Stephen Sinatra is a prominent cardiologist who refuses to give knee-jerk support to the standard line on lipid problems, because the usual recommendations are not supported by good research. If your cholesterol is high, he recommends a VAP or LPP test to look much deeper into how much risk you actually have. If you are a male between ages 50 and 75 and you have high levels of small, dense LDL, use a statin drug (I would prefer red yeast, a natural statin). Over 75 y.o., forget the statins. If you are female, the statins are not particularly useful. You are better off using proteolytic enzymes and fish oils to reduce inflammation. If your Lp(a) is high, statins will not help. Niacin and nattokinase will do much better (in my experience, chelation helps even more). Lipitor-associate amnesia has been identified in 662 cases in a recent study by Graveline and Cohen.
See articles on these two subjects in the June, 2009 issue of the Townsend Letter (click here), p. 60-62 and p. 64-70. .
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