Category Archives: Lipoprotein(a)

Seasonal Variation in Blood Cholesterol

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More on Vitamin C and Cardiovascular Disease

Vitamin C (ascorbic acid) is an important water soluble antioxidant in humans. In this role, vitamin C interacts primarily with glutathione and vitamin E to protect the cell from oxidative stress. Vitamin C can by synthesised in most mammals, but … Continue reading

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Seven Reasons why Cholesterol Testing is Pointless

Cholesterol testing is big business, which perhaps explains why it is so widespread. Certainly the actual point of testing the blood cholesterol of large numbers of the population has little benefit and is little to do with science. Cholesterol testing … Continue reading

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Vegetables Lower Cholesterol Levels

The nutritional literature shows that changes to the levels of certain plasma lipoproteins that carry cholesterol are associated with an increased risk of developing the disease. In particular high plasma levels of the very low density lipoprotein (VLDL; triglycerides), the … Continue reading

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Dietary Cholesterol is Not Bad

A number of changes to blood lipids have been identified that alter the risk of developing cardiovascular disease. These including increases in plasma low density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, increases in triglycerides, increases in lipoprotein(a), decreases in high density lipoprotein (HDL) … Continue reading

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The Pharmacological Effects of Niacin

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Cholesterol Testing: Mostly Pointless

Cholesterol testing is currently popular in the allopathic medicine, despite its questionable validity as a diagnostic tool. The current paradigm states that dietary cholesterol raises level of plasma cholesterol, and this in turn leads to the formation of atherosclerosis which … Continue reading

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More Cholesterol Lowering Nutrients: Rice Bran oil

 number of nutrients have been researched for their ability to lower plasma cholesterol concentrations in humans. In many cases the lowering effects are as great or greater than the current cholesterol lowering drugs of choice, the statins. However, the nutrients … Continue reading

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More on Niacin and Cholesterol

he cholesterol theory of cardiovascular disease erroneously supposes that dietary cholesterol is the cause of atherosclerosis. The pharmaceutical industry is interested in this theory because selling cholesterol lowering drugs is profitable. Most people who have not investigated the matter might … Continue reading

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Niacin and Cholesterol

ccording to proponents of the cholesterol theory of cardiovascular disease, dietary cholesterol raises plasma levels of certain lipoproteins, which leads to the development of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. The treatment for this problem is claimed to be the administration of … Continue reading

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