Comments on: The Medical Establishment is Pathetic http://karendecoster.com/the-medical-establishment-is-pathetic.html Fri, 10 Feb 2012 18:19:03 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Byron http://karendecoster.com/the-medical-establishment-is-pathetic.html/comment-page-1#comment-6395 Byron Tue, 06 Apr 2010 00:51:13 +0000 http://karendecoster.com/?p=8309#comment-6395 After reading this blog and the comments, I just had to play a song I originally saw on "The Lloyd Thaxton Show" in about 1964 called "Bread and Butter" by the Newbeats. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m1cP0ez_S8&feature=related After reading this blog and the comments, I just had to play a song I originally saw on “The Lloyd Thaxton Show” in about 1964 called “Bread and Butter” by the Newbeats.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8m1cP0ez_S8&feature=related

]]> By: ILikeBigButter http://karendecoster.com/the-medical-establishment-is-pathetic.html/comment-page-1#comment-4915 ILikeBigButter Mon, 08 Feb 2010 01:35:50 +0000 http://karendecoster.com/?p=8309#comment-4915 @ liberranter Hi, it looks from your comment that you are one of the minority of folk with the hereditary condition called familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH). As such, you might be interested in a book called "Cholesterol and the French Paradox" by an American-Australian naturopath called Frank Cooper, who also has this condition. It's available at Amazon in paperback and is also downloadable as a pdf file from Cooper's website ( http://frankcooper.com.au/eBook-Ordering.php ). In it he talks about his own experiences, as well as those of his daughter (also with the condition) who at age 23 was told she would have to take statin drugs for life: Cooper reminded her that her grandmother (also with FH) had lived "an active healthy life until she was 85 years old". Besides Dr Uffe Ravnskov's "The Cholesterol Myths", two other excellent books to investigate share the same name: "The Great Choloesterol Con". One is by Australian Anthony Colpo, with a preface by Dr Ravnskov and nearly 1500 medical references; the other is by Scottish doctor Malcolm Kendrick and is written is a direct style like Karen's, here. @ liberranter

Hi, it looks from your comment that you are one of the minority of folk with the hereditary condition called familial hypercholesterolaemia (FH). As such, you might be interested in a book called “Cholesterol and the French Paradox” by an American-Australian naturopath called Frank Cooper, who also has this condition. It’s available at Amazon in paperback and is also downloadable as a pdf file from Cooper’s website ( http://frankcooper.com.au/eBook-Ordering.php ). In it he talks about his own experiences, as well as those of his daughter (also with the condition) who at age 23 was told she would have to take statin drugs for life: Cooper reminded her that her grandmother (also with FH) had lived “an active healthy life until she was 85 years old”.

Besides Dr Uffe Ravnskov’s “The Cholesterol Myths”, two other excellent books to investigate share the same name: “The Great Choloesterol Con”. One is by Australian Anthony Colpo, with a preface by Dr Ravnskov and nearly 1500 medical references; the other is by Scottish doctor Malcolm Kendrick and is written is a direct style like Karen’s, here.

]]> By: John and Dagny Galt http://karendecoster.com/the-medical-establishment-is-pathetic.html/comment-page-1#comment-4523 John and Dagny Galt Fri, 22 Jan 2010 16:07:12 +0000 http://karendecoster.com/?p=8309#comment-4523 Hi Karen, Let's work together to get rid of those shameful discounts offered to tax-feeders of all stripes. We noticed Sheryl offers such a discount. We, as both individuals and Siblings in Liberty, need to REDUCE the incentives for others to become and continue to be tax-feeders. http://www.msmusclesfitness.com/ Who will the looters loot when looters are all that are left to loot? Starving The Monkeys Continually And Forever, John and Dagny Galt Atlas Shrugged, Owners Manual For The Universe!(tm) . Hi Karen,

Let’s work together to get rid of those shameful discounts offered to tax-feeders of all stripes. We noticed Sheryl offers such a discount. We, as both individuals and Siblings in Liberty, need to REDUCE the incentives for others to become and continue to be tax-feeders.

http://www.msmusclesfitness.com/

Who will the looters loot when looters are all that are left to loot?

Starving The Monkeys Continually And Forever,
John and Dagny Galt
Atlas Shrugged, Owners Manual For The Universe!(tm)

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]]> By: liberranter http://karendecoster.com/the-medical-establishment-is-pathetic.html/comment-page-1#comment-4466 liberranter Wed, 20 Jan 2010 21:54:51 +0000 http://karendecoster.com/?p=8309#comment-4466 As one afflicted with a congenital blood cholesterol problem (thanks, Mom!), I've tried just about every one of the statins over the course of the last 12-15 years that they've been around and NOT ONE has been without unpleasant side effects. Bloating, sleeplessness, excessive sweating, nausea, persistent headaches, and (ahem) suboptimal libido have all attended one or the other. While the statins did succeed in keeping my HDL levels below the 140 range (without them I was hovering in the 300-plus range, regardless of dietary habits), I ultimately decided that not only was it not worth suffering the immediate side effects, but God only knows what the long-term effects are of these slow-acting poisons. Having read and heard a great many positive reviews of Red Yeast Rice, I've decided to give that a try. My last blood check had my HDL at 210 after a four-month hiatus from Zocor (run Forrest, run!), so I'll give the RYR a couple of months before the next test. The primal diet sounds interesting. I might try it, if only to see whether or not there is any validity to the advice I've gotten from every GP I've seen over the past fifteen years to avoid red meat due to my blood cholestorol problem. As one afflicted with a congenital blood cholesterol problem (thanks, Mom!), I’ve tried just about every one of the statins over the course of the last 12-15 years that they’ve been around and NOT ONE has been without unpleasant side effects. Bloating, sleeplessness, excessive sweating, nausea, persistent headaches, and (ahem) suboptimal libido have all attended one or the other. While the statins did succeed in keeping my HDL levels below the 140 range (without them I was hovering in the 300-plus range, regardless of dietary habits), I ultimately decided that not only was it not worth suffering the immediate side effects, but God only knows what the long-term effects are of these slow-acting poisons. Having read and heard a great many positive reviews of Red Yeast Rice, I’ve decided to give that a try. My last blood check had my HDL at 210 after a four-month hiatus from Zocor (run Forrest, run!), so I’ll give the RYR a couple of months before the next test. The primal diet sounds interesting. I might try it, if only to see whether or not there is any validity to the advice I’ve gotten from every GP I’ve seen over the past fifteen years to avoid red meat due to my blood cholestorol problem.

]]> By: Brandon http://karendecoster.com/the-medical-establishment-is-pathetic.html/comment-page-1#comment-4428 Brandon Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:56:33 +0000 http://karendecoster.com/?p=8309#comment-4428 I have gone primal for 2010 and plan to stay that way for the rest of my life. I have gone primal for 2010 and plan to stay that way for the rest of my life.

]]> By: Matt R. http://karendecoster.com/the-medical-establishment-is-pathetic.html/comment-page-1#comment-4427 Matt R. Wed, 20 Jan 2010 04:24:55 +0000 http://karendecoster.com/?p=8309#comment-4427 I had a lot of butter tonight with dinner.  Yum! The heck with conventional medicine!   I had a lot of butter tonight with dinner.  Yum! The heck with conventional medicine!  

]]> By: Richard Nikoley http://karendecoster.com/the-medical-establishment-is-pathetic.html/comment-page-1#comment-4423 Richard Nikoley Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:49:31 +0000 http://karendecoster.com/?p=8309#comment-4423 Stand by for photos of my LSD Chicken (reference there... think Grateful Dead and their longtime soundman...). Anyway, more butter than you can believe. Gotta get to 134. Stand by for photos of my LSD Chicken (reference there… think Grateful Dead and their longtime soundman…). Anyway, more butter than you can believe.

Gotta get to 134.

]]> By: miles http://karendecoster.com/the-medical-establishment-is-pathetic.html/comment-page-1#comment-4422 miles Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:47:21 +0000 http://karendecoster.com/?p=8309#comment-4422 I find those, "I trust my heart to Lipitor" commercials almost as revolting as the high-fructose-corn-syrup ads. Dennis Mangan once made a great post about statin drugs, and his conclusion (he's a research scientist by trade) was that you shouldn't use them if you want a functioning brain. I find those, “I trust my heart to Lipitor” commercials almost as revolting as the high-fructose-corn-syrup ads. Dennis Mangan once made a great post about statin drugs, and his conclusion (he’s a research scientist by trade) was that you shouldn’t use them if you want a functioning brain.

]]> By: Karen De Coster http://karendecoster.com/the-medical-establishment-is-pathetic.html/comment-page-1#comment-4421 Karen De Coster Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:37:16 +0000 http://karendecoster.com/?p=8309#comment-4421 Fuck you, Nikoley! :--) (I am joking people.) Actually ...... I was THINKING of Nikoley, here, when I posted my 115 HDL, because we had discussed his 133 number. It must be the testosterone! But, who cares - I STILL have better legs ......... See Nikoley's blog at www.freetheanimal.com. Fuck you, Nikoley! :–)

(I am joking people.) Actually …… I was THINKING of Nikoley, here, when I posted my 115 HDL, because we had discussed his 133 number. It must be the testosterone! But, who cares – I STILL have better legs ………

See Nikoley’s blog at http://www.freetheanimal.com.

]]> By: Richard Nikoley http://karendecoster.com/the-medical-establishment-is-pathetic.html/comment-page-1#comment-4419 Richard Nikoley Wed, 20 Jan 2010 02:29:53 +0000 http://karendecoster.com/?p=8309#comment-4419 You go, Karen, my poor HDL stepchild. :) 133. :) You go, Karen, my poor HDL stepchild. :)

133. :)

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