1.5 Million More People to Be Prescribed Useless Cholesterol Drugs

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HAPPY LADY — Sat, 05 Jul 2008 17:06:01 GMT

KEDS, IAM SORRY THAT I CANNOT HELP YOU WITH THAT WEB SITE AS I GOT A WARNING E-MAIL YOU ARE NOT ALLOWED TO PROMOTE YOUR OWN WEBSITE.. SO ALL I CAN SAY IS DO A LITTLE MORE RESEARCH ON THERE AND YOU WILL FIND WHAT YOU ARE LOOKING FOR. I DIDN'T KNOW THAT WHEN I JOINED. SORRY

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lawrencet — Sun, 22 Jun 2008 23:31:26 GMT

See link below for further evidence that Heart disease and arthresclorosis is not caused by fat and cholesterol. This is a red herring. It is becoming increasingly obvious that infection is the underlying cause. The link below suggests that it is a special form of bacteria called L-form or open cell wall bacteria.

bacteriality.com/.../cad

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carley44 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 14:30:16 GMT

It is my belief that inflammation causes many problems. It takes a lot of investigation to get to the cause of things and most doctors do not want to or have the time to devote to your case, in addition to their conflict of interest if they are paid from big pharma. This is why everyone must be responsible for their own health. Period. I have never taken these drugs however, I had borderline high BP for a while and it worried me since I was getting older and my family had a history of heart disease. Ironically my problem was food allergies! When I stopped eating the food making me sick, I had several "side effects". First I lost twenty pounds. Then all the aches and pains reduced to only very slight, where before had been daily and I always took OTC pain killers. Now I take nothing. I think this was in response to the lack of inflammation - no inflammation-no pain. Then when I checked my BP, it had dropped a whopping 15 points! All that from food allergies. I think that the wheat, soy and milk (the big 3) are often GMO and cause a lot of illness but is unlabeled, so how do you know? Today I eat only meat, fruit, nuts, seeds and veges. Thats all. No bread or milk or soy or anything with yeast in it. Which means no alcohol and no pasta. Mercola is right, grains are often more harmful that not. I do not take any drugs today except an occasional ephedrine to clear my nose during high pollen counts. Thats it. I am healthier now than I have ever been in my life ( I am over 50) and that is because I stopped eating the junk of the evil empire, which is hell bent on killing us all slowly. We are nothing more than fodder to them. They are parasitic and need us way more than we need them. This is their fear- we don't need them and they know it, they spend so much money with trials, advertising, etc. to get us to buy their toxins. Ask yourself why was it a mission of the church back in the sixteenth century to wipe out herbalists? Just as it is today. Power hates competition.

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SDBUK — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:31:59 GMT

I love Dr. Mercola's advice on every issue except for when he mentions hypnosis and/or EFT.

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illies17 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 01:27:39 GMT

statins are probably the biggest of all the medical frauds brought apon by big pharma, i really wish more people were aware of the deception of cholesterol, and how its not the killer its made out to be.

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magical1 — Wed, 18 Jun 2008 00:46:39 GMT

Thanks for including the PDF in your article Dr Mercola. It's a good simple, factual read and I have passed it on to everyone I know taking statins. Despite years of "heavy legs" my Dad just ignores them and stays on the statins. Perhaps him reading this will help but I won't hold my breath. So many are brainwashed...

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curious7 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 22:21:16 GMT

Nothing, nothing, nothing, that "Big Pharma" says is to be relied upon. Find the information you need to fight high cholesterol, through diet and exercise, and remember the old saying, "if it sounds too good to be true, it likely is."

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DokSoul_203 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 19:49:37 GMT

I remember Dr. Linus Pauling and another doctor (can't remember, maybe someone can help) published an article that discussed the benefit of x grams vitamin C, 3 grams of Lysine and 1 gram of L-proline a day in controlling the negative effects of cholesterol...had to do something with the with cholesterol being sticky. If you used the supplements, you'd never have a problem...could also reverse heart disease and avoid a stint. This article also discusses some of the benefits: lpi.oregonstate.edu/.../athero.html

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Dr Rik — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 18:45:52 GMT

more new same old news.

Sometimes one of my patients will actually start to follow my advice for a healthy lifestyle, and I have learned that I have to be prepared to explain to them why they are so sore after doing the first exercise that they have done in years, maybe first time ever.

Drugs are so much easier

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HealingMindN — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:58:04 GMT

So, how do I fend off the so-called "expert" opinion of an HMO paint-by-numbers doctor who wants to fill their drug rep's quota by prescribing a statin to one or more of my family members? Should I just print this article and show it to that doctor? Would that work?

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emm76 — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 17:42:09 GMT

China has population control by only allowing couples one child, US and Europe have Big Pharma.

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ProteusOne — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 16:53:34 GMT

Ten Bears, apparently the drugs do nothing for those with that particular mental illness that involves writing in all caps

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CrowSnake — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:37:14 GMT

I started a diet based on a lot of what I have read here. Whey Protein twice a day, (one scoop each time). I still take my Vitamins because of weight loss surgery I had.. I have been eating salmon a long time, I added chicken breast in the evening most days. Sorry but I do lightly cook my veggies. Also I cook my meat. Just do not like the taste of raw meat. I have been eating to live, instead of living to eat for the last couple of months. Lost 20 needed off lbs.. Still need to loose more so I am going to continue to count calories for a while. But I had blood work done and all my Stats came back very normal and healthy. My blood pressure has always been ok. but now everything is great, in just a couple of months.

I went off the counting part when my sister died, but am going back on today. It is not hard to get your cholesterol down, you just have to want to, and you have to eat to live instead of living to eat. I see the plan to fail, if you fail to plan too now.

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rrgrassi — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:17:00 GMT

My choleterol is at 117, without drugs. I am a type 2 diabetic, and am working on that problem now. I had a Dr put me on Lovastatin, but I quit them my self due to muscle aches, that the Dr just said was not a an issue. Needless to say, I do not see that Dr any longer.

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Hmmmmm — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 15:01:47 GMT

Wrap your head around this.........

"LDL may not only bind and inactivate dangerous bacterial toxins; it seems to have a direct beneficial influence on the immune system also, possibly explaining the observed relationship between low cholesterol and various chronic diseases. This was the starting point for a study by Professor Matthew Muldoon and his team at the University of Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. They studied healthy young and middle-aged men and found that the total number of white blood cells and the number of various types of white blood cells were significantly lower in the men with LDL-cholesterol below 160 mg/dl (mean 88.3 mg/l),than in men with LDL-cholesterol above 160 mg/l (mean 185.5 mg/l).18 The researchers cautiously concluded that there were immune system differences between men with low and high cholesterol, but that it was too early to state whether these differences had any importance for human health. Now, seven years later with many of the results discussed here, we are allowed to state that the immune-supporting properties of LDL-cholesterol do indeed play an important role in human health."

The whole article is at: