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Familial Hyperlipidemia

Hi, just went to get a physical and same story very high cholesterol (500), triglycerides, bilirubin Sgot. I have just recently started a low card diet with many supplements to support liver health. I looked at the sites (Ravsnikov, Weson Price) that do not support the high cholesterol. In those sites they do say that the people who had the heart disease were the ones with "familial hyperlipidemia". Every doctor wants to put me on very high doses of Lipitor and Questran, which is intolerable.

I have started IV Chelation and high dose vitamin C. My real question is what else can be done, what can I expect to lower my cholesterol to. Getting it below 200 seems impossible. I would like to get health insurance-as you can imagine-no one will insure numbers like this and its all out of pocket. I'm sure you know all the bad side effects of the meds and the doctors treat me like a pariah when they see the tests. All other (c-reactive, fibrinogen, homocystine, stress test) came back normal. Any help would be appreciated. Sorry to ramble

Follow Ups:

• Re: Familial Hyperlipidemia (Archive in cholesterol.) Walt Stoll 07:13:50 4/17/03 (0)

In Reply to: Familial Hyperlipidemia posted by John Economides on April 16, 2003 at 09:23:56:

Hi, John.

Consider reading Dr Atkins' most recent book.

Let us know what you learn.

In the meantime, if you are not taking the EFAs (home page) you need to begin doing so.

Walt