New Post from Dr Kendrick....Statins contd...

[shaws]

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[Justiina]

I am nothing but disgusted about it this. Now, like I have said before, Big Pharma is getting more and more bold and brave and regardless of knowledge available they come up new tricks how to sell their best drugs.

Isn't it wonderful. They do not even hide it very well, they push and push probably because they know the triumph of statins is going to end to great fall. So all in and sell them as long as you can. That seems to be their tactics.

[shaws Administrator in reply to Justiina]

Just as they did with promoting levothyroxine as the 'perfect' replacement for NDT, so that the NHS stopped prescribing this replacement which had many years of safe use so was called (maybe in the USA) a grandfathered product. Now as well as NDT being outlawed in the UK it is now T3, so that more prescrips can be issued for the remaining symptoms.

They have some eminent persons on board so that the consumers believe anything is safe for use until damage has happened and no-way back. Just like Vioxx

drugs.com/vioxx.html

[Justiina in reply to shaws]

Yeah! Vioxx was very popular, everyone was getting that. Even young people like me back then. I was forced to buy it even though I was not in pain. I ended up using it for my painful periods and was very shocked to find out how awful stuff it was. They just simply do not care as long as that drug gets sold.

I guess Synthroid is the same when you compare T4's. It was widely marketed and still is even though it's proven worse than other T4's. But as so much money was used on it they have to try to get it sold.

[shaws Administrator in reply to Justiina]

This is an excerpt re Synthroid (levothyroxine):-

Dr. Lowe: I began working with patients who were hypothyroid in the late 1980s. To learn about the treatment of hypothyroid patients, I spent a lot of time talking with other doctors about thyroid hormone therapy. I soon learned that most doctors tenaciously held two beliefs that had been shrewdly planted in their minds by the corporation that marketed Synthroid. The beliefs were: (1) the potency of Synthroid tablets was perfectly reliable, and (2) the potency of the tablets or capsules of other products—especially Armour Thyroid—was highly unreliable.

Based on these two beliefs, the doctors dogmatically pronounced that all hypothyroid patients should be treated with Synthroid. The doctors’ pronouncement was thoughtless parroting of a sound bite from the corporation’s marketing campaign—a campaign so effective that Synthroid eventually became the third most-prescribed drug in the U.S.

In my view, the doctors who parroted the Synthroid marketing hype should feel shame; they allowed themselves to be duped by a sales campaign for a product that was—and still is!—no more reliable than any other thyroid hormone product. In previous publications, I have cited the FDA evidence for Synthroid’s lack of reliability.

Of course, Synthroid isn’t the only thyroid hormone product with reliability problems. In my experience, no brand of thyroid hormone is especially reliable. By this, I mean that fairly often, patients find that the potency of the thyroid hormone products they’re taking is lower than the label states.

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Angel_of_the_North

[Angel_of_the_North]

And apparently:

'A recent letter to the editor of the cancer journal Current Oncology....

In their commentary entitled, "Do statins prevent or promote cancer," the authors point out that although Big Pharma claims that statins decrease the chance of cancer, "prospective data suggest that statins actually increase cancer in certain segments of the population." And they go on to say, "An alarming increase in breast cancer incidence, some of which were recurrences, was seen in women randomized to pravastatin [a popular statin drug] in the CARE trial."

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Specifically, the people at the greatest risk were "the elderly and people with a history of breast or prostate cancer."'

[shaws Administrator in reply to Angel_of_the_North]

What next I wonder? Many on this forum are given statins for their high 'cholesterol' level. Would you not think that the doctors should know the very basic,, i.e. that high cholesterol is a clinical symptom of hypo and that we need optimum meds to reduce it and it will and without statins.