HEARThrive - Module 3 - Cholesterol and Dubious Statins
How To Decide Whether You Need to Lower Your Cholesterol with Drugs
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When you look at your cholesterol test results, you will know how to assess them in conjunction with other blood tests to decide whether your cholesterol is OK.
Armed with your newfound knowledge that cholesterol is carried inside microscopic particles, you can ask your doctor to order advanced tests to measure them.
If you want to take a statin, ask your doctor to start you on a lower dose, because it may produce significant results with a lower risk of side effects.
Some experts place very little value in statins to lower cardiovascular risk. Give some examples (Lecture 13) to your doctor if you don't want to take a statin.
Before blindly accepting your doctor's prescription for a statin, ask him to request a CAC scan first. If your score is low, you don't need a statin drug.
Instead of a statin to lower cholesterol, get yourself metabolically healthy by eliminating wheat, sugar and starchy grains in your diet.
Use key supplements to support your heart health, including vitamin D, magnesium, fish oil and CoQ10. Always take CoQ10 if you are on a statin drug.
A potentially harmful influence on your heart is poor gut health. You can address that by watching HEARThrive Module 9.
Cardiologist Dr. Davis says poor thyroid function (often undiagnosed) is a cardiac risk factor. Learn how to optimize your thyroid in HEARThrive Module 12.
Before jumping onto the statin bandwagon, explore new possibilities: eating more fat and less carbs and sugar, not snacking, and time-restricted eating.
You can track your triglycerides and HDL cholesterol to verify whether your diet is on the right track. The worst combination is having high trigs and low HDL.
When you explore the concepts of insulin, insulin resistance, and metabolic health, you'll achieve heart health much faster than by taking a statin drug.
Become conscious of how your doctor pays little attention to your triglycerides and HDL. He'll just focus on LDL and push a statin to lower it. You know better.
Ignore mainstream dietary advice about lowering cholesterol and reducing saturated fat to achieve heart health. You can now just look the other way.
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