A Healthy Approach To Addressing High Cholesterol Fears

By Author: Craig Burton
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Here is an alternative approach to using statins according to the Price-Pottenger foundation.

"If statins work, in preventing heart disease they do so by reducing inflammation, not because they lower cholesterol." (1)

Statins block the production of mevalonate leading to inhibition of platelet clumping and reduction of inflammation in the artery walls.

However, simple changes in the diet can achieve the same effect without also cutting off the body's vital supply of cholesterol:

Avoid trans fats, known to contribute to inflammation

Avoid refined sugars, especially fructose, known to stimulate clumping of the blood platelets

Eat plenty of saturated fats, which encourage the production of anti-inflammatory prostaglandins

Eat coconut oil and coconut products; coconut oil protects against bacteria and viruses that can lead to inflammation in the artery wall

Eat foods high in copper, especially liver; copper deficiency is associated with clot formation and inflammation in the arteries

Avoid reduced-fat milks and powdered milk products (such as powdered whey); they ...
... contain oxidized cholesterol, shown to cause irritation of the artery wall

Take cod liver oil, an excellent dietary source of anti-inflammatory vitamin A, vitamin D and EPA

Take evening primrose, borage or black currant oil, sources of GLA which the body uses to make anti-inflammatory prostaglandins

Your 3d Coach
Craig Burton

Reference:
(1) Fallon, S and Enig, M PhD., "Dangers of statin drugs: what you haven't been told about popular cholesterol-lowering medicines", available at http://www.westonaprice.org