G'Day, All...I was just put on 10mg Crestor to control elevated cholesterol. Would like your opinions, please :-)

- Vikingirl

AFAIK, Crestor and Lipitor are the preferred choices, unless contraindicated for specific reasons. DO have your Team pay attention to those liver-related tests. (Oats are a good thing, maybe switch your wheat-based carbs to oat? They're both kinda empty calories, but one's good for cutting LDL.)

Quote from vikingirl:

There's even a theory.... Type 1 diabetes would have prevented many of our ancestors from freezing to death.

That theory is bonkers. True and complete Type-1 causes a slow death from starvation... Even when you're only eating only caribou, seals, deer and fish, the protein and fat is converted into SUGAR by the liver to run your body (at a smooth, even rate). A T1 victim with complete beta cell destruction, after the 'Honeymoon Period' and without insulin production, will die, wasting away.

My guess is that T1 is not as likely something CREATED, but rather something LACKING: When you catch one of those notorious "flu-like illnesses", your body doesn't contain the proper coding to recognize the beta cells as "self". (They do have some distinctly "foreign" characteristics, almost as if they were originally bacteria rather than animal cells.) And while other persons' bodies will properly refuse to create antibodies which attack the proteins of beta cells, recognizing them as "self", ours stupidly did attack, thinking they are among the "flu-like illness" foreigners.

There are distinctly different rates of T1, and T2, among different populations. This makes good sense. But I wonder, how much of the "Scandinavian" rates of Diabetes is caused by much greater exposure to the "flu-like" illnesses which turn on the erroneous IR? The cold climate keeps people indoors more, in closer contact and more likely to spread "flu-like" illnesses to each other.

If I'd gotten a flu shot that fateful year, I might not be where I am today. :(