If You Take Cholesterol Reducing Drugs - Statins
Chinese Red Rice to Reduce Cholesterol
You Do So At Your Own Risk? ....
| If you were going out for the day and it was pouring down with rain would you put on a raincoat or some form of coat to stop you getting wet through? Or would you think what the hell and just wear a thin tea shirt and go out for the day? If the above sound as they are stupid Homer Simpson questions .... |
did you know that cells in YOUR body are waterproofed and the waterproofing is CHOLESTEROL.
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That when statins are taken YOUR body then interprets this as an EMERGENCY and starts sequestering cholesterol from one part of the body and transporting it to areas where it is lacking?
That this is one reason WHY Cholesterol reducing diets DO NOT WORK, and in actuality Cholesterol levels rise, because your body has sensed that this is an EMERGENCY and released stored cholesterol.
Because CHOLESTEROL is needed to repair YOUR body tissues, such as scar tissues like YOUR artery walls.
If a wall is NOT repaired what will happen, it WILL start to become brittle and eventually start to rupture, deteriorate and eventually collapse.
You get ALL the minerals you need in food, or do you?
If YOU are taking STATINS drugs then you are NOT!
Why, because that damn cholesterol is needed as a precursor for Vitamin D.
So what?, well Vitamin D is needed for many biochemical processes including MINERAL metabolism and such things as BILE salts for the digestion of fats, which are made from CHOLESTEROL, so many people who are taking STATINS drugs and attained the mystical Cholesterol number of below 5, will also have digestive problems with fats!
Numbers Game ....
the ideal number now being propagated by the Medical profession and Pharmaceutical companies is "3" for Cholesterol.
But, clinically at 2.5 you are near death or YOU will die.
If you were a car, you would be "running" on empty, and could STOP running at any time.
That Cholesterol reducing drugs and diets for that matter, "disrupt" YOUR adrenal hormones, leading to blood sugar problems, edema, mineral deficiencies, chronic inflammation, difficulty in healing, allergies, asthma, reduced libido, infertility and various reproductive problems.
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Co-Q10 depletion becomes more and more of a problem as the pharmaceutical industry encourages doctors to lower cholesterol levels in their patients by greater and greater amounts. Fifteen animal studies in six different animal species have documented statin-induced Co-Q10 depletion leading to decreased ATP production (cellular energy), increased injury from heart failure, skeletal muscle injury and increased mortality. Of the nine controlled trials on statin-induced Co-Q10 depletion in humans, eight showed significant Co-Q10 depletion leading to decline in left ventricular function and biochemical imbalances.
Statins also inhibit Thyroid functions.
| The most common side effects of STATIN drugs are muscle aches, pain, cramp and weakness. What is the most VITAL MUSCLE in the body - the HEART! As STATINS deplete CQ10, a nutrient that supports muscle functions, as a by the way your heart is a muscle as well, imagine getting a muscle "cramp" with the heart or weakness, I wonder what these are called, that's it a heart attack or angina! |
Virtually all patients with heart failure are put on statin drugs, even if their cholesterol is already low. Of interest is a recent study indicating that patients with chronic heart failure benefit from having high levels of cholesterol rather than low. Researchers in Hull, UK followed 114 heart failure patients for at least 12 months.16 Survival was 78 percent at 12 months and 56 percent at 36 months. They found that for every point of decrease in serum cholesterol, there was a 36 percent increase in the risk of death within 3 years.
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According to the research of Dr. Golomb, nerve problems are a common side effect from statin use; patients who use statins for two or more years are at a four to 14-fold increased risk of developing idiopathic polyneuropathy compared to controls. She reports that in many cases, patients told her they had complained to their doctors about neurological problems, only to be assured that their symptoms could not be related to cholesterol-lowering medications.
Dr. Golomb has found that 15 percent of statin patients develop some cognitive side effects.22 The most harrowing involve global transient amnesia--complete memory loss for a brief or lengthy period--described by former astronaut Duane Graveline in his book Lipitor: Thief of Memory.23 Sufferers report baffling incidents involving complete loss of memory--arriving at a store and not remembering why they are there, unable to remember their name or the names of their loved ones, unable to find their way home in the car. These episodes occur suddenly and disappear just as suddenly. Graveline points out that we are all at risk when the general public is taking statins--do you want to be in an airplane when your pilot develops statin-induced amnesia?
While the pharmaceutical industry denies that statins can cause amnesia, memory loss has shown up in several statin trials. In a trial involving 2502 subjects, amnesia occurred in 7 receiving Lipitor; amnesia also occurred in 2 of 742 subjects during comparative trials with other statins. In addition, "abnormal thinking" was reported in 4 of the 2502 clinical trial subjects.24 The total recorded side effects was therefore 0.5 percent; a figure that likely under-represents the true frequency since memory loss was not specifically studied in these trials.
Cancer ....
In every study with rodents to date, statins have caused cancer. Why have we not seen such a dramatic correlation in human studies? Because cancer takes a long time to develop and most of the statin trials do not go on longer than two or three years. Still, in one trial, the CARE trial, breast cancer rates of those taking a statin went up 1500 percent. In the Heart Protection Study, non-melanoma skin cancer occurred in 243 patients treated with simvastatin compared with 202 cases in the control group.
Manufacturers of statin drugs have recognized the fact that statins depress the immune system, an effect that can lead to cancer and infectious disease, recommending statin use for inflammatory arthritis and as an immune suppressor for transplant patients.
There are many books on Cholesterol and it Myths, such as The Great Cholesterol Con ....
You were NOT born with a STATIN DRUG DEFICIENCY!
It is NOT a "healthy drug"!
Researchers at the Tulane University School of Medicine used electron beam tomography (EBT) to measure the progression of plaque buildup in heart-attack patients taking statin drugs. EBT is a very accurate way to measure occlusion from calcium in the arteries. Contrary to expectations, the researchers discovered that the progression of coronary artery calcium (CAC) was significantly greater in patients receiving statins compared with event-free subjects despite similar levels of LDL-lowering. Said the researchers: "Continued expansion of CAC may indicate failure of some patients to benefit from statin therapy and an increased risk of having cardiovascular events (Arterioscler Thromb Vasc Biol, April 1, 2004).
Doctors have discovered that injections of a certain substance can reverse heart disease in some patients. The therapy has helped reduce the amount of plaque in the arteries, thereby negating the need for angioplasty and open heart surgery. That substance is HDL-cholesterol (www.ivanhoe.com/newsalert, March 1, 2004).
The Melbourne Women's Midlife Health Project measured cholesterol levels annually in a group of 326 women aged 52-63 years. During the eighth annual visit, subjects took a test that assessed memory. They found that higher serum concentrations of LDL-cholesterol and relatively recent increases in total cholesterol and LDL-cholesterol were associated with better memory in healthy middle-aged women (J Neurol Neurosurg Psychiatry 2003;74:1530-1535.)
Not ill by taking a STATIN pill! |
