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<blockquote data-quote="seadragon" data-source="post: 1047926" data-attributes="member: 195124"><p>Ploughing through stuff from the BMJ it appears that statins can lower LDL by about 20% but then they were equating that to over 1 mmol/l so original LDL had to be at least 5mmol/l. At lower LDL concentrations the effect was apparently less. I can't help but wonder how this has been translated into a general 'lower is better' even for people who have what used to be considered a very 'normal' level of total cholesterol which I remember as being around 5.5 or so in total. </p><p>Anyway in my personal experiment I seem to have proven that a low carb/ high fat diet trumps statins for effectiveness and with actual positive side effects (weight loss, general well being, reduced blood sugar levels etc) rather than the potential negative ones from statins. I have obtained a 50% reduction in triglycerides (0.8 to 0.4), an increase in HDL of over 1mmol/l almost 50% increase in this so called 'good' cholesterol and a reduction of nearly 20% in LDL from a starting point of only 3.0mmol/l. Will definitely be giving statins a miss. </p><p>The downside is that I don't now get to go tell my doctor how I did it since the receptionist gave me the results and just said ' no action to be taken'.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="seadragon, post: 1047926, member: 195124"] Ploughing through stuff from the BMJ it appears that statins can lower LDL by about 20% but then they were equating that to over 1 mmol/l so original LDL had to be at least 5mmol/l. At lower LDL concentrations the effect was apparently less. I can't help but wonder how this has been translated into a general 'lower is better' even for people who have what used to be considered a very 'normal' level of total cholesterol which I remember as being around 5.5 or so in total. Anyway in my personal experiment I seem to have proven that a low carb/ high fat diet trumps statins for effectiveness and with actual positive side effects (weight loss, general well being, reduced blood sugar levels etc) rather than the potential negative ones from statins. I have obtained a 50% reduction in triglycerides (0.8 to 0.4), an increase in HDL of over 1mmol/l almost 50% increase in this so called 'good' cholesterol and a reduction of nearly 20% in LDL from a starting point of only 3.0mmol/l. Will definitely be giving statins a miss. The downside is that I don't now get to go tell my doctor how I did it since the receptionist gave me the results and just said ' no action to be taken'. [/QUOTE]
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