Years ago, when statins were being pushed on me by my doctor, I was fortunate enough to come across ‘The Cholesterol Myth’ by Uffe Ravnskov, where his data (gleaned from scientific documentation) indicated that people with higher cholesterol actually lived longer; that there were no trials indicating statins were of any benefit to women, etc. At the time in the EU, the ceiling for high cholesterol was considered to be 6. I was on a vegan diet, and my cholesterol was 6.5, which seemed to indicate to me that dietary fat would not be an issue. Of course, overnight, the cholesterol ceiling was reduced to 4, thus creating millions of new, ‘sick’, patients, and making my doctor even more alarmed about my cholesterol level. Then again, he also took the covid vax….twice! With the advent of the internet, we are fortunate enough to be able to find reliable information, if we take the time to search for it. Imagine trying to find information, like this substack, from a book or magazine. It would be virtually impossible.
and weight. when you bring down all the numbers, you create a massive market to sell your poisons, and then, when everyone gets poisoned, you created a new market. Money money money !
First, Medicine by the numbers is represented by the fact that in the US if a employee physician doesn't prescribe a statin if the patient's cholesterol is over X, he receives a demerit. Second, chronic consumption of statins, acetaminophen and alcohol is a formula for a liver transplant (200,000 in last 25 years) if you are lucky to get a match. If not, death.
Finally, Harvard Vital study produced the following results which were ignored by Big Pharma when the refined fish oil was no longer deemed proprietary: Heart attacks (myocardial infarction) specifically: Roughly 28% lower risk among those taking the refined omega‑3 supplement compared with placebo.
Strongest signal: People with low fish intake or Black participants saw the largest reduction—around 40%–77% fewer MIs in those subgroups.
Speaks to dietary deficiencies and life style issues. US population is overly subject to 6-omega fatty acids which are negatively impacting vascular system. Blood value of Omega -3 should be higher than 8. Most are below that number. Go to www.grassrootshealth.net to learn more.
Dr Malcolm Kendrick's 'The Great Cholesterol Con' laid bare the 'bad' science promoting the panacea of statins. He pointed out that just focusing on cholesterol levels was to exclude the whole metabolic system, which is particular to an individual. A high cholesterol level, even over 9, and an older individual remained healthy.
Big Pharma wants big profits, which is why so many drugs, eg, statins are deemed to have universal application. The fixation on keeping total cholesterol level below 5mmol/L ( or 4 for people at high risk) leads to the pleasurable ( for Big Pharma) outcome of long term use of statins. The numbers become the 'thing' rather than the side effects, and, like the 'covid' 'vaccines', the argument can be that by taking them a fatal outcome is preventable. Heart attacks avoided ! And having that 'safe and effective' injection you avoided death, well, no, you avoided going in to hospital, and symptoms were not as bad as if the injection had been refused!
These blandishments for drugs like statins are like mood music playing forever in the background of people's lives. Big Pharma will not stop it playing, nor turn down its volume.
"you avoided going in to hospital . . . " on average, the COVID shots increased one's chance of catching COVID, plus the chance of dying, by two and a half times. That "saving hospitalizations" narrative was a flat-out lie.
Malcolm Kendrick is a very readable writer and makes complex information easily accessible to the average person. I read two of his earlier books, The Great Cholesterol Con, and Doctoring Data and both were eye openers for me. The problem in America is doctors do not like informed patients with legitimate questions. I can talk to my mechanic, I can talk to my plumber or nearly any other professional and my questions are treated with respect. If I am wrong they explain to me why. I have met few doctors who extend the same courtesy.
Your mechanic and plumber aren't threatened with loss of job, board certifications, and license to practice if they don't toe the pro-pharma-type nonsensical "party line"!
So true, Bruce. Not being mechanically savvy, I recently found an AC mechanic who explained the problem in English for me. Both the doc I go to and the vet kinda minimalize problems, without giving much explanation - I wish I could find better, but there is not much to be had hereabouts. A friend told me years ago, that her doc charged by the question asked, can you imagine that?
100% agree about Dr Kendrick. I subscribe to his periodic newsletter as well. Also agree with the statement that (most) Doctors (and as ICD says below, Vet's too) don't like informed, knowledgeable patients. I've been to five different cardiologists after having a bi-cuspid aortic valve replaced back in 2018. Each one wanted me on a statin of some flavor (five different statins and dosages) and most also wanted me on a BP med as well. I've fired the same five cardiologists.
a lot of money was paid for the title of MD and arrogance that comes with it.
In 2019 I broke both bones in my right leg.
When I was sitting in the head surgeons office and discussing what needs to be done, I just flat out said: "why can't we use stem cells to repair the breaks?"
He looked at me(I think he was a bit stunned) for about 7 seconds before he said: "Well, we do not have enough information on the proper use for stem cells in this situation yet and it's not FDA approved."
"FDA approved to use my own stem cells?"
Then a assistant came in to divert his attention to another matter and that was that.
He wasn't arrogant, but he sure was quite aware I knew what I was talking about in repairing my breaks better than any surgery could.
By-the-way. Resurgens botched the surgery as they had to detach my foot to clean up unseen fragments and when they reattached my foot, they over extended a tendon just enough to the point where I now have a flat foot and about 30% numb permanently.
I lowered my cholesterol by eliminating added sugar and seed oils from my diet. I still ate red meat, whole milk, cheese, butter, and eggs. According to my doctor with my numbers I have a 1.5% chance of a cardiac event in the next 10 years. When I told my doctor how I lowered it, she nodded but said nothing. Update: I would like to add that my protocol is: in addition to removing the added sugar and seed oils, I eat 1/2 cup certified organic oat bran every day; 2 tbsp certified organic ground flaxseed every day; an avocado almost every day. This lowered my total cholesterol to 194. HDL 79 LDL 103. For my sanity, and since "the enemy of consistency is perfection" (I can't remember who said that quote) I do have one sugar dessert per week, every Sunday. I follow that up with a bowl of oat bran!
Our family always had cholesterol numbers in the 250's. The doctors always want to get us on statins. My brother ,62 yo, took them for about a year and felt terrible. I told him to stop taking them and as soon as he stopped, he felt normal again. My mother is 95 and is healthy and has all her faculties. Never took a statin.
I too am curious about a genetic trend… my siblings are extremely healthy and have high cholesterol. As I age —almost 65-mine is trending up- I am refusing statins based on the research highlighted in this article and my growing distrust of our “healthcare “ system. My grandmother lived to age 99 with “high cholesterol / above 250. always was told she had a healthy heart.
I nursed both my husband and mother for many years and both of them were given statins. In time I informed the GP that I was removing this medication as my mother suffered severe muscle pains and my husbands mind was becoming a concern. In a short while both symptoms disappeared. I believe statins are simply a money making, and at worst a depopulation tool.
I'm afraid I pissed off a friend with her "pink ribbon campaign." I said - they don't need the money. It's a racket to make you think you're doing something, when really, it's nothing.
Allopathic medicine is like a mechanic that instead of fixing the cause of a misfiring engine instead rigs the sensors to read differently so that it runs without stalling.
Blood pressure and cholesterol are high when there are other issues that bring the body to that response.
One of the major issues is that it's much easier to temporarily correct or shift a symptom than it is to identify what's causing it and actually address the problem.
Treating cancer successfully is only half the battle.
Unless you find the cause(could well be AI disease) then you will never know if you are still exposing yourself to what caused the cancer in the first place.
years ago I went to the doc with an ear infection. all my numbers were up. she wanted to prescribe me 4 forever meds but did nothing about the ear infection. no need to say she never saw me again. after the infection went away, my numbers all went back to normal.
My father in law is an anomaly. At 83 he works out, walks a lot, and is in better shape than most half his age. Right before the holidays he was feeling as if something was right with his heart and actually had to badger his doctor to order a heart cath. Well, they found 2 - 95% blockages which were treated with stents and he says he feels fine now. Afterwards, his doctor reviewed that for many years he has been on statins, his cholesterol levels have always been well within the "good "range. So you would conclude that this proves that statins obviously don't work. Of course not. No, they decided that he now needs to increase his dose given that the previous dose wasn't enough to prevents those blockages. Completely unbelievable.
Most doctors don't understand the depth of these medical fallacies - thanks for keeping the good articles coming. My patients ask the same questions "why hasn't my regular doctor told me this?" - my feeling is that most don't have much time or curiosity left to keep asking questions, looking at the narrative in different points of view, and proper skepticism at their own profession.... true health is keep asking questions, and then observe the reality that we (general we as a public) are not healthier and happier with the common approaches in medicine. In the end its up to everyone to keep asking questions about what we can be doing for ourselves to maintain Health.
ONE THING I MISS ABOUT THE USA: Osteopathy as a REAL branch of medicine.
Here in Oz it is a manipulative therapy, but I try to get manipulators who trained with US DO's. I miss the Whole Approach of D.O. Thank you for being you, doing what you do.
Dietary calcium is too common to reduce (and it's the major mineral of your bones), and magnesium deficiency is too subtle until a stroke or heart attack. After a H.A. on the Ides of March 2010, two RCA stents, a statins scrip, a year and then angina convinced me that the docs didn't have a clue about the cause - only the symptom - they weren't even in the right ballpark. I'd have to fix it myself.
After seeing a hint in a blog, experimentally, in steps I took extra magnesium (malate) to bowel tolerance then backed off to last normal. All plaque dissolved into my blood serum after Mg++ replaced Ca++ in the plaque. (Except that my test tube was my own arteries, this is H.S. Chem.)
So Magnesium Malate got rid of your arterial plaque? Mind sharing how much you took? Was it soft plaque or calcified plaque that regressed? Mine is mostly soft plaque but I'll throw this on top of the other 3 dozen supplements I'm taking since magnesium can't hurt anyway
As I understand it, the plaque is created from excess serum calcium (and cholesterol). I take "enough" magnesium (malate) for the Mg++ ions to replace the Ca++ ions in the plaque for the plaque to dissolve in the serum (Mg++ is smaller and binds more strongly). The only risk I know of for Mg supp is loose bowel. (OTOH The risks from excess Ca are strokes and heart attacks. I had the latter. Take your pick.) It's diet dependent: When I started a Whey protein supp, I had to increase my Mg (from every other day to every day) b/c I felt an arterial block forming (maybe it was the turbulence).
Good information! Statins are just one more money-maker for Big pHarma. My mother's best friend, whose doctor had her fearful of a heart attack, died of statin-induced myopathy after 5 years in a nursing home!! Follow the money!
It should be noted, when noting all the causes of death, that the leading cause of death is birth!
Great summary of the science, and the scam of statins. My question: Could the endothelial cells of blood vessels that get repeatedly damaged, be damaged by our own immune system? Could it be that our immune system has been mistrained to attack our own endothelial cells? Could heart disease actually be another autoimmune disease?
Steve Kirsch analyzed the Czechoslavakian record level data, and discovered that unvaccinated individuals had virtually zero incidence of heart disease. Could it be that a vaccine taken by most people has an antigen which has homologues to a receptor on endothelial cells? Could it be that we have antibodies which are causing that cellular damage, again and again?
Dr. Judy Mikovits certainly says that. She notes that retroviruses are in vaccines which then stay in the body and cause all sorts of illness and immunological damage forever.
Undiagnosed AI(autoimmune) disease is the pre-cursor for most chronic and life threatening diseases.(including Cancer)
The problem with AI disease, is that they spend half a day on the subject and were taught to prescribe blockers.
Eventually, you run out of fingers to plug the holes in the dam and the pressure causes the dam to break and then all hell breaks loose and fixing the dam is not possible.
Exact same thing happens with autoimmune diseases.
Any thoughts on the Linus Pauling theory that heart disease is caused by "subclinical scurvy"? Higher ascorbate levels in the blood do result in lower incidents of heart attacks.
Hey, Limu, if I recall correctly, Pauling's method involved Vitamin C, lysine, and proline. I think the lysine and proline were included because of their role in creating collagen for maintaining and repairing the blood vessels. Some years back, I was conversing with a rather conventional-minded friend about Pauling's ideas on heart health. I mentioned that Pauling was active, mentally sharp, and still making public appearances until just before his death at 93 years old. My friend's skeptical response? "Oh, so he still died anyway, right?"
Sigh... That kind of automatic response still passes for "thinking".
Having had Hepatitis C for over 30 years until 2015, I didn't need to be told not to take statins. when they first advertised them on TV, they said "liver damage" as a side effect. Then When I was sitting in a doctor's waiting room at BSW or Baylor Scott White, there was a TV obviously playing a prerecorded BSW program with a man dressed as a doctor saying it is a good idea for ALL adults over 40 to take statins to prevent heart disease. Now I was really suspicious, and have lied to every doctor I have been to that wanted to give me statins, just because I was diabetic to reduce the "risk" of heart disease. These people were lying assholes trying to make money. I refused to take them, I told them I was allergic to them, they made my liver hurt, I had muscle pain, then finally, I got pissed off, came close to blows with a doctor trying get me to take them, I grabbed his stethoscope and yanked it off his neck and told him he was fixing to eat it if I heard one more word about statins. Then I told him he was fired and walked out of the room and office, didn't pay a dime for that visit and got another doctor - this was in 2015. Same doctor who told me diabetes 2 was for life, which I beat, no longer diabetic after losing 70 lbs. I don't know how ethical it is to physically threaten or assault a doctor who pisses you off, but I was sick of hearing that I need to be taking a poison that is bad for me for a bullshit reason - which is lowering cholesterol. I like foods with cholesterol, screw them. Big pharma was telling doctors to prescribe statins to all adults over 40. Both my parents were taking them when they died. I asked both of them why the take it, and they said "because the doctor said it I should", and that's the bad attitude most people in the world have. Mom, I thought you were a Catholic, when did your doctor become your God too? Do not trust any doctor blindly, they only care about filling their wallets with your money, that's why they became doctors, to get rich. They are people like you and me, they are greedy, greedier than most people, why else would they go through all that school and hardship to get there, to get rich. They don't give a shit about your health, actually they want you to stay sick, but alive, to keep padding their pockets. They get a check from big pharma for every statin script they write and gets filled, and more checks for refills on big pharma's prescriber bonus program. If you are taking a statin because your doctor said it was best for you, stop taking it, or get Alzheimer's like my father did, or my mother, who had a sudden heart attack the same week as her 4th Covid shot. Nobody needs statins for any reason. Do not take them, they will poison and eventually kill you. All of them, Lipitor. Crestor, and all the rest. It doesn't matter if you sweat cholesterol it's because it's so high, don't take any sort of statin. And do not concern yourself with your cholesterol levels, if your doctor complains tell him he's a bought off idiot, like most practicing doctors.
Had an MD trying to get my 20 yr old to take them. I was already informed of their poison from my husband taking them and immediately having liver & muscle issues. Never again.
I'm picturing the scene at the office and smiling, good for you 👍 😉
Years ago, when statins were being pushed on me by my doctor, I was fortunate enough to come across ‘The Cholesterol Myth’ by Uffe Ravnskov, where his data (gleaned from scientific documentation) indicated that people with higher cholesterol actually lived longer; that there were no trials indicating statins were of any benefit to women, etc. At the time in the EU, the ceiling for high cholesterol was considered to be 6. I was on a vegan diet, and my cholesterol was 6.5, which seemed to indicate to me that dietary fat would not be an issue. Of course, overnight, the cholesterol ceiling was reduced to 4, thus creating millions of new, ‘sick’, patients, and making my doctor even more alarmed about my cholesterol level. Then again, he also took the covid vax….twice! With the advent of the internet, we are fortunate enough to be able to find reliable information, if we take the time to search for it. Imagine trying to find information, like this substack, from a book or magazine. It would be virtually impossible.
Same with hypertension 'norms' which keep being 'adjusted' to create more 'hypertensive' patients.
and weight. when you bring down all the numbers, you create a massive market to sell your poisons, and then, when everyone gets poisoned, you created a new market. Money money money !
And different countries have different norms. Farcical!
First, Medicine by the numbers is represented by the fact that in the US if a employee physician doesn't prescribe a statin if the patient's cholesterol is over X, he receives a demerit. Second, chronic consumption of statins, acetaminophen and alcohol is a formula for a liver transplant (200,000 in last 25 years) if you are lucky to get a match. If not, death.
Finally, Harvard Vital study produced the following results which were ignored by Big Pharma when the refined fish oil was no longer deemed proprietary: Heart attacks (myocardial infarction) specifically: Roughly 28% lower risk among those taking the refined omega‑3 supplement compared with placebo.
Strongest signal: People with low fish intake or Black participants saw the largest reduction—around 40%–77% fewer MIs in those subgroups.
Speaks to dietary deficiencies and life style issues. US population is overly subject to 6-omega fatty acids which are negatively impacting vascular system. Blood value of Omega -3 should be higher than 8. Most are below that number. Go to www.grassrootshealth.net to learn more.
Dr Malcolm Kendrick's 'The Great Cholesterol Con' laid bare the 'bad' science promoting the panacea of statins. He pointed out that just focusing on cholesterol levels was to exclude the whole metabolic system, which is particular to an individual. A high cholesterol level, even over 9, and an older individual remained healthy.
Big Pharma wants big profits, which is why so many drugs, eg, statins are deemed to have universal application. The fixation on keeping total cholesterol level below 5mmol/L ( or 4 for people at high risk) leads to the pleasurable ( for Big Pharma) outcome of long term use of statins. The numbers become the 'thing' rather than the side effects, and, like the 'covid' 'vaccines', the argument can be that by taking them a fatal outcome is preventable. Heart attacks avoided ! And having that 'safe and effective' injection you avoided death, well, no, you avoided going in to hospital, and symptoms were not as bad as if the injection had been refused!
These blandishments for drugs like statins are like mood music playing forever in the background of people's lives. Big Pharma will not stop it playing, nor turn down its volume.
"you avoided going in to hospital . . . " on average, the COVID shots increased one's chance of catching COVID, plus the chance of dying, by two and a half times. That "saving hospitalizations" narrative was a flat-out lie.
Dr. Malcom Kendrick has a great take on cholesterol
Agree never trusted statins snd even less the vaccines for Covid
Never taken either
Malcolm Kendrick is a very readable writer and makes complex information easily accessible to the average person. I read two of his earlier books, The Great Cholesterol Con, and Doctoring Data and both were eye openers for me. The problem in America is doctors do not like informed patients with legitimate questions. I can talk to my mechanic, I can talk to my plumber or nearly any other professional and my questions are treated with respect. If I am wrong they explain to me why. I have met few doctors who extend the same courtesy.
Your mechanic and plumber are confident in their ability and not threatened by your knowledge.
Your mechanic and plumber aren't threatened with loss of job, board certifications, and license to practice if they don't toe the pro-pharma-type nonsensical "party line"!
So true, Bruce. Not being mechanically savvy, I recently found an AC mechanic who explained the problem in English for me. Both the doc I go to and the vet kinda minimalize problems, without giving much explanation - I wish I could find better, but there is not much to be had hereabouts. A friend told me years ago, that her doc charged by the question asked, can you imagine that?
I grew the trust in my business and by default, my business, by explaining issues in layman's terms. People want to understand.
And some of us know things and want to learn more.
100% agree about Dr Kendrick. I subscribe to his periodic newsletter as well. Also agree with the statement that (most) Doctors (and as ICD says below, Vet's too) don't like informed, knowledgeable patients. I've been to five different cardiologists after having a bi-cuspid aortic valve replaced back in 2018. Each one wanted me on a statin of some flavor (five different statins and dosages) and most also wanted me on a BP med as well. I've fired the same five cardiologists.
a lot of money was paid for the title of MD and arrogance that comes with it.
In 2019 I broke both bones in my right leg.
When I was sitting in the head surgeons office and discussing what needs to be done, I just flat out said: "why can't we use stem cells to repair the breaks?"
He looked at me(I think he was a bit stunned) for about 7 seconds before he said: "Well, we do not have enough information on the proper use for stem cells in this situation yet and it's not FDA approved."
"FDA approved to use my own stem cells?"
Then a assistant came in to divert his attention to another matter and that was that.
He wasn't arrogant, but he sure was quite aware I knew what I was talking about in repairing my breaks better than any surgery could.
By-the-way. Resurgens botched the surgery as they had to detach my foot to clean up unseen fragments and when they reattached my foot, they over extended a tendon just enough to the point where I now have a flat foot and about 30% numb permanently.
😢
I lowered my cholesterol by eliminating added sugar and seed oils from my diet. I still ate red meat, whole milk, cheese, butter, and eggs. According to my doctor with my numbers I have a 1.5% chance of a cardiac event in the next 10 years. When I told my doctor how I lowered it, she nodded but said nothing. Update: I would like to add that my protocol is: in addition to removing the added sugar and seed oils, I eat 1/2 cup certified organic oat bran every day; 2 tbsp certified organic ground flaxseed every day; an avocado almost every day. This lowered my total cholesterol to 194. HDL 79 LDL 103. For my sanity, and since "the enemy of consistency is perfection" (I can't remember who said that quote) I do have one sugar dessert per week, every Sunday. I follow that up with a bowl of oat bran!
why would you want to lower your cholesterol?
Cholesterol is one of THE most important hormones the human body has.
Everything from protecting the brain, to helping keep arteries flexible.
I'm with you. Why would anybody want to do that.
Well I don’t want it “statin drug low” but I don’t want it 350 either. With my triglycerides at 41, I’m satisfied with the status quo.
Our family always had cholesterol numbers in the 250's. The doctors always want to get us on statins. My brother ,62 yo, took them for about a year and felt terrible. I told him to stop taking them and as soon as he stopped, he felt normal again. My mother is 95 and is healthy and has all her faculties. Never took a statin.
I too am curious about a genetic trend… my siblings are extremely healthy and have high cholesterol. As I age —almost 65-mine is trending up- I am refusing statins based on the research highlighted in this article and my growing distrust of our “healthcare “ system. My grandmother lived to age 99 with “high cholesterol / above 250. always was told she had a healthy heart.
I nursed both my husband and mother for many years and both of them were given statins. In time I informed the GP that I was removing this medication as my mother suffered severe muscle pains and my husbands mind was becoming a concern. In a short while both symptoms disappeared. I believe statins are simply a money making, and at worst a depopulation tool.
Statins have been prescribed for 30 years to prevent “heart disease”, then why is “heart disease” still considered the #1 killer?
In the US, Nixon declared the war on cancer in 1973.
Here we are 50 plus years later with Komen for the Cure.
It's a beautiful racket they have going on that pours billions into everything except finding the cure for Cancer which we already have.
Fix your broken immune system is the cure.(98% of all Cancer)
I'm afraid I pissed off a friend with her "pink ribbon campaign." I said - they don't need the money. It's a racket to make you think you're doing something, when really, it's nothing.
Your gut, IS your immune system.
Any prescription or OTC drug breaks down and eventually destroys your gut.
People with autoimmune disorders usually have the gut biome broken down.
Allopathic medicine is like a mechanic that instead of fixing the cause of a misfiring engine instead rigs the sensors to read differently so that it runs without stalling.
Blood pressure and cholesterol are high when there are other issues that bring the body to that response.
https://barn0346.substack.com/p/life-is-not-a-battle
Vaccines are a big factor with heart disease along with over use of prescription drugs that "hack" chemical processes in the body.
Quack pseudoscience has pervaded medicine for decades.
One of the major issues is that it's much easier to temporarily correct or shift a symptom than it is to identify what's causing it and actually address the problem.
Treating cancer successfully is only half the battle.
Unless you find the cause(could well be AI disease) then you will never know if you are still exposing yourself to what caused the cancer in the first place.
years ago I went to the doc with an ear infection. all my numbers were up. she wanted to prescribe me 4 forever meds but did nothing about the ear infection. no need to say she never saw me again. after the infection went away, my numbers all went back to normal.
My father in law is an anomaly. At 83 he works out, walks a lot, and is in better shape than most half his age. Right before the holidays he was feeling as if something was right with his heart and actually had to badger his doctor to order a heart cath. Well, they found 2 - 95% blockages which were treated with stents and he says he feels fine now. Afterwards, his doctor reviewed that for many years he has been on statins, his cholesterol levels have always been well within the "good "range. So you would conclude that this proves that statins obviously don't work. Of course not. No, they decided that he now needs to increase his dose given that the previous dose wasn't enough to prevents those blockages. Completely unbelievable.
I'll pray he's declining the statins
Sounds exactly right I have 80-96 yo clients on statins! The VA loves their statins
Most doctors don't understand the depth of these medical fallacies - thanks for keeping the good articles coming. My patients ask the same questions "why hasn't my regular doctor told me this?" - my feeling is that most don't have much time or curiosity left to keep asking questions, looking at the narrative in different points of view, and proper skepticism at their own profession.... true health is keep asking questions, and then observe the reality that we (general we as a public) are not healthier and happier with the common approaches in medicine. In the end its up to everyone to keep asking questions about what we can be doing for ourselves to maintain Health.
The lack of intellectual curiosity is stunning.
ONE THING I MISS ABOUT THE USA: Osteopathy as a REAL branch of medicine.
Here in Oz it is a manipulative therapy, but I try to get manipulators who trained with US DO's. I miss the Whole Approach of D.O. Thank you for being you, doing what you do.
Dietary calcium is too common to reduce (and it's the major mineral of your bones), and magnesium deficiency is too subtle until a stroke or heart attack. After a H.A. on the Ides of March 2010, two RCA stents, a statins scrip, a year and then angina convinced me that the docs didn't have a clue about the cause - only the symptom - they weren't even in the right ballpark. I'd have to fix it myself.
After seeing a hint in a blog, experimentally, in steps I took extra magnesium (malate) to bowel tolerance then backed off to last normal. All plaque dissolved into my blood serum after Mg++ replaced Ca++ in the plaque. (Except that my test tube was my own arteries, this is H.S. Chem.)
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/25354778/ (dietary change to fix the cause of plaque)
For 15 y this way I've been managing all my arterial plaque. Never go back to a cardiologist.
So Magnesium Malate got rid of your arterial plaque? Mind sharing how much you took? Was it soft plaque or calcified plaque that regressed? Mine is mostly soft plaque but I'll throw this on top of the other 3 dozen supplements I'm taking since magnesium can't hurt anyway
As I understand it, the plaque is created from excess serum calcium (and cholesterol). I take "enough" magnesium (malate) for the Mg++ ions to replace the Ca++ ions in the plaque for the plaque to dissolve in the serum (Mg++ is smaller and binds more strongly). The only risk I know of for Mg supp is loose bowel. (OTOH The risks from excess Ca are strokes and heart attacks. I had the latter. Take your pick.) It's diet dependent: When I started a Whey protein supp, I had to increase my Mg (from every other day to every day) b/c I felt an arterial block forming (maybe it was the turbulence).
Good information! Statins are just one more money-maker for Big pHarma. My mother's best friend, whose doctor had her fearful of a heart attack, died of statin-induced myopathy after 5 years in a nursing home!! Follow the money!
It should be noted, when noting all the causes of death, that the leading cause of death is birth!
ha! My brother likes to say the leading cause of divorce is marriage.
LOL!! Yes! I discovered that fact when after 3 marriages and 3 divorces I found that when I stopped getting married, I stopped getting divorced!
You should write and publish a survivor's guide.
😂
Great summary of the science, and the scam of statins. My question: Could the endothelial cells of blood vessels that get repeatedly damaged, be damaged by our own immune system? Could it be that our immune system has been mistrained to attack our own endothelial cells? Could heart disease actually be another autoimmune disease?
Steve Kirsch analyzed the Czechoslavakian record level data, and discovered that unvaccinated individuals had virtually zero incidence of heart disease. Could it be that a vaccine taken by most people has an antigen which has homologues to a receptor on endothelial cells? Could it be that we have antibodies which are causing that cellular damage, again and again?
Dr. Judy Mikovits certainly says that. She notes that retroviruses are in vaccines which then stay in the body and cause all sorts of illness and immunological damage forever.
Undiagnosed AI(autoimmune) disease is the pre-cursor for most chronic and life threatening diseases.(including Cancer)
The problem with AI disease, is that they spend half a day on the subject and were taught to prescribe blockers.
Eventually, you run out of fingers to plug the holes in the dam and the pressure causes the dam to break and then all hell breaks loose and fixing the dam is not possible.
Exact same thing happens with autoimmune diseases.
Any thoughts on the Linus Pauling theory that heart disease is caused by "subclinical scurvy"? Higher ascorbate levels in the blood do result in lower incidents of heart attacks.
Hey, Limu, if I recall correctly, Pauling's method involved Vitamin C, lysine, and proline. I think the lysine and proline were included because of their role in creating collagen for maintaining and repairing the blood vessels. Some years back, I was conversing with a rather conventional-minded friend about Pauling's ideas on heart health. I mentioned that Pauling was active, mentally sharp, and still making public appearances until just before his death at 93 years old. My friend's skeptical response? "Oh, so he still died anyway, right?"
Sigh... That kind of automatic response still passes for "thinking".
Having had Hepatitis C for over 30 years until 2015, I didn't need to be told not to take statins. when they first advertised them on TV, they said "liver damage" as a side effect. Then When I was sitting in a doctor's waiting room at BSW or Baylor Scott White, there was a TV obviously playing a prerecorded BSW program with a man dressed as a doctor saying it is a good idea for ALL adults over 40 to take statins to prevent heart disease. Now I was really suspicious, and have lied to every doctor I have been to that wanted to give me statins, just because I was diabetic to reduce the "risk" of heart disease. These people were lying assholes trying to make money. I refused to take them, I told them I was allergic to them, they made my liver hurt, I had muscle pain, then finally, I got pissed off, came close to blows with a doctor trying get me to take them, I grabbed his stethoscope and yanked it off his neck and told him he was fixing to eat it if I heard one more word about statins. Then I told him he was fired and walked out of the room and office, didn't pay a dime for that visit and got another doctor - this was in 2015. Same doctor who told me diabetes 2 was for life, which I beat, no longer diabetic after losing 70 lbs. I don't know how ethical it is to physically threaten or assault a doctor who pisses you off, but I was sick of hearing that I need to be taking a poison that is bad for me for a bullshit reason - which is lowering cholesterol. I like foods with cholesterol, screw them. Big pharma was telling doctors to prescribe statins to all adults over 40. Both my parents were taking them when they died. I asked both of them why the take it, and they said "because the doctor said it I should", and that's the bad attitude most people in the world have. Mom, I thought you were a Catholic, when did your doctor become your God too? Do not trust any doctor blindly, they only care about filling their wallets with your money, that's why they became doctors, to get rich. They are people like you and me, they are greedy, greedier than most people, why else would they go through all that school and hardship to get there, to get rich. They don't give a shit about your health, actually they want you to stay sick, but alive, to keep padding their pockets. They get a check from big pharma for every statin script they write and gets filled, and more checks for refills on big pharma's prescriber bonus program. If you are taking a statin because your doctor said it was best for you, stop taking it, or get Alzheimer's like my father did, or my mother, who had a sudden heart attack the same week as her 4th Covid shot. Nobody needs statins for any reason. Do not take them, they will poison and eventually kill you. All of them, Lipitor. Crestor, and all the rest. It doesn't matter if you sweat cholesterol it's because it's so high, don't take any sort of statin. And do not concern yourself with your cholesterol levels, if your doctor complains tell him he's a bought off idiot, like most practicing doctors.
Had an MD trying to get my 20 yr old to take them. I was already informed of their poison from my husband taking them and immediately having liver & muscle issues. Never again.
I'm picturing the scene at the office and smiling, good for you 👍 😉
A thousand "Thank you"s for this. This has been published right on time for me and I will read it carefully.
Patrick,
The author has been to medical school and is one of the finest doctors in the country.