As promissed/warned, here is the new news on cholesterol
Friend,

For years now it has been pointed out that just as many people
who have low cholesterol have heart attacks as those what have
high cholesterol. This certainly explains why switching to low
fat foods and lowering cholesterol as a whole has had little or
no impact on heart disease over the last 30 years.

But, one of the most commonly prescribed drugs in the world –
statins, are used to lower cholesterol , and there is evidence
that they do decrease heart attacks, not by very much though (if
you are ‘at risk’ but have had no heart attack it decreases
your chances by 1%, if you’ve already had a heart attack it
helps by 4%).
http://pharmamkting.blogspot.com/2008/01/statin-lottery-number-needed-to-treat.html

The strange thing is though, if you only look at people who have
low cholesterol statins have a better effect! This means that
they do not work by lowering blood cholesterol, and only provides
further evidence that lowering your blood cholesterol is a red
herring.

A researcher at Leeds University has been studying the heart,
cholesterol and statins for some years and seems to have come up
with an explanation. There are some tiny parts of the heart
called caveolae which NEED cholesterol to help control heart
contraction. Statins stop cholesterol reaching this area –
thus altering the way heart muscle can contract. What is not
known yet is if this is a good thing or a bad thing to do!
http://www.physorg.com/news109512784.html

In the end though Friend, surely it will mean a weaker heart, and can
be no replacement for a healthy lifestyle and approach as
outlined by Dr Al Sears, in both his exercise program and his
heart book –
http://pace.empoweredexercises.com/

Now if you go and read the new article on my blog, you’ll know
more about cholesterol and its function in the body than most.
http://drchrispickard.blogspot.com/

Best of Health

Dr Chris