Re: link between alzheimers' and cholesterol

February 11, 2012

Further evidence of the benefits of high colesterol. It will be interestin g to see if the benefits extend to humans.Dave.

Watch for the information about cholesterol-related biochemicals and

the body's defense against alzheimers--hope somebody follows up with

research on a possible link between lowering cholestrol and alzheimers.

In this group, we've seen anecdotal evidence...

Linden

February 14, 2012

Standig in line at a market this evening, I noticed a Prevention Mag

listing an article on things that are good for the heart. Wanting to

see where they went with iit, I thumbed through it quickly and of

course, the first thing mentioned was our old friend the statin drugs.

They said that the commonest side effect, of course, was

rhabdom...(whatever) but that there are occasional reports of milder

muscle pain, than can be mitigated by changing drug or dosage.

Remembering my own muscle pain and disability, I would NOT call it

" mild " , and I am intending to write them and politely mention that

severe pain & severe restriction of movement were probably not reported

by my dr but that I had reported it wherever I could. (I am also

needing to train a new primary dr, as my longtime guy has just retired,

and their new recommdation is nagging about the four years since I've

had any tests.)

I am thinking that it might be interesting if a bunch of us wrote

Prevention and recommended that if they are really interesting in

usefol health information they should do some independent research on

the whole statin/cholesterol subject, recognizing that this is

seriously politically incorrect. See how brave they are!

Speaking of political correctness, one thing that scares me about the

supposed improvement in health care (?) is the possibility that our

ability to disagree with our doctors could be in jeapoardy. What does

anybody else think about that?

Linden

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