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    The Cholesterol Myth: Is Your Cholesterol Lowering Drug a Lifesaver or Hype?
    The Cholesterol Myth: Is Your Cholesterol Lowering Drug a Lifesaver or Hype?
    The Cholesterol Myth: Is Your Cholesterol Lowering Drug a Lifesaver or Hype?
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    The Cholesterol Myth: Is Your Cholesterol Lowering Drug a Lifesaver or Hype?

    By James Bogash, DC

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    I have been publishing posts related to cholesterol for many years. This book is a compilation of blog posts done over the years in a organized format with some additional commentary to help make the information clearer.

    Many of the topics discussed in this book may be new to you and may never have been brought up by your personal physician. Unfortunately, there is a veritable chasm between the medical research and what primary care doctors and cardiologists seem to share with their patients.

    The "standard" recommendations are usually decades behind the research I will be sharing with you. This is why every single comment is backed up by supporting medical research.

    It is my hope that the concepts and ideas given in this book are going to help your understanding of your condition as well as help in improving your health as it relates to preventing and managing your cholesterol.

    In this book, you are going to learn:

    1. What causes high cholesterol levels?
    2. What diseases will increase cholesterol levels?
    3. Can lifestyle changes truly lower cholesterol levels?
    4. Are drugs that lower cholesterol harmful or beneficial?

    Happy reading!

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherJames Bogash, DC
    Release dateJan 30, 2013
    ISBN9781301448562
    The Cholesterol Myth: Is Your Cholesterol Lowering Drug a Lifesaver or Hype?
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    James Bogash, DC

    Since acquiring a passion for how the body works in chiropractic school, I have continued to indulge this desire by reading some 120 peer reviewed medical journals per month. I'm always learning more about how to help people avoid chronic diseases like diabetes, heart disease, dementia, osteoporosis, obesity and cancer, and pass along this information in my blog. There are currently almost 2,000 posts cataloged on almost every health topic imaginable! For some reason, the information that we understand about avoid and managing chronic diseases remains a big secret. Drugs dominate and lifestyle is pushed to the side. Time after time I have new patients come into my office that have not been given the information they need to get or stay healthy. This blog has always served as therapy for me, allowing me to share with the world this hidden information. Hence the name "Rantings…"

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      The Cholesterol Myth - James Bogash, DC

      CHAPTER 1: CAUSES OF HIGH CHOLESTEROL LEVEL

      This chapter will review the medical evidence about the cholesterol story. Does measuring total cholesterol really relate to our risk of having a heart attack or stroke? Because really, that is what it is all about, right? We could all care less what our cholesterol is—what we do NOT want is to suffer a heart attack or stroke. We have been led to believe that checking cholesterol can predict whether or not this will happen to us. Higher levels = greater risk, right?

      CHAPTER 2: EFFECTIVENESS AND SIDE EFFECTS OF DRUGS TO LOWER CHOLESTEROL

      We have become a society that puts the class of drugs designed to lower cholesterol (called statins) on a virtual pedestal. They are a near knee-jerk reaction for any doctor trying to lower his or her patient's risk of developing heart disease. But have we been duped? Is this class really as good as doctors seem to think it is at protecting the heart? And what about side effects? How bad are they?

      CHAPTER 3: LIFESTYLE FOR CONTROLLING CHOLESTEROL

      While the commercials would have you believe that oftentimes, Diet and exercise just aren't enough, this is absolutely not true. The reality is that few physicians have the full depth of understanding of what drives cholesterol levels to give the best advice to their patients. The dietary advice is usually wrong or inadequate and the exercise recommendations are not the correct ones to lower cholesterol.

      Overall, it is only in the very rare situations when diet and lifestyle is not enough. At this point, however, I doubt medication is the answer. Rather, maybe that person's cholesterol is supposed to be right where it is...

      CHAPTER 4: SUPPLEMENTS AND CHOLESTEROL

      Lifestyle is the only correct way to lower cholesterol and we have covered tools to begin to make the needed changes in the last chapter. However, there are times when supplements may be used to assist with your lifestyle or to increase the effectiveness and the protection that your body gets from your diet. While the list is long, we will cover some of them here.

      CHAPTER 1: CAUSES OF HIGH CHOLESTEROL LEVEL

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      Does Total Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease?

      In this first section, we'll examine the evidence or lack of evidence linking the measurement of total cholesterol to your risk of heart disease or stroke. Remember that healthy total cholesterol should generally be under 200.

      Dietary Cholesterol Has Little Effect on Ratios
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      While Dr. Ornish may disagree (and actually-his program was much, much more than just a low-cholesterol diet), I’ve never been all that concerned with dietary cholesterol. It’s not as simple as more dietary cholesterol = higher blood cholesterol. In many cases, it’s endogenous production driving by high insulin levels that’s more important. But physicians still demonize high cholesterol foods that are good for us. Avocados. Eggs (especially the high omega-3 type). This study supports the fact that dietary cholesterol is not as closely tied to cardiovascular risk as many would think.

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      Dietary cholesterol enters the system gradually

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      This is truly an insightful article that may help us better understand how the food we take in can affect our overall health days after we eat. These researchers determined that, when the participants ate cholesterol, it took up to 48 hours for that cholesterol to show up in the bloodstream. Each successive meal pushed the cholesterol from the original meal into the bloodstream. This study shows that dietary constituents do not always show up directly in the bloodstream. Too many times mainstream medicine does not look beyond the most immediate meal.

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