Fruit Pectin Cholesterol Cure
I was diagnosed in June '07 from a May blood test. Doc said it was hereditary and there was no dietary fix to be had. Prescribed Lipitor at $3./day for the rest of my life! I numbly bought the pills but Googled the drug before taking. There is a 5.6% rate of severe muscular degeneration! I never took them out of the wrapper.
Further Googles turned up an array of natural treatments but only one had scientific studies attached to a great deal of anecdotal evidence - FRUIT PECTIN. The study was on pigs and the grapefruit rinds cured them.
5 months later all 5 indicators read NORMAL!...whereas all 5 were badly out of whack back in May.
The Cure: Buy liquid fruit pectin, same as for jam and jelly making. I found Certo brand at the Superstore for $3. a box which lasts about 3 weeks. Mix 1 teaspoon with juice. I like veggy juice or orange. Take once a day for the first week and then 3 times per day hence.
Note that since my condition is hereditary I did not attempt to alter my eating habits at all. I am a fit and trim man and have modified my eating habits decades ago to maintain appropriate weight to height ratio.
Now that I am 'cured' I will drop my pectin intake to 1 teaspoon/day. In Jan'08 I will be tested again to see in the lower maintenance dose is effective.
Good Luck to All,
Terry
PS:
Take responsibility for your own health by educating yourself.
Don't trust Doctors. They are paid directly by drug companies.
Do not accept advice, carte blanche, from people without names.
I am not sure why your total and ldl cholesterol went up, but given the fact that you did not change your medications, it is almost certainly caused by dietary changes.
Lovastatin ( which is the statin in advicor) was the original statin, was discovered in the early 1980s and has by far the lowest potency of any of the current available statins. Despite being the first statin it is not the best studied as well, and the evidence we now have regarding the benefits from statins in heart disease come primarily from other more powerful statins ( such as zocor pravachol or lipitor). I would recommend you to change to one of these, and also consider crestor as an option, despite the lack of mortality data from this particular medication, because of its improved metabolic profile and less deleterious effects on hdl levels.