Blah blah blah. Maybe you could say this without all the big words. I’m not trying to be disrespectful, but most people might have to read your reply three times to deconstruct it. I’m guessing you’re a scientist. (Not a bad thing; just an observation because of writing style.)
Genetics has so much to do with cholesterol levels it astound…
Blah blah blah. Maybe you could say this without all the big words. I’m not trying to be disrespectful, but most people might have to read your reply three times to deconstruct it. I’m guessing you’re a scientist. (Not a bad thing; just an observation because of writing style.)
Genetics has so much to do with cholesterol levels it astounds me sometimes. My cholesterol scores have always impressed my doctors, with one declaring to me in my 20’s that I would never have heart problems. Yet two years ago (50+ years later), even with that total score nearly the same, my calcium score was 1308 on the cardiac CT, (shocking!) and two stents had to be inserted. It took two tries and a micro drill to break up the rock hard calcium before the could insert the stents (a very weird feeling, by the way.). In my case, I know it’s genetic. My dad, most of his five siblings and his dad, had heart issues—death for two, quad bypass for dad, etc. Not one was overweight. It goes to show a lot is yet to be learned. Maybe, as I said before, it’s more about the sugar. Some aunts/uncles drank a lot, and some just loved desserts. Sugar.
And then there’s a longtime friend — an MD, PhD, retired director of a medical laboratory—who vehemently disagreed with my decision to refuse statins. He’d been on them for 40 years or so, and was fine, he said. Within a year I learned he’d researched the issue more after our talk and had ditched the statins.
The simplest thing — but not easiest by any account — is to cut out refined sugar. Of course, if people actually did that, the cereal industry— which is what Dr. Malone’s article was about — would collapse. Probably not a bad thing.
Blah blah blah. Maybe you could say this without all the big words. I’m not trying to be disrespectful, but most people might have to read your reply three times to deconstruct it. I’m guessing you’re a scientist. (Not a bad thing; just an observation because of writing style.)
Genetics has so much to do with cholesterol levels it astounds me sometimes. My cholesterol scores have always impressed my doctors, with one declaring to me in my 20’s that I would never have heart problems. Yet two years ago (50+ years later), even with that total score nearly the same, my calcium score was 1308 on the cardiac CT, (shocking!) and two stents had to be inserted. It took two tries and a micro drill to break up the rock hard calcium before the could insert the stents (a very weird feeling, by the way.). In my case, I know it’s genetic. My dad, most of his five siblings and his dad, had heart issues—death for two, quad bypass for dad, etc. Not one was overweight. It goes to show a lot is yet to be learned. Maybe, as I said before, it’s more about the sugar. Some aunts/uncles drank a lot, and some just loved desserts. Sugar.
And then there’s a longtime friend — an MD, PhD, retired director of a medical laboratory—who vehemently disagreed with my decision to refuse statins. He’d been on them for 40 years or so, and was fine, he said. Within a year I learned he’d researched the issue more after our talk and had ditched the statins.
The simplest thing — but not easiest by any account — is to cut out refined sugar. Of course, if people actually did that, the cereal industry— which is what Dr. Malone’s article was about — would collapse. Probably not a bad thing.