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A healthy approach to addressing high cholesterol fears 

 

Here is an alternative approach to using statins according to the Price-Pottenger foundation. 

• If statins work, in preventing heart disease they do so by 
   reducing inflammation, not because they lower cholesterol." (1)

Statins block the production of mevalonate leading to inhibition of platelet clumping and reduction of inflammation in the artery walls. 

However, simple changes in the diet can achieve the same effect without also cutting off the body's vital supply of cholesterol:
 
•  Avoid trans fats, known to contribute to inflammation
 
•  Avoid refined sugars, especially fructose, known to stimulate clumping of the blood platelets
  
•  Eat plenty of saturated fats, which encourage the production of anti-inflammatory prostaglandins
 
•  Eat coconut oil and coconut products; coconut oil protects against bacteria and viruses that can lead to inflammation in the artery wall
 
•  Eat foods high in copper, especially liver; copper deficiency is associated with clot formation and inflammation in the arteries
 
•  Avoid reduced-fat milks and powdered milk products (such as powdered whey); they contain oxidized cholesterol, shown to cause irritation of the artery wall
 
•  Take cod liver oil, an excellent dietary source of anti-inflammatory vitamin A, vitamin D and EPA
 
•  Take evening primrose, borage or black currant oil, sources of GLA which the body uses to make anti-inflammatory prostaglandins 
 

 

Your 3d Coach

Craig Burton

Reference:

(1)  Fallon, S and Enig, M PhD., "Dangers of statin drugs: what you haven't been told about popular cholesterol-lowering medicines", available at http://www.westonaprice.org