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To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (75881)	10/8/2004 7:50:12 PM
From: John Carragher	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 793820

i use a couple of niacins tabs at meals for cleaning out the choles.. and a home made bran muffian in the morning. hang in around 195 or lower but a lot cheaper than precription drugs. i am sure if i exercised more and watched my diet more choles would drop further. but i wonder how much of a difference it would make overall?

To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (75881)	10/8/2004 8:55:45 PM
From: abstract	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 793820

You are DEAD wrong about statins. Statins reduce the incidence of heart attack 40%, besides lowering cholesterol. There are other ways to lower cholesterol. There are no better ways to reduce heart attacks unless you want to go back and reselect your parents. I wish you good health and good decisions. Please continue your research. Your life may depend on it.

To: Alastair McIntosh who wrote (75881)	10/8/2004 9:04:10 PM
From: Ilaine	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793820

As someone with rheumatoid arthritis, my experience is that Celebrex is far easier on my tummy than NSAIDs. I don't get any GI pain from Celebrex. Lovely stuff. I also take a statin for cholesterol, which probably helps with inflammation, too, although that's "off label." The pharmaceutical industry as we know it is still relatively new - a hundred years ago they were treating dysentery with calomel, which is a purgative! And antibiotics only since WWII! So I agree that you need to be careful. If you don't take NSAIDs on a daily basis, you don't need Celebrex. And if you don't get GI pain, you can stick with tried and true OTC ibuprofen and aspirin.