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Re: Need You To Answer - Are you or Have Your Been On Chol.....


If you look at the steriod hormone cascade, cholesterol is the raw material for all of the adrenal hormones. 

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Steroidogenesis.svg

If you think about it, if your adrenal glands are not putting this raw material to use to make adrenal hormones.....cholesterol levels will rise.

May 2007,  128 mg/dL  (reference range 0-99)

In 2009, my LDL was slightly high:  136 mg/dL  (reference range 0-132)

In my latest lab (May 2011), my LDL cholesterol is down to 92 (reference range 0-99).

So even though they lowered the upper limit, I am now below the upper limit.  I am feeling much better than I was in 2008 and 2009, so I believe my adrenal glands are using more cholesterol...so my levels are down.

When I went to see Dr Rind in 2008, he said not to worry about the cholesterol and to focus on the adrenal glands.  

Plus, he also told me that the committee that voted to lower the cholesterol limit has 4 of 6 doctors that were affiliated with a pharmaceutical company.  In his opinion the reference range was lowered to sell more drugs.

 

 

 

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