How to avoid statin drugs if they won’t help YOU!....
Today's Post: Monday, 4-11-2011
Prevention Magazine has some useful information from time to time.
I just discovered they have one of the most important pieces of information on preventing heart disease and heart attacks in very good article called, “7 Heart Tests That Can Save Your Life.” (Today, it was still available at www.prevention.com .)
Next time we will cover the other advanced heart tests in the rest of that article.
Today, when far too many doctors only know to prescribe statin drugs if your total cholesterol is above 240 or your LDL is above 160 or you have other health risks such as type 2 diabetes, only SOME people actually get a benefit in heart protection by taking statin drugs.
Few doctors know this yet, unfortunately. And, if you are NOT someone who benefits from statins their risks and proven side effects and dollar cost mean you would do well to avoid them.
I learned this initially from a previous version of the website of the Berkeley Heart Lab. They found in fact that only a small minority benefitted from statins and that most of the subtypes of people they found did much better with niacin only.
But, although their test and their analysis of it will tell you if you are in that minority and much more besides, it COSTS something like $700.
Arthur Agatston, MD, the author of the South Beach Diet, turns out to be a first rate cardiologist too!
In the section on Genetic Testing in the Prevention article, , “7 Heart Tests That Can Save Your Life,” he says that these two genetic tests can be gotten for $130!
Dr. Agatston said that the KIF6 gene test predicts how effective statins are probably going to be for you in preventing a future heart attack.
He said that recent research found that those people with a certain variant of KIF6 got 41% drop in heart attack risk from taking statins. (This article suggests other people get a 6% drop in risk. I’ve read of other studies showing 1 to 3% reductions too!)
So, if you get that test and have that variant of KIF6, statins are much more likely to help you and would give you enough protection to be worth taking.
A drop in risk of 41 % is well worth having! (This is particularly the case if when you take the statin, you also take 100 mg twice a day of ubiquinol, the form of CoQ10 your body uses, to protect you from the depletion of CoQ10 from taking the statin. That prevents many of the worse side effects from taking the statin.)
But if you do NOT have that variant, niacin and lifestyle changes will protect you far better and spare you the risks, side effects, and costs of statin drugs.
My reading of the Berkeley Heart Lab information suggested that less than
10 % of the people are in the group that statins actually benefit enough to justify their use.
Everyone who is not in the group with that variant of KIF6 did better with niacin and got more heart attack prevention from it according to the Berkeley Heart Lab data.
The second genetic test is of less importance for what drugs to take but does help you know what kinds of foods to eat less of for heart attack prevention.
With the APOE gene, people with certain variants have a much greater response to a low-saturated-fat diet.
(Due to the effect of the excess omega 6 oils on chronic inflammation and the bioconcentrated herbicides, pesticides, etc in the fat of grain fed animals, anyone wanting to protect their health should eat less fatty meats and eat the leanest possible versions of poultry and meat and the least fat dairy products when they do eat the grain fed kind.
Since chronic inflammation as measured by the HSCRP test is associated with higher heart attack risk, this is important for everyone wanting heart attack protection.)
But what about eating butter or cheese or beef from animals eating only grass or their natural food from an unpolluted pasture?
Some people may have no problem with that for heart attack risk. This test can show you if you are someone who should minimize eating all saturated fat including the saturated fat from such animal protein sources too.
We will post on the other tests from that article tomorrow or next time. Some of those other tests are well worth knowing about too.
Today's Post: Monday, 4-11-2011
Prevention Magazine has some useful information from time to time.
I just discovered they have one of the most important pieces of information on preventing heart disease and heart attacks in very good article called, “7 Heart Tests That Can Save Your Life.” (Today, it was still available at www.prevention.com .)
Next time we will cover the other advanced heart tests in the rest of that article.
Today, when far too many doctors only know to prescribe statin drugs if your total cholesterol is above 240 or your LDL is above 160 or you have other health risks such as type 2 diabetes, only SOME people actually get a benefit in heart protection by taking statin drugs.
Few doctors know this yet, unfortunately. And, if you are NOT someone who benefits from statins their risks and proven side effects and dollar cost mean you would do well to avoid them.
I learned this initially from a previous version of the website of the Berkeley Heart Lab. They found in fact that only a small minority benefitted from statins and that most of the subtypes of people they found did much better with niacin only.
But, although their test and their analysis of it will tell you if you are in that minority and much more besides, it COSTS something like $700.
Arthur Agatston, MD, the author of the South Beach Diet, turns out to be a first rate cardiologist too!
In the section on Genetic Testing in the Prevention article, , “7 Heart Tests That Can Save Your Life,” he says that these two genetic tests can be gotten for $130!
Dr. Agatston said that the KIF6 gene test predicts how effective statins are probably going to be for you in preventing a future heart attack.
He said that recent research found that those people with a certain variant of KIF6 got 41% drop in heart attack risk from taking statins. (This article suggests other people get a 6% drop in risk. I’ve read of other studies showing 1 to 3% reductions too!)
So, if you get that test and have that variant of KIF6, statins are much more likely to help you and would give you enough protection to be worth taking.
A drop in risk of 41 % is well worth having! (This is particularly the case if when you take the statin, you also take 100 mg twice a day of ubiquinol, the form of CoQ10 your body uses, to protect you from the depletion of CoQ10 from taking the statin. That prevents many of the worse side effects from taking the statin.)
But if you do NOT have that variant, niacin and lifestyle changes will protect you far better and spare you the risks, side effects, and costs of statin drugs.
My reading of the Berkeley Heart Lab information suggested that less than
10 % of the people are in the group that statins actually benefit enough to justify their use.
Everyone who is not in the group with that variant of KIF6 did better with niacin and got more heart attack prevention from it according to the Berkeley Heart Lab data.
The second genetic test is of less importance for what drugs to take but does help you know what kinds of foods to eat less of for heart attack prevention.
With the APOE gene, people with certain variants have a much greater response to a low-saturated-fat diet.
(Due to the effect of the excess omega 6 oils on chronic inflammation and the bioconcentrated herbicides, pesticides, etc in the fat of grain fed animals, anyone wanting to protect their health should eat less fatty meats and eat the leanest possible versions of poultry and meat and the least fat dairy products when they do eat the grain fed kind.
Since chronic inflammation as measured by the HSCRP test is associated with higher heart attack risk, this is important for everyone wanting heart attack protection.)
But what about eating butter or cheese or beef from animals eating only grass or their natural food from an unpolluted pasture?
Some people may have no problem with that for heart attack risk. This test can show you if you are someone who should minimize eating all saturated fat including the saturated fat from such animal protein sources too.
We will post on the other tests from that article tomorrow or next time. Some of those other tests are well worth knowing about too.
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