Comments on: The lipid hypothesis

By: mreades

mreades — Fri, 27 May 2011 00:14:23 +0000

Hi Dr. Ostric–

I’m flattered to be asked, but as you can see from the limited posting I’m doing on my own blog, time is at a premium for me right now. I can’t find the time to write the many posts I’ve got planned for this site, so I can hardly commit to writing for others. Thanks much, though, for the request. If things ever settle down for me in my new day job as an appliance salesman, I’ll maybe have time to write for others. But until then, I can’t do it. Feel free to excerpt any of my posts whenever you want, just be sure to link back to this site and give me credit.

By: S. Andrei Ostric

S. Andrei Ostric — Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:39:51 +0000

Dear Dr. Mike, I’m a plastic and reconstructive surgeon practicing in Chicago, and I also write a blog on my website which discusses many different things most of which are not related to plastic surgery directly, but I’m trying to achieve a life well lived. I think in our current society, most of us don’t live by the philosophy, life will live but rather we rely on who has the most toys wins, and that translates into making money being skinny being popular and all the vacuous accoutrements of this lifestyle. I think all this numbers jockeying with the lipid hypothesis is simply an extension of that, in addition it makes an enormous amount of money on behalf of pharmaceutical companies or products that may ultimately be very harmful. After all we always have to remember as doctors that we as humans have been around with our doctors and pharmaceutical companies and hospitals for at least 99% of our existence on earth. Mother nature in short doesn’t make that many mistakes if any at all. That’s why I look to nature to find answers, and I think science but is well done can help us unlock some of those mysteries. I appreciate your blog very much because I myself, am very concerned that we are missing the point in Western medicine about what health and beauty and fitness are all about, they’re about feeling good at living well. I ran across the movie by Fat-Head by Tom Naughton, and I wrote a review on it on my blog. I have subsequently looked for resources to discuss the lipid hypothesis, and also really try to expose the hidden incentives and what I feel is the politicized approach to health that is all too common in Western medicine. You have an excellent blog, and intend to link to your blog from my blog, and if you would like to write a short blurb about the lipid hypothesis as a guest blogger that would be fabulous and I would appreciate that very much.

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 30 Apr 2010 04:04:50 +0000

BTW I got no relief from fatigue, sore muscles and joints etc from taking ubiquinone. However after a few weeks on ubiquinol, I feel a new man

By: mreades

mreades — Sat, 20 Feb 2010 07:03:29 +0000

I might consider changing doctors. I would also seriously consider taking some CoQ10 to see if it helps with the post-statin muscle weakness. Good luck. I hope you get better.

By: Fred

Fred — Fri, 19 Feb 2010 01:43:01 +0000

Dear Dr Eades as I still have generalised weakness long after stopping statins, my Dr sent me for a Doppler Ultra Sound scan. This showed “exemplary” arteries. My Dr seemed angry about this since I’m 63, diabetic with high cholesterol and won’t take my statins
Fred

By: Fred

Fred — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 19:59:57 +0000

Sara yes that’s right. I was just addressing another issue as well Fred

By: Sara

Sara — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 17:37:32 +0000

Fred, that’s not my point at all. What I was saying is that unless the 50% of the general population who has high cholesterol and the 50% of the general population who have heart attacks are the same 50% (which they are not, because only 50% of people who have heart attacks also have high cholesterol), the relationship between high cholesterol and heart attacks is likely spurious, not causal. It proves nothing about cholesterol causing heart attacks.

By: Fred

Fred — Tue, 26 Jan 2010 19:54:18 +0000

Sara at last someone who understands the point I was making. BTW it’s not much use saying statins treat a number not a disease; hypertension is a number as well (well 2 numbers). So is high blood sugar. Neither usually gives symptoms. Is it being suggested we ignore high blood pressure and high blood sugar?

By: Sara

Sara — Mon, 25 Jan 2010 21:30:09 +0000

I realize I’m very late to the game here, but according to http://www.answers.com/topic/cholesterol-high, the FDA says half the adult population has “high cholesterol”. If, in accordance with Dr. Eades statistic, half of the people who have heart attack also have “high cholesterol”, this means that cholesterol is effectively irrelevant in predicting heart attacks.

Interesting.

By: Michael McEvoy CNC CMTA

Michael McEvoy CNC CMTA — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:37:44 +0000

Viruses don’t cause disease, neither do germs, bacteria, parasites or fungus. They can only cause harm if the internal environment supports their existence and promulgation.
Pasteur got it dead wrong, and admitted it on his deathbed. Antoine Bechamp was the real genius, but he was not lauded by European aristocracy like Louis was.

So we live in the germ theory paradigm. Fiction.