Epoch Times has written articles for a few years now about the potential dangers of statins and I was fascinated. As a result, when I had two stents inserted three years ago and the doctor wanted to put me on statins, it was a hard no for me. He wasn’t happy. Then a neighbor who’d been put on statins recently and complained of severe leg pain she felt coincided with starting the drug, I suggested she stop, showing her the articles. Her pain subsided within two days. I also told a doctor friend who’d been on statins for over 20 years that I refused the drug. He chided me because he had no side effects, but several months later his wife told me he’d stopped the statins. I smiled and welcomed him into the light.
Slowly people are hearing and learning. Thank you so much for this comprehensive article.
Fear of dying drives the issue! If you want to speed up the process, all you have to do is take a statin drug chronically along with acetaminophen brand-name Tylenol, and drink alcohol every day. A deadly combination.!
In the last 25 years 200,000 Americans had liver transplants and it is reported that 50% is caused by the acetaminophen, but I don’t believe it works alone! Statin drugs, deplete a key enzyme that is essential for liver health called CoQ10! The drug manufacturers don’t tell the physicians and the pharmacist to tell the patients they must supplement to keep their liver healthy! Merck knew this in 1989 and kept their mouth shut!
Morpheus to Americans: You take the blue pill and you wake up tomorrow in your bed and believe ... whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and....
I’ve always been of the mind that the cholesterol isn’t the problem. The reason for the cholesterol is the problem. Why is your cholesterol high? The cholesterol is there for a reason, right?
Interestingly, I began IV phosphatidylcholine in hopes of reducing my pain from small fiber neuropathy. What happened next? Well, I was able to reduce my morphine from 160 mg to 30 mg. But more importantly to this post, My cholesterol went from 275 to 200. So obviously there are many ways to improve your cholesterol levels if they worry you. But cholesterol isn’t the problem. The reason for the cholesterol is the problem. Cholesterol is the Band-Aid.
Dr. Robert Atkins MD recommended supplementing with COQ-10. Even before him his mentor, Dr. Carleton Fredericks PhD, spoke highly of it. This was when its importance was first being realized, in the 1960s - 70's. In those days all you could buy was a yellow 30mg two-piece capsule made in Japan.
What about LPa and PCSK9 inhibitors like Repatha? Very little information is available on the implications of extremely high LPa with normal healthy range cholesterol levels. I have been taking Repatha for nearly two years with little effect on my LPa, but after the addition of niacin my LPa was reduced significantly (268 to 129) when last tested, as well as my LDL levels (98 to 45) with negligible effect on my already VERY healthy HDL and Triglycerides. Since it seems niacin has been more effective in reducing LPa, it’s hard to know what to do—continue Repatha or not, will the niacin have negative results impact in my liver over time, etc? For now, I only take the Repatha and just concentrate on keeping CRP down and glucose in check. Ideally, I’d like to stop Repatha, if it is not going to change anything or end up harming me in the long run. But then, the question is, do I just take niacin exclusively and hope that it doesn’t harm me over time? It’s all so confusing—and seemingly futile.
There must be a tremendous amount of profit in statins!
I was prescribed them many years ago when I still trusted the medical profession. I was told that I needed them because of my LDL cholesterol levels. As I started “doing my own research”, the 4 words that strike fear into the heart of the medical industrial complex, I came across many very well known and distinguished doctors who destroyed the myth about them. Dr. Aseem Malhotra, prominent British Cardiologist, has been speaking out against them for over 10 years!
I stopped taking them and had earlier stopped triglycerides but the reason I said that there must be huge profits is that while a few doctors suggested I go back on triglycerides, the onslaught has been ongoing for years now to get me back on the statins. My insurance company, as well as nearly every doctor I’ve seen since has tried to convince me to take them.
“Our study suggests that statin therapy…does not decrease the proportion of small, dense LDL among total LDL particles, but in fact increases it… and reduces absolute amounts of large, buoyant LDL.” (the good stuff)
That being said, however, please encourage your readers to remember that the BROWN FAT modulates cholesterol and glucose balance and that the recent finding of worldwide body temperature reduction shows that brown fat activity has bottomed out, which is the reason for the metabolic syndrome, including hypercholesterolemia.
Encourage them to remember that stress-related Low T3 Syndrome is the reason for brown fat paralysis.
Encourage them to remember that LT3S is easily and safely managed by prescribing T3 (Liothronine),
SO, IN ESSENCE, REVITALISING THE BROWN FAT BY ELIMINATING LT3S WILL CORRECT HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA:
Could that be why Rx for thyroid (as opposed to synthetic levothyroxine) is nearly unavailable in the USA? I had assumed it was $. BTW, some do not respond to generic levothyroxine.
Epoch Times has written articles for a few years now about the potential dangers of statins and I was fascinated. As a result, when I had two stents inserted three years ago and the doctor wanted to put me on statins, it was a hard no for me. He wasn’t happy. Then a neighbor who’d been put on statins recently and complained of severe leg pain she felt coincided with starting the drug, I suggested she stop, showing her the articles. Her pain subsided within two days. I also told a doctor friend who’d been on statins for over 20 years that I refused the drug. He chided me because he had no side effects, but several months later his wife told me he’d stopped the statins. I smiled and welcomed him into the light.
Slowly people are hearing and learning. Thank you so much for this comprehensive article.
Fear of dying drives the issue! If you want to speed up the process, all you have to do is take a statin drug chronically along with acetaminophen brand-name Tylenol, and drink alcohol every day. A deadly combination.!
In the last 25 years 200,000 Americans had liver transplants and it is reported that 50% is caused by the acetaminophen, but I don’t believe it works alone! Statin drugs, deplete a key enzyme that is essential for liver health called CoQ10! The drug manufacturers don’t tell the physicians and the pharmacist to tell the patients they must supplement to keep their liver healthy! Merck knew this in 1989 and kept their mouth shut!
You’ll find doctors claiming that CoQ10 is unnecessary.
Morpheus to Americans: You take the blue pill and you wake up tomorrow in your bed and believe ... whatever you want to believe. You take the red pill and....
Morpheus: Wait...did you just take both pills?
I’ve always been of the mind that the cholesterol isn’t the problem. The reason for the cholesterol is the problem. Why is your cholesterol high? The cholesterol is there for a reason, right?
Interestingly, I began IV phosphatidylcholine in hopes of reducing my pain from small fiber neuropathy. What happened next? Well, I was able to reduce my morphine from 160 mg to 30 mg. But more importantly to this post, My cholesterol went from 275 to 200. So obviously there are many ways to improve your cholesterol levels if they worry you. But cholesterol isn’t the problem. The reason for the cholesterol is the problem. Cholesterol is the Band-Aid.
Dr. Robert Atkins MD recommended supplementing with COQ-10. Even before him his mentor, Dr. Carleton Fredericks PhD, spoke highly of it. This was when its importance was first being realized, in the 1960s - 70's. In those days all you could buy was a yellow 30mg two-piece capsule made in Japan.
What about LPa and PCSK9 inhibitors like Repatha? Very little information is available on the implications of extremely high LPa with normal healthy range cholesterol levels. I have been taking Repatha for nearly two years with little effect on my LPa, but after the addition of niacin my LPa was reduced significantly (268 to 129) when last tested, as well as my LDL levels (98 to 45) with negligible effect on my already VERY healthy HDL and Triglycerides. Since it seems niacin has been more effective in reducing LPa, it’s hard to know what to do—continue Repatha or not, will the niacin have negative results impact in my liver over time, etc? For now, I only take the Repatha and just concentrate on keeping CRP down and glucose in check. Ideally, I’d like to stop Repatha, if it is not going to change anything or end up harming me in the long run. But then, the question is, do I just take niacin exclusively and hope that it doesn’t harm me over time? It’s all so confusing—and seemingly futile.
There must be a tremendous amount of profit in statins!
I was prescribed them many years ago when I still trusted the medical profession. I was told that I needed them because of my LDL cholesterol levels. As I started “doing my own research”, the 4 words that strike fear into the heart of the medical industrial complex, I came across many very well known and distinguished doctors who destroyed the myth about them. Dr. Aseem Malhotra, prominent British Cardiologist, has been speaking out against them for over 10 years!
I stopped taking them and had earlier stopped triglycerides but the reason I said that there must be huge profits is that while a few doctors suggested I go back on triglycerides, the onslaught has been ongoing for years now to get me back on the statins. My insurance company, as well as nearly every doctor I’ve seen since has tried to convince me to take them.
It’s not going to happen!
“Lack of an association or an inverse association between low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol and mortality in the elderly: a systematic review”
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/6/e010401
“Our study suggests that statin therapy…does not decrease the proportion of small, dense LDL among total LDL particles, but in fact increases it… and reduces absolute amounts of large, buoyant LDL.” (the good stuff)
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC2929871/
Tremor, balance issues, cataracts and hearing loss are other unreported AEs.
You should convert this masterpiece into a book.
That being said, however, please encourage your readers to remember that the BROWN FAT modulates cholesterol and glucose balance and that the recent finding of worldwide body temperature reduction shows that brown fat activity has bottomed out, which is the reason for the metabolic syndrome, including hypercholesterolemia.
Encourage them to remember that stress-related Low T3 Syndrome is the reason for brown fat paralysis.
Encourage them to remember that LT3S is easily and safely managed by prescribing T3 (Liothronine),
SO, IN ESSENCE, REVITALISING THE BROWN FAT BY ELIMINATING LT3S WILL CORRECT HYPERCHOLESTEROLEMIA:
STATINS ARE TOTALLY UNNECESSARY POISON!
Could that be why Rx for thyroid (as opposed to synthetic levothyroxine) is nearly unavailable in the USA? I had assumed it was $. BTW, some do not respond to generic levothyroxine.
Remember all the tin foil hats smears when Cov1984 shots started sending Blue Tooth Codes out?
Now they are flying a Helo over Tucson searching for Granny Nancy’s Blue Tooth Code. For her pace maker.