Benjamin Disraeli, the 19th-century British prime minister, once ridiculed an opposition member of parliament by saying: “He is distinguished by his ignorance, for he had only one idea and that was wrong.”
Today, 99 per cent of doctors have one idea that cholesterol-lowering drugs are the be-all-and-end-all to lower blood cholesterol. I believe history will prove them wrong.
This week, an old prisoner experiment tells a story, along with a natural remedy to lower blood cholesterol.
Years ago, Dr. John Judkin, formerly emeritus professor of physiology at the University of London, was ridiculed after he reported that a high dietary intake of animal fat and the eating of foods containing cholesterol were not the cause of coronary heart disease.
But Judkin pointed to a greater correlation between the intake of sucrose (ordinary sugar) and coronary attack. For instance, a study conducted in 15 countries showed that as the population consumed more sugar, there was a dramatic increase in heart attacks.
More impressive is a prison study by Milton Winitz, a U.S. biochemist, in 1964. Eighteen prisoners, kept behind bars for six months, were given food that was well regulated. In this controlled environment, it was proven that when the prisoner diet was high in sugar, blood cholesterol increased and when dietary sugar was decreased there was a huge drop in blood cholesterol.
Can you imagine the screaming and hollering from rights groups if researchers tried this experiment today?
History is on Judkin’s side. A century ago, a heart attack was such a rare event that Dr. Dudley White, Harvard’s cardiologist, remarked how, when a case arrived in emergency at the Massachusetts General Hospital, other doctors were alerted so they could witness it first-hand.
In the past 100 years, there has been an extraordinary change in North American dietary habits. Now we feed children cereals that are often half sugar. I’ve said facetiously that it would be safer for them to eat the box! We have soft drinks, desserts and prepared foods loaded with sugar. It’s hard to escape “the white devil.”
Once ingested, sugar breaks down into equal amounts of glucose and fructose. Glucose is used to power the biochemical process that provides energy for bodily functions. Fructose follows a different route, producing acetate that is one of the building blocks needed by the liver to manufacture cholesterol. So the more sugar you eat, the greater the production of cholesterol.
You don’t have to be behind bars to lower blood cholesterol. A natural product, Sytrinol, consists of polymethoxylated flavons derived from the peel of citrus fruits. It also includes tocotrienols, powerful antioxidants, extracted from the fruit of the palm tree.
Dr. Michael T. Murray, a world authority on natural medicine, says: “The research on Sytrinol is extremely impressive.” This is because multiple studies show that, in many cases, Sytrinol lowers blood cholesterol by 30 per cent, LDL the bad cholesterol, by 27 per cent and triglycerides, by 34 per cent. These changes may occur within one month.
Sytrinol decreases the oxidation of bad cholesterol, a factor in plaque formation that narrows coronary arteries. Sytrinol also decreases inflammation of arteries, believed to be associated with heart attack. By lubricating platelets, the small blood particles responsible for blood clot formation, it curbs the chance of one forming in coronary arteries.
The dose of Sytrinol is 300 milligrams once a day. It is well tolerated with no complications reported. It’s available in health food stores. I believe it’s always prudent to try natural remedies first, due to the potential complications of cholesterol-lowering drugs.
The moral is that having one idea that is wrong is dangerous. It’s also wrong to forget the first rule of medicine — “to do no harm.”
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