Heart Disease - Recent Study Says It's Not Cholesterol - Could Be Lazy Medical Care

A recent study conducted by the UCLA School of Medicine found 75% of patients hospitalized for a heart attack had LDL cholesterol within the so called safe range- below 130mg/dl.  (21% of the patients were taking a statin cholesterol-lowering drug.)  The study also found that 50 percent of the patients had LDL less than 100mg/dL, considered to be optimum levels.  The data base used records from 541 hospitals across the country and the American Heart Journal published the study in 2009.
What is the take away here?  There is the obvious take away but then there is the “how do we use this to sell more drugs?” take away.  If you are a pharmaceutical company selling cholesterol lowering drugs you are thinking one way and if you are honest and a doctor or patient you should take another view.  It is a serious threat to your health because the die-hards businessmen and drug companies think we are not lowering cholesterol enough!!  That is completely lame.  Drug companies and insurance companies want the cheapest way to treat you!  But are years and years of taking drugs that cost a great deal over time coupled with the prospect of a hospitalization due to heart problems really the least expensive? 

This study is important in its implications for the individual patient.  The other important data to keep in mind is the steep rise in elderly people (and the not so elderly) who have developed Alzheimer’s disease.  Have they taken cholesterol lowering drugs?   Couple these data together and you have some answers as to what might be happening with our health profiles in this country.

In clinical practice the doctors, in a rush to see as many people as possible, take the easy way out.  The guidelines and “standards of care” determine the prescription of a cholesterol lowering drug in the case of someone with “high” cholesterol or heart disease.   You do not have to have much face time when you do a blood test for cholesterol and prescribe a drug and send the person on his way with advice to stop eating foods that drive cholesterol up.  It is fast, cheap and easy. 

Here is what should be happening; a physician with a thorough education knows the liver produces cholesterol and the body needs it for health.  He knows that cholesterol is a major constituent of every cell membrane in the entire body.  He knows cholesterol is protective of the nervous system and the basic building block of hormones and vitamin D.  A very important substance for health!  He also knows the likely causes of heart problems and looks for them.  He knows heavy metals are implicated in the development of high blood pressure and found in the muscle wall of the heart at autopsy in people with some forms of heart disease.  He will offer diagnostic tests that look at toxic metals and mineral nutrient status of his patients.   He knows ionic calcium (not the kind in bones) gets stuck in the muscle wall of the artery and in plaque causing “hardening of the arteries”. If he is really good he will recommend or provide IV chelation therapy to lower the levels of lead, ionic calcium, antimony, cadmium and other metals throughout the vascular system improving over all circulation.  One other benefit for the doctor is the happiness of people who feel great and are active and healthy.  Be a hero, do what is right with the scientific evidence provided by this study.  

Psychiatric Fads and Overdiagnosis | Psychology Today

Psychiatric Fads and Overdiagnosis | Psychology Today.   This important article is a must for family health.  Please take a moment to read it and pass it along to all your friends and family.  The only way you and those you love with avoid unneccessary drugging and labels whether young or old is to advocate for yourself.  Make sure you do not accept pharmaceutical drugs for life’s problems, they make you less able not more able.  Whether a child or one of elderly, trapped in situations where they rely on your care because they have no voice of their own, the need is strong to have someone with knowledge of pitfalls of medicine to care for them and represent them when in doctors offices, nursing homes, or hospitals.

Medical Alternatives

Common medical care is essential when you have acute problems, car accidents, illnesses, organ failures where heroic surgeries and drugs are needed.   Chronic health conditions can be alleviated or at least eased with lifestyle changes and the help of doctors who look at the function of your body and not just whether or not it has a cancerous lump or bacteria or virus.  We listen to people all the time who have normal blood work and diagnostic test results from their doctors but they feel awful and continue to have symptoms, no energy, pain, digestive problems, no interest in life, circulatory problems, hormonal difficulties, thyroid problems, and on and on.   The only thing their physician can offer is a drug, often a psyche drug because they cannot find anything wrong with you so it is all in your head and your are depressed.  Yep, depressed because you feel awful.  Sounds normal to us.  If you do not feel well it is hard to be interested in your work and  your life.
People should try all the self-help things that seem to have promise for them and certainly a proper diet and exercise always help.  When you need more, when dietary changes and exercise do not change things for you and you have tried other modalities you may need to resort to a physician who has experience in helping people without pharmaceutical drugs and surgeries.  Physicians trained in functional, alternative medical modalities have a great deal to offer.  Intravenous treatments is one fast route to recovery.  When you are ill it often follows that your digestion is faulty and you need digestive support with oral nutrients and intravenous treatments which bypass your digestive system altogether.  We help people with colitis, irritable bowel, lyme disease and just plain ill with treatments that replenish their anti-oxidant stores and address the body need for additional minerals.  Fast and effective it is the answer for so many people.

How many physicians consider toxic exposures when you complain of migraines, neurological problems like tingling and pain?  You need to find someone who can determine if you have toxic metal overloads, solvent or pesticide toxicity and who can help reduce the body burden of these chemicals and give you good advice regarding diet and life style changes.

Check our links for help. You will find us on the net and you will have our links to others just like us and our detoxification program.  Change the way you approach your health problems and get the results  you hoped for.

Before You Agree to Drugs as Medical Treatments...

In our medical center we help a great deal of people without resorting to pharmaceutical drugs, we have medical alternatives to drugging.  Psychiatric drugs are some of the most vicious substances causing horrendous health problems without identifying what could be physically addressed to lessen the severity of symptoms.  Check this short video out. If the link does not go to the video check out naturalnewstv.com and look at the video on drug testing.   Are you sure you want to be a test subject of drugs that have harmed others and had no better results than a placebo?
When you have a symptom, any symptom, you need to search for the cause before you accept treatment.  In the case of problems in life and events in life that are horrendous, you need to be in the best physical shape you can be and then see how much easier it is to confront your problem and deal with it without altering your mind with a drug.  Think about this, if you have a migraine headache you certainly can take a pain-killer and get some relief.  Did you learn anything?  What will you do when the next one hits.  Don’t you wonder why you get them and your friends don’t?  There are a great deal of things you can look into with regards to possible causes in your case.  Taking a drug will not balance your hormones, if they are the cause.  Taking a drug will not change the fact that you just moved into a newly constructed home with toxins outgassing from the building materials.  Taking a drug will not do a thing for the loss of a loved one.  You will do one thing though,  you will enrich a pharmaceutical company that is selling you false help.

Your body needs many and certain things to remain healthy.  Drugs of any kind are considered by the body to detrimental to health.  They can deaden you or artificially change your blood pressure but they will never replace thoughtful, careful, informed medical care that addresses the underlying cause of your difficulty.  The results of this kind of care are lasting and amazing.  People overcome tremendous problems and go ahead with a better life.  Stay away from drugs.