Tuesday, December 03, 2013
Part 1: Muscle pain, spasms, fatigue? Are you taking a statin drug to lower your cholesterol?

Sore muscles and/or spasms are a result of statin drugs such as Lipitor depleting production of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10). CoQ10 is a nutrient required by every cell in the body to transform carbohydrates and fat into energy, in many “energy-producing “ mitochondria within cells; and the same mechanism Lipitor employs to lower cholesterol also lowers production of CoQ10.

I want you all to read the next few sentences and start thinking about what is being said…
In regard to diet, current medical perception has the idea that eating foods that contain cholesterol will lead to elevated blood levels of cholesterol and cause heart disease. However, this couldn’t be further from the truth! Eating foods that contain cholesterol not only doesn’t raise your cholesterol levels, it doesn’t cause heart disease either! Butter is not bad for you in moderation. Bread is by far worse for you to eat.

The current research actually states that cholesterol is not the culprit of heart disease, inflammation is. Inflammation caused by excess intake of sugar and other simple carbohydrates such as bread, bagels and donuts. Insulin resistance, weight gain, diabetes, and heart disease are all linked to increased inflammation from eating these types of simple sugars.

Nutritional and progressive medical research if far ahead of the medical field when it comes to the idea that cholesterol causes heart disease. There have been many medical pioneers who have been sneered at and ridiculed when they presented more radical ideas to the medical community that was not in agreement with the status quo, however eventually their progressive ideas became widely accepted when proven.

There is an over-abundance of statin drug prescriptions written in the U.S., driven by the pharmaceutical company’s political agendas. Lipitor is one of the biggest money-making drugs on the market! People have this belief that these drugs are going to decrease cholesterol levels thereby decreasing the risk of having a stroke or heart attack. This simply isn’t factual. The current research states otherwise and has been greatly overstated in the medical community and by the drug companies. Dr. Cass states that, “High cholesterol counts are indicative of increased heart disease risk, but it appears that we’ve been looking at the equation backwards: high blood fats are an effect, not cause of elevated cardiovascular risk. And the evidence strongly suggests that high cholesterol is a result of excess inflammation in the body. That excess inflammation seems to be a more likely root cause of dangerous changes in the cardiovascular system.” Medical literature says it all, think reduce inflammation, not cholesterol. It will just take longer to hit mainstream media.

Dr. Cass also suggests being aware of the following:
• 5 studies were reviewed and found that the risk of non-fatal heart attack and stroke was reduced by 1.4 % in people on statin drugs-but that the rate of serious adverse effects rose 1.8 % in those same people. (Serious adverse effect: any medication side effect that results in death, is life threatening, requires hospitalization, or results in persistent or significant health problems.)
• There is no relationship between blood cholesterol and heart disease risk in women over fifty or in men over seventy. Statins given to these individuals are not only wasted, but expose them to risk of side effects that isn’t outweighed by benefits to their hearts.
• A Medical Research Council survey showed that men eating butter ran half the risk of developing heart disease compared with those using margarine.
• Mother’s milk provides a higher proportion of cholesterol than almost any other food. It also contains over 50 % of its calories as fat, much of it saturated fat. Both cholesterol and saturated fat are essential for growth in babies and children, especially for the development of the brain. Yet, the American Heart Association is recommending that children consume a low-cholesterol, low-fat diet-exactly the kind of diet that was liked, in one study, with failure to thrive in children. The fact is, children need good fats to provide the raw materials for healthy brain cells.