(Mercola.com) Millions of people around the world take medications known as statins to lower their cholesterol.
The current value of the cholesterol-lowering drug industry is estimated at around $29 billion — and this is clearly a conservative estimate considering spending on cholesterol drugs in the United States alone reached nearly $19 billion in 2010. But have the facts about cholesterol and heart disease been distorted by drug companies eager to increase their profits? A new documentary film project is underway to look for answers, and get the truth out about cholesterol once and for all…There may be $29 billion very good reasons why …Could it be possible that nearly everything your doctor and the media is telling you about high cholesterol and how it relates to saturated fats, heart disease and strokes is wrong? Absolutely!
Could it also be possible that the makers of statin drugs are generating massive ill-gotten profits of this completely misguided and patently incorrect medical dogma — while patients, maybe even you or someone you love, are risking poor health or even death as a result? Yes! And it’s time the word got out.
A major clue that something is very off with the notion that high cholesterol causes heart disease can be found in this: even as cholesterol levels have become lower, rates of heart disease deaths have not followed suit! In a report by Smith, it’s noted: ” … between 1994 and 2006 the percentage of men aged 65 to 74 with ‘high’ cholesterol decreased from 87% to 54% … Despite this, the rate of coronary heart disease for this age group stayed about the same … Other age groups have experienced an increase in the rate of heart disease as the number of people with ‘high’ cholesterol has decreased.”
Hi, I have high cholesteroel without taking statins – Atorvastatin, around 8, with statin 5.2. However, my LFT has risen and I have had scans which say I have fatty liver disease. Tried all statins. Simvastatin made my hair thin, but LFT was good. Been told put up with it. I also have diabetes borderline Hb1Ac around 7. Have refused to take Metformin because of side effects. I am a retired nurse of 61, overweight, cant lose weight. Is there anything I can take herbally or food wise to help. Dont want to keep taking statins.
Hello,
Please take the time to watch the documentary called Forks Over Knives. It has helped me a great deal and I feel much better for it. Good luck and give a whole foods diet a chance you will not be sorry.
Yes, there is an herbal remedy you can take. My wife has type 2 diabetes and her cholesterol is up. She started taking “Glucose Reduce” and her sugar levels went down considerably. For her cholesterol, she started taking “Guggul Cholesterol Compound” which is put out by “Planetary Herbals” and her levels have improved significantly. Now, I must tell you that everyone reacts to herbs differently. In other words, a product may work good for 1 person and not another. I do highly recommend these products I mentioned here but keep in mind that you may have a different experience with them. The only thing you can do is try them and see what happens. Best of luck!
I have found some doctors are afraid to stray away from FDA regulations.
Mainstream doctors have tunnel vision and as one put it to me recently when I
asked for a script be re-written in the VA system from an outside doctor that she will
not rewrite it due to the dose (D-3 @6000/a day–(my D-3 is in the celler))…..it was put to me that at that high of a doseage which exceeds FDA approved dosage and she was going to protect herself by staying to FDA guidelines, when I said that she and I know FDA guidlines are to low, I got this: “There are no clinical tests which show…blah, blah, blah… (I’m going to change doctors.) And, I went thru the same type of thing with chlolestrol, and when I told the doctor that just as many people die with “good” as do with “bad”….I got a long stare…I don’t go to that doctor anymore, either……..It is my body & my life, let me a part of the decisions being made with it.
BTW, I am 74 years old…….and only on three R/X’s for B/P—-(and herbals/vitamins…which I see a doctor who is familure with herbs/vitamins, I do not just gobble without reading a lot and speaking with a doctor, who specializes in herbs/vitamins, etc., about reactions & side effects.)
they don’t say any thing about cold feet and shaky legs that I didn’t have before the statins and still have 10 years after the statins
I have seen what these statins do. My late husband lost balance and was so weakened that he couldn’t walk well. I had memory loss. These drugs just aren’t worth it. They, along with probably ninety per cent of drugs on the market today, are deadly. The side affects are worse than the disease.