[AGL] Fw: Got cholesterol?

[Frances Morey]

Thanks, Brother Bill,
  I will try it. They probably have it at WholeFloods or Mr. Natural. The latter is where I found pantothenic acid to reduce the morning aches and pains. I thought that worked, now a week later, the aches and pains are just as bad upon arising so I doubt the effectiveness of that vitamin--B5, it is. I will ask my Dr. about it, getting off the Pravachol, that is.
  Frances
  

Bill Irwin <billi at aloha.net> wrote:
          Wayne:
  I answered these question as best I know in a reply to Frances but the reply never came back to me so I will repost it again.  For those that have seen this letter - sorry.
  It's found in all vegetables or you can get it as a supplement in pill form.   Use the http://scholar.google.com for research into medical reports and the regular Google for info.  It may also benefit your diabetes problem.
   
  Repost of my letter to Frances:
    You can get beta sitosterol from most any vegetable or you can get it as a food supplement.  I am just learning about this so don't take my word as gospel.  The average American diet you would get about 300mg per day, if you were a vegetarian you would get about twice that.  As I understand your eating habits from past posts is that you try to reduce the volume of food you so as to not take in too many calories.  Problem I see here is that you would not be able to get a therapeutic dose just from what you eat because you are not eating a big enough volume so you would have to look to supplements to make up the difference or you would have to become a total vegetarian.  
   
  All vegetables and plant matter have this,  from what I read brown rice and soy beans are rich in beta sitosterol.  I just bought a bottle to try and it is made from soy beans.  Since it is a natural substance already in your diet it doesn't have the side effects you might get from pharmaceuticals and is cheaper.  You should be able to find it in health food stores or one of the vitamin stores.  I had to do a little looking to find it in Hilo, only one store in 4 had it.  I found it at Vitamin World, a chain store and they have a web site - $9.98 for 100 or about 30 cents per day.  For medicinal use you need to take 3 caps per day with meals.
   
  It is primarily recommended for enlarged prostate, a problem you don't have,  it is the active ingredient in Saw Palmetto but Saw Palmetto has so little it is practically useless.  It can also be used to control cholesterol and may have some protection against colon cancer (colon cancer is related to cholesterol and high fat diets).  It may also be of some use in type II diabetes and if anybody does have type II diabetes they should check out the research on this.
   
  Maybe you might consider getting off Pravacol and switching to beta sitosterol for a 2 month trial, check your cholesterol again and decide what to do.  There are also other natural pharmaceuticals that can lower cholesterol.  I don't think it is a good idea to use it as prophylactic and excuse to pig out on shrimp or a t-bone steak - moderation in all things except craziness.
  Aloha,
  Ewie

    ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Wayne Johnson 
  To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
  Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 2:06 AM
  Subject: Re: [AGL] Fw: Got cholesterol?
  

  Bill.
   
  Is this a direct supplement?  Found in which veggies?
   
  Thanks for the article.
   
  wayneJ
   
  I have basically eliminated the following foods from my diet, btw.  Not that anyone gives a tinker's dam, mind you.  
   
  Lobster, shrimp, crab, clams, oysters, mussels and crayfish.  Partly for cost, partly for cholesterol and partly for a desire not to consume industrial pollutants that so many of these critters now unfortunately contain.  
   
    ----- Original Message ----- 
  From: Bill Irwin 
  To: austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net 
  Sent: Sunday, May 07, 2006 5:04 PM
  Subject: [AGL] Fw: Got cholesterol?
  

   
  Recently I have been doing a little research on some alternative medicines.  Those are medicines made in nature rather than a chemical factory.  You won't find them advertised on TV as there isn't that much profit in them.  One of the medicines I was looking at is beta sitosterol.  It occurs in all vegetables and is especially rich in brown rice.  Vegetarians have almost twice the daily intake as the average American diet.  In medicinal forms it has been used to treat BPH (Big Prostate Hell) and high cholesterol.  It also seems to offer value in preventing colon tumors (if only Clark had discovered this 10 years ago).  
   
  I am sending this along because several of you have indicated that you are taking medications for high cholesterol.  I was also wondering if anybody has had experience with taking beta sitosterol.
  Aloha,
  Ewie
   
  PS - Now pay attention Katfish.
    Optimizing the effect of plant sterols on cholesterol absorption in man  FH Mattson, SM Grundy and JR Crouse 
  During three experimental periods, nine adults were hospitalized on a metabolic ward and fed a meal containing 500 mg of cholesterol as a component of scrambled eggs. In addition, the meal contained: 1) no additive, 2) 1 g beta-sitosterol, or 3) 2 g beta-sitosteryl oleate. Stools for the succeeding 5 days were analyzed to determine the percentage of the cholesterol in the test meal that was absorbed. The addition of beta-sitosterol resulted in a 42% decrease in cholesterol absorption; the beta-sitosteryl oleate caused a 33% reduction. These results indicate that the judicious addition of beta-sitosterol or beta- sitosteryl oleate to meals containing cholesterol-rich foods will result in a significant decrease in cholesterol absorption, with a consequent decrease in plasma cholesterol. 
http://www.ajcn.org/cgi/content/abstract/35/4/697
   
  Note on looking up information on beta sitosterol and other subjects:  You can look up information on Goggle and will get back tons of sites but most of them are from people selling these things but they still have some good info.  Better to use http://scholar.google.com/  and you will get back abstracts and articles from the medical and research mags.  Lots of big words but nobody selling merchandise.


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