Homocysteine danger seems to be ignored by doctors…
16 May 2008
No CommentDuring my medical check up last week for the insurance company, I was asking the doctor what is the cost of testing for homocysteine and the GP was quite surprised, or I would say shocked by my question.
Why do you want to test for homocysteine? The doctor asked.
I told him on a book “What Your Doctor Doesn’t Know About Nutritional Medicine That May Be Killing You” that quite a big percentage of people who died from heart attack did not have high cholesterol levels but high homocysteine level.
The doctor then asked me not to completely trust what the book or information on the web says and commented that the check of homocysteine is not that important.
I agreed with him in a way that we shouldn’t just trust what we have heard and follow blindly but instead we must all be students; students who study the information and make our own judgment if the information is correct and turn it to our own facts. If it is not, then we have to do our own due diligence to find out more and what can be construed as our own facts.
We shouldn’t just say that we should not trust the information we see and ignore the whole thing. I would like to re-quote a saying that goes like this: “Acquiring of knowledge may cost some money but try ignorance!”
