What You Know About Cholesterol Is Wrong
Bob Livingston | Feb 09, 2012 | Comments 14
I’ll bet you know what your cholesterol level is, but chances are that you never heard of homocysteine. Well, the cholesterol theory has never been proven but everybody believes that it has. So the pharmaceutical companies make billions of dollars on this myth. But it’s your homocysteine that’s the real villain in heart disease and other chronic illness. And you can do something about it.
Cholesterol Boondoggle
Many cardiologists build their practice on testing and prescribing cholesterol (statin) drugs. It is not by accident, because many millions of dollars have been spent to promote the cholesterol theory.
It’s a medical craze and it’s a money maker. The point is that most people who get heart disease have normal cholesterol levels in their blood. In fact, scientists have proven that pure cholesterol does not cause arteriosclerosis and that elevation of blood cholesterol is a symptom, not a cause, of heart disease.
How could scientists and medical experts be wrong about the heart disease-cholesterol myth so long? The answer is MONEY!
Amino Acid Problem
Homocysteine is a renegade amino acid present in our bodies that has been identified as THE cause of heart disease as well as blood clots, stroke and gangrene. What’s more, keeping homocysteine levels in the safe range does not require expensive medication or any drugs at all, only adequate amounts of certain vitamins i.e., B6, B12 and folic acid. This has all been proven.
Since the therapy for high homocysteine requires no drugs, we can begin to see why nobody knows about it. No money. Homocysteine is intimately involved in the aging process, Alzheimer’s, arthritis and cancer. Also, lowering homocysteine causes weight loss, lower blood pressure and, of course, reduced heart disease symptoms and improved general health.
How simple is health, without spending huge amounts of money? I recommend that every one of you read The Heart Revolution by Dr. Kilmer S. McCully, and then read it again. Available here.
Take Action
So check your homocysteine level now. Start vitamins B6, B12 and folic acid today.
Further, for those age 60 and over, your B12 intake should be by injection because, as we age, we have no intrinsic factor to enable B12 assimilation. This makes B12 in pill, tablets, etc., useless and unabsorbable. B12 liquid and 100 cc needles are available by prescription. It is very easy to do yourself.
Experts believe that 25 percent of those over age 60, especially vegetarians, are very low in vitamin B12. Plus, the older we get the more likely we are to have a vitamin B12 deficiency because we lose the ability to absorb it. Further, the older we get the more our digestive system breaks down, especially with the standard American diet.
The lining of the stomach gradually loses its ability to produce hydrochloric acid which releases vitamin B12 from our food. The use of antacids or ulcer drugs also lowers stomach acid secretion and decreases the ability to absorb vitamin B12.
In fact, adequate hydrochloric acid in the stomach is critical to life and health. Americans’ hydrochloric acid has been under attack by pharmaceuticals for decades. There are thousands of prescription and non-prescription drugs that Americans consume with wild abandon in order to reduce stomach acid. The final insult is the “purple pill,” which actually shuts down the proton (acid) pump. Wonder how much stomach cancer has been caused by these so-called acid stomach relievers?
By getting off of antacids, paying attention to your homocysteine and getting these vitamins, you can improve your health in a big, big way.
Filed Under: Alternative Medicine • Easy Health Digest™ • Heart and Cardiovascular • Heart Concerns
Thank you very much for important information
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Whenever I read an article and it has a link attached that tries to sell me something…..I tend to not believe the article so much anymore!!!
My naturopath says B12 CAN be absorbed-WILL SOMEONE PLEASE GIVE ME THE GOSPEL !?!?!?
What are 100cc needles? You loose credibility when make statements like that. Otherwise, I think what is written maybe true.
Ask your doctor or pharmacist, they’ll know what 100cc needles are… That’s the whole problem in America, people are babied so much that soon they’ll forget a cat is called a cat and they’ll call them meows… If anything, the fact that the author uses the proper term 100cc shows that he knows what he is talking about and the fact that he is saying that we do not need all these drugs is even more a proof of his credibility in my eyes… I work for a company producing and selling the base materials used by pharmaceutical companies (well, one has to make a living) and I have stayed away from drugs unless there was absolutely no other alternative.
Keep writing, Bob Livingston…
That is a typo error. They meant to say 100 – 1 cc syrenges because B-12 is always injected 1 cc at a time.
Probably valid information as it seems consistent with what I’ve read elsewhere about Inflammation and Homocysteine. I’m just really skeptical of these articles because they always have a product to sell claiming it’s a cure all. Interesting to read though, for what it’s worth.
Agreed, medecine is ‘all about money’ and this applies across the board
with one ‘expert group’ criticising another group for profiteering and
withholding information, and then doing exactly the same itself!!
In the UK we at least have a free National Health Service, probably
the best in the world, but at least you can get a free hip operation
worth $15000 although you may have to wait 6 months for it.
There are also limits of expenditure on the most expensive drugs,
this is a world-wide problem caused by some of the greediest Big
Pharma!
I don’t see this article really trying to sell something. They recommend a book, but the article tells you what you need to know right here. Get the three vitamins and if you’re over 60, get them in liquid form.
The real dubious ones are the ones who WON’T tell you anything until you buy the product.
I don’t think this article is trying to sell anything but trying to offer a solution. My doctor told me my homosistein levels have eaten away the slick lining in my arteries, and my fat or cholesterol sticks to the artery wall. Lots of sublingual B12 under the tongue B50 twice a day and a tablet called Folbee very potent in the B family will lower your homosystein levels in about 3 months. If you lower you HMOS levels you have beaten the widow maker. No games
I certainly prefer the idea of Sublingual B12 supplementation to that of injections for sure !. But I don’t see the point of BL mentioning the injections if there is an alternative equally effective ?
For those (like myself) not fond of needles, there is a way to get your B12. Get the sublingual (under the tongue) tabs, pleasant taste, much cheaper, and no needle. By absorbing thru the skin and bypassing the digestive system, the B12 is well assimilated.
Dr Cutler
Your daily emails help me to live a health life. Please advise whether Homocysteine Factor plus Magnesium can help a patient whose xray shows blood clots in her brain. She is not able to open her eyes in day light. The doctors are giving her plasma intravenously.
Best Regards
Leah