Neurodegeneration and cholesterol: What is the link?

[Xenos]

A recent study investigated the link between neurodegenerative disease proteins and defective cholesterol metabolism.

The results indicate that faulty cholesterol metabolism is a common feature among people living with neurodegenerative conditions.

The researchers suggest that restoring cholesterol levels may become a beneficial new strategy in the treatment of certain neurodegenerative conditions.

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[Despe]

ΞΕΝΕ,

Cholesterol protects the brain! Yet, doctors prescribe meds to lower cholesterol. I remember reading an article by a medical doctor (don't ask details, don't remember ) that his cholesterol was appr. 300 (Unit?) and wanted it higher.

[Xenos in reply to Despe]

Right you are, ΔΕΣΠΕ. I remember reading about that too.

[Despe in reply to Xenos]

Love your Greek!

[JBOVERT]

MY THOUGHTS ON THIS CHOLESTEROL ISSUE: ITWAS 1985 and I had just moved to St Croix AND I WAS geting my blood work done and the doctor told me that my cholesterol waas high and that he wanted me to take a statin Called MeVACOR and so i did as a concerned patient that did not want to create a future problems for myself and because I HAD TWO UNCLES THAT DIED FROM HEAR ATTACKS one at 37 and the next one at 55.So that when it started and it went on till some time last week when i finally decided that since i was taking 1200 mg of ubiquinal per day and 500 mg sustained release of niacin that i might just back off from taking my 20 mg of Crestor since my cholesterol was at 124 and that here's the back story in 2006-2007 i was at a hormone dr's Ofc in Charlotte, NC snd he after hearing me talk about how tired I was feeling decided that i should go for a cholesterol scoring test which i did and and when i was getting ready to leave the next day i got a phone

call from him saying that I should under no crcumstance leave- until i spoke with him and so when i did he told me that out of a possibe score of zero my score weas 1500!! which meant that my heart was a mess and totally clogged with cholesterol or so i thought..so i had a cardiac interventionist Cath me and he discovered that my proximal circumflex was 85% blocked and that the other major arteries were all in not so good shape then he prescribed

a bunch of meds that made me feel like i was walking around in a jar of honey.. I was living on an island at that time and still am but the fact that he did not want put a stent in really bothered me so i flew back t Charlotte and confronted him and so he did put it in but he did not go all the way with and so in 2009 i was back on the plane and this time going to visit the head of the cardiology dept at Cleveland Clinic in south Florida where he put it in and pushed it over the top of my heart and saved my life! apparently there was just a little bit of blood paassing through this major artery and he was able to get the job done correctly this time and since then i have two more stents installed the third one in the proximal circumflex and the fouth one in my L AD....that was about it or me and so i was compalining to the Cleveland clinic dr about this and asked him about all this cholesterol in my heart and how did it all gert there as you remember i was taking all these statin drugs and he told me that it was not cholesterol but it was HOMOCYSTEINE so all this time i was thinking that im bullet proof cause im taking at the time 40 mg of Crestor which is really I depleting the cholesterol in my BRAIN Hello? So im thinking now theres a reason why i have this damn disease ad so ive stopped taking it ad i going to see whether my numbers go up significantly or what... and since i learned that the great dissolver of homocysteine is cobalamin b12 and folate so I have been taking about 12000 mcg per day of that and 4800 mcg of folate..so now im scheduled to go back up to see the doc at the cleveland clinic on the 23rd of this month and i should find out what the latest is with my heart but in he meantime im trying to get a least a couple of eggs over easy in and i am not worried about cholesterol any more but the new foe is HOMOCYSTEINE..so i will report back after the 23rd of this month and in the meantime i have my blood work to test everything once more before i go..

[Despe in reply to JBOVERT]

I'm so happy for you! Those statins cause memory problems. My husband had a carotid artery stenosis and had a stent placed in his carotid artery.

You are right, cholesterol doesn't damage the heart, HOMOCYSTEIN does. The right combo for lowering homocysteine is is B6, B12, and Folate.

[KERRINGTON]

Ha, I spent 3/4 of my life avoiding cholesterol.