These are some important things that your body makes with cholesterol: Vitamin D, Hormones (Testosterone, Progesterone, Estrogen, DHEA, Cortisol.. etc), CoQ 10 (major energy source for the heart)
Cholesterol lowering drugs are not proven to prevent heart disease (you can read it on the package)
Cholesterol drugs do not decrease existing cholesterol plaques in the arteries.
Cholesterol drugs lower Cholesterol but do not prevent heart disease.
There may even now be a risk that these drugs cause heart disease.
http://healthimpactnews.com/2011/statin-drug-use-may-cause-your-liver-and-heart-to-fail/
There are studies that show that pomegranate reduces the cholesterol plaques in the arteries but that Lipitor (the drug) does not. I would like to submit that the total number of cholesterol in your blood may not be the determining factor for plaque accumulation in the arteries. Again we come to the concept of “finding the cause” for the build up in the arteries. From a holistic perspective, things like high homocystiene caused by B vitamin deficiencies or high insulin levels (too much sugar in the diet) are far more likely to be behind heart disease than the mere number of cholesterol in your blood. If this were the case then all of these people who have lowered their cholesterol to 200 or less would not be having problems with heart disease.
I think it is important to consider the above information when deciding to take the cholesterol lowering drugs. Please ask yourself, “If these are not proven to prevent heart disease then why am I taking them?”
