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Biotech / Medical : Mining Cholesterol -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Peach who wrote (47)	5/29/2006 11:44:24 PM
From: E. Charters	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356

Your ratios look good. The ratios to look at are your TC/HDL and the "new" ratios of Lipoprotein A to HDL LDL to HDL and triglycerides to HDL. Try to raise your HDL and lower your homocysteine a bit. To do this you need to megadose B12 and Folic acid, 1-2 mcg each a day. Also take B1, B6, 100 mgs each and magnesium, 100 mgs, and walk 5 miles per day, briskly. In order to absorb the B's take zinc and copper in equal ratios. B's also require betaine, choline, inositol and biotin for absorption. (Check on those cu/zn ratios. It may be bad to take too much copper.) Pantethine and policosanol will raise your HDL a tad. Watch your cholesterol does not go too low. Cholesterol and B vitamins work in concert to metabolize fat in your system. It is vital for energy and fights infection. The key is to avoid peroxidation of cholesterol, not so much as to reduce it in serum that much. What the statins do is more than just reduce holesterol. That much seems evident. EC<:-}

To: Peach who wrote (47)	5/30/2006 12:06:25 AM
From: E. Charters	Respond to of 356

Policosanol will take 12 weeks to increase your HDL and lower LDL. Policosonal should be an extract from sugar cane to be effective. Organika and Natural Factors brands seem to work. Pantethine and Policosanol may not lower your LDL much, as they are mediators so to speak. They should however increase your HDL. If you take inositol hexanicotinate, you should take at least 2 grams of contained niacin per day. In concert with Pantethine, Policosanol and Guggul it is probably enough. My suggestion is to take Guggul under a physician's monitoring and consider cutting it out for a while from time to time. It may load up your liver a tad. EC<:-}