Great article. My husband was put on statins 15 years ago. After 6 weeks he had severe memory issues. He got off them and took CoQ10 after about 6 months he was better. His older brother had the same result but he took them for much longer.
I so wonder how much dementia we see now is caused by this damaging drug?
I would not doubt it. The doctor's response was to break them in half! My husband couldn't find his way home. He was 50 at the time and in perfect health.
My husbands Testosterone and Vit D levels plummeted on Statins. The doctor then prescribed synthetic versions of both and instead the hubs went off the statins and both went back to normal very quickly. While I was researching to find if statins were the cause I also found that we need cholesterol and that people with higher cholesterol tend to actually live longer..... and statins are a multi-billion dollar drug annually. Then I dug deeper and found that they made the drug before they decided what they were even gonna use it for. The more I found, the more I realized the whole thing was a scam. A very lucrative one.
Isn't it amazing that mankind survived for thousands of years without medical products? When I was growing up there were no drugs in our home and my parents raised five children without any doctor bills, except when one of my adventurous brothers needed stitches a couple times. As someone who has studied health for over 60 years, the main thing the human body requires for health and energy is the right unprocessed food. It is difficult to find decent food in today's world. However, I would advise people to put their money into the best organic food they can find...and then they won't have to worry about health insurance or medical bills, because they would never need a doctor for health issues. I'm going on 92 years young; and I learned from very healthy older people seventy years ago, if you want to be healthy and live a long life, 'Keep out of doctor's offices!"
My parents knew nothing about nutrition. End of life for both was not great...My father's diet caught up with him and he died at 83 from water retention from eating too many salty foods. He would go from a normal weight of 150 pounds up to 250; 100 pounds of water weight. His doctor would put him in the hospital to get rid of the water. It eventually killed him, because the doctor only gave him a potassium supplement; and there were 70 other nutrients that he needed. My mother died at 89, the same age as her mother, when she died. She died of renal kidney failure and heart disease. They were both back East, so I didn't know what was going on, until my mother came to live with me and I took care of her, but it was too late. The doctor had her on 17 different medications, which wiped out her mind. Genes aren't as important, as nutritional knowledge. People generation after generation eat the same health-destroying food. They never question, when someone close dies, "What caused the death?" I have learned to question what caused it?
Thanks for summarizing this article for us! I think the Midwestern Doctor is AMAZING, but his articles are sooooo long.
Please consider summarizing his DMSO article for us.
And, do you know if he has ever written anything about the big cover-up at Sloan-Kettering in 1977? I only heard about that about a year ago … I found the documentary (Second Opinion) so upsetting! I have gone through breast cancer two times, 2002 and 2014, yet not one person has ever mentioned the absolute WONDERS of apricot seeds to me. Urrrrr!
The lies on the Internet are just ridiculous … and I believed the lies! I was petrified to eat my first apricot seed! But, I haven’t had any problems eating them!
If I understand correctly, if you have never had cancer, you should very slowly get up to 5 apricot seeds per day. But, if you have had cancer, like me, slowly get up to 10 apricot seeds per day. Doing so will build up your immune system so that you’ll be able to fight off cancer.
I feel certain that the Midwestern Doctor probably knows about Vitamin B17 found especially in apricot seeds, but I have never noticed that he has written about it. Please, please let me know if he has any opinions on amygdalin found especially in apricot seeds.
Oh, and look up Genesis 1:29 if you are concerned about the cyanide lie. Urrrrr!
Yes, the idea is that when the cyanide compound enters healthy cells, an enzyme converts it to a useful energy-producing substance. Cancer cells lack this enzyme and the cyanide kills the electron transport chain. I've never had to use B17, but thought that maybe methylene blue might help, in that it would protect healthy cells if they got too large a dose. But I'm not recommending it, because it's only a gut feeling.
If you are curious about the old documentary, Second Opinion, go to RNCstore.com, then drop-down menu, then Resources, then Documentaries to find it, and it is free to watch! Cool!
Plus, the other documentaries on there are worthwhile to watch, too.
Our medical system is broken … all kinds of decisions are made based on MONEY only. Satins are prescribed routinely and they are fairly useless according to the Midwestern Doctor.
Plus Surgery, Chemo, and Radiation are pushed on us for cancer! Doctors like John Richardson, a friend of Ed Griffin, were treated so badly for helping MANY patients fight cancer … back in the 70’s he was arrested, jailed, and eventually lost his medical license! At first, I didn’t believe such a thing could happen in the US, but now I believe it and I am just so sad and upset.
Consider reading Alive and Well by Philip Binzel, MD. Wow, I had trouble putting it down!
I want to tell the world about the WONDERS of apricot seeds, but most people just look at me like I am CRAZY … urrrrr!
When my mom was in her 70s her doctor tried to tell her she needed to get on cholesterol medicine. Initially I was upset at her because she wouldn't do what he advised. That was before my eyes were opened. When my mom had to switch doctors because he retired I asked her to get a copy of her labs and found that all of her cholesterol levels were perfectly mid range. Her old doctor also wanted to see her every quarter, and she told him, "you will see me when I'm sick." If he wasn't retired I would have reported him to Medicare for fraud. Mom is 92 years old and still very healthy for someone her age.
My mom was likely on Statins for 20+ years due to being diagnosed as diabetic. She was diagnosed with dementia/Alzheimers and passed away from the result of Alzheimer’s. I was put on statins a few years ago. I started seeing side effects of muscle pain and memory loss. I stopped taking them and the muscle pain stopped, and the memory loss stopped.
Years ago a doctor told me my cholesterol was high and I should take Lipitor.. I told him they don't even know what the baseline is supposed to be for women. He told me I was a bad patient. I never went back.
John Leake, Nick Hulscher & Dr. McCullough need to review this info. McCullough recently published a substack supporting the cholesterol theory of heart disease.
Went to my doc today for follow up after annual lab work. LDL is very high. All my other numbers are great. She wants me on a statin. I let her call in the Rx, but I'm not picking it up. I'll never take it.
I was prescribed statins when I went to a private hospital because of high blood pressure. Within months, I developed (at age 40+) osteoarthritis in both knees and hips; the joints would crack as I walked. It took me years of neuropathologist consultations, injections into the spine, Chinese acupuncture, and daily supplements (like bovine gelatine with my coffee) to get back to more or less normal.
The same doctor also prescribed a Pfizer pill for blood pressure, which later I found out causes the brain to shrink. Hello, dementia. Afterwards, I switched to the minimum dose of a less deadly medication. (Sadly, I'm at that stage where the damage is done and the healthy activities like walking, morning sun, keto diet etc. can only undo so much. But I do advise everyone to at least look up YouTube videos that discuss healthier alternatives to your current prescriptions.)
Meanwhile, mainstream healthcare continues to push the "food pyramid" - i.e., let's stuff ourselves silly with starchy carbs (they even SAY, "starchy carbs"!), avoid meat and butter, and buy all the "fat-free" and "zero sugar" junk at the supermarket. Or the diet sodas, sweetened with aspartame. Unbelievable.
Ironically, I am very grateful to have been put on statins after my last of three heart attacks 14 years ago. It was my severe adverse reaction to the statins -- intermittent claudication which brought my maximum non-stop walking distance from five miles to barely a quarter of a mile -- that prompted me to get online to learn more about what was going on. It didn't take long for me to learn (1) how misguided my medical treatment was, and (2) how mindbogglingly corrupt the entire Big Pharma-controlled medical-industrial establishment is. I ended up firing my cardiologist and any other doctors with the letters MD after their name, and I weaned myself off of all six medications they had me on. These days I won't take any Big Pharma products at all, not so much as a stinking baby aspirin. I eat a truly health-supporting died which is pretty much what my ex-cardiologist told me was a "heart-healthy diet" turned on its head.
In the course of my online explorations I also found out about holistic dentistry. On my first visit to a holistic dentist he was showing me video images of the x-rays he had just taken and told me: "See all that white area in the jawbone just above that old root-canalled tooth? That's a massive infection of anaerobic bacteria whose toxic waste products are attacking your cardiovascular system. If you don't get that dead tooth removed and the infection cleaned out, you're going to have a heart attack." He had no way of knowing that I'd already had three. I had him do the job for me, and today I no longer have any signs of heart disease. I'm sure that all the positive changes I've made in my diet any lifestyle, based on all that I've learned on the internet and discovered for myself by experimentation, have also made a huge difference in my health. In fact I'm healthier today at the age of 76 than I was 30 years ago. At 76 I'm afraid that in just a few more years my life will probably be half over.
Anyway, getting back to the statins, after 5 years of suffering with the intermittent claudication they caused, never getting above half a mile of nonstop walking, I stumbled across a supplement that combines 20mg of some substance called PQQ with 200mg of CoQ10. Within 6 months of starting to take that my intermittent claudication was entirely gone and I was back up to 5 miles nonstop. Apparently it has something to do with restoring the functioning of our mitochondria. Also, by the way, I've found by experimentation that if I switch from PQQ plus CoQ10 to just the CoQ10, the intermittent claudication starts to come back, so I figure I'll be taking it for the rest of my life -- just like my ex-cardiologist told me I would have to do with all of the Big Pharma toxic chemicals he prescribed.
Cholesterol is necessary. It isn't necessary to ingest animal products loaded with it. Especially in this day and age when most people live in cities and get little fresh air, peace and quiet, robust exercise that comes with working outdoors, familial socialization, etc. The false narrative that cholesterol is a good thing is responsible for killing many people. It just is a message of peace and safety to please gluttons, when there is no peace and safety.
Great article. My husband was put on statins 15 years ago. After 6 weeks he had severe memory issues. He got off them and took CoQ10 after about 6 months he was better. His older brother had the same result but he took them for much longer.
I so wonder how much dementia we see now is caused by this damaging drug?
I heard one doc say that 99% of dementia patients had taken statins at some time or other. Many still on them, of course.
Wow, thanks for telling us this!
I would not doubt it. The doctor's response was to break them in half! My husband couldn't find his way home. He was 50 at the time and in perfect health.
My husbands Testosterone and Vit D levels plummeted on Statins. The doctor then prescribed synthetic versions of both and instead the hubs went off the statins and both went back to normal very quickly. While I was researching to find if statins were the cause I also found that we need cholesterol and that people with higher cholesterol tend to actually live longer..... and statins are a multi-billion dollar drug annually. Then I dug deeper and found that they made the drug before they decided what they were even gonna use it for. The more I found, the more I realized the whole thing was a scam. A very lucrative one.
Isn't it amazing that mankind survived for thousands of years without medical products? When I was growing up there were no drugs in our home and my parents raised five children without any doctor bills, except when one of my adventurous brothers needed stitches a couple times. As someone who has studied health for over 60 years, the main thing the human body requires for health and energy is the right unprocessed food. It is difficult to find decent food in today's world. However, I would advise people to put their money into the best organic food they can find...and then they won't have to worry about health insurance or medical bills, because they would never need a doctor for health issues. I'm going on 92 years young; and I learned from very healthy older people seventy years ago, if you want to be healthy and live a long life, 'Keep out of doctor's offices!"
You are genetically lucky.
Be grateful.
My parents knew nothing about nutrition. End of life for both was not great...My father's diet caught up with him and he died at 83 from water retention from eating too many salty foods. He would go from a normal weight of 150 pounds up to 250; 100 pounds of water weight. His doctor would put him in the hospital to get rid of the water. It eventually killed him, because the doctor only gave him a potassium supplement; and there were 70 other nutrients that he needed. My mother died at 89, the same age as her mother, when she died. She died of renal kidney failure and heart disease. They were both back East, so I didn't know what was going on, until my mother came to live with me and I took care of her, but it was too late. The doctor had her on 17 different medications, which wiped out her mind. Genes aren't as important, as nutritional knowledge. People generation after generation eat the same health-destroying food. They never question, when someone close dies, "What caused the death?" I have learned to question what caused it?
I'm 76 and I agree. No doctors
Eat well and move.
I eat bacon,eggs, sausage and butter, and grass fed beef beef and I’m 70 and in great health! The supposed health care industry needs to stop lying!!
Thanks for summarizing this article for us! I think the Midwestern Doctor is AMAZING, but his articles are sooooo long.
Please consider summarizing his DMSO article for us.
And, do you know if he has ever written anything about the big cover-up at Sloan-Kettering in 1977? I only heard about that about a year ago … I found the documentary (Second Opinion) so upsetting! I have gone through breast cancer two times, 2002 and 2014, yet not one person has ever mentioned the absolute WONDERS of apricot seeds to me. Urrrrr!
The lies on the Internet are just ridiculous … and I believed the lies! I was petrified to eat my first apricot seed! But, I haven’t had any problems eating them!
If I understand correctly, if you have never had cancer, you should very slowly get up to 5 apricot seeds per day. But, if you have had cancer, like me, slowly get up to 10 apricot seeds per day. Doing so will build up your immune system so that you’ll be able to fight off cancer.
I feel certain that the Midwestern Doctor probably knows about Vitamin B17 found especially in apricot seeds, but I have never noticed that he has written about it. Please, please let me know if he has any opinions on amygdalin found especially in apricot seeds.
Oh, and look up Genesis 1:29 if you are concerned about the cyanide lie. Urrrrr!
Thanks!
Yes, the idea is that when the cyanide compound enters healthy cells, an enzyme converts it to a useful energy-producing substance. Cancer cells lack this enzyme and the cyanide kills the electron transport chain. I've never had to use B17, but thought that maybe methylene blue might help, in that it would protect healthy cells if they got too large a dose. But I'm not recommending it, because it's only a gut feeling.
I would recommend the suggestions here, though:
https://evolutionaryhealthplan.info/
If you are curious about the old documentary, Second Opinion, go to RNCstore.com, then drop-down menu, then Resources, then Documentaries to find it, and it is free to watch! Cool!
Plus, the other documentaries on there are worthwhile to watch, too.
Our medical system is broken … all kinds of decisions are made based on MONEY only. Satins are prescribed routinely and they are fairly useless according to the Midwestern Doctor.
Plus Surgery, Chemo, and Radiation are pushed on us for cancer! Doctors like John Richardson, a friend of Ed Griffin, were treated so badly for helping MANY patients fight cancer … back in the 70’s he was arrested, jailed, and eventually lost his medical license! At first, I didn’t believe such a thing could happen in the US, but now I believe it and I am just so sad and upset.
Consider reading Alive and Well by Philip Binzel, MD. Wow, I had trouble putting it down!
I want to tell the world about the WONDERS of apricot seeds, but most people just look at me like I am CRAZY … urrrrr!
When my mom was in her 70s her doctor tried to tell her she needed to get on cholesterol medicine. Initially I was upset at her because she wouldn't do what he advised. That was before my eyes were opened. When my mom had to switch doctors because he retired I asked her to get a copy of her labs and found that all of her cholesterol levels were perfectly mid range. Her old doctor also wanted to see her every quarter, and she told him, "you will see me when I'm sick." If he wasn't retired I would have reported him to Medicare for fraud. Mom is 92 years old and still very healthy for someone her age.
Wait.
You mean pharma would sell something to Americans that's not healthy - just to make MONEY?
Crazy talk.
Now do the entire vaccine schedule.
My mom was likely on Statins for 20+ years due to being diagnosed as diabetic. She was diagnosed with dementia/Alzheimers and passed away from the result of Alzheimer’s. I was put on statins a few years ago. I started seeing side effects of muscle pain and memory loss. I stopped taking them and the muscle pain stopped, and the memory loss stopped.
Here are a few things I've learned about statins, from direct observation of someone prescribed them by her doctor:
Memory lapses;
Difficulty sleeping;
Difficulty concentrating on performing simple tasks;
Easy bleeding (or lack of blood clotting);
No measurable drop in blood cholesterol.
I don't know if all of these are attributable to statin intake, but the patient is now 88 years old, and has been taking these for over 25 years.
Interestingly, the doctor that first prescribed these drugs died. At the age of 64. From a heart attack.
Years ago a doctor told me my cholesterol was high and I should take Lipitor.. I told him they don't even know what the baseline is supposed to be for women. He told me I was a bad patient. I never went back.
John Leake, Nick Hulscher & Dr. McCullough need to review this info. McCullough recently published a substack supporting the cholesterol theory of heart disease.
Went to my doc today for follow up after annual lab work. LDL is very high. All my other numbers are great. She wants me on a statin. I let her call in the Rx, but I'm not picking it up. I'll never take it.
I was prescribed statins when I went to a private hospital because of high blood pressure. Within months, I developed (at age 40+) osteoarthritis in both knees and hips; the joints would crack as I walked. It took me years of neuropathologist consultations, injections into the spine, Chinese acupuncture, and daily supplements (like bovine gelatine with my coffee) to get back to more or less normal.
The same doctor also prescribed a Pfizer pill for blood pressure, which later I found out causes the brain to shrink. Hello, dementia. Afterwards, I switched to the minimum dose of a less deadly medication. (Sadly, I'm at that stage where the damage is done and the healthy activities like walking, morning sun, keto diet etc. can only undo so much. But I do advise everyone to at least look up YouTube videos that discuss healthier alternatives to your current prescriptions.)
Meanwhile, mainstream healthcare continues to push the "food pyramid" - i.e., let's stuff ourselves silly with starchy carbs (they even SAY, "starchy carbs"!), avoid meat and butter, and buy all the "fat-free" and "zero sugar" junk at the supermarket. Or the diet sodas, sweetened with aspartame. Unbelievable.
Ironically, I am very grateful to have been put on statins after my last of three heart attacks 14 years ago. It was my severe adverse reaction to the statins -- intermittent claudication which brought my maximum non-stop walking distance from five miles to barely a quarter of a mile -- that prompted me to get online to learn more about what was going on. It didn't take long for me to learn (1) how misguided my medical treatment was, and (2) how mindbogglingly corrupt the entire Big Pharma-controlled medical-industrial establishment is. I ended up firing my cardiologist and any other doctors with the letters MD after their name, and I weaned myself off of all six medications they had me on. These days I won't take any Big Pharma products at all, not so much as a stinking baby aspirin. I eat a truly health-supporting died which is pretty much what my ex-cardiologist told me was a "heart-healthy diet" turned on its head.
In the course of my online explorations I also found out about holistic dentistry. On my first visit to a holistic dentist he was showing me video images of the x-rays he had just taken and told me: "See all that white area in the jawbone just above that old root-canalled tooth? That's a massive infection of anaerobic bacteria whose toxic waste products are attacking your cardiovascular system. If you don't get that dead tooth removed and the infection cleaned out, you're going to have a heart attack." He had no way of knowing that I'd already had three. I had him do the job for me, and today I no longer have any signs of heart disease. I'm sure that all the positive changes I've made in my diet any lifestyle, based on all that I've learned on the internet and discovered for myself by experimentation, have also made a huge difference in my health. In fact I'm healthier today at the age of 76 than I was 30 years ago. At 76 I'm afraid that in just a few more years my life will probably be half over.
Anyway, getting back to the statins, after 5 years of suffering with the intermittent claudication they caused, never getting above half a mile of nonstop walking, I stumbled across a supplement that combines 20mg of some substance called PQQ with 200mg of CoQ10. Within 6 months of starting to take that my intermittent claudication was entirely gone and I was back up to 5 miles nonstop. Apparently it has something to do with restoring the functioning of our mitochondria. Also, by the way, I've found by experimentation that if I switch from PQQ plus CoQ10 to just the CoQ10, the intermittent claudication starts to come back, so I figure I'll be taking it for the rest of my life -- just like my ex-cardiologist told me I would have to do with all of the Big Pharma toxic chemicals he prescribed.
the brain NEEDS cholesterol
I have read nightmare stories from some who have taken statins and how things improved after they
stopped using it
My primary kept pestering me about taking them because my LDL was
raises a bit with total of 200. . .but HDL is 78
I kept refusing so she took it to cardiology
They told her IF I took them, it would result in only 1%
improvement.
Given I work out every other day in strength training, and do daily cardio
(intense)
and live on a clean eating plan, it is the best I can do given I am 83
A physician assistant told me 80% of our lipid panel is NOT diet related
IT IS INHERITED
I wish I had taken after my mother who ate same diet I did and her total was
160, her LDL 50 and her HDL 78
My sister and I took after our father
SIGHS
I wonder if what is happening to my sister and BIL is due to their high dosing of
statins. I saw the bottles on the kitchen table and immediately recognized drug name
Science not settled?
Wha?
I grow weary of all or nothing health experts.
Cholesterol is necessary. It isn't necessary to ingest animal products loaded with it. Especially in this day and age when most people live in cities and get little fresh air, peace and quiet, robust exercise that comes with working outdoors, familial socialization, etc. The false narrative that cholesterol is a good thing is responsible for killing many people. It just is a message of peace and safety to please gluttons, when there is no peace and safety.