Sat, Jan-11-14, 20:42
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Senior Member
Posts: 14,684
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Plan: EpiPaleo/Primal/LowOx
Stats: 220/130/150
BF:
Progress: 129%
Location: USA
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Originally Posted by Andylou
I felt like my two choices were dying or dementia and I'm too young for either one!
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I hear ya. I had a bad experience with menopause; down to two hours of sleep a night, no memory, stress handling went from the high 80's to like 3. I wound up DEMANDING Hormone Replacement Therapy. I didn't care if it took ten years off my life! I wasn't having a life at that point.
But of course, it's not shortening my life. That study that panicked everyone was done on women who were 20 years past the change when they started on the hormones. That's apparently a bad idea. But new research indicates that starting right away, like I did, really is protective.
Anyway, that's a side issue. Because there are no studies that show benefit in women who take statins!
To me, the side effects are so frightening, I would never come near them. Dr. Graveline, who wrote Lipitor, Thief of Memory, not only had the memory problems, he thinks he developed an ALS-type disease from their destructive metabolic effects!
Cholesterol Decline and Early Dementia
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