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The Real Cause of Heart Disease and The Cholesterol Myth

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<div style="border: 0px; line-height: 19.59375px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is the cause of heart disease? For the past decades the dogma has been that saturated fat and cholesterol are the culprits. But a growing number realize that this outdated idea has been a mistake.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 19.59375px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img src="https://d3hgnfpzeohxco.cloudfront.net/images/ar/97815923/9781592335213/0/0/plain/the-great-cholesterol-myth-why-lowering-your-cholesterol-wont-prevent-heart-disease-and-the-statin-free-plan-that-will.jpg" /></span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 19.59375px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yesterday Australia’s foremost science television show, <em style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">Catalyst</em>, broadcasted an episode on the subject (video clip above). There are many physicians and experts interviewed in the show, and the majority believes that the over-simplified cholesterol theory is simply wrong.</span></div><br />
<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><iframe allowfullscreen="allowfullscreen" frameborder="0" height="266" mozallowfullscreen="mozallowfullscreen" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/rDVf-00w5gk?feature=player_embedded" webkitallowfullscreen="webkitallowfullscreen" width="320"></iframe></span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 19.59375px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 19.59375px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The real cause of heart disease? Inflammation in the artery walls. This may have many causes, but the amount of saturated fat you consume is not one of them. Here are some more probable contributing factors:</span></div><ul style="border: 0px; line-height: 19.59375px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">stress on the artery wall due to high blood pressure</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">high blood sugar levels that damage the cells inside the artery</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">small, dense, oxidized LDL particles that may irritate the artery wall and/or get in between the cells in the wall</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">smoking, which introduces substances to the blood that irritates the arteries</span></li>
</ul><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 19.59375px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">The three first factors are exacerbated by too much sugar and starch in the diet.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 19.59375px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; line-height: 19.59375px;">In addition to the above: stress. Stress exacerbates all the problems mentioned above – it raises blood pressure, increases blood sugar, worsens blood lipid profile and increases the tendency to adopt bad habits, such as smoking.</span><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><img src="http://cdn2-b.examiner.com/sites/default/files/styles/image_content_width/hash/a6/af/1360448462_4762_cholesterol.jpg?itok=nfTP_aEI" /></span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 19.59375px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not on the list: butter. Switching to polyunsaturated omega-6-fats won’t be protective either – according to new findings <a href="http://www.dietdoctor.com/good-night-low-fat-diet" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">this may even be harmful!</a></span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 19.59375px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It’s time for more brave experts to stand up and say <a href="http://www.dietdoctor.com/i-was-wrong-you-were-right" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none; vertical-align: baseline;">“I was wrong, you were right”.</a></span></div><div style="border: 0px; line-height: 19.59375px; margin-bottom: 1.2em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">So how do you really prevent heart disease? Here’s my best advice:<span id="more-9044" style="border: 0px; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"></span></span></div><h3 style="border: 0px; line-height: 1.5em; margin: 1.5em 0px 0.5em; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">How to Prevent Heart Disease</span></h3><ul style="border: 0px; line-height: 19.59375px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 15px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px 0px 0px 30px; vertical-align: baseline;"><li style="border: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">less sugar (soda, fruit juice, candy)</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">less refined starch (like bread, pasta, junk food)</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">no smoking</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">physical activity in moderation</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">manage stress and get enough sleep</span></li>
<li style="border: 0px; list-style-type: disc; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">eat real food</span></li>
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 <span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><span style="line-height: 19.59375px;">Source: </span><a href="http://www.dietdoctor.com/real-cause-heart-disease">http://www.dietdoctor.com/real-cause-heart-disease</a></span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"> </span> <span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">More sources about this subject: </span>  <h1 class="title-blog" style="background-color: white; border: 0px; color: #111111; line-height: 36px; list-style: none; margin: 0px 0px 10px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: small;">The Cholesterol Myth That Could Be Harming Your Health</span></h1><div><img alt="Dr. Joseph Mercola" src="http://s.huffpost.com/contributors/dr-mercola/headshot.jpg" />By Joseph Mercola </div><div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cholesterol could easily be described as the smoking gun of the last two decades.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It's been responsible for demonizing entire categories of foods (like eggs and saturated fats) and blamed for just about every case of heart disease in the last 20 years.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Yet when I first opened my medical practice in the mid 80s, cholesterol, and the fear that yours was too high was rarely talked about.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Somewhere along the way however, cholesterol became a household word -- something that you must keep as low as possible, or suffer the consequences.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You are probably aware that there are many myths that portray fat and cholesterol as one of the worst foods you can consume. Please understand that these myths are actually harming your health.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Not only is cholesterol most likely not going to destroy your health (as you have been led to believe), but it is also not the cause of heart disease. And for those of you taking cholesterol-lowering drugs, the information that follows could not have been given to you fast enough. But before I delve into this life-changing information, let's get some basics down first.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">What is Cholesterol, and Why Do You Need It?</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That's right, you do need cholesterol.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">This soft, waxy substance is found not only in your bloodstream, but also in every cell in your body, where it helps to produce cell membranes, hormones, vitamin D and bile acids that help you to digest fat. Cholesterol also helps in the formation of your memories and is vital for neurological function.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your liver makes about 75 percent of your body's cholesterol <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/08/10/making-sense-of-your-cholesterol-numbers.aspx#_edn1" style="border: 0px; color: #6aa3b1; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">,[i]</a> and according to conventional medicine, there are two types:</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">High-density lipoprotein, or HDL:</strong> This is the "good" cholesterol that helps to keep cholesterol away from your arteries and remove any excess from arterial plaque, which may help to prevent heart disease.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><strong style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;">Low-density lipoprotein, or LDL</strong>: This "bad" cholesterol circulates in your blood and, according to conventional thinking, may build up in your arteries, forming plaque that makes your arteries narrow and less flexible (a condition called atherosclerosis). If a clot forms in one of these narrowed arteries leading to your heart or brain, a heart attack or stroke may result.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also making up your total cholesterol count are:</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-- Triglycerides: Elevated levels of this dangerous fat have been linked to heart disease and diabetes. Triglyceride levels are known to rise from eating too many grains and sugars, being physically inactive, smoking cigarettes, drinking alcohol excessively and being overweight or obese.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-- Lipoprotein (a), or Lp(a): Lp(a) is a substance that is made up of an LDL "bad cholesterol" part plus a protein (apoprotein a). Elevated Lp(a) levels are a very strong risk factor for heart disease. This has been well established, yet very few physicians check for it in their patients.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Understand this:</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Your Total Cholesterol Level is NOT a Great Indicator of Your Heart Disease Risk</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Health officials in the United States urge everyone over the age of 20 to have their cholesterol tested once every five years. Part of this test is your total cholesterol, or the sum of your blood's cholesterol content, including HDL, LDLs and VLDLs.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><a href="http://www.americanheart.org/presenter.jhtml;jsessionid=HM5JH4UIBTYEUCQFCXPSCZQ?identifier=183" style="border: 0px; color: #6aa3b1; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">The American Heart Association recommends</a> that your total cholesterol is less than 200 mg/dL, but what they do not tell you is that total cholesterol level is just about worthless in determining your risk for heart disease, unless it is above 330.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In addition, the AHA updated their guidelines in 2004, lowering the recommended level of LDL cholesterol from 130 to LDL to less than 100, or even less than 70 for patients at very high risk.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In order to achieve these outrageous and dangerously low targets, you typically need to take multiple cholesterol-lowering drugs. So the guidelines instantly increased the market for these dangerous drugs. Now, with testing children's cholesterol levels, they're increasing their market even more.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">I have seen a number of people with total cholesterol levels over 250 who actually were at low heart disease risk due to their HDL levels. Conversely, I have seen even more who had cholesterol levels under 200 that were at a very high risk of heart disease based on the following additional tests:</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-- HDL/Cholesterol ratio</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">-- Triglyceride/HDL ratios</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">HDL percentage is a very potent heart disease risk factor. Just divide your HDL level by your cholesterol. That percentage should ideally be above 24 percent.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">You can also do the same thing with your triglycerides and HDL ratio. That percentage should be below 2.</span></div><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script>
 
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<div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Keep in mind, however, that these are still simply guidelines, and there's a lot more that goes into your risk of heart disease than any one of these numbers. In fact, it was only after word got out that total cholesterol is a poor predictor of heart disease that HDL and LDL cholesterol were brought into the picture.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">They give you a closer idea of what's going on, but they still do not show you everything.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><img src="http://www.recapo.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/12/shutterstock_41013358.jpg" /></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cholesterol is Neither "Good" Nor "Bad"</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Now that we've defined good and bad cholesterol, it has to be said that there is actually only one type of cholesterol. Ron Rosedale, MD, who is widely considered to be one of the leading anti-aging doctor in the United States, does an excellent job of explaining this concept <a href="http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/08/10/making-sense-of-your-cholesterol-numbers.aspx#_edn2" style="border: 0px; color: #6aa3b1; list-style: none; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; text-decoration: none;" target="_hplink">:[ii]</a></span></div><blockquote style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"Notice please that LDL and HDL are lipoproteins -- fats combined with proteins. There is only one cholesterol. There is no such thing as "good" or "bad" cholesterol.</span>  <div style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cholesterol is just cholesterol.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It combines with other fats and proteins to be carried through the bloodstream, since fat and our watery blood do not mix very well.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Fatty substances therefore must be shuttled to and from our tissues and cells using proteins. LDL and HDL are forms of proteins and are far from being just cholesterol.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In fact we now know there are many types of these fat and protein particles. LDL particles come in many sizes and large LDL particles are not a problem. Only the so-called small dense LDL particles can potentially be a problem, because they can squeeze through the lining of the arteries and if they oxidize, otherwise known as turning rancid, they can cause damage and inflammation.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Thus, you might say that there is "good LDL" and "bad LDL."</span></div><div style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Also, some HDL particles are better than others. Knowing just your total cholesterol tells you very little. Even knowing your LDL and HDL levels will not tell you very much."</span></div></blockquote><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><strong style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin: 0px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Cholesterol is Your Friend, Not Your Enemy</span></strong></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Before we continue, I really would like you to get your mind around this concept.</span></div><div style="background-color: white; border: 0px; line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">In the United States, the idea that cholesterol is evil is very much engrained in most people's minds. But this is a very harmful myth that needs to be put to rest right now.</span></div><blockquote style="background-color: #f0f0f0; border: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); line-height: 21px; list-style: none; margin: 15px 0px; padding: 15px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"First and foremost," Dr. Rosedale points out, "cholesterol is a vital component of every cell membrane on Earth. In other words, there is no life on Earth that can live without cholesterol.</span>  <div style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">That will automatically tell you that, in and of itself, it cannot be evil. In fact, it is one of our best friends.</span></div><div style="border: 0px; list-style: none; margin-bottom: 14px; padding: 0px;"><span style="font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">We would not be here without it. No wonder lowering cholesterol too much increases one's risk of dying. 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<div style="line-height: 23px;"><a href="https://draft.blogger.com/blogger.g?blogID=5959300518432319010" imageanchor="1" style="clear: left; float: left; margin-bottom: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"></a><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">A new study published in the journal <em>Clinical Infectious Diseases</em> titled, "<strong><a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/statins-increase-risk-herpes-zoster">Statins</a><a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/statins-increase-risk-herpes-zoster"> and the risk of herpes zoster: a population-based cohort study</a></strong>,"<a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/pox-cholesterol-lowering-drugs-statins-raise-herpes-zoster-shingles-risk-1#_edn1" name="_ednref1" title="">[i]</a> reveals a hitherto unknown association between statin drug use and increased risk of herpes zoster (<strong><a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/disease/shingles">shingles</a></strong>).</span></div><div style="line-height: 23px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Researchers from St. Michael's Hospital, Ontario, Canada, conducted a population-based retrospective cohort study of Ontario residents 66 years of age or older, with a study period of thirteen years.  They matched 494,651 individuals treated with a statin to an equal number of individuals not treated with one. </span></div><div style="line-height: 23px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">Their results were reported as follows:</span></div>
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<blockquote style="background-image: url(http://cdn.greenmedinfo.com/sites/all/themes/wilderness/images/PostQuote.png); background-position: 0% 0%; background-repeat: no-repeat no-repeat; border: 1px solid rgb(173, 205, 168); line-height: 23px; margin: 10px 10px 10px 50px; padding: 5px 5px 5px 41px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">"In the main analysis, <strong>the rate of herpes zoster was higher among users of statins relative to nonusers of these drugs </strong>(13.25 versus 11.71 per 1000 person-years, respectively; hazard ratio 1.13, 95% confidence interval 1.10 to 1.17). The attributable fraction of exposed individuals was 11.6%. In a prespecified analysis, <strong>we found a similar risk of herpes zoster among statin users in the subgroup of patients with diabetes</strong> (hazard ratio 1.18, 95% confidence interval 1.09 to 1.27). As expected, we found no association between statin use and knee arthroplasty (hazard ratio 1.04, 95% confidence interval 0.99 to 1.09). Conclusions. <strong>Among older patients, treatment with statins is associated with a small but significantly increased risk of herpes zoster.</strong>" [emphasis added]</span></blockquote><div style="line-height: 23px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">While a 13% increase in the relative risk of developing shingles in statin users may seem small, it may reveal something concerning not on the radar of most clinicians, nor their patients, namely, the potent immunosuppressive and/or <strong><a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/greenmed/topic/52438/focus/36062/page">immunotoxic properties of statin drugs</a></strong>.</span></div><div style="line-height: 23px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It has been long known that statin drugs have a multitude of physiological effects beyond their much-touted 'cholesterol-lowering' properties; these so-called 'pleomorphic' properties include 'anti-inflammatory' and 'immune system modulating' effects.  However, far from therapeutic, many of these side effects are disease-promoting, with the biomedical literature teeming with evidence that this class of drugs has over <strong>300 adverse health effects, many of which are life-threatening, including – ironically, cardiotoxicity or <a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/confirmed-again-statin-drugs-calcify-coronary-arteries1">damage to the arteries</a> and <a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/article/statin-therapy-decreases-myocardial-heart-function">heart muscle</a>.</strong></span></div><script async src="//pagead2.googlesyndication.com/pagead/js/adsbygoogle.js"></script><br />

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<div style="line-height: 23px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">As is the case with many patented xenobiotic chemicals that have received FDA drug approval and are recklessly foisted upon the public in order to aid drug manufacturers in making astronomical profit, many of the drugs have adverse physiological effects that are marketed to the consumer/patient as 'therapeutic' effects, e.g. the side effect of 'drowsiness' is marketed as a sleep aid, or an immune destroying agent as a drug for autoimmune diseases.</span></div><div style="line-height: 23px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">An example of a statin side effect marketed as a 'beneficial effect' is the way in which these chemicals are believed to down-regulate inflammation and/or destructive immune responses within damaged arteries.  Atherosclerosis – the progressive narrowing of the arteries – has an autoimmune component whereby the immune system in response to persistent injury from environmental exposures such as smoking, infection or eating oxidized polyunsaturated fats, snowballs out of control.</span></div><div style="line-height: 23px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">When the inner lining (endothelium) of the blood vessels is damaged and the immune system responds in order to attempt to heal the damage, this process can spiral out of control, resulting in fulminating inflammation and immune cell infiltration at the site of damage, usually within the middle region of the artery known as the intima media. This mostly silent process, which can go on for decades without acute symptoms, leads to the formation of plaque that eventually causes lethal obstruction.</span></div><div style="line-height: 23px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;">It is believed that because statins suppress the system they may down-regulate this harmful autoimmune process, resulting in reduced inflammation and the slowing of the pathological process in the arteries.  This 'side benefit,' however, comes at a price. While the arteries may benefit to some degree from these immunsuppressive properties, the body as a whole may experience interference in immunosurveillance, which could result in increased risk of infection and cancer, and is one reason there is a concerning association with <strong><a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/underreported-dangers-low-cholesterol">low cholesterol and increased risk of cancers at all sites</a></strong>. Additionally, even though statin drugs may slightly reduce inflammation or autoimmune infiltration associated atherosclerosis, they have direct and indirect cardiotoxic effects to the heart muscle. And so, some patients may be trading in the lipid modulating and mildly anti-inflammatory properties of these drugs for statin-induced cardiomyopathy or heart failure -- a quicker path to death and disability that atherosclerosis. And this is all the more tragic when one considers that dietary and lifestyle interventions are far more effective at reversing this process than the administration of a pharmaceutical. [see <strong><a href="http://www.greenmedinfo.com/blog/7-ways-prevent-and-even-reverse-heart-disease-nutrition1">7 Ways To Prevent and Even Reverse Heart Disease With Nutrition]</a></strong></span></div><div style="line-height: 23px;"><span style="background-color: white; font-family: Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif;"><br />
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A Pox on Cholesterol Lowering Drugs: Statins Raise Herpes Zoster (Shingles) Risk

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