ollie989898
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Erm………………
IMO, the most within the NHS are obsessed with Cholesterol and Statins. Some of it are now less convinced.
I’m not going to recommend you stop taking them and you’ll have to make your own decisions about it all.
These are my views:
Cholesterol does not cause heart problems. Carbohydrates do.
If you stop eating Cholesterol, our bodies will make their own. It is a vital part of what we need and Satins stop it.
It is only damaged LDL Cholesterol that is in any way harmful to us. This only comes from Highly processed foods.
The proof is in those who have such gone onto the Carnivore diet and actually increase their Cholesterol intake, yet end up remarkably healthy and have lost weight.
There is plenty about this on YouTube, but one person in particular who likes to dig deep into the claims and pull them apart.
He is Dr Eric Westman.
It’s up to you to research it and make your own decisions.
I’d recommend not taking too much notice or listening to anybody that is stuck in the mud, within the NHS in that journey, before you decide what you want to do. IMO, brilliant as the NHS is, it isn’t always right.
If you don't understand simple terminology such as 'endogenous' and 'exogenous' then you frankly don't have sufficient understanding to be telling people stopping statins or ACE inhibitors is a great idea.
The NHS does not hand out medications for the lulz. Much research and discussion has gone into the use of statins and anti-hypertensives. Very clever people at NICE will have worked out if the risk of these medications is proportional to the benefit they convey to the masses. These medicines have been around a fair while and the evidence base is sizeable.
But fudge it: it's your heart, kidneys or brain, not mine.