lowering LDL-C with statins and death, heart attack or stroke; did not necessarily translate into a meaningful benefit for the patient; RRR of 29% becomes ARR of 1.3%, doctors are deceiving patients
I took statins for 15 years, always had side effects. Tried three different types. Have not taken them since early 2020. Fired my doctor. I take a supplement and cleaned up my diet. Limited triglycerides. All the reading I’ve done it’s- hoax. I ended up with taking metformin for high blood sugar probably cause by bad diet.
I don’t take metformin anymore just a supplement. A1c is 5.2.
I’ll never trust a doctor again. I often wonder what damage taking those two drugs did to my joints etc. I gained weight the whole time on the drugs. Never once did the doctor tell me to change my diet. I’m down 65 lbs slightly overweight. Our health care system is worthless.
My so called V.A. doctor (PA) tried to prescribe them to me last visit, not because of anything he'd found regarding my health, but my families. I of course refused them. I soon after found out I was transferred to another Dr. (PA), supposedly because he went to a new position, which is possible with all of those being forced out due to the vaxx mandates. Now I've been reassigned to a NP which my RN neighbor told me may be an upgrade.
My husband was prescribed statins and I told him not to take them, take red rice yeast with CoQ10 instead after bloodwork showed he high cholesterol and triglycerides. Also My husband was recently told he was prediabetic. Since then he lost 7 lbs in 1 month with diet changes, his numbers have improved and A1C is back to normal after taking Berberine with Ceylon cinnamon. No more nasty harmaceuticals.
Dr Malcolm Kendrick in the Uk has written The Great Cholesterol Con which might be of interest. Also, personally I have found the low-carb eating style really helpful for losing and maintaining weight. The easiest to implement might be Dr Michael Mosley's 5:2 diet, slow but works.
I remember years ago getting my annual physical. Doc said I had high cholesterol. Wanted to put me on Lipitor. I said I wanted to try some things first. I had heard an infomercial on a high quality Omega 3. I made sure to keep my same lousy diet for the next 3 months, only changing taking therapeutic doses of DHA and EPA Omega 3's. I went back and had my blood checked. Total cholesterol dropped from 210 to 140. LDL went from 140 to 70. Triglycerides dropped in half. He was amazed at the numbers. I asked him if he wanted a Dr medical info packet the company made to help doctors get people off statins by taking pharma grade Omega 3's and other supplements. He said "No thanks." That is when I realized that the "Big Harma" industry, as I call them, controlled a lot of doctors. From that point on I took control of my health, not relying on something just because a doctor said so. I learned how to read pharma trial and research notes like Dr. Alexander often links to. I got familiar with FDA stage trials. That is what saved me early on from ever considering the bioweapon jabs. Over the years I've helped others get off taking statins. Since then there has been a lot of real science showing the harm that inflammation does. By taking the high levels of Omega 3's, a natural anti-inflammatory, my body didn't need to produce as much cholesterol to 'spackle the insides of the arteries'. So instead of treating a symptom (via statins) I addressed the underlying issue. Do your research people. Don't just rely on doctors to spout what the pharma marketing department tells them. It doesn't mean all drugs are wrong, but one has to understand pharma loves getting people on life time medicines. Better for their revenue projections.
The medical and Big pharma community are brainwashing the general population. Seems that about 90% of Tv commercials from the pharmaceutical companies pushing their poisons. All you have to do is listen to the side effects and adverse reactions that they list and that should be our 1st clue: the cure is worse than the disease. All are toxic.
My 8 year old was watching a show and one of those commercials with all the side effects being spoken at the end came on. It included even death. Without us saying anything, she said "Why would anyone take the drug then?" People's understanding of risk/reward is so skewed now. They will run out and buy lottery tickets with hard earned money thinking they have a chance to win, but will pooh-pooh the odds that a drug or jab will impact them, even though that magnitudes more likely to occur to them than winning the lottery. "It can't happen to me" on medical harm, but "It can happen to me" on winning the lottery.
A year after my stent I am experiencing shortness of breath after simply walking up a few stairs.
As well as some chest pain.
My cardiologist here at Jubalee Hospital, Dr. Wallace, is extremely upset with me for not taking my cholesterol meds!
He once told me that some of his patients revert back to natural path doctors once he has fixed their heart issues!
He said that it upsets him and went on further to say next time they have a heart attack, why do they come to him, why don’t they run to their natural path doctors to operate on their hearts!
You definitely want high dose DHA/EPA. There are also a bunch of hearty-healthy supplements I added to my routine like Soltea (theaflavins), and also Endothelial Defense from Life Extension. Fighting inflammation is key. And a major culprit of inflammation is sugar and seed oils, and processed grains. I used the "Eat, Fast, Feast" book by Jay Richards last year. He explains the science well. Intermittent fasting is very beneficial, even for 'skinny guys'. Curcumin is also a great supplement. Problem is supplements cost money (just like eating healthy like grassfed beef instead of corn fed). The normal supermarket/fast food diet is bad for our health. (I'm still guilty of cracking a bag of Doritos open every now and then.) What has helped me, especially for lunches during the week when I work, is over the weekend making a healthy grassfed beef stew for easy lunches during the week. If no access to microwaves, you could also do 'cold' foods like sardines (excellent for the brain and heart), or cold roast beef sandwiches (if you get only enough bread to keep your hands clean and not loaded with soybean oil and such). I've also seen in the supermarket, and tried, "pita" that is only made out of egg whites. Or make your own salad, and put chunks of meat and cheese in it, and, KEY, make your own dressing using olive oil and vinegar. Almost all store bottle have either soybean or canola oils, which both cause inflammation. Avoid at all costs. Do the above for a year and your cardiologist will be wondering what drugs you are on becuase your numbers are so much better. (And avoid alcohol.)
You might consider nattokinase, olive leaf extract, high potency cayenne tincture, hawthorn berry, more vit C, A and magnesium. I believe that most heart troubles begin with faulty life styles, not the lack of more big pharma poison drugs.
I used N3 Oceanic's ResQ1250. For the amount of DHA and EPA I wanted to use for a therapeutic dosage (over 1.5 grams DHA and 2 grams EPA), they required the fewest pills, and with their super saver shipping, the per dosage cost for a pharma grade Omega 3 was the best at the time. I haven't research brands in a few years so maybe some others offer the same quality grade at a per dosage cost less. I take half my dosage, 3 pills, in the morning, and 3 pills just before bed. They aren't tiny, but I've learned to take all 3 at once. N3 is good too for no fish burps. I chatted with the founder years ago and he also recommended keeping the bottle in the fridge. That way the softgels, if taking with a glass of water, pass into the small intestine before dissolving.
Cholesterol levels have nothing to do with heart problems. Your body makes 80-90% of its own cholesterol in the liver and for good reason as every cell uses it. So why would you want to defeat what your body does naturally? Low cholesterol can kill you, not high cholesterol.
Think of it this way as an anlogy. You have arterial walls. Due to diet, stress, etc., inflammatory agents are causing harm to the insides of those walls. Epithelial cells getting damaged. Your body senses this potential 'rupture' and applies spackling (cholesterol). The more arterial inflammation, the more 'spackling' the body will use to avoid you having a blowout. This goes on long enough and you get clogged and calcified arteries. Buy upping the dosage of Omega 3's DHA/EPA, it fights inflammation. Your body senses less need for cholesterol and backs down on its production, and less shows up on blood draws. Hence the drop in cholesterol. It isn't because cholesterol is bad. Lipitor/statins never addressed the underlying cause. (Probably one reason a good % of people get rhabdomyolysis and other side effects.) So the drugs that treat the symptom instead of the underlying issue give people an unwarranted sense of security.
Reduce inflammation via supplementation, diet change, stress reduction (normal sleep, avoidance of blue light at night, etc.). Unfortunately human nature being what it is, we literally want our cake and to eat it too, with no ramifications. Big Harma knows this and will allow us to stay in our additions.
Yes. Agreed. People need to see how the pharmaceutical industrial complex takes advantage of us every chance they get. Once they see, they will start to think more critically and stop feeding the beast.
That critical thinking needs to include the consideration of life style changes. Once the big pharma butchers reel you in, you are hooked for life. That is why they always tell you that you will be on this drug or that drug for life. Is that curing your true health issues?
I'm 71 and my cholesterol has been considered "high" for years (vegetarian since 1965 & vegetarians tend to have high HDL, for one thing). LDL is high, too, but triglycerides are low and the ratios are low risk (one. average risk), optimal numbers. I've read about tests measuring LDL being unreliable, as well.
Recently, my cholesteral and LDL really shot up and my doctor (a D.O.) wanted me to take cholesterol drugs. I refused, saying I knew why it had happened: I had been eating 2 eggs every other day for a long time, but had stopped eating steel-cut oats for quite awhile and had also increased butter and cheese substantially. I knew all I needed to do was make some dietary changes.
I was asked to sign a AMA (Against Medical Advice) form (BIG letters in BOLD at the top... oooo, scary...). As usual with these forms, I changed it by crossing out the bold-lettered title, and changed the text so that it not only "covered" the doctor in terms of liability, but didn't reflect badly on me (i.e., didn't give insurance company any opportunity to refuse payment for some condition in the future). I crossed out words like "refused" and similar accusatory terms, and wrote in that I had been advised to take cholesterol drugs by the provider, period. I was okay with also signing the statement that "risks" of not taking the drug had been explained, but I also wrote in, "Potential risks of taking cholesterol drugs was not addressed." (Of course not, because it's all one-sided lunacy.)
In short, I then changed my diet for three months (omitted eggs, cheese and butter and ate steel-cut oats every day) and my total cholesterol dropped by 86 points (LDL by 76 points). I have to wonder how many people just agree to take those poison statin drugs without even trying to go the natural route. But my doctor, following required "protocol", would have immediately prescribed a very harmful pharmaceutical.
Oh, and I resumed eating eggs, butter and cheese, just a bit less, and am eating organic steel-cut oats regularly, too. Moderation is still a thing.
I rather doubt it, Gorgo. I know I've never once seen an informed consent form when doctors have prescribed anything at all. They typically don't even offer information about potential adverse effects when they prescribe drugs, unless asked -- and even then, they aren't necessarily too informed themselves. (Pharmacists are a lot more so.).
30 years ago I did some digging on this subject when my GP wanted to put me on statins. I declined after finding a lack of definitive correlation. A few years later I had a full neck, body & organ scan done to check for blockages & the cardiologist who analyzed my results was shocked to find perfectly clear arteries & healthy organs. He said with my numbers he expected to find at least something & that he wished his own scan looked as good as mine...& HE was taking statins! He also said that normally with numbers as “bad” as mine he’d prescribe taking them at least every 2nd day, but since my scans proved the highly promoted theory absolutely wrong on me, he didn’t see any reason why I should.
Drs are typically shocked that I am on zero Rx at close to 61...they also can’t believe my age & do a double take because I look so much younger than that, with no cosmetic injections or surgeries. I’ve stayed away from typical medicine most of my life, other than urgencies, emergencies & a few infections that truly needed antibiotics. My parents opted out of vaccines for me, too. Lucky me! It’s served me well. I go to integrative medical doctors & alternative healers for most everything...& absolutely no jabs for anything, no matter what they spring on us next!
I worked in the cardiovascular surgery department at the Cleveland Clinic for 13 years. I retired 6 years ago.
Right before I left the general consensus amongst heart surgeons was shifting away from cholesterol as a marker for cardiovascular disease and the emerging focus was on inflammation.
I believe the surgeons because unlike cardiologists they have no skin in big pharma’s game.
The basic idea is, everyone’s body goes through daily inflammatory cycles. A certain amount of inflammation is good and necessary for healing. But too much stresses the inside of vessels and over time roughens their smooth linings causing plaque buildup and calcification.
Excess carbs and processed foods increase inflammation. A Mediterranean diet rich in (real) olive oils decreases inflammation. The thinking is, we’ve been focusing on reducing cholesterol for decades and heart disease is still the number one killer. So we are barking up the wrong tree.
Fat chance convincing big pharma though. Statins are a huge cash cow.
At best, a life long ingestion of statins might add a few days to your life. Things like stress, food, alcohol, smoking, lack of exercise, loneliness, inflammation, gut microbiome, environmental toxicity, excessive radiation as in 5G, lack of vitamins and minerals and over use of big pharma drug poisons all contribute to a waning life expectancy and a life of health problems. No drugs will cure those types of lifestyles.
Been reported already by several other truth tellers! Reflects the fact that medical research is no longer objective but manipulated to push patented chemicals as the primary way to treat disease states! Now they want to injected cell manipulating RNA as the the method that is immensely profitable, proprietary and patentable to give a 19 year lock! Expose the perpetrators now and stop the injections now!
My doc prescribed me 40mg atorvastatin April 2022. I haven't been taking it. Had my gallbladder out Oct 2022. Gonna get back with y'all and see if gallbladder removal lowered my cholesterol. I've read it does.
It must be extremely hard to spend years training to be a doctor under our current system, then start to see the light, but you've invested so much in this pharma paradigm, there is great resistance to tossing it out and starting over. It would almost mean that your entire life has been wrong.
Exactly! Joint pain, fatigue and dementia as a result of taking the statin...only to extend your life by a few days. But you don't hear that from your doctor!
I took statins for 15 years, always had side effects. Tried three different types. Have not taken them since early 2020. Fired my doctor. I take a supplement and cleaned up my diet. Limited triglycerides. All the reading I’ve done it’s- hoax. I ended up with taking metformin for high blood sugar probably cause by bad diet.
I don’t take metformin anymore just a supplement. A1c is 5.2.
I’ll never trust a doctor again. I often wonder what damage taking those two drugs did to my joints etc. I gained weight the whole time on the drugs. Never once did the doctor tell me to change my diet. I’m down 65 lbs slightly overweight. Our health care system is worthless.
My so called V.A. doctor (PA) tried to prescribe them to me last visit, not because of anything he'd found regarding my health, but my families. I of course refused them. I soon after found out I was transferred to another Dr. (PA), supposedly because he went to a new position, which is possible with all of those being forced out due to the vaxx mandates. Now I've been reassigned to a NP which my RN neighbor told me may be an upgrade.
My husband was prescribed statins and I told him not to take them, take red rice yeast with CoQ10 instead after bloodwork showed he high cholesterol and triglycerides. Also My husband was recently told he was prediabetic. Since then he lost 7 lbs in 1 month with diet changes, his numbers have improved and A1C is back to normal after taking Berberine with Ceylon cinnamon. No more nasty harmaceuticals.
Prediabetic...another loosely define phrase designed to get people on diabetes drugs ASAP.
Dr Malcolm Kendrick in the Uk has written The Great Cholesterol Con which might be of interest. Also, personally I have found the low-carb eating style really helpful for losing and maintaining weight. The easiest to implement might be Dr Michael Mosley's 5:2 diet, slow but works.
The good doctor has several excellent books.
Yes, worthless to anyone seeking better health and priceless to the perps who sell this snake oil.
I remember years ago getting my annual physical. Doc said I had high cholesterol. Wanted to put me on Lipitor. I said I wanted to try some things first. I had heard an infomercial on a high quality Omega 3. I made sure to keep my same lousy diet for the next 3 months, only changing taking therapeutic doses of DHA and EPA Omega 3's. I went back and had my blood checked. Total cholesterol dropped from 210 to 140. LDL went from 140 to 70. Triglycerides dropped in half. He was amazed at the numbers. I asked him if he wanted a Dr medical info packet the company made to help doctors get people off statins by taking pharma grade Omega 3's and other supplements. He said "No thanks." That is when I realized that the "Big Harma" industry, as I call them, controlled a lot of doctors. From that point on I took control of my health, not relying on something just because a doctor said so. I learned how to read pharma trial and research notes like Dr. Alexander often links to. I got familiar with FDA stage trials. That is what saved me early on from ever considering the bioweapon jabs. Over the years I've helped others get off taking statins. Since then there has been a lot of real science showing the harm that inflammation does. By taking the high levels of Omega 3's, a natural anti-inflammatory, my body didn't need to produce as much cholesterol to 'spackle the insides of the arteries'. So instead of treating a symptom (via statins) I addressed the underlying issue. Do your research people. Don't just rely on doctors to spout what the pharma marketing department tells them. It doesn't mean all drugs are wrong, but one has to understand pharma loves getting people on life time medicines. Better for their revenue projections.
The medical and Big pharma community are brainwashing the general population. Seems that about 90% of Tv commercials from the pharmaceutical companies pushing their poisons. All you have to do is listen to the side effects and adverse reactions that they list and that should be our 1st clue: the cure is worse than the disease. All are toxic.
My 8 year old was watching a show and one of those commercials with all the side effects being spoken at the end came on. It included even death. Without us saying anything, she said "Why would anyone take the drug then?" People's understanding of risk/reward is so skewed now. They will run out and buy lottery tickets with hard earned money thinking they have a chance to win, but will pooh-pooh the odds that a drug or jab will impact them, even though that magnitudes more likely to occur to them than winning the lottery. "It can't happen to me" on medical harm, but "It can happen to me" on winning the lottery.
So many people are on numerous drugs all together and no real studies have ever been done to discover the safety of using a handful of pills.
A year after my stent I am experiencing shortness of breath after simply walking up a few stairs.
As well as some chest pain.
My cardiologist here at Jubalee Hospital, Dr. Wallace, is extremely upset with me for not taking my cholesterol meds!
He once told me that some of his patients revert back to natural path doctors once he has fixed their heart issues!
He said that it upsets him and went on further to say next time they have a heart attack, why do they come to him, why don’t they run to their natural path doctors to operate on their hearts!
You definitely want high dose DHA/EPA. There are also a bunch of hearty-healthy supplements I added to my routine like Soltea (theaflavins), and also Endothelial Defense from Life Extension. Fighting inflammation is key. And a major culprit of inflammation is sugar and seed oils, and processed grains. I used the "Eat, Fast, Feast" book by Jay Richards last year. He explains the science well. Intermittent fasting is very beneficial, even for 'skinny guys'. Curcumin is also a great supplement. Problem is supplements cost money (just like eating healthy like grassfed beef instead of corn fed). The normal supermarket/fast food diet is bad for our health. (I'm still guilty of cracking a bag of Doritos open every now and then.) What has helped me, especially for lunches during the week when I work, is over the weekend making a healthy grassfed beef stew for easy lunches during the week. If no access to microwaves, you could also do 'cold' foods like sardines (excellent for the brain and heart), or cold roast beef sandwiches (if you get only enough bread to keep your hands clean and not loaded with soybean oil and such). I've also seen in the supermarket, and tried, "pita" that is only made out of egg whites. Or make your own salad, and put chunks of meat and cheese in it, and, KEY, make your own dressing using olive oil and vinegar. Almost all store bottle have either soybean or canola oils, which both cause inflammation. Avoid at all costs. Do the above for a year and your cardiologist will be wondering what drugs you are on becuase your numbers are so much better. (And avoid alcohol.)
Thank you so much!
I’m very concerned about what to eat and what supplements I should be taking!
I have replaced the statins with a product from my health food store called Sytrinol.
Still on the blood pressure and blood thinners though!
You might consider nattokinase, olive leaf extract, high potency cayenne tincture, hawthorn berry, more vit C, A and magnesium. I believe that most heart troubles begin with faulty life styles, not the lack of more big pharma poison drugs.
Thank you
Last year in March I had a stress test done and they found through an angiogram that the main artery to my heart was blocked!
I had a stent put in and have been put on blood pressure, cholesterol and blood thinner meds.
I found that the statins were effecting my memory and did my research on them.
I have stopped the statins and took it upon myself to take a natural cholesterol pill from our local health food store.
I own my own landscaping company and my work is rather physical.
I am skinny and 60 years old.
I’m a single divorced guy and do not eat that good. Frozen foods that I can pop into the microwave etc.
which omega 3? Using Dr. Sinatras cardiovascular pills - seems to be working
My cardio wanted my chol down to 140.... told him no - wanted to place me on 25 mg lipitor when theraputic dose was 5mg...
I used N3 Oceanic's ResQ1250. For the amount of DHA and EPA I wanted to use for a therapeutic dosage (over 1.5 grams DHA and 2 grams EPA), they required the fewest pills, and with their super saver shipping, the per dosage cost for a pharma grade Omega 3 was the best at the time. I haven't research brands in a few years so maybe some others offer the same quality grade at a per dosage cost less. I take half my dosage, 3 pills, in the morning, and 3 pills just before bed. They aren't tiny, but I've learned to take all 3 at once. N3 is good too for no fish burps. I chatted with the founder years ago and he also recommended keeping the bottle in the fridge. That way the softgels, if taking with a glass of water, pass into the small intestine before dissolving.
Cholesterol levels have nothing to do with heart problems. Your body makes 80-90% of its own cholesterol in the liver and for good reason as every cell uses it. So why would you want to defeat what your body does naturally? Low cholesterol can kill you, not high cholesterol.
Think of it this way as an anlogy. You have arterial walls. Due to diet, stress, etc., inflammatory agents are causing harm to the insides of those walls. Epithelial cells getting damaged. Your body senses this potential 'rupture' and applies spackling (cholesterol). The more arterial inflammation, the more 'spackling' the body will use to avoid you having a blowout. This goes on long enough and you get clogged and calcified arteries. Buy upping the dosage of Omega 3's DHA/EPA, it fights inflammation. Your body senses less need for cholesterol and backs down on its production, and less shows up on blood draws. Hence the drop in cholesterol. It isn't because cholesterol is bad. Lipitor/statins never addressed the underlying cause. (Probably one reason a good % of people get rhabdomyolysis and other side effects.) So the drugs that treat the symptom instead of the underlying issue give people an unwarranted sense of security.
Reduce inflammation via supplementation, diet change, stress reduction (normal sleep, avoidance of blue light at night, etc.). Unfortunately human nature being what it is, we literally want our cake and to eat it too, with no ramifications. Big Harma knows this and will allow us to stay in our additions.
Yes. Agreed. People need to see how the pharmaceutical industrial complex takes advantage of us every chance they get. Once they see, they will start to think more critically and stop feeding the beast.
That critical thinking needs to include the consideration of life style changes. Once the big pharma butchers reel you in, you are hooked for life. That is why they always tell you that you will be on this drug or that drug for life. Is that curing your true health issues?
I'm 71 and my cholesterol has been considered "high" for years (vegetarian since 1965 & vegetarians tend to have high HDL, for one thing). LDL is high, too, but triglycerides are low and the ratios are low risk (one. average risk), optimal numbers. I've read about tests measuring LDL being unreliable, as well.
Recently, my cholesteral and LDL really shot up and my doctor (a D.O.) wanted me to take cholesterol drugs. I refused, saying I knew why it had happened: I had been eating 2 eggs every other day for a long time, but had stopped eating steel-cut oats for quite awhile and had also increased butter and cheese substantially. I knew all I needed to do was make some dietary changes.
I was asked to sign a AMA (Against Medical Advice) form (BIG letters in BOLD at the top... oooo, scary...). As usual with these forms, I changed it by crossing out the bold-lettered title, and changed the text so that it not only "covered" the doctor in terms of liability, but didn't reflect badly on me (i.e., didn't give insurance company any opportunity to refuse payment for some condition in the future). I crossed out words like "refused" and similar accusatory terms, and wrote in that I had been advised to take cholesterol drugs by the provider, period. I was okay with also signing the statement that "risks" of not taking the drug had been explained, but I also wrote in, "Potential risks of taking cholesterol drugs was not addressed." (Of course not, because it's all one-sided lunacy.)
In short, I then changed my diet for three months (omitted eggs, cheese and butter and ate steel-cut oats every day) and my total cholesterol dropped by 86 points (LDL by 76 points). I have to wonder how many people just agree to take those poison statin drugs without even trying to go the natural route. But my doctor, following required "protocol", would have immediately prescribed a very harmful pharmaceutical.
Oh, and I resumed eating eggs, butter and cheese, just a bit less, and am eating organic steel-cut oats regularly, too. Moderation is still a thing.
Dr Malcolm Kendrick, UK, has written Why saturated fat cannot raise cholesterol levels (LDL levels).
I wonder if even ONE doctor has even presented conformed consent when prescribing statins? Or, most other drugs?
I rather doubt it, Gorgo. I know I've never once seen an informed consent form when doctors have prescribed anything at all. They typically don't even offer information about potential adverse effects when they prescribe drugs, unless asked -- and even then, they aren't necessarily too informed themselves. (Pharmacists are a lot more so.).
30 years ago I did some digging on this subject when my GP wanted to put me on statins. I declined after finding a lack of definitive correlation. A few years later I had a full neck, body & organ scan done to check for blockages & the cardiologist who analyzed my results was shocked to find perfectly clear arteries & healthy organs. He said with my numbers he expected to find at least something & that he wished his own scan looked as good as mine...& HE was taking statins! He also said that normally with numbers as “bad” as mine he’d prescribe taking them at least every 2nd day, but since my scans proved the highly promoted theory absolutely wrong on me, he didn’t see any reason why I should.
Drs are typically shocked that I am on zero Rx at close to 61...they also can’t believe my age & do a double take because I look so much younger than that, with no cosmetic injections or surgeries. I’ve stayed away from typical medicine most of my life, other than urgencies, emergencies & a few infections that truly needed antibiotics. My parents opted out of vaccines for me, too. Lucky me! It’s served me well. I go to integrative medical doctors & alternative healers for most everything...& absolutely no jabs for anything, no matter what they spring on us next!
You have proven that the medical establishment is not required for healthier living.
Statins are a real benefit to Big Pharma’s profits.
Also taking them for decades can extend life by about 4 days, though perhaps increasing the chance that those days will be accompanied by Alzheimer’s.
I worked in the cardiovascular surgery department at the Cleveland Clinic for 13 years. I retired 6 years ago.
Right before I left the general consensus amongst heart surgeons was shifting away from cholesterol as a marker for cardiovascular disease and the emerging focus was on inflammation.
I believe the surgeons because unlike cardiologists they have no skin in big pharma’s game.
The basic idea is, everyone’s body goes through daily inflammatory cycles. A certain amount of inflammation is good and necessary for healing. But too much stresses the inside of vessels and over time roughens their smooth linings causing plaque buildup and calcification.
Excess carbs and processed foods increase inflammation. A Mediterranean diet rich in (real) olive oils decreases inflammation. The thinking is, we’ve been focusing on reducing cholesterol for decades and heart disease is still the number one killer. So we are barking up the wrong tree.
Fat chance convincing big pharma though. Statins are a huge cash cow.
At best, a life long ingestion of statins might add a few days to your life. Things like stress, food, alcohol, smoking, lack of exercise, loneliness, inflammation, gut microbiome, environmental toxicity, excessive radiation as in 5G, lack of vitamins and minerals and over use of big pharma drug poisons all contribute to a waning life expectancy and a life of health problems. No drugs will cure those types of lifestyles.
It is well known statins reduce joie de vivre. Thus inhibit lifestyle changes even in those who wish to change.
Welcome to the Statin Denial Cult.
An anti-vaxxer and anti-statiner, I guess.
Over the age of 50, “high” cholesterol is actually beneficial for all cause mortality.
Rogan interviewed Dr Maholtra (?) on this. Big lies on a huge scale
Been reported already by several other truth tellers! Reflects the fact that medical research is no longer objective but manipulated to push patented chemicals as the primary way to treat disease states! Now they want to injected cell manipulating RNA as the the method that is immensely profitable, proprietary and patentable to give a 19 year lock! Expose the perpetrators now and stop the injections now!
Thanks for this. The side effects of Statins are considerable. I’m glad I was able to use a similar analysis to get my wife off of them.
My doc prescribed me 40mg atorvastatin April 2022. I haven't been taking it. Had my gallbladder out Oct 2022. Gonna get back with y'all and see if gallbladder removal lowered my cholesterol. I've read it does.
4/6/24 haven't been back to the doc yet 😄
fluoride, COVID shots, antidepressants, and now statins?!? oh, no..... what will be next?
(I left a few out...)
Most big pharma drugs are next..they are useless.
It must be extremely hard to spend years training to be a doctor under our current system, then start to see the light, but you've invested so much in this pharma paradigm, there is great resistance to tossing it out and starting over. It would almost mean that your entire life has been wrong.
The question the patient should ask the doctor is “ if I take a statin how long will that increase my lifespan?”
If you are lucky, you might add a few days to your life.
Exactly! Joint pain, fatigue and dementia as a result of taking the statin...only to extend your life by a few days. But you don't hear that from your doctor!
"A Statin Nation" by Dr. Malcolm Kendrick was the first book that confirmed my suspicions re statins and cholesterol.