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Originally Posted by golfing eagles
Sorry to disagree, but...........
The FIRST thing a patient with hyperlipidemia gets is a low fat/low chol diet. Of course, they don't follow it, but they get it anyway. There are well established guidelines for prescribing statins, the NIH even has an algorithm on their website to determine which patient is a candidate. Long story short---if you have coronary artery disease, you NEED a statin, every study in the world shows that. NOT red rice yeast, NOT some naturopathic concoction, but a statin. Period. If your LDL is over 160 with 0 or 1 risk factor, or over 130 with 2 or more risk factors , you NEED a statin (or else you'll be needing a cardiologist). Everyone else can eat healthy and take whatever snake oil they get sold on
As far as other "natural" remedies go, whatever works for you is fine. But I'll stand by my challenge for anyone to come up with a LEGITIMATE study proving their value. Even the lipoflavenoids I just mentioned have no LEGITIMATE study showing any value.
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If you are a doctor, you have just made my point. No one has talked to me or my husband about nutrition, and my husband was prescribed statins. I refused to take them. Both of us have brought our cholesterol down to perfect numbers and my husband is no longer taking statins.
This isn't the first time you have disagreed with me on issues that I know have worked for me.
Again you make my point. Know your own body, because no one else will. Not even your doctor. Do your research, and keep your mind open.
I actually have a friend who did their research about something that happened to their daughter. The doctors knew better and wouldn't listen. The child died.