Anyone know if you can fly on statins like Lipitor for high cholesterol?????

***Sighhhhhhhhhhhh*** I have high cholesterol... I am twenty frickin five years old, I am 6' 1" and 155 lbs...

So I am not on statins yet - BUT if I have to be, whats this going to do?

 

Lipitor is OK, as long as you have no side effects. Just report it on your next medical.

 

Well Rick - hopefully I won't be on it for a good long while - I was just trying to get a heads up in case I do... fortunantly statins are big and theres a plethora of different LDL lowering drugs on the market.

 

Lipitor is reguarded as a scam to some......hire a conditioning coach or take an aerobics class and it will come down..doctors prescribe that stuff way to easy...there are all kinds of natural ways to bring it down as well and raise the good cholesterol..if u r only 25 u will have plenty of time to get it down....and half the people who have heart attacks have lo cholesterol anyway..an ex..

http://www.cardiacpower.com/

http://www.spacedoc.net/lipitor.htm

http://www.spacedoc.net/cholesterol_scam.html

http://mathiasconsulting.com/node/99


do some research and make your own opinion...

 

Diet AND exercise. That is what you need to do. What is your cholesterol and what are your HDL/LDL's ?

http://www.crestor.com/c/diet/index.aspx

Drink LOTS of orange juice and eat lots of almonds. 30 minutes of cardio a day.

 

Diet and exercise are great for so many reasons, and will lower your cholesterol some.

HOWEVER...if your genetics cause your cholesterol to be EXTREMELY high, the the modest benefits obtainable by lifestyle factors will probably not be able to lower into a safe range. Don't hesitate to do the meds if that is what you need to do. I had a very good buddy keel over dead from a massive MI..he was in his early forties (with wife & kid), EXTREMELY fit special ops guy who ran marathons and ate well. He had high cholesterol and didn't want to do the meds so he tried to manage it with lifestyle...not good enough in his case

 

I'm sitting here right now looking at a prescription that my AME gave me three years ago after an annual. Heart attack two years later. If your doctor wrote a script, take it, then work on getting it down with lifestyle.

 

this debate could go on for 100 pages...there are theories out there about how cholesterol sticks to the arteries...most believe that when u scar your arteries the cholesterol sticks to the scarring and causes blockage...if u don't have scarred arteries then the cholesterol, no matter how high, will flow right thru...that's why people with low cholesterol have heart attacks as well...so don't scar your arteries! google "scarred arteries" and it usually comes down to one reason...chlorine....go to home depot and get a filter for your shower and NEVER drink tap water


"The first thing is that people don't drink enough water. Everyone knows this. The second thing is that all water that we drink is incredibly toxic. All tap water has chemicals put in it, primarily chlorine and fluoride. The level of toxicity of both chlorine and fluoride is incredible. Drinking of chlorinated water, which is virtually all tap water, causes scarring of the arteries. When the arteries are scarred, the LDL cholesterol attaches itself to the artery causing arteriosclerosis. It is the same as Mother Earth and her streams. When they get polluted with debris, logs, brush etc, then they get clogged and also pick up other trash that we throw into her body."

 

Oh great. All those years as a little kid drinking water in the shower..

Do these "scarred arteries" heal?

Meh, I'll just look it up real quick..

 

Hmm...try the DASH diet..dietary approaches to stopping hypertension....it's pretty high in potassium, low in sodium, and I believe it is high in oats...It supposedly works pretty well as a last resort but you need to be pretty careful about it and should probably check with a doctor....that's the natural way newho...my family's got a few ppl who have hypertension and they just take a pill every day but it's kept my mom and my uncle at healthy levels...I'll have to ask my mom what the pills are when it's not 1:30 in the morning