During my routine 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 actually quite surprised or I would say shocked by my question.
Why do you need and want to test it for? The doctor asked.
I told him on a book "What Your Doctor Doesn't Know About Nutritional Medicine That May Be Killing You" written by Dr.
Ray Strand stating that quite a big percentage of people who died from heart attack did not have high cholesterol levels but a high level of homocysteine.
The doctor then asked me not to completely trust what the book or information on the web says and commented that the check is not that important as compared to checking my cholesterol level.
I agreed with the doctor in a way that we should not just trust completely or blindly what we have heard and follow but instead we must all have an attitude like those of students; students who study the information and make our own judgment and in any case that the information is correct, we should then turn it to be our own facts.
If the information given is not correct, then we have to do our own due diligence to find out more and what can be construed as our own facts.
We should not just make a statement saying that we should not trust any type of information we see or read 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!" What is your take on it? Do you think homocysteine is dangerous?