My Bjj do you find that there is a correlation between lowering
of LDL and lowering of inflammation with statins
yes so for the people that have FH I mean familial hypercholesterolemia which there are about 2,000
snips for those of you who don't know what a snip is most of it think of it as a mutation
it's not technically a mutation but it's a genetic variation there's about 2,000 genetic variations
that have been defined so far that cause FH extremely high cholesterol levels for example
that's LDL not total cholesterol LDL 180 or above if you've ever had that you're very likely to have
familial hypercholesterolemia and there's a lot of you out there as you get into those levels and
higher you do get some challenges associated with this issue but as I mentioned earlier
not nearly as much as what the typical medical community member thinks so the second part of
your question is this the reason why statins lower inflammation no so a great question Bjj
is the decreased cardiovascular inflammation associated with decreased LDL it certainly
does not appear to be the case and I'll give you a couple of reasons and examples why one of the more
effective ones statins at lowering LDL is that old standard Lipitor and uh oh I mentioned the
brand name so the YouTube algorithm is going to cut us off for advertisements on this but
Lipitor is great in terms of lowering LDL but it's not so good in terms of decreasing inflammation
so that in and of itself helps you understand that these are two different mechanisms the
mechanism for decreasing that inflammation is not entirely understood but one thing that is
understood is it does not seem to correlate that well with lowering LDL you go back to the JUPITER
study you go back to multiple studies you go back to the example I just gave and you know
you look at some others here's another example low doses of the correct statins lower inflammation
and may not have that much of an impact on LDL levels for example people that are on statins will
typically come to me one of the patients yesterday had stopped taking statins his doctor had put
him on 20 mg of Lipitor 20 or 40 I mean it was a significant dosage and he didn't like it he was
having a lot of muscle problems so he stopped it he'd been off it for quite a few months before he
came to see me here was an interesting thing that we looked at he had no inflammation his LDL was
what 130 140 it was more than what most doctors would be comfortable with but here's the thing
the CIMT showed an arterial age of what 35 and this individual was 61 years old Superman in terms
of arteries and he had no discrete plaque he had no plaque so you know he and I talked and he said
one of the reasons I came to see you was I know your perspective on this stuff my doc kept trying
to put me on a statin I'm getting in a lot of pain from these I don't want it and I'm wanting to know
from you do you think I need one well I mean most of you know my perspective I don't think that just
an LDL level is that dangerous and b) the reason to put somebody on a statin I don't think Framingham
is the reason to put somebody on a statin and I don't use stress tests what I look at is whether
you have plaque because if you don't have plaque you're not going to have a heart attack at least
the kind that we're talking about you can have some dysrhythmias and some totally different
things that sometimes get cold heart attack but you're not going to have what we're talking about
with myocardial infarction or a heart attack associated with plaque you're not going to have one
if you have no plaque so my perspective was if I were you and I had the total lack of inflammation
that you have if I have the total lack of plaque that you have I wouldn't take it you don't need
it right now so again as usual I went down a whole bunch of bunny holes I hope that answered
your question there is little to no correlation between lowering ldl and lowering cardiovascular
inflammation
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into the ER are things that should have been prevented including heart attack stroke number
one cause of death number one cause of permanent disability people think that you're just to have
those and that they're not predictable both of those are wrong they are predictable and you don't
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