Statin Dangers!
Statins are expensive drugs. They make the pharmaceutical companies big, big money. This money is the one and only reason these companies are pushing these drugs so hard. And boy have they been pushing lately! Statins Problems - Statin DangersHere's their latest con... Previously, the recommended upper limit for LDL cholesterol was 130. Now all of a sudden, that number has been reduced to the ridiculously low level of 100. Do you know anyone who has an LDL cholesterol number below 100? Probably not! At 100, I bet you can guess what people are being urged to do? Take statin drugs of course! That's going to work out just great for the drug companies, isn't it? Those guys are so smart! They're going to make boatloads of cash on this one! Hmmmm... I bet you're saying this to yourself right now. They won't get away with it. We have the American Heart Association on our side! And our doctors too! Not quite! The American Heart Association receives millions of dollars in annual funding from the big drug companies. The AHA is like any other organism. It will do whatever it has to do to survive. That includes sacrificing the American people in order to keep those funds coming in. These guys are in bed with the drug companies for good, trust me! Remember... They are THE driving force behind these new guidelines. So much for the AHA!
Don't get your hopes up! Like puppies, the medical community has been lapping at the heals of the drug companies. They've treated these new guidelines like a proclamation from God himself. And they are writing the prescriptions at record numbers to prove it! Here's the latest insanity! Let's give the drugs to overweight children starting at the wee age of 8 years old. You heard me right, 8 years old! One statin, Pravachol, has already been approved by the Food and Drug Administration for use in children. You have got to be kidding me!!! How about get the cupcake out of his mouth, the TV remote out of his hand, and the couch off of his backside! Feed him real food, get him outside to exercise like children are supposed to do, and presto, problem solved! Statins Risk - Statin DangersI'm going to really shock you now! This hysterical rush to get every ones cholesterol as low as possible has no good science to back it up. Don't believe me? Read this... In a study done with nearly 137,000 Americans hospitalized for heart attacks between 2000 and 2006, 72 percent had LDL levels below below the recommended guidelines. Read it it one more time so it really sinks in........... Now, let me ask you. What else do you need to know? Statins Dangers - Low CholesterolI'm going to leave you with a few facts on the dangers of low cholesterol... Men with cholesterol levels below 150 have 4 times the risk of having a cerebral hemorrhage compared with men with cholesterol levels above 190. Researchers out of Duke discovered that low cholesterol alters the way brain cells function. They found that brain cells with low levels of cholesterol have fewer than normal receptors for the mood-elevating neurotransmitter serotonin. This causes many problems. One of them is an increased risk of suicide! A french study that tracked 6,393 men found that those with the lowest cholesterol levels were 3 times more likely than the other men to kill themselves. Vivian Mitropoulou, Ph.D., who is studying the link between cholesterol levels and personality disorders at Mount Sinai School of Medicine in New York, had this to say about those taking cholesterol lowering medications... "The alarm sounded in the mid-1980s, after researchers began testing the first drugs designed to lower levels of cholesterol. People taking these drugs began dying at an unusually high rate from causes unrelated to cardiovascular disease. According to Mitropoulou, "A lot of them seemed to be smashing their cars into bridges and doing all sorts of impulsive and violent things." Statins and Depression - Statins and Anxiety!According to the BBC.. Women with a low cholesterol levels are approximately twice as likely to suffer from depression or anxiety problems. According to the September 1999 British Journal of Psychiatry, researchers from Finland's National Public Health Institute showed that in a group of more than 29,000 Finns studied, low total cholesterol put men at greater risk of being hospitalized with major bouts of depression. Need more facts on statin dangers? Follow the links below.....
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