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24 August 2009 This Week In HealthBeat News: This letter is representative of many we receive here - we hear many of these same questions, asked in slightly different ways, over and over. This tells me that these are things that folks are really concerned about, and rightly so. Here is a potpourri of questions, that I'll do my best to answer. [...Read more here] Dangers of Statin Drugs: Part 1 In A 3-Part Series HealthBeat News is pleased to bring you a special report on statin drugs and cholesterol that comes to us by special arrangement and kind permission of the authors, Sally Fallon and Mary Enig, PhD. Many of our patients and HealthBeat News readers have been asking about these important subjects recently, and Dr. Myatt felt that even though we here at The Wellness Club have written frequently on this subject in the past, this article provides another scholarly and fully referenced look at this subject that is well worth reading. This article will be presented in three parts in your HealthBeat Newsletter: Part 1, this part, will look at the "problem" of hypercholesterolemia (high cholesterol), how statins work, and just what cholesterol is and why our bodies need this controversial substance. In Part 2 we'll look at the statin drugs and some of their many side-effects, and Part 3 will review a large number of scholarly studies on cholesterol and statins that the drug companies would rather you don't know about as they plainly demonstrate the dangers of these drugs and of our wrong-headed obsession with reducing cholesterol levels to un-natural and un-healthy levels. After you, our HealthBeat News readers, have received all three parts of this series we will post it along with the full list of references on our Wellness Club website - but HealthBeat News subscribers will have access to this important and informative article first! Dangers of Statin Drugs: What You Haven't Been Told About Popular Cholesterol-Lowering Medicines By Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig, PhD Part 1 in a 3-part series Hypercholesterolemia is the health issue of the 21st century. It is actually an invented disease, a "problem" that emerged when health professionals learned how to measure cholesterol levels in the blood. High cholesterol exhibits no outward signs-unlike other conditions of the blood, such as diabetes or anemia, diseases that manifest telltale symptoms like thirst or weakness-hypercholesterolemia requires the services of a physician to detect its presence. Many people who feel perfectly healthy suffer from high cholesterol-in fact, feeling good is actually a symptom of high cholesterol! Doctors who treat this new disease must first convince their patients that they are sick and need to take one or more expensive drugs for the rest of their lives, drugs that require regular checkups and blood tests. But such doctors do not work in a vacuum-their efforts to convert healthy people into patients are bolstered by the full weight of the US government, the media and the medical establishment, agencies that have worked in concert to disseminate the cholesterol dogma and convince the population that high cholesterol is the forerunner of heart disease and possibly other diseases as well. Who suffers from hypercholesterolemia? Peruse the medical literature of 25 or 30 years ago and you'll get the following answer: any middle-aged man whose cholesterol is over 240 with other risk factors, such as smoking or overweight. After the Cholesterol Consensus Conference in 1984, the parameters changed; anyone (male or female) with cholesterol over 200 could receive the dreaded diagnosis and a prescription for pills. Recently that number has been moved down to 180. If you have had a heart attack, you get to take cholesterol-lowering medicines even if your cholesterol is already very low-after all, you have committed the sin of having a heart attack so your cholesterol must therefore be too high. The penance is a lifetime of cholesterol-lowering medications along with a boring lowfat diet. But why wait until you have a heart attack? Since we all labor under the stigma of original sin, we are all candidates for treatment. Current edicts stipulate cholesterol testing and treatment for young adults and even children. The drugs that doctors use to treat the new disease are called statins-sold under a variety of names including Lipitor (atorvastatin), Zocor (simvastatin), Mevacor (lovastatin) and Pravachol (pravastatin). [...Read more here] When I saw this little list I was reminded of a popular song from 1970, by Five Man Electrical Band titled "Signs"... now I'll spend the rest of the day with this catchy tune rolling around in my head! [...Read more here]
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