Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Plus, this is far safer than using statin drugs, which have extremely harmful negative side effects while depleting the body of nutrients such as CoQ10.
My advice to anyone on statin drugs is to strongly consider using high doses of aloe vera + blueberries to safety transition off statin drugs (all under the supervision of a naturopathic physician, of course). Aloe vera won't kill you like statin drugs can, either. Aloe is completely safe to eat like a food. Given the cholesterol benefits of aloe and blueberries, statin drugs are actually obsolete. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  REPPED: Merck and Johnson & Johnson are working hard to make statin drugs available without a prescription. The thought is downright horrifying to those who know the true dangers of statin drugs -- muscle wasting, brain fog, even the risk of birth defects -- but it's just "business as usual" at Big Pharma. The pharmaceutical industry has been selling so many dangerous drugs to so many people for so long, that adding another over-the-counter medication to the mix didn't seem like such a big deal, apparently. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | My advice to anyone on statin drugs is to strongly consider using high doses of aloe vera + blueberries to safety transition off statin drugs (all under the supervision of a naturopathic physician, of course). Aloe vera won't kill you like statin drugs can, either. Aloe is completely safe to eat like a food. Given the cholesterol benefits of aloe and blueberries, statin drugs are actually obsolete. There are natural alternatives that are far safer, less expensive and more effective. Aloe vera is one of them.
Click here to read more articles on aloe vera and cholesterol. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  REPPED: New research reveals the exciting fact that blueberries provide an effective way to lower cholesterol without the dangers of statin drugs. In fact, the research shows that a compound in blueberries acts just as effectively as statin drugs to reduce the levels of bad cholesterol or LDL cholesterol in mice, but without the negative side effects of statin drugs (such as having your muscles waste away).
In response to these results, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) thinks that perhaps the antioxidant ingredient could be 'developed as a treatment.' Huh? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | What's another few thousand deaths from statin drugs, after all? We're talking PROFITS here! Gotta keep those shareholders happy!
Fortunately, a moment of sanity has mysteriously emerged at the Food and Drug Administration, whose advisory panel has voted against allowing statin drugs to be sold without a prescription. Where did this sanity come from? Probably from all the recent drug scandals in which the FDA has been caught with its pants around its ankles... the Vioxx scandal, namely. | | But for today, consumers are just a little bit safer with statin drugs not being allowed as over-the-counter medications. Whether we actually have the FDA to thank for this is difficult to tell. Frankly, Dr. David Graham deserves most of the thanks here: without his warnings, the FDA wouldn't be under such scrutiny in the first place, and the OTC application for these statin drugs probably would have sailed through without a peep.
After all, NSAIDs are still legal, and they kill five times as many people each year as all the terrorist-related deaths ever recorded on American soil. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  So if you ask, "Well, why are statin drugs being used so much? Why are they so popular?" The answer has to be that they are very profitable.
Statin drugs are sold because they generate profits. They are marketed by drug companies and hyped up in the press precisely because they create revenues for companies that own the patents on these drugs. Frankly, it would be a much more effective public service message to run some ads and tell people about the wonderful cholesterol-lowering effects of blueberries, almonds, or any of the other healing foods. | | Statin drugs: poison for your brain
What’s really important for people to understand is that statin drugs are very dangerous drugs to be taking, especially if you take them for the long term. They can cause muscle-wasting diseases; they can cause chronic muscle pain, which can be misdiagnosed as fibromyalgia; they cause mental disorders including brain fog, loss of memory, and signs of dementia or Alzheimer's. These drugs inhibit the production of healthy cholesterol in your body, meaning they interfere with sex hormones and the normal healthy functioning of the endocrine system. | | In this particular study, researchers found that foods such as soy protein, tofu, various other soy products, plus almonds and cereal fiber, as well as plant sterols, can lower total cholesterol and especially LDL cholesterol, better than statin drugs.
Once again, this is no surprise at all to nutritionists. We have known for a long time that if you want to have healthy biochemistry and healthy cholesterol levels, you have to turn to natural foods and adopt the strategies of natural health. We've also known that drugs are all but worthless compared to the healing power of foods. | | When they go see doctors, however, they're mostly told to take statin drugs. It's easier for a doctor to prescribe a drug than it is to teach someone how to live a healthy lifestyle. More often than not, the doctors themselves are ignorant of the cholesterol lowering capabilities of these foods. If you ask a typical doctor to name three foods in the grocery store that are shown to directly lower cholesterol, most doctors would be unable to name even one. But there are in fact many such foods available in the grocery store. | | No patient in the world should be taking statin drugs for longer than 30 days at a time in my opinion. These drugs do not belong in the human body and they devastate the health of our population. Currently they are over-prescribed, over-hyped, over-advertised, and they are probably the next big drug crisis we're going to see down the road. We already saw a huge scandal with Vioxx and the Cox-2 inhibitors, and how drug companies have been pushing those drugs onto the population even though they were fully aware, as we now know, of the dangerous cardiovascular effects of those drugs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  One is, if you have a patient, for example, who just wants to use drugs, doesn't want to change their diet -- well, fine, use the statin drugs, because they are pretty effective. But also realize that the statin drugs have some significant side effects, and a lot of those side effects are due to the fact that statin drugs poison the enzymes of the mitochondria that produce coenzyme Q10. So if a person takes statin drugs, I would give that person an additional amount of coenzyme Q10 to help relieve the side effects of the prescription drugs. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | REPPED: A recent study published in the "American Journal of Clinical Nutrition" shows that eating certain foods can lower your cholesterol levels just as well as taking statin drugs. This is the second study we've seen revealing that certain foods are as effective, or even more effective, than prescription drugs in regulating biochemical markers such as cholesterol levels or in treating conditions such as chronic depression. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | David Graham deserves most of the thanks here: without his warnings, the FDA wouldn't be under such scrutiny in the first place, and the OTC application for these statin drugs probably would have sailed through without a peep.
After all, NSAIDs are still legal, and they kill five times as many people each year as all the terrorist-related deaths ever recorded on American soil. If NSAIDs were, say, a Chinese herb, they would have been banned long ago, and armed FDA agents would have raided all the stores carrying inventory in order to "protect Americans. | | Fortunately, a moment of sanity has mysteriously emerged at the Food and Drug Administration, whose advisory panel has voted against allowing statin drugs to be sold without a prescription. Where did this sanity come from? Probably from all the recent drug scandals in which the FDA has been caught with its pants around its ankles... the Vioxx scandal, namely. | | The thought is downright horrifying to those who know the true dangers of statin drugs -- muscle wasting, brain fog, even the risk of birth defects -- but it's just "business as usual" at Big Pharma. The pharmaceutical industry has been selling so many dangerous drugs to so many people for so long, that adding another over-the-counter medication to the mix didn't seem like such a big deal, apparently. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Of course, the statin drugs are the conventional approach -- what would your approach entail?
Dr. Pizzorno: Well, there are a lot of possibilities. One is, if you have a patient, for example, who just wants to use drugs, doesn't want to change their diet -- well, fine, use the statin drugs, because they are pretty effective. But also realize that the statin drugs have some significant side effects, and a lot of those side effects are due to the fact that statin drugs poison the enzymes of the mitochondria that produce coenzyme Q10. |
Steven V. Joyal
See book keywords and concepts |  A potentially very dangerous but rare side effect associated with high doses of potent statin drugs is muscle damage called rhabdomyolysis. If you take statin drugs and experience severe muscle pain or weakness, contact your physician immediately.
Niacin is available as a supplement as well as in a prescription, sustained-release form. The prescription form is significantly more costly and not much better in terms of side-effect profile or tolerability.
There are three forms of niacin available: nicotinic acid, nicotinamide, and inositol hexaniacinate. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Cholesterol-lowering statin drugs, for example, greatly interfere with Coenzyme Q10 production (a nutrient essential for cellular energy), but instead of being told to take supplemental CoQ10, many patients suffering from fatigue and exhaustion on statin drugs are simply diagnosed with another disease and given yet another prescription drug to take.
Antidepressant drugs, as another example, interfere with the metabolism of carbohydrates. Most people taking antidepressants are deficient in the B vitamins (especially folic acid). |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  Anyone taking prescription drugs, especially statin drugs for high cholesterol, needs to be taking a superfood supplement like LivingFuel Rx Super Greens. Why? Because most prescription drugs -- and statin drugs in particular -- cause nutritional deficiencies. LivingFuel Rx Super Greens helps overcome those deficiencies, giving your body the nutrients it needs to return to full health.
"I strongly recommend LivingFuel Rx Super Greens to anyone who wants to improve their health. |
Bottom Line Health
See book keywords and concepts | | He is author of What You Must Know About statin drugs & Their Natural Alternatives. Square One. www.medicationsense.com.
In the fight against heart disease, statin drugs are heavy artillery. Their cholesterol-lowering power has the potential to reduce heart disease, stroke and cardiac death by 25%.
Yet these medications are not for everyone. In two recent surveys, both published in The Journal of the American Medical Association, 60% to 75% of 100,000 people who started taking statins said they discontinued them within an average of eight months.
What goes wrong? |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts |  The sad thing is that statin drugs are not that safe. I mean, I can’t tell you how many patients I've had to take off of those drugs because of muscle aching, muscle weakness, or because their liver enzymes went up. What happens is that you struggle with this, and you are taking statin drugs for the rest of your life. The other thing is that a lot of people do not realize the fact that statin drugs – while they do block the production of cholesterol -- also block the production of a very important nutrient called Coenzyme Q10. | | Strand: They have always been very good about saying that you should use statin drugs only after a trial of healthy lifestyles. That’s kind of been the standard approach, but that doesn’t surprise me at all. I feel this is where we are going. The sad thing is that statin drugs are not that safe. I mean, I can’t tell you how many patients I've had to take off of those drugs because of muscle aching, muscle weakness, or because their liver enzymes went up. What happens is that you struggle with this, and you are taking statin drugs for the rest of your life. | | Mike: I want to come back to statin drugs, because I'm reminded of a full-page advertisement that I saw for a brand-name statin drug, which essentially said that healthy lifestyle changes aren’t enough. You can follow the right diet, you can exercise, but it’s not enough. You need statin drugs. I found that message quite shocking.
Dr. Strand: They have always been very good about saying that you should use statin drugs only after a trial of healthy lifestyles. That’s kind of been the standard approach, but that doesn’t surprise me at all. I feel this is where we are going. |
Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
See article keywords and concepts | | Aloe vera won't kill you like statin drugs can, either. Aloe is completely safe to eat like a food. Given the cholesterol benefits of aloe and blueberries, statin drugs are actually obsolete. There are natural alternatives that are far safer, less expensive and more effective. Aloe vera is one of them.
Click here to read more articles on aloe vera and cholesterol.
Aloe vera relieves joint and muscle pain
This effect is directly related to the inflammation factor mentioned above. It works when used both internally and externally. Essentially, aloe reduces overall inflammation. |
Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey
See book keywords and concepts |  However, reviews on the relationships of the statin drugs with free radical generation and inflammation provide evidence that statin drugs have a strong protective effect over and above their more well-known cholesterol-lowering activity [110]. Some of these protective effects may, however, be due to increased expression of antioxidant enzymes such as catalases and a suppression of pro-oxidant enzyme systems which reduce the production of the free radicals superoxide and peroxynitrite [111, 112]. |
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