Does benecol help the same way statins do

Hi,

i dont think your cholesterol is high at all.  Do you exercise at all to maybe raise your good cholesterol a bit, fibre etc first.  Maybe ask this question to the dr or have you tried this already?  Been there with statins and still suffer muscle loss three years after coming off them and now swear they damaged my gall bladder.  I have the benecol I think it needs to build up though I’ve been having it for four years now it’s doesnt harm taking it every day.  

Likewise my opinion is that your cholesterol numbers are fine.  It is not the total but rather the ratio that is important.  You could check out Heart UK the cholesterol charity web page.  Cholesterol is necessary for every cell in the body to work and women need more than men. Not sure why!

Personally I'd steer clear of statins. The GPs have to offer them to you if your QRisk assessment is over 10% which in most people over 40 it is.  You don't have to accept the things though... 

Thing is the statins deplete the good cholesterol not just the bad.  I agree it is the ratio mine last check was 8.5, I cycle 80 miles plus per week and benecol and eat fruit, veg etc.  My good was 2.8 there’s nothing more I can do though, statins caused me such damage but I don’t want to make you worry it’s up to you and no one else.  Just if you can try other methods for say six months first then have another check.  They say they don’t much for women anyway I aren’t sure why

Have to agree with the others - your cholesterol readings are not at crisis high level and prior to the unhealthy influence of the pharmaceutical industry which resulted in ridiculous and frankly dangerously low targets, would have been considered 'normal'.  I appreciate you have other heart issues but realistically statins are dangerous and should in my opinion be a last resort not a 'go to' blanket prescribing practice.  It is now publicly acknowledged (see recent national press front page coverage) that statins are a major contributory factor in developing type 2 diabetes which is one of the main causes of heart attacks - it therefore confounds me why people with existing heart issues are ever considered suitable for being given statins!  Best advice from a lay person with experience of these toxins - refuse them and continue with your healthy approach to lifestyle.

Hi youngatheart1 - I agree strenuously with the other posts on here. Avoid the statins. There are so many ill effects from those things. I am a survivor of statins - two years and 4 months clean today. Still dealing with some issues caused by them.

Benecol may reduce your cholesterol level but it is fools gold trying to reduce it.    First, I would like to say that I am a medical biochemist and my specialties are lipid disorders and autoimmune diseases. I was also the co developer of the first commercially available blood test for HDL in the 70’s.  If you have any doubts about the cholesterol scam and how it all started in the 1950’s you need to see the following documentary which exposed the junk science that started the cholesterol phenomena.  A couple of years ago the Australian affiliate of ABC had a show similar to 60 Minutes in the U.S. called the Catalyst and it did the greatest expose on the statin scam that has ever been done.  After it aired on TV statin sales in Australia dropped 35%, which is dramatic considering the fact that most people never saw the documentary. ABC was threatened with legal action by the pharmaceutical industry for exposing their fraud but showed part 2 anyway !  As a result of being threatened by the pharmaceutical industry they moved the 2 part show to the internet for the benefit of the public and doctors .  This is a very high quality documentary done by cardiologists.   Google the following to see the 2 part video. Part 2 will automatically follow part one.  “Catalyst Heart of the Matter you tube”.  Note: This is not conspiracy theory nonsense.  

 In the 1980's the normal range used to be about 6.2 mmol/L but the pharmas reduced it to 5.0 because they weren't selling enough statins.  There were no studies done to justify the dropping of the normal range and the FDA in the U.S. was complicit in allowing them to arbitrarily move the goal post without any documented studies. 

If you need more ammunition just google “Baycol lawsuit”.  It was a statin made by Bayer Pharmaceutical that killed hundreds of people worldwide before it was taken off the market. Guess what!  I took it for a week in 2001 and had what I thought was a heart attack at the time but survived it. Bayer had to pay over 1 billion dollars in a class action lawsuit!!!

 

If you are unfortunate enough to be taking or asked to take Crestor, I can forward you damming info on their bogus adulterated study which was stopped after 18 months of a scheduled 3 yr study as required by the FDA?!?