Raynine
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The medical community is telling me to take statins. I have never had a heart attack even though I am nearly 80 years old. I did smoke tobacco briefly before I was 30 but quit in 1976. I gave up weed (marijuana) in 1974 and never used alcohol regularly. By 1973 I was running 10 miles a day when no one else was doing it. In 1983 stress fractures led me to get on a bike and ride while cracked bones healed and eventually I went to the wheel exclusively. Age causes changes in the metabolic process and my thyroid is sounding a dissonate note from the back of choir suggesting that it is a little underactive. This is causing what is called "bad cholesterol" (LDL) to increase in my bloodwork. Should I be worried? Not at all.
I know about the Framingham Heart Study - Wikipedia. Can we put that study in a nutshell? Absolutely. I had a local doctor crack that nut for me in the 1970's. He told me that people develop heart disease because they do not excercise, smoke tobacco, drink alcohol, abuse drugs, eat too much of a poor diet, get high blood pressure and take no personal responsibility for their healh. Smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, and sedantary lifestyle-Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's what the people hear while they light up, toke, chug-a-lug, and kick back in line at MacDonalds. If everything goes well for them they get Dementia before the ticker goes and just go braindead while they die early.
At some point early on, I decided not to join that club. So I get on my bike and ride a minimum of 40 miles a day. Is my blood so sticky that my lifestyle is wasted? I don't think so. If a person has had a heart attack or worse, maybe a stroke, then taking statins may have some tiny benefit for them. If they take statins the study shows that they will live about a week longer than those who do not. Yahoo! God bless those statins!
Anyway, I have decided to implement my own clinical trial. I am taking one for the team on this one. I keep trying to contact my healthcare providers so they can participate in my trial but they do not seem interested. I want them to watch a patient who does not take statins but excercises regularly, does not smoke, take street drugs, abuse alcohol, and eats a varied, healthy diet. Hello???
I don't like going to the gym because it is becoming a chore. But I do it because I know my bike does nothing for the bone density that supports the muscles in my legs that move me on the road. I am heartened by the younger people I see in there. While many in my generation are croaking on cruise ships and flatlining on airplanes, these kids are watching us and rejecting the lifefestyle that results in coronary bypass surgery, stents, and pacemakers. They get it and they give me hope for the future of mankind.
Now, I do recall Jim fixx. You see, some people just get a bad deal from the deck but they are rare. They tend to have famalial histories of early death. This is a genetic predisposition to develop atherosclerosis in spite of lifestyle, diet, or vigorous excericse. Maybe statins for Fixx would have helped. I doubt it.
en.wikipedia.org
I'm not taking the statins for the time being.
Carry on,
Ray
I know about the Framingham Heart Study - Wikipedia. Can we put that study in a nutshell? Absolutely. I had a local doctor crack that nut for me in the 1970's. He told me that people develop heart disease because they do not excercise, smoke tobacco, drink alcohol, abuse drugs, eat too much of a poor diet, get high blood pressure and take no personal responsibility for their healh. Smoking, obesity, high blood pressure, and sedantary lifestyle-Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah. That's what the people hear while they light up, toke, chug-a-lug, and kick back in line at MacDonalds. If everything goes well for them they get Dementia before the ticker goes and just go braindead while they die early.
At some point early on, I decided not to join that club. So I get on my bike and ride a minimum of 40 miles a day. Is my blood so sticky that my lifestyle is wasted? I don't think so. If a person has had a heart attack or worse, maybe a stroke, then taking statins may have some tiny benefit for them. If they take statins the study shows that they will live about a week longer than those who do not. Yahoo! God bless those statins!
Anyway, I have decided to implement my own clinical trial. I am taking one for the team on this one. I keep trying to contact my healthcare providers so they can participate in my trial but they do not seem interested. I want them to watch a patient who does not take statins but excercises regularly, does not smoke, take street drugs, abuse alcohol, and eats a varied, healthy diet. Hello???
I don't like going to the gym because it is becoming a chore. But I do it because I know my bike does nothing for the bone density that supports the muscles in my legs that move me on the road. I am heartened by the younger people I see in there. While many in my generation are croaking on cruise ships and flatlining on airplanes, these kids are watching us and rejecting the lifefestyle that results in coronary bypass surgery, stents, and pacemakers. They get it and they give me hope for the future of mankind.
Now, I do recall Jim fixx. You see, some people just get a bad deal from the deck but they are rare. They tend to have famalial histories of early death. This is a genetic predisposition to develop atherosclerosis in spite of lifestyle, diet, or vigorous excericse. Maybe statins for Fixx would have helped. I doubt it.
Jim Fixx - Wikipedia
I'm not taking the statins for the time being.
Carry on,
Ray
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