Search results matching tag 'cholesterol'

Scientists are saying we should be eating Healthy Dark Chocolate to promote better health!

xocai-Lady — Thu, 03 Sep 2009 17:56:01 GMT

I've been eating healthy dark chocolate now for nearly 2 years it's no ordinary chocolate though it's called Xocai. I heard it was good for pain/inflammation so I researched it on the internet, I was surprised to find out how good it really was. I've never looked back since I am so glad I was told about it's health benefits. So many people are finding it helps reduce cholesterol and blood pressure etc. Its got more antioxidants in each square than you'd find in a 12lb tomatoes everyone needs to try it before they make their minds up because you could be passing up on so many benefits. http://www.healthyfutures4all.com/Xocai-Dark-Chocolate-Benefits.html

Xocai Antioxidant Chocolate helps with pain Relief

xocai-Lady — Wed, 05 Aug 2009 08:54:06 GMT

I've been trying all sorts of pills and potions for years for migraine and lost a lot of years off my life, I believe in doing so with the amount of pain killers that entered my body each month. I decided I'd had enough Doctors couldn't help figure it out it was in my family genes and I would have to get use to the idea. Well I didn't, and neither did my sister. She came across a product called Xocai, its a healthy unprocessed chocolate with added acai berry for sweetness no other fillers or waxes. 3 square are equivelant to 12lbs of Tomatoes. Well she found out after trying it for several months that here migraines began to deminish, until none at all. Well she told me and I asked her to send them me I tried them myself and couldn't believe how much more energy I started to have. The first couple of times I did have a migraine but I took the chocolate and what it did was stop the sickeness I usually have and the migraine didn't last as long. I was flabbergasted. Its been 16 months now and I will continue taking the chocolate because my migraines are now a thing of the past and I have told my Doctor who is also now interested.

If it sounds to good to be true, well all I can say is sometimes we don't have to try and invent the wheel the solution is sometimes starring us in the face all the time. You just have to give it a chance. I have even found since that it helps relieve cramp and thats another plus for me as I suffered with polio as a child and I needed something I could rely on and this was it, so its my little miracle saver and I hope you find my post of help thank you for listening.

My blog: http://chocolatebenefits.blogspot.com

Thank you again

The heart's a lonely hunter

bshubbard — Tue, 30 Jun 2009 09:24:00 GMT

Medicine likes to trumpet its treatment of heart disease because it is possibly the only degenerative disease where the numbers of fatalities are falling. However, the self-congratulation is premature. Heart disease remains the number-one killer in the West, still dispatching some 40 per cent of us.

As WDDTY publisher Bryan Hubbard noted in this month’s cover story (July 2009), every 37 seconds in the US alone, someone’s heart fatally packs up. So, in our special report this month, we’ve taken a closer look at medicine’s treatment of heart disease to discern where exactly medicine is going wrong. What we found was nothing short of revelatory: in fingering cholesterol as the bad guy, medicine essentially is taking aim at the cavalry.

Far from being the enemy, cholesterol appears to be the body’s chief means of eleventh-hour cardiovascular repair. To my mind, heart disease is chiefly a disease of emotional pain. The famous American heart specialist Dr Dean Ornish discovered that smoking, obesity, sedentary lifestyle and high-fat diet only accounted for half of all heart disease.
No one risk factor appears to be more important than isolation—from other people, from our own feelings and from a higher source.

In a study of nearly 20,000 people observed for up to nine years, those who were lonely and isolated were two to three times more likely to die from heart disease and other causes than those who felt connected to others. The results were independent of risk factors such as high cholesterol, high blood pressure and smoking (Am J Epidemiol, 1988; 128: 370–80). Lately, scientists have been studying a phenomenon called ‘broken-heart syndrome’, where an emotional upset, such as the loss of a loved one, causes dysfunction of the left ventricle (the heart’s main pumping chamber). In one study, researchers at Johns Hopkins found that women with the syndrome, which often leads to heart failure, had none of the usual predisposing factors for heart disease. Indeed, bereavement and sadness had caused such high levels of stress hormones, particularly adrenaline, that they had ‘stunned’ the heart, literally causing it to break (N Engl J Med, 2005; 352: 539–48).

The role of social ties in heart disease were highlighted in the heart-attack statistics in Nevada vs Utah. As neighbouring states, their ethnic mix is similar and they both have similarly high education statistics, although Nevada is the more successful state, with 15- to 20-per-cent higher incomes. Nevertheless, their statistics on mortality from heart attack were on opposite ends of the spectrum. Nevada had one of the highest death rates in the country, while Utah was among the lowest.

The primary difference between the two states was the stability of the social structure and close-knit families in predominantly Morman Utah, compared with the high degree of broken and dysfunctional family life in Nevada. It was the weakening of the social fabric, concluded the researchers, that had the biggest influence on the difference in mortality (Fuchs V. Who Shall Live? New York: Basic Books, 1975).

In some native populations, heart disease is a rarity even when the inhabitants adopt Western diets. For instance, a group of researchers studying the native populations of the Solomon Islands found that they had no coronary heart disease or high blood pressure even after they’d adopted Western diets and religious practices. This puzzled the researchers until they discovered one area that had remained constant: the social ties and roles within the family (Circulation, 1974; 49: 1132–46).

So, rather than worrying about your cholesterol levels, your doctor should be more concerned about the most important diagnostic test of all: the state of your friendships.

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Re: newly diagnosed Type 2 diabetes

buddhistbear — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:36:23 GMT

There is a herbal tea called Ku Dan that I know from my friend's tea shop (Specialtea.ca) in Montreal,Canada which is being successfully used by 2 others friends of mine to regulate their glucose levels. Usage is as simple as drinking the infusion at least twice a day preferably right after meals.

This herbal tea appears to have a triple effect: lowering of blood glucose, lowering blood cholesterol and lowering blood pressure.

This is no replacement solution to exercise and proper diet, of course, but can be an excellent addition to a balanced program to increase efficiency and perhaps add some extra margin against 'mishaps' and accidents.

I believe medication should always be considered a temporary patch solution.

Good luck

keep me posted if you decide to try it...

Pierre M.

Montreal , Canada

Re: Statin Alternative Needed Urgently.

rbentley — Tue, 06 Jan 2009 23:19:36 GMT

Hi Adelaide

An effective alternative that I have used can be found at http://new-zealand.xtend-life.com/product/Cholest-Natural.aspx It is comprehensive and all natural, and has a good track record. The site gives plenty of detail about its constituents, and also excellent background information on cholesterol.

Well worth a look!

Regards

Richard

Re: Statin Alternative Needed Urgently.

morsagmon — Tue, 16 Dec 2008 13:37:37 GMT

Adelaide,

There's usually one root cause for high cholesterol level, high blood level, obesity, heart and blood vessels disease.

I'd like to suggest you the following dietary regime. You can try it for 1 month, and see the results. I trust this is the sustainable solution to maintain health with regard to the above mentioned list of illness, and also reduces stress in general on your body.

Strike out of your diet: flour (any pastry, bread, pasta...), potatoes and rice. Try to avoid sugar as much as you can.

Your CAN eat, however: sweet potatoes, occasional wild rice, buckwheat.

Also, you can eat red meat, fish, sea food and such, as well as other non-mentioned foods here.

Try to have your food as organic as possible.

This will not take a toll on you once you get used to it, but will significantly promote your health on the long run and most probably lower your cholesterol levels.

If you're taking any drugs currently to maintain your cholesterol level - cautiously apply the diet with your doctor supervision, as gradual reducing your medications may be required as you progress. Also, if you're above 40 or so, adopt this diet gradually over a period of 7-14 days.

Good luck!

Mor Sagmon

Re: Can statins cause permanent damage?

mmlevy — Mon, 06 Oct 2008 13:37:47 GMT

It seems statins may cause permanent damage, especially to the nervoous system. please access Dr. Duane Graveline's web site, www.spacedoc.net to read about statin adverse effects. The forum features self reported symptoms and diseases the participants attribute to statin therapy. Dr. Graveline is an MD, has a Masters in Public Health and is a NASA trained astronaut who suffered 2 episodes of transient global amnesia which he finally attributed to Lipitor therapy.

http://www.pubmedcentral.nih.gov/articlerender.fcgi?artid=1906875

Lower low density lipid cholesterol levels are associated with Parkinson’s disease

Xuemei Huang, MD, PhD,¹ Honglei Chen

New York, NY - Data analyzed by the World Health Organization (WHO), according to the Wall Street Journal, have identified an association between those taking the cholesterol-lowering drugs and the risk of amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), also known as Lou Gehrig's disease, but experts are not convinced yet that the risk is real [1].Xuemei Huang, MD, UNC Chapel Hill, has proposed a study to include 1600 patients to determine if statins are associated with Parkinson's disease after discovering low LDL was positively associated with Parkinson's. http://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/60876.php
Dr. Ralph Edwards, director of drug monitoring for the World Health Organization uncovered a statistically high # of ALS like syndrome cases among individuals who take statins and strongly advocated further testing to determine if there exists such an association. http://www.medscape.com/viewarticle/559283
Statins also interrupt the pathway to production of selenoproteins (numbering 35 @ poresent), thus interfering with the function of selinium within one's body.Included in the MANY functions of selenium, is that of an antioxidant for the brain. (oxidative streee is theorized to be a part of the major neuro diseases)
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140673604157395/abstract
The Lancet 2004; 363:892-894

DOI:10.1016/S0140-6736(04)15739-5
Hypothesis

Selenoprotein synthesis and side-effects of statins

Bernd Moosmann PhD a and Christian Behl PhD

Summary
Statins are possibly the most effective drugs for the prevention and treatment of hypercholesterolaemia and coronary heart disease. They are generally well tolerated, however, they do cause some unusual side-effects with potentially severe consequences, most prominently myopathy or rhabdomyolysis and polyneuropathy. We noted that the pattern of side-effects associated with statins resembles the pathology of selenium deficiency, and postulated that the mechanism lay in a well established, but often overlooked, biochemical pathway—the isopentenylation of selenocysteine-tRNA[Ser]Sec. A negative effect of statins on selenoprotein synthesis does seem to explain many of the enigmatic effects and side-effects of statins, in particular, statin-induced myopathy.
Just to give the other side of the argument.....remember ALL drugs have UNWANTED side effects....In order to weigh the risks/benefits of a drug, one MUST have the full profile of that drug.

Why it's wrong to take a statin a day

bshubbard — Fri, 03 Aug 2007 11:29:00 GMT

Take a statin a day if you're male and over 50, a health expert has told us this week. Prof Robert Boyle, the UK's adviser on heart and stroke health, reckons the drug should be taken along with the morning Corn Flakes in order to keep in check high cholesterol levels.

He's right to be concerned: heart disease and stroke is the major killer in the West. But he's wrong about the remedy.

Statins such as Zocor, Zocord and Lipitor do indeed reduce levels of the 'bad' LDL cholesterol, but scientists are beginning to see cholesterol as the big red herring of modern medicine. At best, a high cholesterol level seems to be nothing more than a marker of a heart problem, not the cause of one.

Even if you don't buy that, there are more effective ways of keeping cholesterol levels down, such as through exercise and diet, and without the need for drug dependency. Statins are also not quite as safe as everyone at first believed. A recent report has found that they can increase the chance of cancer, but more common effects include liver toxicity and hepatitis, inflammation and pain in the muscles, blurred vision, headache, nausea and skin rash.

The truth is that medicine still doesn't fully understand the subtle and complex mechanisms of heart health, and the role that cholesterol plays. Until we do, use statins only with caution, and certainly not every day with the Corn Flakes.

And, while you're about it, drop the Corn Flakes too and try some fruit instead.