Category Archives: statins

Is Your Statin Making You Stupid?

  By ironman45 | December 4, 2012 - 2:53 pm | brain health, statins
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While cholesterol-lowering statin medications have been widely credited with reducing the number of fatal heart attacks, it’s no secret that the drugs have side effects. The Food and Drug Administration has acknowledged side effects that include memory loss and fuzzy thinking, and last year issued new package warnings for the world’s best-selling medication.

For people who take statins and experience disturbing side effects, deciding whether to continue the medication presents a dilemma – especially when the drugs seem to harm their very ability to think clearly. (more…)

Don’t take cholesterol meds to prevent blood clots

  By ironman45 | October 26, 2012 - 1:32 pm | blood thinners, cholesterol, heart disease, statins
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Statins aren’t even the best way to accomplish the main thing they’re approved for, and that’s lower cholesterol levels — so I certainly wouldn’t trust them with anything even more important.

Yet these meds are touted for everything from heart protection to cancer prevention, and some people even take them because they believe the drugs will lower the risk of a blood clot.

But if you’re at risk for this potentially deadly condition, the last thing you want to do is put your faith in a statin.

One new look at data on some 100,000 patients who took part in one of 29 published and unpublished trials finds absolutely no difference in clot risk between those who took the meds and those who didn’t.

None. (more…)

Ancient herb proven to be a potential cure for Alzheimer’s

  By ironman45 | October 9, 2012 - 1:49 pm | alzheimers, statins
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Ashwagandha is a small evergreen perennial herb that grows up to nearly 5 feet tall.

Common names used for ashwagandha include: Winter Cherry, Withania somnifera (Latin botanical name), and Indian Ginseng to name a few.

Regardless of the name you use to describe this adaptogenic herb, ashwaganda has been a part of India’s Ayurvedic medical system for thousands of years.

There it’s regarded as a wonder herb.

While often regarded as an herb for stress reduction and improved energy and vitality, there is a robust body of scientific research confiming ashwaganda’s potential therapeutic value in several dozen health conditions.i

Now, new research has revealed this herb may also fight off the devastating effects of Alzheimer’s disease.

Could Ashwaganda Cure Alzheimer’s? (more…)

Statins a Complete Hoax

  By ironman45 | October 3, 2012 - 1:40 pm | cholesterol, heart disease, statins
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As if it weren’t bad enough that statins cause a huge array of devastating harms to health, they don’t even do what they supposedly exist for: prevention of heart disease. A new study that uses unpublished data clarifies the truth.

Statins with Warning Signby Heidi Stevenson

A new study shows that the statin story is a lie. They don’t prevent heart attacks or strokes. They do, of course, cause a huge array of adverse effects, including memory loss, muscle destruction, pain, liver damage, and nerve damage—and they do all these things without providing a single benefit. (more…)

Another nail in the coffin for statin drugs – New research finds statins increase artery calcification

  By ironman45 | August 31, 2012 - 2:36 pm | cholesterol, crooked health care, diabetes, statins
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In yet another blow to the claimed benefits of statin drugs, newly published research has found that statin drug use leads to accelerated coronary artery and aortic artery calcification, both of which greatly contribute to cardiovascular disease and mortality. The new study comes on top of findings that led the FDA to mandate adding “diabetes risk” to the warning label of statin drugs. (more…)

Two Apples a Day More Effective At Reducing Heart Disease Than Statin Medications

  By ironman45 | August 15, 2012 - 6:41 pm | cholesterol, heart disease, statins
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More evidence continues to surface supporting the superior effectiveness of nature’s foods over medication in preventing disease. New research shows that just two apples a day could help protect women against heart disease lowering blood fat levels by almost 25 percent, a claim unattainable by cardiovascular prescription medications.

Scientists found apples significantly lowered blood fat levels in postmenopausal women, the group most at risk of heart attacks and strokes. (more…)

Healthy Men Should Not Take Statins Says JAMA

  By ironman45 | July 30, 2012 - 6:35 pm | statins
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Healthy Men Should Not Take Statins Says JAMA by Jeffrey Dach MDHealthy Men Should Not Take Statins Says JAMA

by Jeffrey Dach MD

The title speaks for itself. This bombshell article by Rita Redberg, MD, editor of the Archives of Internal Medicine, appeared in April 2012 JAMA advising healthy men with high cholesterol to stay away from statin anti-cholesterol drugs, pointing out there is no mortality benefit.  Dr Redberg goes on with a list of adverse side effects of statin drugs,  namely, myopathy, cognitive dysfunction, etc.   This JAMA article and debate is an outgrowth of the “Less is More” series in the Archives of Internal Medicine.    For fairness, JAMA also posted the opposing view by Dr. Blaha.  (more…)

Statins Prevent Vitamin D Formation, Causing Muscle Pain & Worse

  By ironman45 | July 20, 2012 - 12:39 pm | statins, vitamin D
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The chutzpah of pharmaceutical science and medical practice in presuming to control the body’s processes, without any consideration for adverse effects that can readily be predicted—such as known disorders related to inadequate Vitamin D and CoQ10—needs to come to an end.

Statin Cloudsby Heidi Stevenson

Inadequate Vitamin D causes muscle pain. The purpose of statin drugs is to lower cholesterol. Is there a connection between the muscle pain that results from statins and inadequate Vitamin D? (more…)