Thu, Mar-27-08, 22:14
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Senior Member
Posts: 3,371
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Plan: Intermittent Fasting, LC
Stats: 242/215/130
BF:too/dang/much
Progress: 24%
Location: Florida
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Depressive types have naturally low cholesterol
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My DH has lowish cholesterol (149, I said in another post that it was 168 but he said no, it's 149) He is very moody and has been depressed off and on. Maybe it depends on where his cholesterol is riding.
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Read "The Great Cholesterol Con" by Dr Malcolm Kendrick. Statins - according to him - do work with a very small and very specific (male) group of patients, but he argues that it is not their cholesterol-reducing properties that cause this, but that another mechanism is at work.
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I keep meaning to get this but haven't yet. It seems to me though, that another board said that the other mechanism it helps is inflammation. There were some other articles that said yes, it lowered your cholesterol count, but INCREASED your plaque!! I'd think it'd be healthier to have a higher cholesterol and less plaque!  I can't believe Doctors still prescribe these things. What happened to "First, do no harm?"
ETA: The post is here. It's both the anti inflammatory and plaque increased.
http://forum.lowcarber.org/showthre...ighlight=plaque |