Low cholesterol is generally a bad thing because greater than 20% molecular cholesterol is vital to normal functioning of cell membranes
Low cholesterol is associated with increased stroke severity and poorer functional outcome
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Not listening to the patients – then maybe they should read the patents!
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Something went badly wrong and the error is still being propagated in medical schools today. Last year I met a medical student who was taught that Dr Ancel Keys paper was actually correct – in spite of decades of research … Continue reading
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Clinical and public health recommendations regarding the ‘dangers’ of cholesterol should be revised. This is especially true for women, for whom moderately elevated cholesterol (by current standards) may prove to be not only harmless but even beneficial.
Is the use of cholesterol in mortality risk algorithms in clinical guidelines valid?
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to wake up at the controls of an aircraft would be a disaster for some pilot whose TGA retrograded him to a time before he even flew his first solo.
Duane Graveline MD MPH
Former USAF Flight Surgeon
Former NASA Astronaut
Retired Family Doctor
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Cells use cholesterol to inhibit cation leakage through the membrane
bilayers. This is a really important paper. Click on the image to read it!
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Lipid droplets are the vital transport. If lipids levels rise abnormally in the blood plasma, it is due to sugar-damage to the protein of the Apo labels. This prevents the lipids being recognised by the organ receptors. Organs become fat starved and we are then asked to stop eating fats and reduce cholesterol levels.
What kind of biochemical ignorance has engulfed the medical profession?
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Not Good Not Bad – Just a vital 20% of all molecules in a healthy cell membrane.
Reduce cholesterol levels and the cells will fail.
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…statin use was substantially higher in patients with type 2 diabetes and was associated with AR cataracts.
Associative evidence but may relate to sugar-damaged proteins. Glycation (AGE & RAGE) responses.
Age-related cataract is associated with type 2 diabetes and statin use.
Liz & Glyn Wainwright 