammograms and prostate exams,) because Dr. Hadler had been my friend's dad's personal physician for 30 years. Dr. Hadler immediately discovered that nobody had noticed my friend's dad had only one kidney- what actually happened was that they had overloaded his body cavity with saline solution (which his single kidney could not excrete quickly enough) and that excess saline solution had caused his heart attack. The heart surgery was cancelled, my friend's dad was released, and never had another problem.
I will be forever grateful to the doctors who regularly patched me back together as a kid after suffering some trauma common to active boys. But, we must understand that the medical industry is comprised largely of charlatans who cause nothing but harm. And, I include the entire psychiatric field as charlatans also.
Somehow, all other animals in the world (which are biological similar to humans) survive without any doctor or medication. Why are humans, alone (or animals who are cared for by humans,) seemingly the only animals who require doctors and medications?
Omg, I Iiterally gasped twice reading this article; once with the 10-year-olds being tested for elevated cholesterol, and another on the details of the supplement trial. Thanks for your excellent investigative journalism. 🙏🏼👍🏽❤️
Cholesterol does not predict degree of atherosclerosis at autopsy
In 1936, Landé and Sperry noted that the degree of aortic atherosclerosis at autopsy of healthy individuals who had died violently, was independent on their blood cholesterol concentration analysed immediately after death.4 Their finding was confirmed by Mathur et al.5 and similar results were obtained by others.6–8 The objection that an analysis of cholesterol after death may not reflect its concentration during life was met by Mathur et al.5 who found that the cholesterol concentration was almost constant up to 16 h after death. Paterson et al.6 bypassed the problem by comparing the degree of atherosclerosis at death with the individuals’ cholesterol measured previously on several occasions. In all these studies, plots of blood cholesterol concentrations vs. the lipid content of the aorta or the coronary arteries were widely scattered.
More recent autopsy studies have found weak or inconsistent correlations between LDL‐cholesterol or total cholesterol and various measures of atherosclerosis.9 For instance, the most severe degree of atherosclerosis was found mainly in individuals with extremely high cholesterol, whereas small differences were seen in the rest.10 A correlation was found in White men, but not in Black men,11 in men but not in women,12 in individuals below, but not above age 80 years,13 and in the coronary arteries, but not in the thoracic or abdominal aorta.
The weak and unpredictable correlations probably reflect bias, because most of the studies were performed on selected individuals. In such large projects, the main object of which was to study risk factors for cardiovascular disease, individuals with such diseases, or with high cholesterol, were preferred for post‐mortem examination,10–15 which means that the proportion of individuals with familial hypercholesterolaemia must have been much larger than in the general population. As such patients have very high cholesterol and are more prone to vascular changes, their inclusion automatically creates a correlation between degree of atherosclerosis and LDL or total cholesterol. Accordingly, it is obvious from a figure in a preliminary report that the correlation disappears if individuals with total cholesterol >350 mg/ml (9 mmol/l) are excluded.16 It is questionable if the vascular changes seen in familial hypercholesterolaemia are synonymous with atherosclerosis.17,18 Therefore, to prove that the concentration of LDL‐cholesterol has importance in the general population, it is necessary to exclude individuals with familial hypercholesterolaemia.
Cholesterol does not correlate with degree of coronary atherosclerosis on angiography
A correlation between the pathological findings seen on coronary angiography and cholesterol has been found in many studies.19 However, the correlation coefficients in these studies were never >0.36 and often much smaller; in some studies no correlation was found.20–23 When present, the correlation found may have been due to bias by the process mentioned above, because coronary angiography is mainly performed on patients with symptomatic coronary disease, and more often on middle‐aged and younger patients. The correlation disappeared in one study after exclusion of patients treated with lipid‐lowering drugs.
Cholesterol does not correlate with degree of coronary calcification
In contrast to conventional angiography, electron beam angiography detects coronary plaques independent of their location in the vessel wall, but only calcified plaques. Degree of coronary calcification seems a good surrogate for degree of coronary atherosclerosis, because it correlates strongly with total plaque volume and obstructive coronary disease, and is a powerful predictor of clinical outcome. Nonetheless, degree of coronary calcification did not correlate with any lipid fraction in the blood.
Cholesterol does not correlate with degree of peripheral atherosclerosis
Many studies have found an association between LDL‐ or total cholesterol and peripheral atherosclerosis, depicted by angiography or ultrasonography, but only in dichotomous analyses, and again, differences have been found mainly between individuals with very high cholesterol concentrations and the rest. In ultrasonographic studies, where degree of carotic atherosclerosis was graded as a continuous variable, no correlation was found with individual LDL‐cholesterol concentrations.26,27 In similar studies using aortic28 and femoral29 angiography, no correlation was found either. Mean femoral intima‐media thickness was evaluated by ultrasonography in patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia and in control individuals with normal cholesterol. Using all observations, a correlation was found (r=0.41), but from a visual judgement of the scatterplot, within each group no clear correlation was present.
Whoo boy, You have some good research going there. On top of all this, I have heard - though maybe untrue - that cholesterol is not a problem. Any type. [shrug]
But here is another support for My choice to avoid the pHRAMa/mediKILL industry as much as possible.
I take two herbs (is coffee an herb?) for My feeling well, one for the pain I suffer from psoriatic arthritis. That ghastly legal/governmafia system calls it illegal, but 50+ years of using cannabis has convinced Me there are no issues.
I do put other herbs into My food, but, though They may help, it's for the flavor! LOL!
Thank You so much for all these data on the Ones who would sell Their snake oil to Us. (Doesn't money motivate awesome things...?)
You heard that cholesterol wasn't a problem? Of course, you heard that from the animal ag industry. They'd rather you took statins but are happy for you to kill yourself eating animal products too.
Well, no, that's not where I heard that. And I am guessing You're vegan. I mean, how insane that We are meant to eat something that has sustained Us for aeons...
Through much research - over 50 years. Where specifically, I cannot recall but it wasn't just one place, and it wasn't any "industry" necessarily.
There is no proof that Humans did not eat meat - and it's interesting that some of the B vitamins must be supplemented to have enough to stay healthy if One is vegan...
Yeah farmed animals also have to be supplemented with b12- it’s made by bacteria and is found in the soil and water and is destroyed by sanitation. So everyone effectively is taking supplements.
It’s funny that you believe calling someone vegan (ie has compassion for other animals) is a perjorative term.
You didn’t read my post did you. There is clear evidence that some of our recent ancestors ate other animals though we are descended from, and our physiology is adapted to, mainly fruit eaters.
I bet you’re done, you know when you’ve been beaten
The tragedy remains: compliance is as conditioning does, bringing a veritable camel train of murderous baggage. "Germs" are indeed deadly.
The medical 'profession' of clinical algorithm adherents, together with the industrial cartel, and let's not omit "Ai," all these feast off people queuing patiently and even happily, standing in line for the next Rx statin, SSRI, SNRI, Shots of Any Description, anti-biotic, or 'simply' euthanasia.
The politicians have also come to recognise that wallowing in the deep trough of fear driven ill-health brings immense political and growing fiscal power, while the anti-Social manipulators, anti-Intelligence agencies of the Swamp have latched onto the Malthusian and Wealth transfer opportunities afforded by the deep conditioning and installed compliance.
Nonetheless, there seem a few more aware of the amplifying evil these days, with its goals of destitution, delegitimisation, de-population, de-industrialisation, dependency and death that have been nailed, screwed and glued to the mast: The 2030 [UNEP/WHO] Agenda, and its parasitical cousin, the UN Urban Agenda Habitat III.
There are two lab blood markers that will give a more accurate understanding about your overall health than many others.
1. Triglycerides ÷ Hdl. One or less in value is the gold standard. Low Triglycerides and a decent Hdl are what your goal.
2. Fasting insulin levels. One is gold, under 3 is fantastic. The higher the number, the more harm taking place in the endothelial cells of the cardiovascular system. A high value leads to chronic inflammation and the continuous disruption of the endothelial lining of your arteries. This leads to the body laying down ldl as a protective solution which can then build up and become hardened by the body's attempt to stabilize it with calcium. If you have a value of 10 or higher, you are already insulin resistant and will be a full blown diabetic in the future if you do not change your diet and lifestyle drastically.
Overall cholesterol levels are irrelevant concerning cardiovascular disease. There have been numerous studies conducted that prove that the older you get, the more protective higher cholesterol levels are for your health. Those with the lowest overall cholesterol levels had the highest all cause mortality regardless of Hdl. Lower ldl levels in older populations leads to more frequent illness and earlier death. Hdl is only protective to a certain extent and is not the silver bullet it's made out to be.
Remedy: Never go to doctor, never take a test nor pill. You will live worry-free, happy life. And when it's your time to go, you just go. Do not play their game. Being afraid kills you faster than any 'sickness'.
My exact remedy for living well.
I got her off of them, finally. She suffered a lot of ill effects but is glad to be done with them.
That’s what I’ve gravitated to. I will admit that some therapies can be helpful, notably injections (shudder, shudder) for wet macular degeneration that my wife takes.
Is she on statins??
I’m an Australian Wholesale Fuel Trader
An insider's explanation of what is going on...
https://fasteddynz.substack.com/p/im-an-australian-wholesale-fuel-trader
Hilarious take on the insanity of the pHARMacy propaganda. It was an alert for me that my next dr appointment is probably going to result in still another reason for them to call me a difficult patient. They've been fretting about my lack of statin participation for a while now. Good to have more ammunition! 💕
Cardiologist questioning me cynically “why aren’t you on statins?” Me: ‘They don’t work.’ “Oh so you know more than the medical community? Every cardiologist I know recommends them.” ‘The latest research is clear. They don’t work at preventing heart attacks. And they cause massive side effects.’ Cardiologist…reviewing my chart. “Why haven’t you been vaccinated.” ‘I am scientifically literate.’ Cardiologist “I am not here to debate vaccines.” ‘My apologies. I thought because you raised the issue, you were.’ “What is the point of me treating you if you won’t do what I tell you to do? Will you?” ‘How in the world can I answer that? I have no idea what you are going to tell me to do! I will say this - I will listen and go home and research what you say and make a decision based on your recommendations and my readings.’ “so you think your readings should override my diagnosis?” ‘Well, I am more up to date on statins than you seem to be. So in that sense, quite possibly.’
She didn’t like me. And visa versa.
😂 Sounds like my visits! They literally wrote "Difficult Patient" at the top of my chart with a list of reasons why. First one being that I refuse all vaccines...and it's all downhill from there...😂 we've had a similar cholesterol convo...since my Doctor is vocally Christian, I hit her with "I'm trusting it all to God." Eye rolls ensued. And "Difficult Patient" diagnosis. 😂
They are a pain in the butt.
Why in the world are you still participating in the Medical Industrial Circus???
STOP PARTICIPATING
I don’t. But I had 2 90% blockages in my LAD. I had to.
Unfortunately there is a reason I have to see doctors or I would not!
The two most widely prescribed statins are simvastatin and atorvastatin. Atorvastatin increases risk for ALS seventeen fold, and simvastatin twenty three fold. There’s even one statin, Lovastatin, that increases the risk for ALS 107 times!
In today's world of EMF, this is an issue as our microglia (neurons) get dehydrated and need all the water and help they can get to fire correctly.
My mom was on a low dose Lovastatin for a good twenty years. I say with a lot of certainty it led to her dementia. There has been no ‘family history’ in the women on my mother’s side of the family of dementia or memory related dis-ease. Both my mom (in 2021) and my grandmother (in 2003) passed away from congestive heart failure. They were old, in their late 80’s and early 90’s respectively, and their heart stopped beating.
There’s a lot of ALS now in people who got the EUA mRNA ‘vaxxines’. A “known” person who passed away recently from ALS was the actor Eric Dane who played “Dr. Mark Sloan” on Grey’s Anatomy. He was 53, he openly supported getting the Jabs on social media as well as doing PSA’s for NBC.
Also, a woman I know, a chef with a cooking school in Oaxaca Mexico, passed away last year from ALS, not long after her 70th birthday. She too got the EUA mRNA ‘vaxxines’.
Sarah... Excellent post. It is hard to believe that TPTB are ramping up the "cholesterol" myth again to push more statins. I had hoped this was dying down, but then we are seeing a continuation of the vaxxx madness.
I was in private practice when these meds first came out and were being pushed by every MD in the US. As an example of the madness of the time and today, too, it may be of interest to share an anecdote about one of my patients from the late 1980s. One day, I entered an exam room to find one of my elderly cataract patients in obvious despair. This 80+ year old lady had been placed on a statin and was literally in tears as the drug was costing her more than $300/month at the time and she was wrestling with paying for food and rent or this "must take" drug. I told her to stop the statin - there is and was no benefit to an 80 year old being treated with these poisons (it will increase patients in the dementia wards, however). These products do not increase wellness, length of life, quality of life, etc. I went on a crusade against these things for several months with my patients and, then, began to get calls from local cardiologists... Why are you telling our patients to stop their statins? Me: "Because they are of NO benefit to these elderly people". The reply was: "True, but this is 'standard of care' and it is important that patients stay on these meds."
Over my 50+ yearsin medicine, things have only worsened... Avoid white coats and blue lights.
Ahhhh... "standard of care." Maybe Sarah can tackle this legal expression in another post?
It has very little to do with patient wellness, and a lot to do with making forced products and procedures liability free.
SOC morphed into "evidence-based medicine" about 15 years ago.
Alas, so much evidence, yet so few prosecutions. As HST useta say...Selah.
Yup. Until we see frog marches in leg irons and manacles, things won't cahnge much, though.
👆
I actually love it - I think the white coats and pharma are in a PANIC!!
If by some miracle the overall population (which is already hooked on drugs) was becoming more healthy over the last 3-4 decades due to the preponderance of constant drug use, then one could say hell yes, drugs work miracles.
What we have facing us is the exact opposite. More and more drugs are making the population sicker and sicker (along with other reasons). Here's the thing; the body regulates over 80% of its cholesterol needs by making its own. Once again, we have the monsters of medicine wanting us to believe they know better than the magnificent body does as to how to run its own show.
This is why I avoid all drugs and vaccines and doctors and testing...forever. You want health? Stop poisoning yourself with big pharma poisons. Doctors are clueless when it comes to providing answers that will secure you a healthier life.
Birth to death…Big Pharma has never been “for our health” but they certainly endeavor to *use* us no matter our age. They have money-making drugs to peddle so why not target anyone found to have a “problem” no matter the age of the person. They want us sick, dying, and suffering because we represent dollar signs for ever more of their drugs.
Yes. And, this cholesterol canard has been going on for decades. I remember back in the 1990's (1980's?) wondering where the hell they got their supposed "proper" cholesterol levels numbers, or why cholesterol was a significant number at all
Investigating it at the time, I concluded that they made it all up. But, it all ties into the cardio industry which makes untold amounts of money for treating the "effects" of so-called high cholesterol.
As Dr. Nortin M. Hadler documented in his 2004 book, The Last Well Person (and, his updated 2008 version, Worried Sick,) giant longitudinal studies done in the 1970's and 1980's showed no significant (in the statistical sense) of any heart surgery over simple diet and exercise regimes.
An anecdote regarding Dr. Hadler- my best friend's dad went into the hospital for leg surgery, and suffered a heart attack while there. Cardiologists were called, and a triple-bypass surgery scheduled. Desperate, my friend's mom called in Dr. Hadler (who she never liked because he opposed mammograms and prostate exams,) because Dr. Hadler had been my friend's dad's personal physician for 30 years. Dr. Hadler immediately discovered that nobody had noticed my friend's dad had only one kidney- what actually happened was that they had overloaded his body cavity with saline solution (which his single kidney could not excrete quickly enough) and that excess saline solution had caused his heart attack. The heart surgery was cancelled, my friend's dad was released, and never had another problem.
I will be forever grateful to the doctors who regularly patched me back together as a kid after suffering some trauma common to active boys. But, we must understand that the medical industry is comprised largely of charlatans who cause nothing but harm. And, I include the entire psychiatric field as charlatans also.
Somehow, all other animals in the world (which are biological similar to humans) survive without any doctor or medication. Why are humans, alone (or animals who are cared for by humans,) seemingly the only animals who require doctors and medications?
Omg, I Iiterally gasped twice reading this article; once with the 10-year-olds being tested for elevated cholesterol, and another on the details of the supplement trial. Thanks for your excellent investigative journalism. 🙏🏼👍🏽❤️
🙏😘
Malcolm Kendrick is very good. I did my own take on statins., another money making pharma scam if ever their was.
https://baldmichael.substack.com/p/statins-are-they-really-good-for?utm_source=publication-search
Is atherosclerosis caused by high cholesterol?
U. Ravnskov QJM: An International Journal of Medicine, Volume 95, Issue 6, June 2002, Pages 397–403, https://doi.org/10.1093/qjmed/95.6.397
Published: 01 June 2002 https://academic.oup.com/qjmed/article/95/6/397/1559536
Cholesterol does not predict degree of atherosclerosis at autopsy
In 1936, Landé and Sperry noted that the degree of aortic atherosclerosis at autopsy of healthy individuals who had died violently, was independent on their blood cholesterol concentration analysed immediately after death.4 Their finding was confirmed by Mathur et al.5 and similar results were obtained by others.6–8 The objection that an analysis of cholesterol after death may not reflect its concentration during life was met by Mathur et al.5 who found that the cholesterol concentration was almost constant up to 16 h after death. Paterson et al.6 bypassed the problem by comparing the degree of atherosclerosis at death with the individuals’ cholesterol measured previously on several occasions. In all these studies, plots of blood cholesterol concentrations vs. the lipid content of the aorta or the coronary arteries were widely scattered.
More recent autopsy studies have found weak or inconsistent correlations between LDL‐cholesterol or total cholesterol and various measures of atherosclerosis.9 For instance, the most severe degree of atherosclerosis was found mainly in individuals with extremely high cholesterol, whereas small differences were seen in the rest.10 A correlation was found in White men, but not in Black men,11 in men but not in women,12 in individuals below, but not above age 80 years,13 and in the coronary arteries, but not in the thoracic or abdominal aorta.
The weak and unpredictable correlations probably reflect bias, because most of the studies were performed on selected individuals. In such large projects, the main object of which was to study risk factors for cardiovascular disease, individuals with such diseases, or with high cholesterol, were preferred for post‐mortem examination,10–15 which means that the proportion of individuals with familial hypercholesterolaemia must have been much larger than in the general population. As such patients have very high cholesterol and are more prone to vascular changes, their inclusion automatically creates a correlation between degree of atherosclerosis and LDL or total cholesterol. Accordingly, it is obvious from a figure in a preliminary report that the correlation disappears if individuals with total cholesterol >350 mg/ml (9 mmol/l) are excluded.16 It is questionable if the vascular changes seen in familial hypercholesterolaemia are synonymous with atherosclerosis.17,18 Therefore, to prove that the concentration of LDL‐cholesterol has importance in the general population, it is necessary to exclude individuals with familial hypercholesterolaemia.
Cholesterol does not correlate with degree of coronary atherosclerosis on angiography
A correlation between the pathological findings seen on coronary angiography and cholesterol has been found in many studies.19 However, the correlation coefficients in these studies were never >0.36 and often much smaller; in some studies no correlation was found.20–23 When present, the correlation found may have been due to bias by the process mentioned above, because coronary angiography is mainly performed on patients with symptomatic coronary disease, and more often on middle‐aged and younger patients. The correlation disappeared in one study after exclusion of patients treated with lipid‐lowering drugs.
Cholesterol does not correlate with degree of coronary calcification
In contrast to conventional angiography, electron beam angiography detects coronary plaques independent of their location in the vessel wall, but only calcified plaques. Degree of coronary calcification seems a good surrogate for degree of coronary atherosclerosis, because it correlates strongly with total plaque volume and obstructive coronary disease, and is a powerful predictor of clinical outcome. Nonetheless, degree of coronary calcification did not correlate with any lipid fraction in the blood.
Cholesterol does not correlate with degree of peripheral atherosclerosis
Many studies have found an association between LDL‐ or total cholesterol and peripheral atherosclerosis, depicted by angiography or ultrasonography, but only in dichotomous analyses, and again, differences have been found mainly between individuals with very high cholesterol concentrations and the rest. In ultrasonographic studies, where degree of carotic atherosclerosis was graded as a continuous variable, no correlation was found with individual LDL‐cholesterol concentrations.26,27 In similar studies using aortic28 and femoral29 angiography, no correlation was found either. Mean femoral intima‐media thickness was evaluated by ultrasonography in patients with familial hypercholesterolaemia and in control individuals with normal cholesterol. Using all observations, a correlation was found (r=0.41), but from a visual judgement of the scatterplot, within each group no clear correlation was present.
Whoo boy, You have some good research going there. On top of all this, I have heard - though maybe untrue - that cholesterol is not a problem. Any type. [shrug]
But here is another support for My choice to avoid the pHRAMa/mediKILL industry as much as possible.
I take two herbs (is coffee an herb?) for My feeling well, one for the pain I suffer from psoriatic arthritis. That ghastly legal/governmafia system calls it illegal, but 50+ years of using cannabis has convinced Me there are no issues.
I do put other herbs into My food, but, though They may help, it's for the flavor! LOL!
Thank You so much for all these data on the Ones who would sell Their snake oil to Us. (Doesn't money motivate awesome things...?)
You heard that cholesterol wasn't a problem? Of course, you heard that from the animal ag industry. They'd rather you took statins but are happy for you to kill yourself eating animal products too.
https://jowaller.substack.com/p/of-course-statins-dont-work-cholesterol?utm_source=publication-search
Well, no, that's not where I heard that. And I am guessing You're vegan. I mean, how insane that We are meant to eat something that has sustained Us for aeons...
Thanks for the chuckle.
Where did you hear it? Yes, people have eaten animals for ages. They’ve also eaten plants for even longer. https://jowaller.substack.com/p/are-humans-more-like-chimps-or-wolves?utm_source=publication-search
Through much research - over 50 years. Where specifically, I cannot recall but it wasn't just one place, and it wasn't any "industry" necessarily.
There is no proof that Humans did not eat meat - and it's interesting that some of the B vitamins must be supplemented to have enough to stay healthy if One is vegan...
Anyway, I'm done. You have a lovely life.
Yeah farmed animals also have to be supplemented with b12- it’s made by bacteria and is found in the soil and water and is destroyed by sanitation. So everyone effectively is taking supplements.
It’s funny that you believe calling someone vegan (ie has compassion for other animals) is a perjorative term.
You didn’t read my post did you. There is clear evidence that some of our recent ancestors ate other animals though we are descended from, and our physiology is adapted to, mainly fruit eaters.
I bet you’re done, you know when you’ve been beaten
I made no claims on “vegan.” I just said I figured You are one. Prickly much?
And no, dear One, I am not “beaten.” I don’t like interacting with prickly People, that’s all.
Anyway, I will block You if You come at Me again.
https://youtu.be/ObVreKJO5JQ?si=QBDKJBTN1IodERwS
Not all people chose a vegan lifestyle.
That is true. But the evidence suggests not doing so is detrimental to health.
🤣🤣🤣
😏
You seem to be doing the type of research that journalists used to do.
The tragedy remains: compliance is as conditioning does, bringing a veritable camel train of murderous baggage. "Germs" are indeed deadly.
The medical 'profession' of clinical algorithm adherents, together with the industrial cartel, and let's not omit "Ai," all these feast off people queuing patiently and even happily, standing in line for the next Rx statin, SSRI, SNRI, Shots of Any Description, anti-biotic, or 'simply' euthanasia.
The politicians have also come to recognise that wallowing in the deep trough of fear driven ill-health brings immense political and growing fiscal power, while the anti-Social manipulators, anti-Intelligence agencies of the Swamp have latched onto the Malthusian and Wealth transfer opportunities afforded by the deep conditioning and installed compliance.
Nonetheless, there seem a few more aware of the amplifying evil these days, with its goals of destitution, delegitimisation, de-population, de-industrialisation, dependency and death that have been nailed, screwed and glued to the mast: The 2030 [UNEP/WHO] Agenda, and its parasitical cousin, the UN Urban Agenda Habitat III.
18 recent studies show high LDL in populations over 60 years of age live longer.
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There are two lab blood markers that will give a more accurate understanding about your overall health than many others.
1. Triglycerides ÷ Hdl. One or less in value is the gold standard. Low Triglycerides and a decent Hdl are what your goal.
2. Fasting insulin levels. One is gold, under 3 is fantastic. The higher the number, the more harm taking place in the endothelial cells of the cardiovascular system. A high value leads to chronic inflammation and the continuous disruption of the endothelial lining of your arteries. This leads to the body laying down ldl as a protective solution which can then build up and become hardened by the body's attempt to stabilize it with calcium. If you have a value of 10 or higher, you are already insulin resistant and will be a full blown diabetic in the future if you do not change your diet and lifestyle drastically.
Overall cholesterol levels are irrelevant concerning cardiovascular disease. There have been numerous studies conducted that prove that the older you get, the more protective higher cholesterol levels are for your health. Those with the lowest overall cholesterol levels had the highest all cause mortality regardless of Hdl. Lower ldl levels in older populations leads to more frequent illness and earlier death. Hdl is only protective to a certain extent and is not the silver bullet it's made out to be.