by winston » Fri Jun 24, 2016 8:11 am
Be careful of Statins
For years it's been the most sacred cow in mainstream medicine.
If you don't have basement-low cholesterol numbers, you're practically a heart attack waiting to happen.
But now a new international study is throwing all that out the window.
Researchers have proven that seniors with high cholesterol are outliving their peers -- and it's not even close. It's a bombshell that has Big Pharma and the rest of the mainstream statins-pushers shaking in their boots.
And it's all based on one big secret about cholesterol that millions of patients are never being told about.
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The cholesterol myth
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If you want an 80 percent chance of living longer -- and blowing out more candles on that birthday cake -- it's time to ditch the statins, pronto.
That's what Dr. Uffe Ravnskov and his research team found when they crunched the data for 19 studies that included over 68,000 seniors.
In a nutshell, they discovered that those with the highest LDL cholesterol (supposedly the "bad" kind) were 80 percent more likely to outlive those with lower numbers.
On top of that, the researchers dared to suggest that maybe, just maybe, we should re-evaluate "guidelines recommending pharmacological reduction of LDL-C in the elderly."
Translation: There are millions of people taking statins now who shouldn't be.
Yeah, you think?
Well, trust me, the ink wasn't even dry on this study before the mainstream cholesterol crew had their knives out. They were looking for any... and I mean any...flaw they could find.
They even tried to claim that some of these high-cholesterol folks were probably taking statins.
Right -- so why was their cholesterol still so high? Can you believe it? These guys would rather argue that the statins weren't working properly than acknowledge you shouldn't be taking them.
What nonsense. That's the kind of delusional thinking that mainstreamers twist when they're trying to keep the wolves away from their statin cash cow.
The fact is, not all LDL cholesterol is the same, and it's not all harmful. And that's a secret that's been kept away from lots of statins patients.
There's a big difference between small LDL and large LDL. And most large cholesterol studies (maybe all of them) have never measured the two types of LDL.
Instead, it all just gets lumped into one category that's come to be known as The Bad Cholesterol.
This issue is an important one because small LDL really is bad. It's not only small, it's also dense, and it responds to inflammation and oxidation by laying down excess plaque on artery walls.
Large LDL on the other hand, is often called fluffy because it floats along through your bloodstream and does no harm. To just say "LDL does this" or "LDL does that" without breaking it down into small and large varieties misses the way that LDL might or might not be doing harm.
But there is a way you can alter your diet to stack your LDL on the fluffy side and reduce the deadly, dense variety. And you don't have to pop a single pill.
Ditch any foods containing partially hydrogenated oils, and make sure you're getting plenty of high quality saturated fats (like coconut oil), while avoiding simple carbs and fake sweeteners such as HFCS.
That's right, saturated fats actually promote healthy, large, fluffy LDL.
Now, tell that to the mainstream, stand back and watch their heads explode. Again.
Source: HSI
It's all about "how much you made when you were right" & "how little you lost when you were wrong"