Popular Cholesterol Drug Found to Have No Medical Benefits

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adviser — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:07:53 GMT

Please look for the FDA Report on thier own incompetance. It can be found from Dr. Jonathan Wrights newsletter. It is unbelieveabe for anyone who ever thought the FDA was LOOKING out for US!

Share it wiith the world when you find it. The FDA obviously does not want to make it easy for us to find so they published a very difficult website address. The report is 59 pages! It should be on the front pages of every MAJOR Newspaper in the U.S. But miracles don't happen often.

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adviser — Thu, 11 Sep 2008 22:02:25 GMT

I think all who take time to comment are to be commended. I' m especially heartened seeing people are creating their own information blogs to share their info. with the world. I truly believe God gave us all the internet, and GOOGLE!! These fantastic sources will hopefully create a whole new generation of informed people in the U.S. DR's will be forced to be transparent, honest! I was diagnosed wit Prostate cancer 2 yrs ago. My Doctor 'missed' a RISING PSA on my ann. phys. for 2 years. I had a rad prostectamy. After 18 months of intense RESEARCH into with "Alternative/Holistic M.D.'s know I would never have chosen surgery. I DECLINED my Urolst who wanted "a little" follow up Radiation! Radiation causes CANCER! I chose lifestyle,diet,change & Immune building supplements and cancer killing elements that are dirt cheap, "Iodine", vit c, and tai-chi for stress to help immune system to fight remaining cancer cells, correct immune imbalance. I had metal dental fillings removed, gone through Heavy metal colon DETOX and eliminated most all toxins from my environment, No diet sweetner of any sort==cancer! No sugar! I became a 'vegee' as Dr. Mercola agree's live food = healthy. I thank all the people like Dr. Mercola, Whitaker,Blaylock, Wright, Burzynski, Donsbach, Rowen, Moss, David Williams, Dr.Ellithorpe,& many others who truly love the practice of medicine and are going to great lengths to Honestly HELP and INFORM people how to lead and have Happy, healthy lives. We the people need to do our part to let others know about the 'Evil System' that prevails in the American medical system today. I am a native, was born here. I love my Country but; The Gov't run FDA is the 'quarterback' for the Money only driven Huge Pharma Companies who do not seek cures or want to HONESTLY HELP ANYONE unless it is their shareholders. The culture of death that exists in the Medical community all driven by GREED and AVARICE it is sickening. Please keep telling the story about the LIES by FDA, A

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red1_203 — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 02:37:09 GMT

My total cholesterol was 217 and my Dr. wanted to put me on Lipitor and when the Dr. left the room the nurse said why don't you try omega fish oil. I tried the fish oil and it went down to 168. At the time I was on a low carb diet. So I was getting more fats in my diet thats what raised my cholesterol

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terryd1960 — Fri, 01 Feb 2008 00:18:57 GMT

My doctor called me in a near-panic because my cholesterol level had climbed to 350, 290 of which was LDL, the "bad" kind, wanting me to take Zetia (I had already had a quick and severe reaction to Lipitor and refused to ever take a statin again), and I told her no. I had already suffered from mal-absorption of nutrients of various types at times in my life, so it didn't sound healthy to take a drug that interfered with digestion in ANY way (which is how Zetia works). She was really pissed at me, but I stood my ground and told her I had lowered my cholesterol with diet alone once before, I could do it again. I knew what had caused the problem - my bad habit of several large cups of coffee with a ton of cream every day during my senior year of nursing school (instead of the tea I usually drank, because coffee was faster and easier, and with three jobs, school, kids, and being a newly singled mom every minute counted) , and I went back to my tea with a little 1% milk, and voila, my cholesterol dropped more than a hundred points in just a few months. And my research had already told me that 250 was a far healthier cholesterol level for a middle-aged woman than 150, and I told my doctor so. This fact was backed up by the fact that so-called "high" cholesterol runs in the women in my family, but heart attacks and stroke DO NOT. My doctor is a great woman, and cares deeply about her patients, and she's much more knowledgeable about many things, such as diabetes and diet, than a lot of other doctors, but she really has blinders on about the cholesterol issue. I love her anyway, but I'm still doing my own research before following any of her advice.

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TonyD_203 — Wed, 30 Jan 2008 16:29:35 GMT

I take 3g of V-C (buffered).

Cholesterol is only a small part of placque/atherosclerosis.

"In a report in the journal Atherosclerosis , heart disease patients were given either 1,000 mg. or 2,000 mg. a day of vitamin C to determine its effect on the breakdown of fibrinogen. At 1,000 mg. a day, there was no detectable change in fibrinolytic activity or cholesterol, but at 2000 mg. a day of vitamin C, there was a 27% decrease in the platelet aggregation index, a 12% reduction in total cholesterol, and a 45% increase in fibrinolytic (fibrinogen breakdown) activity! "

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TRobin — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:48:11 GMT

In his book, Fourfold Path to Healing, Dr. Tom Cowan explains pretty well how the heart works, and where cholesterol plays a (vital) role in our health. The gist is not how low or high your cholesterol is, it is what your cholesterol is able to do....or where it is able to go....anyway, a great book I highly recommend. I also had the opportunity to hear Tom talk about this at the Fourfold Conference! Loved it! (Tom is the Dr. on "ask the doctor" at the Weston A Price Foundation website.

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Freedom — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 21:42:19 GMT

Simvastatin has one particular side effect that Merck do not print on their leaflet to warn patients: Loss of Memory. There have been approximately 60 cases of such in the UK. Merck will not discuss this with patients; referring them to their GP...........so my cousin told me.

So why don't they print this on the leaflet ?

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Think4Freedom — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 19:28:09 GMT

Some more scary news is in my local newspaper here in Arizona. Merck took out a full two page ad in the A section of the newspaper to detail out how they stand behind their drug's abilities even though recent information may contradict it. It blathered on about it's "safety" for everyone to use. And the sad part is, the average American out there doesn't do the research to see there really is an issue with the drug.

"Trust but Verify"

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nofluvaccine — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 15:40:07 GMT

But the American Heart Association announced you should keep taking your Zetia but they forgot to mention they get $2,000,000 a year from the manufacturer.

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whitebuffalobk — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 09:31:44 GMT

I was prescribed Zetia a while back. When I started experiencing nausea and vomiting, I assumed I had a virus. But the nausea got worse after taking my little white pill. I finally figured out that the Zetia was the culprit. After a month of eating very little, I went to my doctor feeling so weak I was trembling. I still don't feel well. By the way, I had a severe episode of pancreatitis and gallstones not long after my experience with Zetia. Don't know if there is any connection or not.

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curious7 — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:50:48 GMT

Two words, Folic Acid.

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LORENLSMITHHughes — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 07:00:21 GMT

I want to volunteer for the firing squad....no...no not out front, for the guy who has the rifle with the real bullet. If they can kill thousands, I should feel no pain at releasing a few miserable corporate prostitutes....(el doctormenases). Can they hang me for thinking thusly?

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Lisa G — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 05:42:02 GMT

If you want more scary news on the dangers of statins, google "UCSD statin study" to read about a five-year NIH-funded study on the adverse effects of statins which was recently concluded at University of California San Diego. Keep in mind that it was funded by our government, who tend to be heavily "influenced" by Big Pharma -- so what you read is probably only the tip of the iceberg. I found the researchers in desperation, after my active, healthy mother was prescribed a huge statin dose by her doctor, and has suffered severe (and seemingly irreversible) muscle damage. The lead researcher herself told me that "statins are toxic to muscle satellite cells and toxic to their ability to repair." Statins can actually permanently damage muscle stem cells. I am not surprised that none of this work seems to have been made available to the public at large. The ability of the drug companies to bribe, gag and coerce is astonishing. Why aren't more people as pissed off as I am? I guess because it was MY mother who was a victim...

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4Hand Healthy — Sat, 19 Jan 2008 13:16:00 GMT

No surprises here!

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Birdmoth — Thu, 17 Jan 2008 09:30:53 GMT

While I'm all for any study that shows these poisons don't work, I'd like to point out one thing near the end of the article:

"The Enhance trial covered patients with a gene that causes them to produce very high levels of low-density lipoprotein cholesterol, commonly called L.D.L., or bad cholesterol."

This condition (heterozygous familial
hypercholesterolemia) affects 0.2% of the population. In reality it was a very limited study, and not the mass condemnation we wish it was.