I've lifted this off another site that I follow.
Ticking time bomb
Over the past 5 years, our regular readers have heard all the horror stories about these cholesterol-lowering statin drugs. I'm talking about the fact that they increase the risk of type 2 diabetes, cause muscle damage and they deplete CoQ10 ? the antioxidant that's indispensable to heart health... and that's just the tip of the iceberg.
The truth is, countless studies have demonstrated the numerous side effects of statin drugs ? even those that did not set out to do so, like the controversial JUPITER study.
JUPITER was one of the largest statin studies ever conducted. In 2008, the researchers of the study published overwhelmingly positive results on the effects of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs. This prompted doctors to go on a prescription frenzy, and they prescribed this so-called 'wonder drug' to millions of patients? even healthy ones!
Two years later, in 2010, a group of doctors and researchers, led by Dr Michel de Lorgeril from France, stepped forward and accused JUPITER researchers of producing "flawed" trial results and of having commercial interests in the drug tested. It turned out that all these claims were true and, as a result, the JUPITER researchers admitted that the benefits of statins may have been exaggerated.
Since then, statin therapy has very much proven to be a train wreck.
Okay, your doctor may still claim that the benefits of statin drugs outweigh the risks... but that's what mainstreamers usually do when a precious drug, that earns Big Pharma millions, is starting to go down a slippery slope.
I've said this before and I'll say it again: Eventually, statins will prove to be the biggest drug scandal and Big Pharma cover-up of our time... and there is absolutely no reason why you should be a part of it.
Other than the side effects mentioned earlier, here are a few more that have surfaced just in the past six months:
* Kidney damage: Canadian researchers studied more than two million statin users and found that they were at a 34 per cent greater risk of being hospitalised with acute kidney problems within 120 days of starting treatment with high-dose statins.
* Dementia and memory loss: Recently, the American Food and Drug Administration (FDA) changed the safety information on statin labels to warn patients that these drugs can cause memory loss and cognitive decline.
* Cancer: A Canadian Medical Association Journal study linked low LDL cholesterol levels to cancer. In 2007, a Journal of the American College of Cardiology study also recognized the link.
* Joint pain: The most recent study, published online by the journal JAMA, found that statin users had a higher likelihood for developing musculoskeletal diseases and dislocation, strain sprain or pain.
In a study, published in March this year in the Annals of Internal Medicine, researchers tracked more than 100,000 statin users for nine years. During the study, 17 per cent of the participants reported side effects. That is 17,000 people who developed conditions like type 2 diabetes, kidney damage and dementia. Conditions they did not have to start with.
If you consider that 7 million Britons are taking statins and if 17 per cent of them suffer from side effects... well... then you have 1.19 million people who have developed new health problems because of these drugs...
...And still the mainstream wants us to believe that statins save lives.
Oh yes, and let's not forget that cholesterol actually is an essential part of our bodies' biological function and that having it lowered to ridiculously low levels is unnatural and may be harmful.
Ask your doctor what he thinks about that.
