Study Finds Alzheimer's Increase Connected To Lower Cholesterol!
© Lena Sanchez


Did your doctor tell you that you needed to lower your cholesterol? Tens of thousands have been told that and are taking cholesterol lowering medications, pushed on them out of fear of having a heart attack, stroke or heart disease if you cholesterol isn't lowered.
 
Is it good to lower your cholesterol?
 
According to a study published in the journal "Movement Disorders" in December 2006, "..low LDL cholesterol levels may actually increase your risk of Parkinson's disease." The study involved 236 people -- 124 Parkinson's patients and 112 controls. The researchers measured all the participants' cholesterol levels and gathered information regarding their smoking habits and use of cholesterol-lowering drugs.
 
They found that the subjects with the lowest LDL levels (less than 114 milligrams per deciliter) had a 3.5-fold higher occurrence of Parkinson's than the participants with higher LDL levels (more than 138 milligrams per deciliter).
 
Finally, they've actually documented what I've been telling you all along!!!!  And they wonder why millions-and-growing Alzheimer's cases exist yet they say they haven't a clue... The clue is there but they are not listening or watching their patients drug intake... Looks to me like the pharmaceutical industry along with doctors who never check things out that aim for an LDL below 200, are causing the Alzheimer's increase! No mystery there!
 
Are they mistakenly diagnosing Alzheimer's? Very possible.
 
Here is what a Mayo Clinic Cardiologist Dr. Thomas Behrenbeck stated: "Rare cases of memory loss have been reported in people taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, such as Lipitor. But these reports were anecdotal and have not been substantiated by formal testing of cognitive function. In most of these cases, memory improved after the individuals stopped taking the statins."
 
Now I find that rather strange since I've seen an advertising push over the last year that says statin drugs are now being prescribed to prevent Alzheimer's disease. Does that make sense? If the drugs cause memory loss is all those Alzheimer's people really suffering with Alzheimer's or with drug induced memory loss?
 
Statin drugs have other side effects besides memory problems, rather simply don't do what they are supposed to be prescribed to do?
 
The doctor will tell you that lowering your cholesterol will stop your risk of heart attack, stroke or heart disease. REALLY? Have you read the small print in insert that came with your cholesterol lowering drug? If not be sure you do? The pharmacy must give you that insert with your prescription. Go to the small print at the last part of that insert and see what it says? ?This medication has not been proven to prevent heart attacks, strokes or heart disease.?
 
What the drugs do! 
 
It is a known fact that statin drugs decrease the CoQ10 in people taking them and the heart as well as the brain must have sufficient CoQ10 supplies to function properly. Tests done for CoQ10 found that after 8 weeks of taking statin drugs the CoQ10 levels drop off 40%. This fact alone can starve the heart of needed nutrients!
 
Smart doctors are beginning to talk about that very problem. An article published in the journal Biofactors, cardiologist and researcher Dr. Peter Langsjoen says, "The depletion of the essential nutrient Co q10 by the increasingly popular cholesterol lowering drugs, HMG CoA reductase inhibitors (statins), has grown from a level of concern to one of alarm. With ever higher statin potencies and dosages and with a steadily shrinking target LDL cholesterol, the prevalence and severity of Co q10 deficiency is increasingly noticeable."
 
The body manufactures cholesterol because it needs it and only when the body's ability to do that is interrupted does it not produce effective amounts. The body needs cholesterol and what may be high for one body could be exactly what another body needs to work correctly.
 
Who set numbers? The drug industry! Why?
 
When the first cholesterol drug came on the market I was working as a medical office nurse and the numbers to aim for then was 350. Good number, but that didn't sell enough drugs for the pharmaceutical company so they have gradually lowered it until now the numbers are bordering on death for most patients. An Osteopath doctor, I worked with, when the first lower numbers were given to the office, told me that with that lower desired number - 250 - we would be seeing many more heart attacks and strokes in the future due to that low a number. He explained to me that you cannot live with cholesterol lower than 250 or 300 for very long without the body going into some type of revenge and overworking trying to produce more cholesterol thereby taxing the heart and blood vessels throwing the body off. We are there now as the target number is 100 to 150, killer numbers. I have not seen him in twenty-five years and I wonder what he said when those numbers showed up? More people are having heart attacks and strokes per capita than ever in the history of mankind.
 
Be strong! Stand up to your doctor and say NO to taking cholesterol lowering drugs.  High cholesterol does not kill nor does it build up plaque in your arteries, even though the drug industry is selling that crock to the doctors of the world. Inflammation and bad diets build up plaque and cause heart attacks. There are many studies that have been done that show inflammation kills. But for the most part you will not hear about them as they are not released to the news media, suppressed by the drug industry. I have managed to read two or three that you can find if you look really hard that scientists have published but only in medical and scientific journals.
 
I'm not a doctor just a concerned retired medical office nurse who watched what happened with people took cholesterol lowering drugs and convinced my husband, whose cholesterol numbers range from 324 to 480 and has for all the years they have been testing it, 30+. His arteries are cleaner than the average person's as his doctor proved - to his chagrin - and has since stopped berating him to take the drugs after he ordered Carotid Ultrasound but didn't believe that so ordered a repeat and still didn't believe that then ordered an MRI and finally we said no more tests believe what you see not what you want to see. His arteries at 70 contained only 12% plaque and the average person's plaque at that age is more than 25% buildup. Proved to us cholesterol is not the culprit the drug industry wants you to believe!