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Cholesterol Lowering: Crestor vs Niacin
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<blockquote data-quote="Gman86" data-source="post: 179339" data-attributes="member: 15043"><p>Imo, whatever u do, don’t even think about touching a statin with a total cholesterol of 260. If u do get a coronary calcium score test, and the results aren’t good, a statin is still not the answer, with that level of total cholesterol. Even if u are concerned with ur lipid numbers, the first thing to address is ur thyroid. Optimizing thyroid will have a much more beneficial effect on lipids than a drug that’s just going to rob u of the cholesterol u need for optimal health. But in regards to a preventing a heart attack or stroke, which is what I would imagine the statin is being prescribed to prevent, the best way to prevent either is not via lowering a cholesterol level of 260. What u would need to do is improve diet. Heart disease is mostly due to inflammation. So u want to decrease inflammatory foods as much as possible. So get rid of all bad fats. Don’t cook with any fats that will oxidize and cause inflammation. So only cook with ghee, butter, coconut oil, lard, or tallow. Things with a high burn temp. Cooking with any oil that’s liquid at room temp will cause inflammation due to the oil oxidizing in the cooking process. Obv sugars are a huge inflammatory food. Everyone knows that. Processed foods are obv highly inflammatory. I would also cut out gluten, even if u don’t have celiac disease. Cut out all regular store bought dairy. Cut out all veggies, as they can be inflammatory due to the high oxalate content, and other plant defense mechanisms. And adding in fresh fatty fish into ur diet 2-3x/ week would be a good idea, for the omegas. And then just do the regular things u know to do already. Regular cardio and weight lifting sessions, assessing any vitamin/ mineral deficiencies u may have, optimizing sleep, and minimizing stress. And obv optimizing any hormone deficiencies. These are the real ways to improve the cardiovascular system, not by taking a pill that lowers much needed cholesterol, and puts u at a high risk for getting all brain and neurological diseases. And these are just some tips off the top of my head. There’s obv plenty more life style modifications u can make to improve ur cardiovascular system. A pill that lowers systemic cholesterol is not the answer, I promise u. But from ur original post, u seem to have a good understanding of this already.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Gman86, post: 179339, member: 15043"] Imo, whatever u do, don’t even think about touching a statin with a total cholesterol of 260. If u do get a coronary calcium score test, and the results aren’t good, a statin is still not the answer, with that level of total cholesterol. Even if u are concerned with ur lipid numbers, the first thing to address is ur thyroid. Optimizing thyroid will have a much more beneficial effect on lipids than a drug that’s just going to rob u of the cholesterol u need for optimal health. But in regards to a preventing a heart attack or stroke, which is what I would imagine the statin is being prescribed to prevent, the best way to prevent either is not via lowering a cholesterol level of 260. What u would need to do is improve diet. Heart disease is mostly due to inflammation. So u want to decrease inflammatory foods as much as possible. So get rid of all bad fats. Don’t cook with any fats that will oxidize and cause inflammation. So only cook with ghee, butter, coconut oil, lard, or tallow. Things with a high burn temp. Cooking with any oil that’s liquid at room temp will cause inflammation due to the oil oxidizing in the cooking process. Obv sugars are a huge inflammatory food. Everyone knows that. Processed foods are obv highly inflammatory. I would also cut out gluten, even if u don’t have celiac disease. Cut out all regular store bought dairy. Cut out all veggies, as they can be inflammatory due to the high oxalate content, and other plant defense mechanisms. And adding in fresh fatty fish into ur diet 2-3x/ week would be a good idea, for the omegas. And then just do the regular things u know to do already. Regular cardio and weight lifting sessions, assessing any vitamin/ mineral deficiencies u may have, optimizing sleep, and minimizing stress. And obv optimizing any hormone deficiencies. These are the real ways to improve the cardiovascular system, not by taking a pill that lowers much needed cholesterol, and puts u at a high risk for getting all brain and neurological diseases. And these are just some tips off the top of my head. There’s obv plenty more life style modifications u can make to improve ur cardiovascular system. A pill that lowers systemic cholesterol is not the answer, I promise u. But from ur original post, u seem to have a good understanding of this already. [/QUOTE]
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