Cholesterol IV is a treatment?
How crazy does it get? They have been telling us (quite wrongly) that cholesterol is a problem and causes heart attacks. Now, they are giving cholesterol IV, as a treatment!
This is how crazy “science” is. It flip flops remarkably every decade or so; usually not more than a quarter of a century, as I pointed out in my book “Virtual Medicine”.
Now brave pioneers have tried giving an IV infusion of “good” HDL cholesterol and found it rapidly removes cholesterol out of plaque-clogged arteries following a heart attack.
The study was small but the possibility is clear.
Of course cholesterol has NEVER been a problem. We need cholesterol, our liver makes far more of it than we could ever eat. Cholesterol is the basis many hormones, such as testosterone, estrogen, progesterone and cortisol.
The only health problem is oxidized cholesterol (hence the power of anti-oxidants to prevent heart disease). Once it goes rancid, cholesterol is pro-inflammatory and gets deposited in the walls of arteries, where it causes trouble.
But to blame cholesterol for a heart attack is like saying we should never use iron and steel, because sometimes it rusts. Duh!
The aim of this study was to try and reduce the high risk of a second heart attack in people who have had a heart attack. In the year after a heart attack, about 12% of people have a second heart attack or stroke.
Standard heart attack medications, such as aspirin and anti-clotting drugs, are aimed at preventing clotting. Of course they don’t address the real causes: diet, exercise, stress and other lifestyle issues!
Researchers infused a form of “good” cholesterol (HDL) and they found that cholesterol removal from cells rose 164%. There were no serious side effects.
In contrast, niacin, the vaunted “natural remedy” is only able to remove about 3% of plaque over the first 4 weeks.
So much for statins! And notice you are reading the death of a myth!
[The findings were presented here at the American Heart Association’s Scientific Sessions, Los Angeles, Nov. 3-7, 2012]
My 88 year old diabetic sister has been prescribed a statin drug. What nonsense is that?
I do wonder if the drug was prescribed BEFORE she developed diabetes.
Her faith in doctors is much stronger than mine so I did not question her.
That is so exciting to read! Here we are essentially observing the law of mass action or Le Chatelier’s Principle to take place by adding too much of a “good” thing to our blood stream and allowing a shift in dynamic equilibrium to take place while the plaque is being removed in the process. What’s really important I think to recognize from this simple but great illustration of mass action is that there must be many other biochemical or even physical processes that occur within our bodies and our cells in which the law of mass action can also be applied to obtain a far better result than by utilizing a drug with undesirable and unpredictable side effects. The results of this lab experiment really makes me think and perhaps can be the beginning and launching of a whole new field or application of medicine and physiology. By applying the law of mass action to a number of physiological imbalances, one with knowledge in the field can perhaps easily correct a given pathological condition by adding too much of a specific chemical component to forcefully shift the temporary nonequilibrium state back to equilibrium while removing the toxic agent in play from the body or just by temporarily getting the body back to a “normal” state so that the body learns to remain there.
I agree with Mike’s analysis of the situation: mass action replacement.
· Use healthy fats to replace oxidized and/or trans- fats.
· Use healthy HDL cholesterol from organic egg yolks to replenish our oxidized cholesterol.
· Use a selenium supplement to counteract the antagonistic effect of arsenic in selenium-based enzyme production.