High Cholesterol (Fact or Fiction) You judge for yourself.
Part 1
Cholesterol-lowering drugs are the single largest business segment of
the global pharmaceutical drug business. The global sales of the leading
drug category – statins – have
surpassed 200 billion dollars per year. This entire business is built on
fear – the fear that cholesterol actually causes heart attacks. While
this "cholesterol-scare" has become a gold mine for the drug companies –
the economic burden of this business is ultimately carried by us, the
people. Health professionals, political decision makers and hundreds of
millions of patients worldwide have the right to know: What are the
proven facts – and what is the fiction promoted by the multibillion
dollar investment business with patented cholesterol-lowering drugs
True or False:
1. According to the medical industry High Cholesterol is the number one cause of heart attack.
A: If low cholesterol levels prevent heart disease, then victims of
heart attacks should have high cholesterol. This is not so. Over half of
all heart attack victims (those who suffer from heart disease) have low
cholesterol. This logic is too simple. Highly educated folks totally
miss this one. The statistics and evidence, disproves this myth.
Fact:
One of the most widely respected medical journals, the Journal of the
American Medical Association, published a study entitled: Cholesterol
and Mortality. 30 Years of Follow-up from the Framingham study. Shocking
to most, this in-depth study showed that after the age of 50, there is
no increased overall death associated with high cholesterol! There was,
however, a direct association between low levels (or dropping levels) of
cholesterol and increased death. Specifically, medical researchers
reported that death rates increased by 14% for every 1mg/dl drop in
total cholesterol levels per year. These results, and many others, have
not stopped medical doctors from making blanket prescriptions for
cholesterol lowering drugs to anyone with a heart beat
Cholesterol is one of the most essential elements in the survival of the
human body. When the body begins to make more cholesterol, it has a
reason to do that. It is certainly not to block the arteries of the
heart, because we measure the level of cholesterol in the body in the
blood we take out of the veins of the body, and nowhere in the history
of medicine is there recorded one single case of cholesterol ever having
blocked the veins of the body.
So, it is not the stickiness of
the cholesterol that is the problem, which the drug industry is
drumming it into the minds of people -- cholesterol is sticky, reduce it
otherwise you will have blockage of your arteries, which is all
nonsense. Cholesterol is actually saving the lives of people, because
cholesterol is a bandage, a waterproof bandage that the body has
designed. When the blood becomes concentrated and acidic, and is being
rushed through constricted arteries or capillaries, in dehydration, then
abrasions and tears are produced in the arterial system, naturally, in
the capillaries of the heart first.
Now if cholesterol wasn’t there
to cover up the tear and abrasions, blood would get under the membrane
and peel it off and that person would be dead instantly. Cholesterol is
actually an interim lifesaver, giving the body time to recover from its
problems.
Here come the "STATINS"
These drugs ALSO
show no correlation between drug-induced low cholesterol and the
prevention of heart disease! Looking at 5 major statin drug trials,
these being PROSPER, ALLHAT-LLT, ASCOT-LLA, AFCAPS and WOSCOPS, statin
drugs provided an Absolute Risk Reduction in total mortality of 0.3%.
These facts go ignored. Medical doctors and drug companies hide the
truth with complexity and obscurity via statistical contortionists.
Don’t be fooled. It is the "spin" created by the media that has
convinced the masses that these drugs prevent heart disease, not the
science.
In reality, the only thing that cholesterol-lowering drugs
do is lower cholesterol. Users will have to face the negative side
effects of both the drug and of having low cholesterol. This is a
crucial point! Combined, these side effects include, but are not limited
to, lack of energy and sex drive, cancer, heart disease, and loss of
short-term memory. That people have relinquished their health to
cholesterol lowering drugs is a great reminder that advertising hype
often supersedes common sense.
Dr. Nortin Hadler says he would
sue any doctor who tried to test his cholesterol. Likewise, his bone
density, prostate levels, colon cells, etc. The Harvard-trained doc, now
in his sixties and a rheumatologist and professor of medicine and
microbiology/immunology at the University of North Carolina at Chapel
Hill, says you, too, should avoid these routine tests, as well as most
angioplasties, bypass surgeries and routine mammograms. That's because
-- contrary to what the medical establishment tells you -- the tests and
procedures don't extend most lives, he says; they just convince healthy
people they're sick.
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