Actually there are studies that say a High Cholestrol level is actually good for PALS. I will try to find the study.
Reuters reported on 28 April 2008 that elevated lipid levels (also called hyperlipidemia and high cholesterol) appear to significantly improve survival in patients with ALS (amyotrophic lateral sclerosis). Investigators have found that when patients with ALS have a hyperlipidemic profile, their survival is much better. Further confusing traditional medical philosophy, when their LDL cholesterol level is high and HDL low, their survival is the best - just the opposite of prevailing medical opinion.
Higher cholesterol levels may help
prolong survival in patients with
amyotrophic lateral sclerosis
(ALS) by warding off malnutrition and
muscle wasting, according to a new study
by French researchers.
About two-thirds of ALS patients develop
hypermetabolism, which leads to increased
resting energy expenditure as a result
of the disease, but the origin of this
finding is unclear. On average, these patients
also tend to have much higher blood
levels of both good and bad cholesterol and
triglycerides. Studies have also indicated
that glucose metabolism is affected in ALS
patients and in other neurodegenerative
diseases.
In the new study, researchers at the Federation
of Nervous System Diseases, Hospital
de la Pitie-Salpetriere in Paris, discovered
that ALS patients with considerably
higher cholesterol ratios lived, on average,
one year longer than patients with lower
levels, when compared with normal controls.
The findings, published in the April
8 print edition of Neurology, appeared online
Feb. 13.