Omega-3 lowered my cholesterol...

I had a blood test several years ago and my cholesterol and triglycerides
were very high (I think it was in the mid-200s or something). I didn't
have enough money to go on statins, then I heard about omega-3 in fish
oil and have been taking about 4-5g a day for the last year.

I went in for a new test last month and while I had hoped the fish oil
had lowered it enough so the doctor wouldn't yell at me, but when I went
in for the results he told me my numbers were perfect. Total was 125, HDL
was 47, LDL was 70, and triglyceride was 48. My doctor told me to keep
doing whatever I was doing, which in my case is a diet of red meat, milk
and cheese, refined starches, and lots of salt, with lots of olive oil
and fish oil capsules added to the saturated grease.

This just seems to good to be true. I'll admit I have lost at least 20kg
since the horrible blood test a few years ago, and while I need less
blood pressure medicine, and I can't imagine that minor weight loss could
cause a nearly 150-point reduction in total cholesterol. I swear I suffer
from metabolic syndrome - complete with belly fat and high blood pressure
and glucose that directly corresponds with my weight - and it just seems
odd that so many similar people are put on expensive and dangerous statin
drugs that aren't nearly as effective as natural omega-3 fatty acids.

I'm hardly some new-age holistic natural-healing freak, and all I believe
in is science and I have my personal experience as evidence, and I've
been reading other people's personal accounts with fish oil, with one
person on Lipitor whose 200+ number was reduced to 94 after he added the
fish oil capsules. My opinion is that high cholesterol and its related
symptoms are the result of a nutritional deficiency, and treating it with
drugs instead of the missing vital nutrient doesn't make sense from a
medical point of view. It does make sense from a financial point of view,
as omega-3 can't be patented, while Medicare Part D will pay $500 a pill
for Lipitor and other statin drugs.

Sounds exciting. How much olive oil and how many fish oil capsules per day
did you take?

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"Those who cannot learn from history are doomed to repeat it". -- George
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"crack baby" wrote in message
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I had a blood test several years ago and my cholesterol and triglycerides
were very high (I think it was in the mid-200s or something). I didn't
have enough money to go on statins, then I heard about omega-3 in fish
oil and have been taking about 4-5g a day for the last year.

I went in for a new test last month and while I had hoped the fish oil
had lowered it enough so the doctor wouldn't yell at me, but when I went
in for the results he told me my numbers were perfect. Total was 125, HDL
was 47, LDL was 70, and triglyceride was 48. My doctor told me to keep
doing whatever I was doing, which in my case is a diet of red meat, milk
and cheese, refined starches, and lots of salt, with lots of olive oil
and fish oil capsules added to the saturated grease.

This just seems to good to be true. I'll admit I have lost at least 20kg
since the horrible blood test a few years ago, and while I need less
blood pressure medicine, and I can't imagine that minor weight loss could
cause a nearly 150-point reduction in total cholesterol. I swear I suffer
from metabolic syndrome - complete with belly fat and high blood pressure
and glucose that directly corresponds with my weight - and it just seems
odd that so many similar people are put on expensive and dangerous statin
drugs that aren't nearly as effective as natural omega-3 fatty acids.

I'm hardly some new-age holistic natural-healing freak, and all I believe
in is science and I have my personal experience as evidence, and I've
been reading other people's personal accounts with fish oil, with one
person on Lipitor whose 200+ number was reduced to 94 after he added the
fish oil capsules. My opinion is that high cholesterol and its related
symptoms are the result of a nutritional deficiency, and treating it with
drugs instead of the missing vital nutrient doesn't make sense from a
medical point of view. It does make sense from a financial point of view,
as omega-3 can't be patented, while Medicare Part D will pay $500 a pill
for Lipitor and other statin drugs.

It does make sense
from a financial point of view, as omega-3 can't be patented, while
Medicare Part D will pay $500 a pill for Lipitor and other statin
drugs.

$500 a pill. Huh???

On May 18, 2:06 pm, crack baby wrote:
I had a blood test several years ago and my cholesterol and triglycerides
were very high (I think it was in the mid-200s or something). I didn't
have enough money to go on statins, then I heard about omega-3 in fish
oil and have been taking about 4-5g a day for the last year.

I went in for a new test last month and while I had hoped the fish oil
had lowered it enough so the doctor wouldn't yell at me, but when I went
in for the results he told me my numbers were perfect. Total was 125, HDL
was 47, LDL was 70, and triglyceride was 48. My doctor told me to keep
doing whatever I was doing, which in my case is a diet of red meat, milk
and cheese, refined starches, and lots of salt, with lots of olive oil
and fish oil capsules added to the saturated grease.

This just seems to good to be true. I'll admit I have lost at least 20kg
since the horrible blood test a few years ago, and while I need less
blood pressure medicine, and I can't imagine that minor weight loss could
cause a nearly 150-point reduction in total cholesterol. I swear I suffer
from metabolic syndrome - complete with belly fat and high blood pressure
and glucose that directly corresponds with my weight - and it just seems
odd that so many similar people are put on expensive and dangerous statin
drugs that aren't nearly as effective as natural omega-3 fatty acids.

I'm hardly some new-age holistic natural-healing freak, and all I believe
in is science and I have my personal experience as evidence, and I've
been reading other people's personal accounts with fish oil, with one
person on Lipitor whose 200+ number was reduced to 94 after he added the
fish oil capsules. My opinion is that high cholesterol and its related
symptoms are the result of a nutritional deficiency, and treating it with
drugs instead of the missing vital nutrient doesn't make sense from a
medical point of view. It does make sense from a financial point of view,
as omega-3 can't be patented, while Medicare Part D will pay $500 a pill
for Lipitor and other statin drugs.

Are you serious about Omega 3 being that great for lowering bad
cholesterol? I have tried
many remedies over the years and can't seem to find anything that
works. Albert Shimoon

Pete wrote...
It does make sense

from a financial point of view, as omega-3 can't be patented, while
Medicare Part D will pay $500 a pill for Lipitor and other statin
drugs.


$500 a pill. Huh???

Well, it will be $500 soon. Remember that there are no price controls
for Medicare Part D, therefore companies can charge anything they want
for certain drugs that are mostly used by the elderly, because the
government guarantees payment.

Congratulations on "lowering your cholesterol" !

Now I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that you are more likely to
develop all kinds of cancers, die of "bleeding" strokes, etc.

And there's more ! You have done nothing to lower your risk of heart
attacks, because that is due to oxidized LDL (as AHA spokesman Dr.
Richard Stein pointed out well over a year ago), not cholesterol
levels (though there might be a "correlation" within a very specific
demographic group).

If you want to understand more about the underlying mechanisms, go to
my free site:

http://groups.msn.com/TheScientificDebateForum-

crack baby wrote:
Pete wrote...
It does make sense

from a financial point of view, as omega-3 can't be patented, while
Medicare Part D will pay $500 a pill for Lipitor and other statin
drugs.


$500 a pill. Huh???

Well, it will be $500 soon. Remember that there are no price controls
for Medicare Part D, therefore companies can charge anything they want
for certain drugs that are mostly used by the elderly, because the
government guarantees payment.

No way will they pay the exaggerated amount you refer to - lipitor is not a
cancer concoction :-) .

On May 19, 5:06 pm, wrote:
Congratulations on "lowering your cholesterol" !

Now I'm sure you'll be pleased to know that you are more likely to
develop all kinds of cancers, die of "bleeding" strokes, etc.

And there's more ! You have done nothing to lower your risk of heart
attacks, because that is due to oxidized LDL (as AHA spokesman Dr.
Richard Stein pointed out well over a year ago), not cholesterol
levels (though there might be a "correlation" within a very specific
demographic group).

If you want to understand more about the underlying mechanisms, go to
my free site:

http://groups.msn.com/TheScientificDebateForum-

Actualy the young lady has lowered her risk of CVD and stokes because
she has consumed omega 3s. Many studies show that omega 3 fatty acids
are beneficial. Her benefit comes directly because of the omega 3
powerful anti inflamatory and other direct effect , The LDL levels are
secoundary. Had she lowered her LDL levels with a statin what you said
may have been true . Omega 3s however raise Hdl levels which provide
real benefit.Thanks Vince

On May 18, 2:06 pm, crack baby wrote:
I had a blood test several years ago and my cholesterol and triglycerides
were very high (I think it was in the mid-200s or something). I didn't
have enough money to go on statins, then I heard about omega-3 in fish
oil and have been taking about 4-5g a day for the last year.

I went in for a new test last month and while I had hoped the fish oil
had lowered it enough so the doctor wouldn't yell at me, but when I went
in for the results he told me my numbers were perfect. Total was 125, HDL
was 47, LDL was 70, and triglyceride was 48. My doctor told me to keep
doing whatever I was doing, which in my case is a diet of red meat, milk
and cheese, refined starches, and lots of salt, with lots of olive oil
and fish oil capsules added to the saturated grease.

This just seems to good to be true. I'll admit I have lost at least 20kg
since the horrible blood test a few years ago, and while I need less
blood pressure medicine, and I can't imagine that minor weight loss could
cause a nearly 150-point reduction in total cholesterol. I swear I suffer
from metabolic syndrome - complete with belly fat and high blood pressure
and glucose that directly corresponds with my weight - and it just seems
odd that so many similar people are put on expensive and dangerous statin
drugs that aren't nearly as effective as natural omega-3 fatty acids.

I'm hardly some new-age holistic natural-healing freak, and all I believe
in is science and I have my personal experience as evidence, and I've
been reading other people's personal accounts with fish oil, with one
person on Lipitor whose 200+ number was reduced to 94 after he added the
fish oil capsules. My opinion is that high cholesterol and its related
symptoms are the result of a nutritional deficiency, and treating it with
drugs instead of the missing vital nutrient doesn't make sense from a
medical point of view. It does make sense from a financial point of view,
as omega-3 can't be patented, while Medicare Part D will pay $500 a pill
for Lipitor and other statin drugs.

you can get a great Omega Three supplement online at www.symmetrydirect.com/ASCHNEPP
it's called Advanced Omega, and it's completely natural, and it's
guaranteed...just like all nutritional supplements, their stuff isn't
FDA approved, but Symmetry's labs are, which is unusual, so you can
rest assured that their products are quality.

wrote...
Make sure you get a high-quality, pharmaceutical grade Omega3 product,
and not a crappy "fish oil" on the shelf at Walgreens, or you'll be
burping up fish all day long and getting heartburn.

Except that it was crappy Wal-Mart fish oil that I took for a year,
except perhaps a bottle or two from Target. I'd prefer something
besides fish oil, as it can't be wise to harvest anchovies to
extinction for the substance, and of course all fish in the ocean
are contaminated with mercury, heavy metals, PCBs, and other toxic
waste. I've read it is produced by some algae that the fish eat
and works its way up the food chain, so it should be possible to
cultivate the algae or splice the gene for omega-3 into bacteria
or yeast, so that yogurt or bread could become a cheap and abundant
source for the nutrient.