“Honey, call the doctor...
......it’s lasting more than 4 hours!!!”
First off, a big congratulations to everyone who has let me know about their successes. Thanks tremendously for your info. But mostly for your health-gains for finding how detrimental statins can be and how beneficial a paleo-type diet can be. And it’s not just smoke and mirrors....those improvements can be backed up with blood tests and the biomarkers associated with heart disease, diabetes, and your basic weight-scale readouts!!! BOOYA!!! “My pants are looser!”
That’s downright “winner-winner chicken dinner”!
(stay with me Luke Skywalker, and I’ll tell you how to increase HDL-cholesterol at the end of this post without going over to the Dark Side of Statins!)
Statins are NOT who they say they are....imposters....pleiotropes...fakes...a real “mountebank” in a sense. Their effects (I won’t call them “benefits”) act as unrelated to the “cause célèbre”. The mantra of medicine:
Reduce all cholesterol to the lowest possible level
....like cholesterol is some kind of demon or something...NOT!!!
They act by reducing inflammation in the body....not by reducing LDL-cholesterol...LDL-c is not the culprit in your clogged arteries...nor is cholesterol. It’s the damage inside your arteries from poor/wrong nutrition and poor/wrong exercise that instigates the endothelial damage, and a plaque forms. Statins reduce compounds called prostaglandins, thromboxanes, and Cox-2 receptors....blah, blah, blah....
It’s not the economy stupid...it’s the inflammation Einstein!
Also, statins have immunomodulatory properties that affect how your immune system reacts to the damaged endothelium:
http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/j.1538-7836.2005.01211.x/full
The inflammation starts the process of platelet activation, monocyte adhesion, macrophage attraction (white cells) and smooth muscle migration (a scab on the inside of your arteries), key elements in an inflammatory reaction, anywhere in the body.
Statins are NOT wonder drugs....especially if you have never had a heart attack nor been diagnosed with heart disease. That’s called primary care treatment. And a statin drug has been taken off the market when it killed 52 people and injured 385 individuals from rhabdomyolysis.
No studies exist showing the benefits of statins in primary care in the reduction of heart disease:
And inflammation is a huge instigator of diseases in the body. Many modern diseases of civilization are “caused” by inflammation:
-Alzheimers, heart disease, arthritis, diabetes, cancer, autoimmune diseases, aging, and aging skin
-Musculoskeletal disorders such as shoulder tendinitis, bursitis, gouty arthritis, polymyalgia rheumatica
-strokes, vascular disorders, deep vein thrombosis
“....is this lasting more than 4 hours????”
Yes, in a sense of a pervasive, omnipotent, ubiquitous, and widespread effect. It underlies my claim of a “unified field” explanation of disease. One basic cause....many diseases.
Cure the cause = Cure the disease
....no colored ribbons for my advice
Get it yet? It’s that easy, and should be that clear. You don’t have a statin deficiency??? in order to “normalize” your cholesterol. You don’t need statins to save your life/heart/coronary vessels. You need the right food and the right exercise.
(....this IS lasting more than 4 hours, and it’s stating to hurt!!! I’ve got to get this finished and get to the point...I have the attention span of an ant!)
Paleo Nutrition and Lifestyle
Food from the original paleo human diet will be:
-Meat, fish, chicken, turkey, lamb, pork, bison, all organs of these animals, any animal land, sea, and air!
-Vegetables and fruits from the earth....(I’m trying to shorten things up Buttercup!)
-Nuts....no, not peanuts for Pete’s Sake!!! They are legumes...beans! (what’s that smell???)
-Fats....butter, lard, tallow, coconut, palm oil, olive oil...you use these to cook your veggies!
-Spices....from A to Y.....Allspice to Yarrow....can’t think of a spice that begins with the letter Z
Exercise from the original paleo lifestyle:
I only recommend once to maybe twice a week hard, intense exercise. That means, lifting weights, sprints, body weight all out exercises. This lasts 30-45 minutes and it’s a 100% effort to exhaustion. Nothing is left on the table....total and complete effort.
Welcome to the NFL, Rookie!
This is imitating the hunter gatherer that is genetically anointed in all of us. “It’s your destiny Luke!” We are not supposed to exercise like everyone thinks....countless hours spent every week on the stair master, bike, running, pounding the pavement and destroying our joints, tendons, ligaments, and muscles....no wonder it hurts! Hunter gatherers did intense hunting for part of a day, then the rest of the week, they lounged and gorged on the animal kill. The other days they walked around for miles, gathering veggies, fruits, nuts, and firewood....and probably swung through the trees on vines...and played with Cheeta the Chimp!
Your body needs upwards of 7-10 days of recovery, prior to the next workout in order to perform again:
Try this paleo workout lifestyle and see how much more energy you have and how the chronic aches and pains go away. Do your once/twice a week high intensity workout for only 45 mins, and then go home to eat meat, veggies, and fat...with some fruit for desert.
Oh, yea...almost forgot...(statins do cause amnesia, and forgetfulness btw!!!) You can raise HDL-cholesterol by a few tricks I know:
1. exercise (just like I told you above)
2. quit smoking...that includes cigars
modest alcohol (MODEST = less than 2 glasses/day) skip the beer...
niacin (a vitamin...B3) at 1-2 grams/day.
stop eating those nasty, vile, disgusting, empty calorie grains!!!
Now, these next few I cannot recommend...I cannot give you this kind of advice over the internet....DO NOT START/STOP ANY OF THESE WITHOUT SPEAKING TO YOUR DOCTOR...I AM NOT RECOMMENDING YOU ALTER YOUR DOSE OF ANY OF THESE WITHOUT SEEKING THE ADVICE OF YOUR PHYSICIAN!!!
Beta blockers lower HDL-c (Talk to your physician)
Androgens (testosterone) lower HDL-c (Talk to your physician)
Gemfibrozil (it’s a fibrate...and a prescription drug) and it raises HDL-c (Talk to your physician)
Ok....that’s all for today....it HAS lasted for more than 4 hours, and I’m going to get something to eat:
Salad, lots of veggies, with a half a chicken, lots of olive oil, spices, and nuts for desert!
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As Always....Healthful Regards,
Dr. John
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