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" JoAnn Guest " <jguest

Fri Oct 18, 2002 10:06 pm

Cholesterol Damage --Effective Nutrients

 

 

 

 

<The culprit with plaquing looks to be

<LipoProtein A.

 

 

ļ Triglycerides play a vital role in plaquing also right along with

LDL cholesterol and lipoprotein A. High glucose levels

(triglycerides) contribute to

blood stickiness which promotes clumping and clotting.

 

Excess Iron and Calcium have been said to play a part also. Many

arterial deposits especially in older menopausal women when analyzed

are determined to be calcium¡ Those found in older men are

determined to be excessive iron deposits.

 

> If you eat a lot of cholesterol

> it's ok because your body just makes less.

 

This is invariably true, IF you are a *normal* healthy young person.

Most of us on the list do not quite fall into that category!

Depends on the types and quantity of the foods you're eating AND if

your liver IS metabolizing it properly.

However we can't expect supplements to work miracles.

We have to also give them good foods to work with. Some think that

supplements offset the damage of processed foods.

I would question that, actually as it was not until I

started eating properly that I reversed my many health issues.

 

 

<All things being normal, eat more and produce less.

 

 

 

SO, which foods are you advocating, may I ask. We can rest assured

that if we eat a diet high in hydrogenated fats and animal proteins

we will still be making an abundance of the LDLs.

 

Mary Ruth Swope, Ph.D. renowned nutritionist, asserts that the body

has a major problem metabolizing any form of hydrogenated fat. She

claims that hydrogenated fat takes well over thirty days to get

through the body. The reason being they are unnatural fats not

recognized by the body as food.

 

 

 

> If blood cholesterol rises above a certain level,

> the excess is converted into bile and excreted in the stool.

 

<Converted into bile? Care to educate me on that one? I thought the

only place bile was manufactured with the liver.

 

Absolutely. This is a quote from a very reliable source.

It is taken from the book " Aging without Growing Old¡¨,

by Judy Lindbergh McFarland,

written with her son

Douglas Walter McFarland, M.D.

Here is the entire text taken from her book:

 

Cholesterol: The Good and the Bad

 

Since 1950, a number or researchers have reported that people with

high blood levels of a certain kind of fat did not get heart

attacks.

In fact, this fat, a kind of cholesterol, is so good for

you that it greatly diminishes your chances of having a heart

attack. It is a fat-protein combination referred to as high-density

lipoproteins (HDLs).

 

In contrast, research reveals that people with high levels of

another fat-protein combination called low-density lipoproteins

(LDLs) were almost certain to have heart attacks.

 

It is postulated

that HDLs help protect against heart attacks in two ways. They

appear to interfere with the cells ability to take in unwanted LDLs,

thus stopping the buildup of fatty deposits that can cause

atherosclerosis and heart attacks.

 

And the necessary HDLs aid the

body in excereting excess cholesterol.¡¨

H. Loomis, writing in Science, described the HDLs as garbage

collectors that sweep up arterial cholesterol and takes it to the

liver where it can be cleared from the body in the form of bile,

which is then lost in the feces.¡¨

 

 

 

 

> " We now know that cholesterol contributes to heart disease ONLY

when

> it is oxidized or subjected to * free radical* damage!

 

 

<I like Dr. Mathias Rath's thinking that says an inadequate intake

of Vitamin C doesn't allow the manufacture of enough collagen to

repair damage

<to the arteries and allows the plaquing to begin.

 

 

 

Rath and Pauling states that the main risk factor is the

instability of the vessel wall as a consequence of vitamin *C*

deficiency. Impressive, but just the start.

 

There are others. Dr. Karl Folkers, professor at the University of

Texas has been recognized as the leading researcher in CoQ10.

Ubiquinol 10 or vitamin Q¡is now being called a miracle nutrient¡¨

by many. It is an essential component of the metabolic process

involved in energy (ATP) production.

 

Research shows that Vitamin E, Magnesium, Beta-carotene, Co-enzyme

Q10 and Bioflavonoids and Essential Fatty Acids (Norwegian fish

oils) reduce blood platelet adhesions.

Vitamin C is not that effective unless combined with bioflavonoids

in the form of Rosehips or Acerola Berry. Rosehips has 60 times more

vitamin C than ascorbic acid.

 

Vitamin E also normalizes blood platelet adhesion and reduces the

interaction of platelets within the artery walls. We must not forget

about vitamin E!

 

 

 

 

Although cholesterol is essential for the normal functioning of our

bodies, we need to make sure we have adequate levels of the valuable

*HDL*s.

The next time you have a blood test, ask the doctor to measure

not just your cholesterol levels, but the " ratio " of HDLs to LDLs.

 

 

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