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Traditional medicines approach to cardiovascular health is a travesty.  If LDL cholesterol is high the immediate answer is to prescribe one of the statin family of drugs.  Statins are hard on the liver and the body’s production of coenzyme Q-10.  Traditional medicine wants to keep LDL cholesterol within certain limits because of the part it plays in plaque formations and in atherosclerosis.  Have you ever had a doctor who is concerned about your cardiovascular health suggest taking vitamin C?  Most animals produce all the vitamin C they need.  Most mammals produce the human equivalent of 2,000 to 13,000 milligrams daily.  And guess what?  Vitamin C is one of the ingredients the body prefers to use for repairing damage to arteries.

 A damaged site on the epithelium (the inner wall) of an artery when repaired with vitamin C and the other preferred items is left smooth and stronger.  Vitamin C is also used in the production of bone, cartilage, and skin.  If there is insufficient vitamin C, then lipoprotein (a) will form a patch over the site.  However, the lipoprotein (a) forms a sticky patch which can grow larger.  If the proper organism is present it will pull calcium out of the blood stream and form a hard brittle cap over the plaque formation.  If the damaged site is not repaired by vitamin C or lipoprotein (a) and provides access to the space between the inner and outer walls of the artery, then LDL pattern B can enter and when oxidized initiates inflammatory processes and eventually the formation of full blown atherosclerosis.  As unwanted cholesterol within the arterial wall is scavenged, foam cells are formed inside the arterial walls causing a bulge which interferes with blood flow.  Eventually, plaque may form over the site including the hard, brittle top layer.   

 

The real kicker here is the fact that cholesterol levels are not the prime marker of cardiovascular disease.  Some physicians like to point out that half of those suffering heart attacks don’t even have a history of cholesterol problems.  Others point out that the most used cholesterol tests don’t even check for LDL pattern B or lipoprotein (a).  LDL and HDL cholesterol represent ranges of particle sizes.  There is also an intermediate range, IDL cholesterol.  LDL pattern B is the smallest and densest LDL particle.  The favorite test for cholesterol, the standard lipid panel, measures HDL, total cholesterol, triglycerides, and then uses a formula to come up with LDL levels.  In other words, unless they test for LDL pattern B and Lipoprotein (a) the prescribing of dangerous statin drugs is based merely on an educated guess that the patient’s cholesterol levels are dangerous.  Cholesterol is essential to the health of the body.  It provides a building block for the production of essential hormones and about two thirds of the energy for heart muscles.  With proper diet the liver will dispose of excess cholesterol, but statins, while reducing cholesterol production, weaken the liver.

 

A physician looking for an excuse to proscribe dangerous statins will request you give some blood for a standard lipid panel.  If the results are within proscribed limits the physician will assume that you don't have dangerous levels of LDL pattern B or Lippoprotein (a).  This was the case with my wife.  When she went to a cardiac specialist for her valve problem he had her do a direct reading lipid panel and discovered that she had too much Lippoprotein (a).