Pfizer is still fighting and settling lawsuits claiming Lipitor causes type II diabetes. Space Dr. Duane Graveline took Lipitor and claimed it causes memory loss. Let buyers beware.
https://www.classaction.com/lipitor/settlement/
https://spacedoc.com/articles/graveline-statin-side-effects
https://advancedq10.com/dr-duane-gravelines-video-on-cholesterol-q10-and-statins/
Statins are fake medicine. High cholesterol is not a health problem in and of itself; it's a symptom of a bigger health problem (usually heart disease, thyroid disease or kidney disease). Blaming high cholesterol for health problems is like blaming a fireman for starting fires because he's at every fire.
I staunchly believe that the American Medical Association deliberately waits to diagnose disease until people are so sick that they need regular drugs and doctor visits for a long time. Lowering cholesterol via statins is one of those strategies. Statins mask one of the most notable symptoms, allowing that the person to get sicker and sicker from the root problem.
Edit to add a reference article: https://chriskresser.com/the-diet-heart-myth-statins-dont-save-lives-in-people-without-heart-disease/
Sick care, not health care is what we have.
I believe it too. Mask the symptoms so you can be sicker with the problem.
This is what happened to me. When I went in for a check-up, my cholesterol was 405. The doctor told me to take a statin and I'd be fine. Turned out I had a kidney disease and by postponing diagnosing it, it allowed me to get to the point that I was literally on the verge of kidney failure when they did finally diagnose me.
they pushed all kind and never get to the root of the problems. Put a bandage on the cut and let the infection continues.
If I have a problem, I always asked, "What is the problem? Where or how the problem come about?"
After that, go to alternative doctor or research alternative treatments.
What about the kidney enzymes? How were those tests?
I'm not sure what you mean by kidney enzymes? In my case, my kidneys had holes. Protein and nutrients were leaking out of the holes. My body was making protein like crazy to make up for the protein running out of the holes, and cholesterol is a by-product of protein production. The cholesterol wasn't running out of the holes, though; it just built up in my blood stream. If my doctor had done any testing at all to see what the root cause of the high cholesterol was, I probably would have never gotten so sick.
They do basic tests then point to the first thing that looks weird. I literally messaged my doctor during the day, asking about some results. He told me not to interpret the results myself and that everything was fine. These people really do have a god complex, don't they. Eight to ten years of "medical school" and "training," then "residency," and what do they have at the end of it? At least $250,000 in debt and a god complex.
Yes. They get really offended and/or pissed if you apply critical thinking to their world.
Shows just how fragile their egos are and that their sacred knowledge can be learned by anyone willing to put in a little time and the internet.
It's not a "little" time though...
Careful, you're getting awfully close to saying our white-coated healing gods don't know what they're doing.
I do not worship on the tabernacle of the white coats.
It follows the maxim "a patiend cured is a customer killed" so they're, of course, treating a symptom and not the disease.
You mean that high cholesterol can be a sign of magnesium deficiency? My understanding is that plaque is essentially a scab over a damaged part of the artery and the scab is made of cholesterol. High cholesterol can be a sign that your arteries are damaged.
Magnesium is an essential nutrient. So many body functions rely on magnesium, and as you said, if you are low on magnesium, you won't absorb calcium. You also won't make Vitamin D, either, and Vitamin D production is one of the ways that cholesterol is used up by the body. So I guess the lack of Vitamin D production can be a sign of low magnesium, too.
What is interesting is that most Americans are magnesium deficient, but the AMA doesn't recommend that people take a magnesium supplement. They do, however, recommend that women take a calcium supplement, which exacerbates the magnesium/calcium imbalance that already exists in the typical American diet.
I've heard of to many times when a doctor wants to put people on a statin because their 'cholesterol' is high. They fail to break down the LDL verses the HDL. They just want to tell people they have high cholesterol and stick them on a statin. Many of those same idiots will make a judgement as to your cholesterol level based on your weight. That assumption is also wrong and made to benefit their pharma bosses.
Most people should not be taking cholestrol drugs, and should instead control LDL through diet and exercise. Those two things will eliminated much of the disease affecting modern humans. People do far to much eating the wrong 'foods', and sitting on their asses.
High cholesterol isn't caused by what you eat -- it usually indicates that you have a bigger health issue going on, most likely with the heart, kidneys or thyroid. A body naturally eliminates excess cholesterol via poop, so you can eat a ton of high cholesterol foods and it will go through you if your body is functioning normally. The bigger issue is something is causing your body to make more cholesterol than it should (this indicates kidney or heart disease) or it isn't clearing out the cholesterol like it should (this indicates heart or thyroid disease).
Not news for me there. I know about their scamdemic. It only benefit the pharmaceutical.
You are right about most eating the wrong stuffs and sitting too much.
High cholesterol isn't caused by what you eat -- it usually indicates that you have a bigger health issue going on, most likely with the heart, kidneys or thyroid. A body naturally eliminates excess cholesterol via poop, so you can eat a ton of high cholesterol foods and it will go through you if your body is functioning normally. The bigger issue is something is causing your body to make more cholesterol than it should (this indicates kidney or heart disease) or it isn't clearing out the cholesterol like it should (this indicates heart or thyroid disease).
That's a great way to look at the problem. Thanks.
Good call here.
There has never been a study that has proven that dietary cholesterol becomes your cholesterol. The body eliminates what it does not need, as you state.
Also, it is important for people to recognize that we are literally made from cholesterol. Our cell walls need cholesterol as a building block.
The entire "cholesterol bad for Grugg" thing is maddening. We cannot seem to get off this bad idea. And this bad idea is killing millions, and destroying quality of life for tens of millions.
I'm pretty sure Vitamin D is made from cholesterol. So they artificially lower your cholesterol to make vitamin D production more difficult for your body. And there are a lot of diseases where one of the hallmarks is low Vitamin D, including the kidney disease that I have and several kinds of cancers.
Btw, I typically say that there is no “cold and flu season”. There is only low vitamin D season.
I do think that D is deeply important and that many maladies come from a shortage of it.
You shut up and eat your goyslop.
LOL
HDL is the good stuff. You want that. My wife has really hi levels of it making her total cholesterol high, but the ratio of LDL to HDL offsets it, so she is fine.
In the 50's (or earlier) pharmaceutical geniuses sat around and decided that it would be really great if they could create a need for a drug that would be required to be taken when young and needed to be taken for the rest of your life. They teamed with the FDA to do just that. The FDA started lowering the bar for the onset of certain "diseases" to broaden their "need" and to convince people that they needed to treat this "diesase" by taking an expensive drug for the rest of their lives. I believe statins are one of those drugs. There are more. https://www.amazon.com/Selling-Sickness-Pharmaceutical-Companies-Patients/dp/156025856X
...sugar, high fructose corn syrup, are the building blocs of cancer
Yes, The whole fat free fad created generations of sugar addicts, was created by the FDA and sold by the MSM to the population. All by design BTW, IMHO.
Oh, that's probably something the frogs all need to read. Thanks.
I have the book "Selling Sickness." The first chapter is about cholesterol IIRC. It's a bit of a high-level book. "The Great Cholesterol Con" by Dr. Malcom Kendrick goes deeper into the issue. Cholesterol is there to protect your body. Over the winter break, I watched a video by Dr. Shiva on his YT channel in which he says that it it homocysteins, not cholesterol, which cause heart attacks. People deficient in B6, B12, and folic acid are susceptible to homocysteins. He said that vegetarians who don't do it right (likely vegans) think they avoid heart disease with their diet but because they don't get enough of these in their diets, they end up getting heart attacks themselves. He did a livestream on cholesterol for about an hour. Good stuff.
I will go watch the Dr. Shiva livestream then.
I know about vegetarian not eating correctly. I tried in high school and within 3 months, didn't have the strength to push open high school door. Quit. Study and now understand.
Vegans are the worst, as they are essentially a cult that worships soybeans. Soy is an antinutrient that leeches calcium from your bones. 20 years ago, I was a soyboy because back then nobody knew about how crapp soy was. I thought I was being healthy, because I was lactose intolerant. After being diagnosed for high risk of osteopena in my late 20s, I quit that crap after about 5 years of drinking it, built up my healthy bacteria from eating organic yogurt, and now I can drink whole milk all day with no problem.
'high risk of osteopena in my late 20s'
Holy shit, so young! Glad you woke up 👍
Yeah, the doctor at the time tried to put me on Fosamax, an osteoporosis drug. I refused and told him that I would switch from the cycles at the gym to the treadmill, plus start taking high-quality calcium supplements. He said that it would not be enough, but I challenged him to wait a year. I came back, had another full-body scan, and I had increased my bone mass. I proved him wrong. He had also tried to put me on testosterone HRT. If I had done so, I would have become sterile, and I would not have gotten my wife pregnant later that same year. Doctors can be idiots.
Moderation is always better. Don't eat too much meat, starch, cheese, milk, coffee or anything.
Most healthy people live moderately.
Also, fasting is great and works.
Thanks. I try to do 12 hours everyday. It doesn't always work.
It's how they keep people dulI. People need to control their bIoodsugar. Push for friends and family to be healthier the old fashioned way instead. Their minds will benefit from it.
The Amish around here are so unhealthy, they have these growths all over their bodies that disturb a lot of people, I think they call them muscles.
lol
Isn't it also called hair on men? 🤣
Getting fit. A liberal's worst nightmare.
Yes. Dr. kept pushing people onto it. It will benefit the pharmaceutical.
Family member is on lipitor and he recently snapped both tendons in both his knees within a few months of each other. Can’t prove it was caused by the lipitor but I have my suspicions.
Was he on antibiotics prior to the tendons rupturing. The side effects of the antibiotic below can last 10 years.
"The fluoroquinolone (fluoroquinolone toxicity) family of antibiotics consisting of Cipro, Ciprofloxacin, Levaquin, Levofloxacin, Ciprodex, and Avelox can commonly cause tendon ruptures in any age group."
Sauce - https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8168605/#:~:text=Fluoroquinolone%20was%20associated%20with%20small,significant%20burden%20of%20adverse%20events.
I am so sorry.
Holy shit that had to be painful.
I was on statins for around 5 years and had countless tendon injuries, chronic tendonitis and 2 different tendon tears. This all resulted in 13 surgeries. I've now been on statins for a year and haven't had a new injury pop up, just dealing with an existing one lingering. Statins definitely affect joints and tendons in a bad way
When I took my daughter for her summer camp physical 2 summers ago (she was 10). The doctor wanted to do a cholesterol test! My kiddo is a normal healthy kid. Zero reason to do it. I told them no and the doc pestered me the whole appointment to do it. I told her if she could give me some literature on why there was I need I'd think about it (not really). Of course she never brought me that info. 🙄 disgusting.
Why in God's name would a 10yo need a cholesterol check?? That doc sounds like a total nutcase.
Exactly! I ticked her off because I scoffed at the idea openly, she was basically trying to prove she was right to me the rest of the visit. We haven't been back since. I see a Hemotologist/oncologist because I have a genetic blood clotting defect that has caused me all kinds of major damage. Including becoming a paraplegic because of a blood clot in my spinal column during a surgery. Every time I see her which she wanted to be every 6 months she asks me to get the vax, from the very beginning one of the only side effects that they would acknowledge was clotting. So it was KNOWN. I would just look at her and say why on earth would you ask me to do that when you I know I have to avoid ANYTHING that can promote clotting? She just says meekly... well you're on blood thinners. GAH!!!! 🤡 🌎 😩 I finally talked her into moving my appointments to once a year. Last several visits she's pulling her hair out bc she has TONS of patients will really bad cancer, patients who were "cured" coming back with terrible incurable cancer. She's about to snap. She also loves to tell me all that stuff too, it's weird.
That "MD" and white coat definitely gives them a god complex.
My daughter, 19 was all but forced into a blood test the last time she went to her doctor who is really a PA. I was with her and asked the same as you, she is healthy, no issues or complaints about anything, so show me the literature. All she showed us was the list of names and rx's for hundreds of her patients (yep we could see ALL their personal info) waiting to have their rx filled which was the only reason she made an appointment, she wasn't approvong the refill. Helped wake my daughter up a little (she has a ways to go, but I credit this "doctor" for making it personal and making her start to ask questions)!
Wow. I would change pediatrician right away.
Your BRAIN is made of cholesterol. LET THAT SINK IN!
I believe cholesterol is also required for the production of certain hormones that the body requires.
You are correct. Cholesterol is the base for sex hormones. By reducing our cholesterol levels, they are reducing our natural sexual bodily functions. I couldn't find the article in my quick search, but I remember reading somewhere that the vast majority of men with erectile dysfunction are on statins.
edit to add: According to The Perfect Health Diet by Paul Jaminet, the AMA's official number of what determines "high" is set too low, so the AMA is pushing people with normal cholesterol levels onto statins, too.
I have been prescribed to take them and after two weeks, I couldn't get out of bed without help. Joint pain was severe. I tried three different brands for my doctor before I found the solution, I changed doctors!
I also remembered that Vitamin D is made from cholesterol, too. So they artificially lower your cholesterol to make vitamin D production more difficult for your body. And there are a lot of diseases where one of the hallmarks is low Vitamin D, including the kidney disease that I have and several kinds of cancers.
Oh. Maybe that's why I don't got none. Just joking.
u/#LetThatSinkIn
Go natural & Take red yeast rice…. If anyone wants to lower cholesterol…. All statin drugs were derived from red yeast rice… which naturaly reduces LDL’s and overall cholesterol… to increase your HDL’s use apple cider vinegar…
When i first tested high cholesterol in my 20’s my Dr. Put me on crestor… i had reactions to it (severe muscle soreness and cramping). That is when he told me about the natural stuff above. Been on it since, and been fine.
This affected my older sister, turned her reasoning and perception to mush, after taking it for almost 30 years. I told her about it back then, she did not change, said she mentioned it to her doc and he did not agree. Sigh. I know back then my doctor at the time mentioned it and tried to push it, I told them that would never happen, and gee, around 10 years ago, crickets. I changed doctors 2 years ago, and my new one said to me it was a damn good thing I refused. The brain needs cholesterol, we need fats, good fats, good oils, grass fed butter and beef. The most active "seniors" I know eat all the fats, the ones on this shit and who will not touch fatty meats have health issues 3x a year.
I said this in a previous comment to someone: That "MD" and white coat definitely gives them a god complex.
Lots of avocado for me. Yes, I know it's bad to believe in anything the pharma and doctor pushes.
Fucking retards think that they can eat whatever they want, take a pill a few times a day and never get ill.
Or eat what they want, get ill, take a pill with the same shitty food and expect to get healthy.
This is most of humanity....
Good way to put it for the retards. LOL