[AGL] Fw: Got cholesterol?

[Margaret Martone]

Frances: Garlicin tablets (or just LOTS of garlic eaten daily) will reduce 
your cholesterol and not damage your liver like the medicines will. For the 
aches and pains, Carlos sells a wobenzyme that works GREAT for Cissi and 
others who have that problem, or you can get MSM at any healthfood store, 
even HEB probably has it, and it is amazing for joint pains. And, it is 
NATURAL...we just don't have as much of it as we age.

Have a good one.

Margaret


>From: Frances Morey <frances_morey at yahoo.com>
>Reply-To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
><austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
>To: survivors' reminiscences about Austin Ghetto Daze in the 60s 
><austin-ghetto-list at pairlist.net>
>Subject: Re: [AGL] Fw: Got cholesterol?
>Date: Mon, 8 May 2006 11:31:51 -0700 (PDT)
>
>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.
>
>