How I Drove My Cholesterol And Triglycerides Into The Ground — Naturally!
And Stopped My MD from Murdering Me With a Statin Drug
My MD brought up a graph on his computer screen and said to me, “If your triglycerides stay at this level we can predict that you will have a heart event at some point during the next 10 years.” Heart ‘event’ meaning either heart disease, a heart attack or any number of heart-related maladies.
In layman’s terms, triglycerides are a blood fat resulting from too many unburned calories from carbohydrates and from too much sugar. Without getting into medical jargon, Normal triglyceride levels are between 140–150, Borderline high is 150–199, High is 200 to 499 and Very High is 500 or above.
The MD’s graph showed my triglyceride level to be at a morbidly dangerous 673! I should be dead! My cholesterol levels were almost as bad. My good cholesterol numbers were not good at all and my bad cholesterol numbers were through the roof! To be clear, I am not some overweight couch potato who brought this on himself through inactivity, TV watching, playing video games and a diet of Ding Dongs. I was 6 feet tall, 215 pounds and worked out in the weight room at the YMCA five days a week.
The MD’s Death Sentence
I posed the obvious question to my MD — “How do I get those numbers down?” His answer was the same one my former (now retired) MD gave me — “You can’t do it naturally or with your diet. You can only do it with a statin.”
I bristled at hearing the word ‘statin’. MD’s know full well that statins are mass murder. The sole purpose of statins is to shrink cholesterol. Your brain is made of cholesterol. Your cells are made of cholesterol. Your sex hormones are made of cholesterol. Your nervous system is made of cholesterol.
Not so surprisingly, non-pharmaceutical-funded studies show no correlation between cholesterol and heart disease. A Russian doctor did a meta-analysis of all the research published worldwide on heart disease and found that when you remove pharmaceutical-funded studies there is no correlation between cholesterol and heart disease.
However, studies have shown a direct correlation between the rise in statin prescriptions and the rise in Alzhimer’s Disease and other forms of dementia. No surprise there. The rise in Alzhimer’s disease parallels the introduction of statin drugs into the market. Also no surprise that the medical and pharmaceutical industries have turned a blind eye to this statistic. Declaring a statin as a patient’s only choice lets the MD off the hook. He does not have to admit, “I have no training in curing anything. I’ve only been trained in dispensing drugs to suppress your symptoms.”
The MD also has a financial incentive for prescribing statins, thus contributing to the $25 billion annual statin juggernaut. While it would be unethical, if not illegal, for an MD to accept an outright kickback for an impressive track record of prescribing statins, an appreciative pharmaceutical company sales rep might be more than happy to send the doctor and his wife to a ‘medical conference’ in Hawaii. At this ‘medical conference’ the doctor need only attend a few seminars (disguised as continuing education) on how to prescribe/sell more statins and then he and his wife are free to enjoy the sun and surf for the rest of the week.
The hospital or clinic the doctor works for is also financially invested in the statin scam. The medical industry is heavily invested in the nursing home chains. They got ya comin’ and goin’! The MD gets his free trip, the pharmaceutical companies reap huge profits and the medical industry is happy to have you check into one of their dementia hotels until you’re broke or dead. Remember, you have no value if you’re cured and healthy.
My Scorched Earth, Take-No-Prisoners Diet
When my MD delivered my statin death sentence I politely refused, left the exam room and embarked on a scorched-earth triglyceride and cholesterol- killing diet. I was mad and I was out to prove a point and to prove him wrong.
For the next four months my diet included no sugar — none — and a drastic cut in my carbohydrate intake. What did this mean? First, no ice cream, cookies, cakes, pastries, pies, candy, sugar treats and desserts of any kind. What made this especially tough is I was on this spartan regimen over the Christmas and New Years holidays when I was surrounded by everything I couldn’t eat.
Next was the war on carbohydrates which meant no bread, no sandwiches, no hot dogs or hamburgers with buns, no cereal, no pizza, no pasta — nothing flour based. All these foods turn to sugar and sugar increases triglycerides. I read labels and was amazed at how many carbohydrates are in a can of beans or frozen fish — two items I thought were healthy choices.
After four months of this I scheduled a blood test and crossed my fingers. Admittedly, I was going to be devastated and disappointed if my numbers did not drastically improve.
The results? My good cholesterol numbers doubled to a healthy range. My bad cholesterol was cut in half, also to a healthy range.
My triglycerides went from 673 to 138, two points below the 140 normal range! I also lost 15 pounds in the process going from 215 to 200.
The Doc Didn’t Want To Know How I Did It!
A few days after I received my results via the clinic’s website I received a phone call from one of the clinic’s nursing assistants. She informed me that the doctor said my numbers were ‘good’. I told her I was well aware of my results as they had been posted days earlier. She then tried to get me to schedule a physical — which was the real reason for her call. There’s money to be made here.
I informed her that my numbers were such that I was in pretty good shape and was not in need of an immediate physical — it could wait a year. After I hung up the phone my anger boiled over. The clinic had the audacity to have a nursing assistant call to tell me my numbers were ‘good’. I would have thought that when the MD saw my triglyceride and cholesterol numbers he would have called me personally to ask, “How the hell did you do that?”
I know full well why he didn’t. First, he would be admitting he was wrong about statins and his assertion that high cholesterol and triglycerides can only be controlled with statin drugs. Second, if I told him how I did it he would be ethically and morally obligated to tell future patients that their cholesterol and triglyceride conditions could be remedied without a statin — naturally.
My anger subsided and turned to laughter. Morals and ethics in the allopathic, MD-directed, reductionist medical world do not exist. If the MD got caught telling patients there was a natural, non-statin answer to their dilemma he’d be run out of the clinic or hospital as a heretic! He was not about to commit professional suicide by telling me the truth about deadly statin drugs.
