QUESTION:
 
I would like to know if I should take vytorin while using your products?
I was started on vytorin on 3-1-07.
Also:
My cholesterol is 301.
hdl 50
ldl could not be tested because of my high triglycerides which are 590
The only other thing that my blood work showed high is my glucose which is 101.
I am a white male age 40 height 5' 6" weight is 180lbs. I live somewhat of a active life style. I jog 3 miles everyday and I do some moderate weight lifting. My diet is very light with hardly any meat in it. I mostly eat salads, fruit and vegetables. So needless to say I was very shocked by my results. I can relate to the story that I read on your web site.
Anyway my doctor did not break this down to me so I have no idea where I stand on the scale with most people. If you can offer any information with the results from my blood work I would really appreciate it,
Thanks:
Rickey
 
ANSWER:
 
Hi Rickey,

Yes, 301 is a bit high for most but not to panic... Also your HDL is good... As high cholesterol could be a family trait that doesn't present a problem for you as with my husband's family... His family ALL run 300 - 400 regularly and still live a very long life - 80's to 90's and do not stroke or have heart disease... So check out your family's history first to see if it's a familial thing. Your doctor will not tell you that cholesterol reading is okay as he/she was taught, by the drug industry, that it is bad for everyone, but my history of watching patients for 20+ years and my husband's family tells me that it can be okay. Also if you read the insert flier that came with Vytorin you will find somewhere in small print a disclaimer that tells you that "this medication has not proven to prevent heart disease or stroke." That really galls me as the doctor's tell you that's the reason you need to lower your cholesterol... The drug companies know that it doesn't make you healthy nor prevent heart disease or stroke but it does make them billions of dollars every month...

It seems that you are doing all the right things as far as diet and exercise goes. I question your stress factor though? You don't mention that? Stress can be a huge factor in cholesterol elevation and heart disease or stroke... If that is the case and you are under a great deal of pressure and stress you might want to add Tolerance StressX Master Formula to your regimen and see what happens with your cholesterol readings after a few weeks...

Answer to your question about taking Vytorin with your natural cholesterol protocol Dr. Garland recommended? No, prescribed cholesterol drugs only suppress areas of the body that are needed to work to create a healthier body and depletes your body of nutrients necessary for good health so that will cause your body to start to break down sometime in the future... Vytorin being one of those... You will not need it with the herbal formula and minerals...  Follow directions as emailed to you... Do not expect immediate results as herbs and minerals work different than chemical drugs and will have to take time to get your body in balance so that all areas work better and can lower your cholesterol, if in fact your body needs it lowered...

My concerns about Vytorin and other cholesterol lowering drugs; In their own Vytorin information sheet it states that there was sterility and testicular shrinkage in rats and dogs, making it 22 times more likely than with humans. It doesn't say it won't happen in men just that is' more likely to happen in the animals... Being only 40 you might want to take that into consideration... Over the years I've discovered that format of language is nothing more than jargan to try and placate the human race into thinking a drug is safe for them when later years (20 or more years down the line) it's proven the human factor was the same or more so than the animals likely hood... So if I were a man I wouldn't touch Vytorin with a ten-foot-pole if I valued my sterility factor or testicles!!!  Another factor is that Vytorin is touted to work by suppressing the intestinal tract, and in doing so will upset the necessary natural intestinal flora and that can mean serious consequences later as diseases - as a whole begin from lack of natural flora balance in the intestinal system - take hold making this a really serious concern...

Answer to your question regarding readings; Here is the drug company's explanation...

[HDL and LDL are two different kinds of cholesterol that are measured as an index of a patient's risk for cardiovascular disease. HDL stands for high-density lipoprotein and LDL stands for low-density lipoprotein. Total cholesterol measures the combination of HDL and LDL, along with several other factors. The levels of "fats" in the blood-total cholesterol, HDL (a called "good cholesterol") and LDL ("bad cholesterol") and triglycerides have been used for years to predict the risk of heart disease in men. Higher cholesterol, LDL, triglycerides, and/or low HDL all are associated with increased risk of heart diseases in men. The goal was to increase HDL, and lower LDL and total cholesterol. Little was done to lower elevated triglyceride levels. The men's rates of disease dropped.]

Your HDL of 50 is good, in the traditional medical world's thinking... Their brochure also suggest HDL 40 and above is good... So the high cholesterol, is being balanced out with the high 50 HDL, making it even less to worry about, in my opinion... Now LDL, said to be fatty diet induced, is the tricky one as they actually don't have a really good reading... Everything is listed as optimal or high? Yet they will tell you that under 100 is optimal? What does that mean (Optimum definition = Most favorable or advantageous)?  As History has told me that means anything the pharmaceutical industry wants it to mean... Yet over 100 is high risk for heart disease? I love the song and dance they gave you saying they couldn't test it with the Triglycerides so high... Maybe the labs have been lied too? I don't know... So I don't even worry about that one as they can't decide good or bad - so I suspect it isn't even important - why worry then?  If your blood when it was drawn was not creamy (off white) don't worry much about it... I've drawn blood that looked like slightly pink tinted cream and most every time it was from a person who lived in a very high stress situation... For a really absolute reading find a D.O. or clinic that does what's called a "Dark Field" analysis... They prick your finger, mix it with a special oil and examine it under a dark field microscope to see how healthy your cells are... Most with high cholesterol, when examined in dark field, are perfectly okay with no clumping or abnormal cells... Clumping of red cells is supposed to be the problem with elevated cholesterol but about 60% of the patients, in dark field examination who had clumping had low to normal cholesterol readings...

You don't smoke, you get exercise, although I would suggest you add a couple of days of walking on off days of jogging to maximize that area. You eat well so you really are not in the problem range. Make sure your minerals balance is as it should by the supplementing, to 1 teaspoon twice daily, with the 84 minerals and trace minerals that you received in your Cholesterol Control Repair Kit... That is important to the whole body... Keep stress damage to a minimum... If you have a high stress level get Dr. Garland's Tolerance StressX formula and take 1 or 2 capsules three times a day to both lower the stress and control any damage caused by the stress...

All the studies done over the last several years has found that inflammation in the body is the real danger not cholesterol... So make sure your gums and teeth are healthy and if you develop herpes type inflammation in the body, then take drastic measure to control it...

Be sure and check in and let us know how you are doing with your protocol or with any other questions.

Regards,
Lena

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