high cholesterol - alternative drugs and treatments

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There are several things that will lower your cholesterol that are

well proven:

 

You can take Niacin (Vitamin B3); this was the only drug that was

prescribed by doctors to lower cholesterol for well over 50 years

until lipator came out. It works as well or better than lipator, will

lower your bad cholesterol as much as 40 percent and also raises your

good cholesterol, all according to the dosage and the individual.

Other statin drugs only lower the bad. Niacin cost about 4 dollars a

bottle and it last well over a month, lipator cost 4 dollars a pill.

Niacin cannot be patented and that is why it is cheap. Why don't

doctors tell you this... mine did... but he is not like most other

doctors. Drug companies push to make their patented drug the standard

treatment by getting doctors to prescribe it (ever seen the samples

the doctor's hand out, the drug companies attempt to set their drug as

the standard treatment). Once it becomes the accepted standard

treatment everyone else has to follow the practice of prescribing the

same thing for fear of lawsuits. If a doctor prescribes something

different and something goes wrong ( could even be unrelated to what

he prescribed) and he ends up in court the lawyers first question will

without a doubt be " what is the standard treatment that everyone else

uses for this " . He will then proceed to put the doctor in a totally

undefendable position using this mentality so the doctor has no choice

but to use the standard treatments, no matter if they are cost

effective or even if they are less effective than less expensive

drugs. How do I know this... it came from a doctor...

 

There are three kinds of niacin you will come across, slow release,

normal release and " no flush " types. The no flush will not lower

cholesterol, it is a different drug all together. If you take the slow

release kind take 250 mg to 500 mg

per day, do not take any more than that and do not switch back and

forth between the regular and slow release types. It is best to take

it with food and take an aspirin an hour or so before hand to minimize

the flushing. Most people do not have much flushing with the slow

release kind unless they take it on an empty stomach. The slow release

is my first choice.

 

If you take the normal release kind you can take up to 2000 mg a day

but that is something you will have to build up to, do not try this

much all at once unless you have built up to it. When taking this much

niacin it is a drug, not a vitamin. Niacin causes flushing and you

will have this effect for the first week or so when you first start

taking it and if you miss a few doses you will go through it again.

Flushing makes you feel like you are burning up from head to toe and

you will turn beet red for about 20 to 25 minutes. Some people can't

get past this and stick it out for a week till it goes away so they

stop taking it. On the other hand it does improve circulation, this is

very evident. I know a guy that had a heart attack and his fingers

were always blue because of poor heart efficiency. This condition

totally reversed within minutes of taking his first dose of niacin and

has never returned as long as he takes it.

 

Do not take any statin drugs or niacin ( or any other drugs) if you

have a history of or suspect you may have a liver problem. You will

need to get an occasional liver enzyme check just like you have to

when taking lipator and all the other statin drugs. Many people can't

take lipator because it causes very bad arthritis like symptoms so if

your joints have been hurting since you started taking it.. now you

know what the cause is...niacin does not cause this. Niacin also

lowers triglycerides.

 

http://cholesterol.about.com/cs/nicotinicacid/a/niacin1.htm

 

You can also eat oatmeal everyday and that will lower it 5 to 10

points, garlic will do the same, exercise will also lower it, and you can

take red yeast rice as well.

 

 

On the other hand, I tend to agree with the work of Dr. Matthias Rath.

He says cholesterol is not the problem that causes blockages, it is a

symptom that arterial sclerosis is happening and the liver releases the

cholesterol to repair arterial damage caused by a deficiency in vitamin

C and Lysine. Blockages are caused by a lipoprotein instead of

cholesterol. The proof being that reducing cholesterol does not

reverse arterial sclerosis and people continue to get stints put in and

bypasses, even after they are on all the statins, they are not

effective and do not reverse the damage. There are many who have used

his method to totally reverse arterial sclerosis and will attest to the

fact it worked when all else failed and they were steadily declining.

People who could not even walk to the mailbox were mowing their lawns

and playing golf. You may want to read his book and his web site. I am

doing this treatment right now and am going for a checkup in a few

weeks. I will know for sure if it works then.

 

Please do your own research and form your own opinions on this before

you begin any self-treatments.

 

Sorry for such a long post..

 

Aubrey

 

, " Jandara " <jandara wrote:

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> I was wondering what some of you might suggest taking for high

cholesterol? I'd like to treat it with something besides the medicine

prescribed by the doctor. Lipitor.. I can't afford to buy it.

> Jandara

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