Lipid Hypothesis -Myth?

[Bubblingbrooks]

DO not respond unless you read the article

http://www.cholesterol-and-health.com/Does-Cholesterol-Cause-Heart-Disease-Myth.html

I would love to hear your responses.

 

[freemotion]

Sorry, no brain power to read it thoroughly tonight, but THANK YOU for posting this link! Wow, I love it and am saving it to my favorites. I skimmed it, and YES, it rounds out all those lectures I've attended and the docs I've listened to at dinner talking about inflammation, inflammation, inflammation....c-reactive protein.... and oxidized cholesterol, not cholesterol numbers. I agree!!!! What a great article!

 

[Wifezilla]

The lypid hypothesis is complete garbage.

That is without reading the article based on much research.

Ok...read the article. I am familiar with a lot of the references. Blood lipids, particularly VLDL are an issue. What causes high VLDL? A diet high in carbohydrates, refined foods, and high fructose corn syrup.

 

[Mackay]

Very nice article. I just happened to be up half the night last night reading the link it gave to Activator X and vitamin K so I don't think I am up for chewing on this one yet. Maybe another sleepless night. A renewed perspective on vitamin K may broaden your perspecitve and the link is in your article.

Many things cause high cholesterol, and I agree with the article that many things cause heart disease, vascular disease. Each person needs to be figured out individually. I do think that excessively high cholesterols can be a problem but not the cause of the problem but only one link in a chain of problems. by excessive I mean over 300 with poor ratios between the various components of cholesterol.

Liver function should be taken into account. The liver actually makes most of the cholesterol so if your liver is not well you can have too much. Modifying diet is not really the answer. Getting the liver healthy is for some people, which of course may include removing excesses from the diet, but may also include liver cleanses as well as going after subclinical pathogens.

Always a good diet is a part of the answer, without abuses of alcholol and tobacco in excesses. But one should look at negative emotions also like anger, jealousy, rage, depression.

 

[valmom]

Interesting article- thanks. Stress! How to decrease stress in our lifestyle?

 

[Bubblingbrooks]

Its really cool stuff, is it not?
Its hard to find the whole thing laid out so well in one place.
Many would prefer that we not know that the hypothesis was a manipulated myth.

 

[Wifezilla]

Ancel Keys did do some brilliant research (Minnesota Starvation Study). It's a shame his fraudulent 7 nations study is what everyone knows and thinks is true.