Ashley Whitton: Heart attacks are definitely triggered by an inflammation in the inner wall of an artery. The connection to cholesterol is that is the hard smooth material that lines your arteries and cracks from an inflammation, blocking the artery, is made from cholesterol. So Erythrocyte Sed Rate is very important, but cholesterol is also important. (If you feed rabbits nothing but liquid cholesterol, their arteries will be covered by a soft white cholesterol; but theyll be healthy, absent an inflammation. But hemodynamically, they are fine.) Everybody over 30yo (younger if they have problems) should have a sedimentation rate done by a good lab at least once a year, IMO. Since my Erythrocyte Sedimentation Rate has been between 28-39 over the past year or so (most recently at 31 mm/Hr), I like having it done every few months. (It should be between 1-20.) A high sed rate indicates an inflammation somewhere. Now the only question is where is my inflammation. As for cholesterol, the neat thing is you dont have to eat it; your liver produces 80% of the cholesterol that you need, and if you dont have enough, itll produce more; its an integral part of your bodys connective tissue.
Posted on: Wed, 13 Nov 2013 20:39:52 +0000
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