On Wed, 26 Jan 2000, jlpresto wrote:

> Brett, Todd, anyone with any ideas?
>
> Disclaimer:  I am not your medical patient so I will take anything you say
> with a half cup olive oil.  I don't hold you responsible for any of your
> opinions.

Wow, that's a license to really lay it on!

> For cholesterol, I think there are more than one reading, but mine were
> T-Chol  147
> TG  21

That total cholesterol reading is very low, and there are
epidemiological studies that correlate low cholesterol with
increased death rates from suicide, accident, and homicide.  The
Eades, in Protein Power Lifeplan, suggest an explantion for why
this might be so.  They state that cholesterol has
anti-depressant properties, in that it tends to delay the
reuptake of serotonin in the brain, in a manner similar to Prozac
and other Selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors.  If this is
correct (and I really don't know if it is) then, they continue,
it might explain why very low cholesterol readings are correlated
with these violent deaths, since depressed people may be more
likely to be suicidal, accident-prone, and homicide-prone (The
latter presupposes that depressive behavior gives other people
more reasons to kill you).  Again, I'm just parroting what I read
in PPL, and I haven't yet had a chance to do any digging on this
subject.

Todd Moody
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