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  1. haidut

    Androsterone - The Forgotten But Potent Thyroid Mimetic

    Androsterone is one of the 5-AR derived androgens and is a downstream metabolite of DHT. While modern medicine has almost completely forgotten about it, androsterone was well-known and widely used in the 1950s and 1960s under the commercial name Atromid - the most potent cholesterol and...
  2. haidut

    DHEA (and Other Androgens) Deplete EFA (PUFA) And Increase SFA

    A human study and as such very relevant. The dose of DHEA used was high (200mg), but androgens derived from DHEA have the same (and even more potent) effects in much lower doses, so low-dose DHEA should have similar (if not even better) effect. Yet another indication that androgens are...
  3. haidut

    PPI Drugs (anti GERD) Powerfully Inhibit Steroidogenesis

    I have always been suspicious of PPI drugs. There are many reasons for it, including the falsified clinical trial data to conceal increased risk of gastric cancer, the idiotic premise that gastric acid increases with age, the kidney failure side effects, and the calcium/magnesium depletion being...
  4. haidut

    CFS Is Likely Hypometabolism Triggered By Environmental Stress

    Ray has discussed his views on the so-called "chronic fatigue syndrome" (CFS) in many interviews and some of his articles. His opinion is that CFS is simply hypothyroidism with some specific symptoms depending on individual susceptibility. Many people vehemently disagree with this opinion, but...
  5. haidut

    Lowering Cholesterol Increases CVD Deaths, Benefits Of Statins Exaggerated

    FDA has recently made a 180-degree turn in regards to dietary cholesterol. After decades of claiming eating cholesterol gives you heart attacks, now the FDA says that at best it does not matter. This study goes a step further in confirming Peat's views and found that people with the lowest LDL...
  6. Luann

    Why & How Not To Fear Cholesterol

    Hi guys, found these two gems today, I was trying to explain the short fuse I've had at work lately as well as getting the blues out of nowhere. Turns out cholesterol level has a little something to do with the way you feel, ya know, on the inside. Enjoy these - and get some coconut oil today if...
  7. haidut

    Good (HDL) Cholesterol Is Not So Good After All

    Many people on the forum are familiar with Ray's writings about cholesterol and how the "good" one called HDL is actually elevated by toxins, alcohol, endurance exerise, etc and is mainly used to carry poison from the tissues back to the liver for excretion. So, having high HDL is actually not a...
  8. Giraffe

    Blood Pressure Regulation, Heart Failure And Muscle Atrophy - Kmud, 2012-07-20

    Download link for the audio file: http://dl.dropbox.com/u/22195338/Blood Pressure Regulation Heart Failure and Muscle Atrophy.mp3
  9. haidut

    High Cholesterol Diet Does Not Increase Cvd Risk, Even In The Genetically Predisposed

    Not that this is any surprise for the forum users, but even after FDA reverses its decades long rule on dietary cholesterol restrictions pretty much nothing has changed in the clinic. If you have CVD or are considered high risk for it, your doctor will still order you to avoid cholesterol at all...
  10. haidut

    Aspirin Better Than Statins For Cholesterol And Triglycerides

    The good news for aspirin keep piling up. This study showed that a relatively low dose of aspirin reduced cholesterol and triglycerides better than a statin drug (simvastatin, Zocor), and also unlike the statin aspirin also increased HDL. The study focuses on a special aspirin preparation called...
  11. haidut

    Lowering Cholesterol Increases Serotonin (and Dopamine) In Humans

    In addition to increasing chances of getting cancer, lowering cholesterol with drugs seems to have another dangerous side effect. According to this study, in just 4 weeks statin use increased serotonin (and dopamine). Hormonal changes with cholesterol reduction: a double-blind pilot study. -...
  12. haidut

    High cholesterol is the result of low metabolism

    This study is making the news lately. It seems to confirm Peat and Barnes' points but in an indirect way. The study and its author claim that high cholesterol is caused by "steroidopenia" - i.e. low levels of the steroids in the blood. So, the administer as therapy a mix of pregnenolone, DHEA...
  13. S

    Raising HDL Cholesterol Is Not Causally Related to Protection From Heart Attacks

    http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/22607825
  14. haidut

    TSH upregulates cholesterol synthesis

    After years (maybe decades) of denial by official medicine that thyroid status affects cholesterol levels, this study is lighting up the blogosphere. It looks like the connection between high TSH and high cholesterol is re-established and it validates some of the ideas and methods of Broda...
  15. Amazoniac

    Cholesterol And Saturated Fats - East West Healing

    That really was an excellent interview, thanks a lot, Amazoniac. It details how cholesterol is a detoxifier, whether a fat-free diet is healthy or not, the pro-thyroid effect of milk, the anti-metabolic effect of free fatty acids (unsaturated and saturated), and how our gut bacterias synthetise...
  16. haidut

    Higher levels of cholesterol in cells block viral infection

    Another example of the countless beneficial functions the "bad" cholesterol has in the human body. USC scientists discover process that blocks viruses "...We showed how this occurs,” Jung said. “When a virus tries to enter, the immune system gets stimulated by interferon, which produces almost...
  17. LucyL

    The Cholesterol Myths By Ravnskov ** FREE **

    Ravnskov has his entire book "The Cholesterol Myths" available for free on his website. The Cholesterol Myths
  18. S

    High Cholesterol Associated With Breast Cancer

    Association found between high cholesterol and breast cancer
  19. W

    Intake of unsaturated fatty acids and HDL cholesterol levels

    Intake of unsaturated fatty acids and HDL cholesterol levels are associated with  manifestations of atopy in adults. Schäfer T, Ruhdorfer S, Weigl L, Wessner D, Heinrich J, Döring A, Wichmann HE, Ring J. Department of Social Medicine, University Lübeck, Germany. BACKGROUND: The increase in...
  20. haidut

    Low Cholesterol Ups Cancer Risk - Role Of Pregnenolone

    Ray has written about how "anything that lowers cholesterol will increase the risk of cancer". I did some digging on that and it seems that he is right on the money on this one. Here is a study confirming his view: http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/20 ... 113713.htm "...Low LDL cholesterol in...
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