Evening Debbie,
>>At 08:05 PM 7/3/2007, you wrote:
it is okay for levels to be between 200 and 300.
This is one alternative doctor's opinion.
( William Campbell Douglass, MD )
Cholesterol in the blood does not come from the food we eat is why low
cholesterol diets don't work.
I think it is a symptom, not a cause. If cholesterol levels are way our of
range, this indicates a number of other things are wrong.
Seems I remember when normal was considered to be 240.
The highest mine has ever been was 214. In later years it was 165 to 185
which I fear may be too low.
I also wonder about the LDL and HDL myth. Reason being, me and most of my
healthy friends have about the same numbers, 39 to 43.
The sickest people I know in the world today have a HDL reading of in the
50's. One has cancer, one has bone disease, so bad he has a morphine pump
installed in his body, and the third one has
Lou Gehrig's Disease. Go Figure !
I had a long talk with a young cardiologist in a friends hospital room.
He was bragging about his cholesterol being 165 and the drug he used. I
said, "Mine is 165 and I don't take any drugs".
I asked him about his homocysteine. He said, "If you are worried about
that, you need to take this, this , and that".
I replied, I am not worried about mine, I know what it is. I am surprised
you do not know".
Not often do you find a doctor of any kind willing to engage in a
bull session. It was fun to say the least.
Here is a great website run by a great guy. I have communicated with him in
the past. ( Barry Groves )
http://www.second-opinions.co.uk/
He has many good articles, including one on "The Cholesterol Fraud".
Try it, you will find many great things.
Wayne
