Why have I high cholesterol?

[Tibblington]

Have you asked yourself why you have high cholesterol?

As a retired life-long engineer there was one word ever present in my vocabulary and that word I was taught is, and was “why”. When your car consistently gives you trouble and you take it to the garage the technician doesn’t open the fuel cap and tip in a bottle of secret liquid and say there you are it should be O.K. now, no, the first word in his mind is, why. Why is this fault occurring? But does your doctor say why is this patient ill? I suspect hardly ever. Instead he will look straight away for a remedy, a quick fix! He thinks back to a paper he has read or a report on T.V. where he had heard about a wonder drug that will fix anything health-wise. He doesn’t stop to think about the source of the information he is thinking about.

I want it known that nothing I say here is my opinion but everything quoted has come from well establish members of the medical profession.

What is cholesterol? It is a product that is made in the liver and is a natural product in every cell of the body; it is important to the body function. One of the functions is a repair mechanism that goes immediately to a place of injury. Inflammation is an injury to the body not readily recognised. At this point I refer to a well respected heart surgeon with over twenty-five years of experience; read the text of his revealing lecture given to a group of medical students. There is nobody better to explain this subject. Go to : healthscams.org.uk/heart-su...

If you have the courage ask your doctor where he got his guidance on the prescribing of Statin drugs, in all probability it will be closely linked to Big Pharma. Papers are written by someone employed specially within Big Pharma and then signed off by a willing member of the medical profession. There is documentary evidence of this.

There is a book entitled “The Great Cholesterol Con” by Dr.Malcolm Kendrick, I recommend to everyone. Furthermore the highly respected Harley Street cardiologist, Dr. Aseem Malhotra does not recommend Statin drugs. He even said during an interview on T.V., that 80% of drugs produced by “big pharma” aren’t effective.

Now have you now asked yourself the question? Why am I ill or am I really ill?

[Jack2019]

I agree 100% with your opinion. I came to the conclusion through my own journey that the medical community has done a very good job of convincing the world that every adult has a disease of too much ldl cholesterol. In their own literature if you read what is actually being claimed you are being told that along with diet and exercise it is suggested that lowering your cholesterol MAY reduce risk. They can never say what your risk is, risk is an association, it is a guess at best. It also says in the literature, on all the ldl reducing drugs, that lowering your ldl with a statin has not been PROVEN to prevent heart attack. The only claim they make is statins reduce your Ldl, and they do. I choose to believe I no not have a disease of too much Ldl.

[Tibblington in reply to Jack2019]

I would just like to make the point that what I wrote was NOT my opinion but that of established, recognised experts on the subject. Cholesterol has been a real money spinner for the hard-up pharmaceutical industry . Cholesterol is not a problem, the body has it and uses it as required. If the level is too high then you need to find out why, not reduce it. When you have found the reason the level will go down quite naturally without any intervention with a drug..

The pharmaceutical industry has a responsibility to its shareholders not to you for your health. Always follow the money! A comment from Dr. Aseem Malhotra,Harley Street Cardiologist. Look at more recent interventions by big pharma.

[sandybrown]

Thank you for your input.

[CDreamer]

Your views more or less mirror my own and the follow up book - The Clot Thickens by Dr Malcom McKendrick is also worth a read as he describes the mechanisms and causes here.

It’s a no to statins for me. Thank you for highlighting the issue as if you don’t have a science based background it seems many tend to swallow whole what the doctor says without questioning which seems extra ordinary to me as there is no desire for knowledge and understanding.

[Tibblington in reply to CDreamer]

See my reply to Jack, "NOT my views". McKendrick's books are excellent.

[sluggerpk]

Chloresterol can be brought down naturally by Healthy Eating and Exercise and I know that as a fact because I brought mine down that way.

[Tibblington in reply to sluggerpk]

Well done! Do check out your sugar intake too.

[sylsherbs]

my recent cholesterol has risen to 217. My dr started me on Atorvastatin 10mg since I also am diabetic a1c 6.5..