Sugar, Statins and Heart Health

I think that there is some truth here. 5 years ago, I lost quite a bit of weight and also gave up many forms of sugar. Before that, I was constantly tired and always very weak, to the point that I had to adopt many strategies just to get through the day. I was able to do things again, ride my bike, hike, so on long walks. Over COVID, I regained a lot of weight and got back into sugar, I found my energy levels were lower. My PCP wanted to start me on a statin (moderately high cholesterol). Which I did around 4 months ago. Now, I have full-blown weakness and fatigue again. This is my story, an "n" of one. But it seems valid to me. I'm putting my statin on hold for a month and monitoring my fatigue. I need to lose weight and get off the sugar, a harder option... but trying. I'm not telling anyone else to do this; this is my own little experiment.

In addition to removing the sugar, eliminate foods fried in vegetable oil and add fasting and you will solve all of these problems.

Great info! I just wish there was a way to get doctors to listen to this newer info concerning cholesterol vs insulin resistance & cardiac health. Most doctors are still using archaic guidelines for optimal health.

Wonderfully broken down to the public. Thank you Dr Mark Hyman.

Thank you Dr. Hyman. I appreciate you interjecting in here and summing things up for us. Your voice is so soothing to listen to. Good info.

“Health is a state of complete mental, social and physical well-being, not merely the absence of disease or infirmity.”

From South Africa Very informative. Thank you for addressing the side effects of Statin

Great stuff guys - spot on. Thx. Cut out the sugar. The insulin will follow.

Sugar is now in the east more prevalent than it is here in the west. They're adding more sugar to fast foods in India and Far East countries because we've become wise here and we're learning.

All the process has sugar in it, not just small amount but in big quantities. US Congress should pass a law to ban sugar in processed food. Sugar is an addiction just like drugs.

Great information....life saving.Thanks for sharing.

I stopped taking statins because, like many folk I suffered muscle pain and cramps in my legs and believed that the statin I was on was responsible. The pains continued regardless so I went back on to the statin again. When I was off the statins I developed blockages in two arteries so I had to have three stents inserted to open them up. Unless my muscle cramps get progressively worse I will probably stay on the statins.

Keto has reduced my high sugar levels to within normal levels.

My aunt was prescribed statins for YEARS and it led to severe neurological damage. She finally chose euthanasia as a way out because she was unable to walk for the last five years of her life.

I had a heart attack took statins for years had another heart attack, Quit taking them because obviously they didn’t prevent it, and two, muscle aches were terrible. Started a low carb high protein diet, shed weight, got lien, feel better than ever. All my markers went down except LDL but I don’t know which particle type because I need a NMR to know that. Which I asked for but didn’t get. My Cardiologist wants me back on statins 😳

I love this one. Thank you to both doctors.❤️

Yep.

I truly appreciate your channel Doc

thanks for adding closed captions. One thing, YouTube is not recognizing your captions. Therefore they are not being enlarged as MY YouTube settings direct auto captions to do. So, they remain small, and I can't read them because the autocaptions covef them up. ☺

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