Is anyone else leery about taking Statin drugs?!


Question: I have heard and know several folks who have become very ill from taking them. With all the press lately about them one has to really STOP and think of the possible negative side-effects or non-effects of them.


Answers: I have heard and know several folks who have become very ill from taking them. With all the press lately about them one has to really STOP and think of the possible negative side-effects or non-effects of them.

Hi - Do a search for Dr. Duane Graveline, who has a web page and book out on the extreme dangers of these statin pills.
Bayer in Germany has a billion dollar lawsuit against them for Bakkol. This statin paralyzed thousands of men who will never walk again. Many years from now the lawyers will get most of the money.
Statins prevent the liver from making cholesterol. The same metabolic pathway that makes cholesterol also makes the vital enzyme, CoQ10. Without CoQ10, the whole body starts to fail. The mind and the memory goes, the muscles atrophy, even the heart can stop - and the statins are supposed to protect the heart.
The pharmaceutical industry is populated by extremely greedy, heartless, soul-less and well-educated people. The industry is a model of how a great nation can go terribly wrong.
Cholesterol makes vitamin D in the skin in the presence of sunlight. No cholesterol, no Vitamin D. No Vitamin D and you get cancer. See the book, "The China Study". In this book it is shown that the kidneys will manufacture the cancer-killing form of Vitamin D called D(1,25) at night unless there is calcium or animal protein in the digestive system. See Appendix C of this book.
In order to make D(1,25) and kill cancers, the kidneys must have cholerocalciferol or Vitamin D3.
In short, if you take statins, expect to age very fast at best; at worst, you may get cancer, get Alzheimers or have a heart attack.

I've heard some negative things about one or two new drugs which haven't been as effective as some of the older ones and also had negative side effects. I also read a comment you might find interesting here:http://www.cnbc.com/id/23871395/

Compounds in Orange Peel May Lower Cholesterol as Effectively as Statin Drugs

A class of compounds found in citrus fruit peels called polymethoxylated flavones (PMFs) have the potential to lower cholesterol more effectively than some prescription drugs, and without side effects, according to a study by U.S. and Canadian researchers that was published in the Journal of Agricultural and Food Chemistry.

In this study, when laboratory animals with diet-induced high cholesterol were given the same diet containing 1% PMFs (mainly tangeretin), their blood levels of total cholesterol, VLDL and LDL (bad cholesterol) were reduced by 19-27 and 32-40% respectively. Comparable reductions were also seen when the animals were given diets containing a 3% mixture of two other citrus flavonones, hesperidin and naringin.

Treatment with PMFs did not appear to have any effect on levels of beneficial HDL cholesterol, and no negative side effects were seen in the animals fed the PMF-containing diets.

Although a variety of citrus fruits contain PMFs, the most common PMFs, tangeretin and nobiletin, are found in the peels of tangerines and oranges. Juices of these fruits also contain PMFs, but in much smaller amounts. In fact, you'd have to drink about 20 glasses of juice each day to receive an amount of PMFs comparable in humans to that given to the animals. However, grating a tablespoon or so of the peel from a well-scrubbed organic tangerine or orange each day and using it to flavor tea, salads, salad dressings, yogurt, soups, or hot oatmeal, buckwheat or rice may be a practical way of achieving some cholesterol-lowering benefits. The researchers are currently exploring the mechanism of action by which PMFs lower cholesterol. Based on early results in cell and animal studies, they suspect that PMFs work like statin drugs, by inhibiting the synthesis of cholesterol and triglycerides inside the liver.

Read "Reverse Heart Disease Now" by Dr. Roberts MD.

Your brain is 40% cholesterol - it makes me leery to take something that reduces the levels of a compound that is such a large part of my brain - Dr. Roberts had patients that lost their memory when on statins...





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