Sayer Ji and Dr. Brogan wrote an article in GreenMedInfo about a recent review of the science behind statins.
greenmedinfo.com/blog/crack...
One source is an article in sciencedaily about a study here.
sciencedaily.com/releases/2...
The study itself is behind a paywall here.
Londinium thank you for the link to the paper. Yes, I have also followed the deception for some time. Had a friend whose doctor took his level down to 120 and he was having problems. His doctor was clueless.
But how to stop the clueless docs. Just the other day, a kidney expert/nephrologist advised my mum to discuss statins with her GP because her total cholesterol was 5.7 (UK units). My dad was present and responded strongly against that advice as he was on them for a year during which his billirubin more than doubled. The nephrologist simply said "yes they can affect the liver". You couldn't make it up!!
Dr Malcolm Kendrick can show you in 12 slides that cholesterol is nothing to do with heart disease, he never mentioned the word statin, he has written two brilliant books on the subject.
Dr aseem malhotra is a
Cardiologist against statins, dr Jack Wolfson in USA wrote the paleo cardiologist which is excellent. Dvd’s Called the statin nation explain how it all started too.
There are many other books and articles against statins but the lie will continue as doctors are incentivised to give them to as many people as they can.
Like many many other corruptions, the truth will take a while longer to come out.
Couldn't agree more, however I do think that the main reason that doctors in the main won't backtrack on statins and their usefulness is because they would have to admit that they have been mistreating millions of people for years. The litigation that would ensue would be catastrophic for the medical profession.
There may, and I only say may, be a slow reduction in the amount of prescriptions issued for statins in the coming years, I am being optimistic.
I have been asked to take statins on numerous occasions and I have always refused because I believed my high cholesterol to be due to an untreated underachieve thyroid, I am now on levothyroxine and T3 and I suspect that my cholesterol will have reduced, however I am in no hurry to have it tested.Anyway nobody tries to make me take them any more, I suspect that it's written somewhere in my notes the I have refused them many times.
I always found it telling that when I asked the various doctors if they were on statins, when they were trying to persuade me to take them, they either declined to answer or said they had not had a test for cholesterol and were sure they didn't have high cholesterol!!
Make of that what you will!
Interesting that doctors are not keen to take statins! “It’s ok for me to prescribe statins to you but definitely not right for me to take them” sort of attitude! Plus GPs get bonus points (money) for their surgeries and freebies from Big Pharma!
What a state of affairs we know we cannot trust doctors!
I always tell mine I would never take statins.
I have refused statins many times also and my total cholesterol has been pretty high, it was 275 mg/dL (limits 100-199) in 8/2018, went down to 227 mg/dL in 7/2019 however my HDL and Triglycerides have always been good. Don’t know why it had such a big drop without me even trying other than I have been ill this year so I have been eating differently.
Statins do more harm than good . If thyroid /thyroid meds would be *Optimal* there would be no need for statins . Cholesterol is needed to make hormones for us too .
I agree. My cholesterol shot up after they took away my menopausal HRT. Doc put me on a statin drug. It took me about 6 months to figure out that the sharp pains I was experiencing across the middle of my back was caused by the statin. Pain stopped when I stopped the statin. To verify my hypothesis, I started taking again, and the pain came back.
Decided I could live with the cholesterol levels they way they were. I began taking T3 last December and my good kind, HDL, went up and all the others went down with no change in diet.
WOW !!!!! What a Great out come . Many are not so lucky because they don't know better . I don't know why but Dr's have no problems to give scripts for statins , BP pills , sleeping pills , tranquilizers when checking thyroid values first would be the *Right* way to go . Putting bandages instead of going to the source of the problem would in my opinion the way to go . But then again the more different pills they can sell the richer Big Pharma and the Dr's get . All at our expense .
You were very smart getting off the statins, too many bad side affects and the Drs. want our cholesterol way too low anyway . I know someone personally that statins affected their memory, even after he got on off them his memory didn’t return to what it was previously. Bad drug.
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