Posted by gromit on September 27, 2005, at 17:01:21
In reply to Re: AT MY WITS END -- Cholesterol Homocysteine, posted by vitaqueen on September 27, 2005, at 10:41:57
> I'm beginning to agree that the no-flush niacin isn't doing a thing. Seems I did better without it and just the red yeast rice. I tried policosonol in the past (by itself) with little or no change, but I never tried it in conjunction with red yeast rice. I'm thinking of doing that. I do take garlic and also 100 mg/day of a hydrosoluable CoQ10. I use to take 200/day but cut back because things were getting so expensive each month -- perhaps I should consider increasing this again???
I don't know if you should increase it or not, it seems like a reasonable dose. I think policosonol is pretty harmless, I started taking almost all of this stuff. Why not use all the bullets you have? Even if each of them only has a small effect perhaps the sum will be large enough make a real difference. The only problem I've had is flushing from niacin, I'm 99.99% sure that you need to take plain old niacin, everything I've read says that anyway.
> I use Earth Balance spread but heard about Benecol. Almost bought it but noticed in the ingredients a partially-hydrogenated oil; that seemed awfully counterproductive, so I didn't buy it, but I have heard about the benefits of plant sterols.Actually I've never tried Benecol, it's just the only name I could remember. Possibly I didn't buy it because it contained some bad fats, if you look around you can find a competing product that doesn't. The problem I have is the amount you need to eat with every meal, I just can't stomach that much buttery type stuff. So I used it as a healthier alternative not as a treatment if that makes sense. I use Cholest-Off as a treatment, it's plant sterols too, I get it at Costco but I just saw some at WalMart.
> I have been on statins in the past and always experienced muscle pain. I couldn't exercise because of it, so that was bothering me. Plus, I just don't believe in pharmaceuticals anymore. I feel there's got to be a more safe and natural way. God invented the earth, not test tubes, if you get my drift. It just seems every drug you take eventually leads to another one down the road you have to take to overcome the side effects of the previous one. Plus, Crestor, the one I was on the the time, was getting some bad publicity.Arghh, the last thing I need is more pain. I'm with you, never want to take a drug without first seeing what natural things can do. I'm not absolutely anti-drug but think it's worth trying other things first, if it's not enough maybe a combination will allow you to take a much smaller dose of the drugs and still have good results.
Rick
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