Cholesterol and Testosterone
I had not realised this so I searched the Internet for information and the link between the two. I should also say at this point that I have slightly raised cholesterol and my doctor was worried for a time. I also have relatives with thyroid problems, which again is related. (I think she worries a bit more than me, which is probably good.)
This was a statement in an article at http://www.treelight.com/health/healing/Cholesterol.html.
“Cholesterol is very necessary stuff. It's converted into Vitamin D by sunlight, and it's the precursor for steroid hormones like the testosterone you need to grow, and the estrogen women need to be feminine.
The liver manufactures something like 1,000 mg of cholesterol per day, even if you consume no cholesterol at all. Of that amount, about 800 mg becomes bile salts, which is necessary for the digestion of fats.[Guyton, 885] That leaves about 200 available for other functions.”
Now I hadn’t realised this and it just shows how inter-related everything is. It could be an explanation, why I feel so much better with plenty of sunlight.
The article then goes on to describe how anti-cholesterol drugs work, why they are bad etc. and why one of the worst things you can consume is corn oil based fructose.
I’m not sure about the latter and would like any opinions. But I suspect that coeliacs like us consume a bit of the fructose and perhaps more than most.
But I will definitely say that I feel so much better after a few days in the sun and very miserable, if it’s rained continuously for several days, as it has for this summer.
Does anybody else have any thoughts?
Labels: science
posted by James Miller | 2:47 pm
2 Comments:
Hi,
Sounds sensible to me. I used always to be much better in summer - and a near-invalid at other times. My diet didn't vary that much - perhaps a few more salads in summer. At 51 I managed to discover for myself that I had coeliac - subsequently, reluctantly confirmed by doctors (biopsy and blood test and response to diet). Odd how Google can do something in half an hour that myriad doctors couldn't do in 50 years. THAT shows the importance of databases in this disease. No human being examines the complete picture. The most needed invention is a diagnostic tool for coeliac disease, and all it will need to be is an easy to use database, or a database analyser if there is such a thing. Or just send people a questionnaire - paper's good, too.
For years I've been following their advice not to sunbathe, to eat fruit and wholegrains etc. I almost died. I'm allergic or intolerant to gluten, corn, all sugars, legumes, lactose, nightshades, soya, fruit (said sugars), and tree nuts. Oh, and the biggy - Type 1 latex allergy (anaphylaxis). But get this, taking calcium supplements makes me iller than my coeliac did. Does that mean I should still take them? I don't think so, and logic dictates not, but I am getting grief about that. I'd rather rely on my food - medicines have almost crippled me.
I do feel better when I sunbathe. For me it's so crucial that we are going to buy a convertible car, because I've been left with joint problems and cannot walk far.
To me, this is the big problem today. Doctors don't do any joined up thinking. They specialise so narrowly, and defend their research so viciously, that the OPPOSITE of science is happening.
I am always intrigued, for example, that doctors don't seem to measure sick people against readings of other people with that sickness, so they could get a mean for "healthy" sick people managing a disease. Measuring people against results for healthy people is quite dangerous sometimes. Thyroid is the one that illustrates this. You can have a normal reading in one country, get on a plane, and emerge in another developed country and be given Thyroxine. There is no consensus and arbitrary thinking is dangerous. And doctors now appear to treat us automatically from read outs, much as pilots do when they fly planes. This doesn't allow for instrument error, human error - for plain common sense.
I know... rant over. But you did ask for thoughts!
You're so right.
Some years ago we sold a metred dose inhaler project to a well-known German pharmaceutical company.
They told me that only 14 percent of the world's health and pharmaceutical databases had ever been investigated. Database analysis if one of my jobs and I suspect that figure is too high.
We need doctors that look at the whole body.
At least here one of the arthritus consultants puts all his patients on a gluten-free diet, as he finds that it helps and sometimes is a complete cure.
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