Inflammation: Medicine's burning question
It&#x27;s great to read things like this... I wish my GP would do the same.<p>I recently had a really high cholesterol reading (both total cholesterol and LDL). Everything else (blood pressure, blood glucose etc) seems fine. I&#x27;m 38, fit and healthy and nothing that suspect in my family history. I found the attitude of my doctor in all this quite surprising. It amounted basically to &quot;You definitely have familial hypercholesterolemia. There is no other possible option here other than statins&quot;. No further questions about what I eat, my stress levels, lifestyle - nothing.<p>What disappoints me the most here is now that I feel like it&#x27;s all on me to determine what my real risk levels are and what&#x27;s appropriate to treat this. I don&#x27;t subscribe to the mainstream NHS view still heavily pushed that eating saturated fat -&gt; high cholesterol == unhealthy as I think it&#x27;s a lot more complicated (as this article shows). I don&#x27;t like being is this situation as I&#x27;m as susceptible to human bias as the next person, and I&#x27;m not a doctor, however almost all of the high quality, science based writing I&#x27;ve read indicates that the mainstream healthcare system&#x27;s view on cholesterol is wrong.