NEW STUDY LINKS LOW CHOLESTEROL TO SUICIDE

William Campbell Douglass, M.D.

Mainstream medicine is still trying to ignore the fact that cholesterol just isn't the demon they thought it was.  Now there's a new research that suggests that low levels of cholesterol might actually be causing way more problems than they solve--especially in people with a history of depression.

Researchers from the College of Medicine in Ansan City, South Korea, compared cholesterol levels in 149 depressed patients who hadn't along with those of another 251 healthy control subjects.  The researchers found that patients with cholesterol levels of less than 160 mg/dl were at increased risk for depression and suicide.  This is quite an interesting development, since the American Heart Association has been barking at us for years to keep our cholesterol levels under 200 mg/dl. 

Maybe (as I've been saying for over 20 years), that isn't such a good idea after all.

Reference: "Low Cholesterol Linked to Suicide" Reuters health News (www.reuters.com) 9/23/03