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Two years ago my doctor prescribed me statins to lower my cholesterol. I asked him what the alternative would be and he said it needs a complete life change, eat better and exercise. Altough I did not take the statins, I did not do a life change either untill September 2007 nevertheless I’m so glad I never got on statins and will never do so either. If you are using statins you might want to read this and decide for yourself what to do.

One more thing before you start reading; I’m not saying that high LDL (bad cholesterol) is a good thing, but the way how to treat it and the levels doctors want you to have is up for discussion.

The hype about statin drugs is relentless these days. Physicians are urging patients to take statins even when they don’t have high cholesterol. The American Diabetes Association, for its part, ridiculously suggests that all diabetic patients should be on statins just in case scientists one day discover some benefit to diabetics. The hype surrounding statins is the con job of the decade, and statin manufacturers are laughing all the way to the bank. But all this begs the question: is there really any health benefit to taking statins? If so many doctors and drug companies are pushing this drug, it must be saving lives or improving peoples’ health, right?

Nope. A critical review of thirteen clinical trials, published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, reveals some startling facts about statins:

• Statin drugs save zero lives.
• Statins are utterly useless as prevention.
• Even in people with high cholesterol, statins don’t reduce the risk of death one iota.
• There has never been a single study that demonstrated statins extend life for women.

So much for the hype surrounding statins. These pharmaceuticals are utterly useless, even for their intended patients. And yet they’re hyped up like some sort of miracle drug.

To make matters worse, statins actually cause an alarming assortment of side effects, including alterations in sex drive, nutritional deficiencies, muscular disorders, sudden death and widespread hormonal imbalances. Statins actually cause disease while preventing nothing! (That’s one reason why the FDA has already banned some statin drugs from the market.)

If statins are so bad for you, then how can modern medicine promote them so obediently? I’ve always been amazed at the chasm between modern medicine and real scientific thought. Modern medicine parades as science, but it’s really nothing more than a medical religion where anything is considered true if the right people say so. Scientific merit is thrown out the window. Simply put, drugs don’t have to be useful at all to be heralded as breakthrough pharmaceutical that will save tens of millions of lives. Even if the claim is a lie, it gets airtime, and both doctors and their patients buy into the lies.

The current hype about statins is a lie. These drugs are utterly useless and serve no purpose other than to extract billions of dollars in profits from the general public. Even people with high cholesterol don’t benefit from statins, the research now shows. But of course statin manufacturers don’t talk much about the real science. These studies are all swept under the rug. Why? Because they’d be interfering with a windfall scam: the great statin con of the 21st century!

SOURCE;
Medical fraud alert: cholesterol lowering statin drugs save zero lives, says comprehensive research published in JAMA

A more extensive article here; (From the place where I buy my vitamines and protein)

Considering that tens of millions of Americans now take statins to lower cholesterol, the following headline was conspicuously absent from the major media this month: “Statins Found to Turn On Gene that Causes Muscle Damage.” It’s now a fact of science; a new study shows that taking statins destroys your muscle to a greater or lesser degree. And let’s not forget that the heart is a muscle.

Place this study juxtaposed to another rather interesting recent finding: the more fit you are the longer you will live – and the two just don’t add up. How can you destroy muscle and be more fit? You can’t. Sure you can drug your cholesterol number lower, but will you be healthier, fit, and live longer? read more: www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron44.htm

And if you still need more proof search for “statin scam” on google for a result of another 50.000 articles

LATEST UPDATE
Study Reveals Doubt on Drug for Cholesterol (The New York Times) Jan 15 2008

ANOTHER UPDATE

Over at Dr. Mike R. Eades MD website;

The Vytorin trial that finally came to light late last week kicked off the cascade of bad news. It appears that the combination of a statin and Zetia, despite lowering cholesterol levels by 40 percent more than a statin, was no more effective than the statin alone in preventing problems. Which would lead anyone with critical thinking skills to wonder about the hypothesis that LDL-cholesterol is really a problem.

www.proteinpower.com/drmike/page/2/

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