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Top Cholesterol and Statin News of the Past Year

Sunday, February 01, 2009 - Byron J. Richards, CCN

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Cholesterol fitness is a new concept for many. It means that cholesterol is being utilized correctly in your body to maintain and sustain your health. You have numerous systems in your body involved with cholesterol synthesis, regulation, and clearance. Understanding this issue is vital to cardiovascular health – as well as understanding the true risk profile of statin drugs. Below is a handy index so you can quickly look up articles of interest to you. Numerous scientific references are embedded within articles as links.

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Tips for Cardiovascular Health

- Thursday, February 07, 2008
February is American Heart Month, a good time to get on track supporting your best friend that never gets to take a break – even for 5 minutes. Don’t permit your heart and cardiovascular system to unnecessarily struggle due to a lack of vital nutrients. Dietary supplements offer tremendous risk-free potential to support and maintain healthy cardiovascular function. Wellness Resources is proud to be the industry leader in providing innovative solutions for the discerning and health-minded public – setting a quality standard that is matched by nobody else…

The Statin Scam Marches On

- Monday, December 10, 2007
Considering that tens of millions of Americans now take statins to lower cholesterol, the following headline was conspicuously absent from the major media this month: “Statins Found to Turn On Gene that Causes Muscle Damage.” It’s now a fact of science; a new study shows that taking statins destroys your muscle to a greater or lesser degree. And let’s not forget that the heart is a muscle.

The Amazing New World of HDL Cholesterol

- Thursday, December 04, 2008
The new scientific toolbox is being used to poke around in HDL’s house, only to find good news and bad news. HDL has been labeled “good” cholesterol because it helps remove damaged LDL cholesterol from your arteries and has generally been associated with having less cardiovascular disease. It is now coming to light that the quality of the HDL you have is as important, if not more important, than the amount of HDL you have.

A Whole New Meaning of Fatty Arteries

- Monday, August 25, 2008
A new study shows that fat around your arteries is a direct predictor of plaque within your arteries.

The Vital Role of Cholesterol in Health

- Wednesday, October 08, 2008
A significant new discovery about the importance of cholesterol to nerve and muscle health has just been made. The researchers discovered that cholesterol is vital to the structure of key proteins involved with nerve transmission. The finding is groundbreaking, its implications in the context of widespread high doses of statin drugs in the general population is alarming.

Are Statins Causing the Rising Rates of Heart Failure?

- Sunday, December 14, 2008
Quietly, another colossal drug debacle flies under the radar of the mainstream media. Last week, The New England Journal of Medicine reported that blood pressure medication is not effective in the treatment for the rapidly rising rate of heart failure in patients over the age of 65. This means that Western Medicine has no treatment for a relatively recent problem – one that I believe is a side effect of taking statins.

Desperate Big Pharma Push to Double Statin Sales

- Tuesday, November 11, 2008
In the face of overwhelming negative science the statin marketing machine marches on, now suggesting that statins should be given to middle aged men and women even though they don’t have elevated cholesterol.

Low Cholesterol Increases Cancer and Death Risk

- Tuesday, August 26, 2008
In a major shot fired across the bow of the statin marketing machine, the levels of LDL cholesterol that are the artificial targets of “health” promoted by the American Heart Association (AHA) are now found to be associated with a significant increased risk of cancer and death.

In the news:

Framingham’s Faulty Risk Data Drives Statin Sales

- Wednesday, January 07, 2009
In the world of fast-food medicine doctors utilize lab test numbers, family history, and lifestyle factors to help decide whether or not to place patients on statin drugs. For the past decade they have relied on various risk tools based on data coming from the Framingham. A new study shows that up to 26% of the people being given statins based on this commonly-used criteria have absolutely no plaque in their arteries!

Statins Injure Eye Muscles

- Wednesday, December 10, 2008
The bad statin news just keeps on coming. Research conducted by the Casey Eye Institute looked into the FDA’s adverse drug reporting (ADR) system for reports on double vision, drooping eyelids, and loss of range of motion of the eyes – all problems that involve loss of function in small muscles that control the eyes.

A Statin Warning for Pregnancy

- Tuesday, December 09, 2008
The statin marketing machine sees potential customers in women of child-bearing age. A new warning has been issued by scientists that any type of statin and pregnancy do not mix, causing damage to the child.

Lack of D Makes Statin Injury Worse

- Thursday, November 20, 2008
New research shows that if a patient is lacking in vitamin D then injury from toxic statin drugs is likely to happen more often. A whopping 38.8% of patients reported statin-related muscle aches and pains.

Researchers Recommend Vitamin C, Not Statins

- Saturday, November 15, 2008
A brand new study out on vitamin C says that it is just as good at lowering CRP as a statin, at the dose of 1000 mg per day.

AHA to Launch Another Vitamin E Attack

- Monday, November 10, 2008
The script reads like a bad Hollywood movie: make vitamin E look bad so men will line up like robots for their statins. Producer: the American Heart Association (AHA). The actors are all worthless no-names on Big Pharma’s payroll. The story never ends; but the damage to health is very real.

Chlorella Lowers Blood Sugar & Cholesterol

- Tuesday, October 28, 2008
A new human study on chlorella shows that it is a powerful tool in helping your cholesterol and blood sugar metabolism. Participants consumed 8,000 mg of chlorella per day (in two doses/4,000 mg at a time). At the end of 12 weeks blood glucose and cholesterol had significantly improved in those participants that were on the verge of poor health.

Statins Drastically Impair Healthy Muscle

- Monday, September 29, 2008
Science about the extreme adverse side effects of the widely used statin drugs for lowering cholesterol continues to leak out. The latest findings show that statins, at commonly prescribed doses, significantly interfere with the healthy rejuvenation of muscles.

Statins Increase Delirium Rate After Surgery

- Tuesday, September 23, 2008
If you are 65 or older, taking a statin, and go in for an elective surgery of any type, you are 28% more likely to have delirium following the surgery.

Amount of Snoring Predicts Hardening of Arteries

- Sunday, September 07, 2008
Research published in the September 1 issues of the Journal Sleep shows that if you snore more than half the night you have a 64% chance of having measurable hardening of your carotid artery – a major cause of stroke.

Fish Oil Helps Heart Patients – Statins Don’t

- Tuesday, September 02, 2008
In yet another blow to the statin marketing machine, Crestor was found to be of no help at all in reducing mortality in heart failure patients, despite lowering lowering LDL cholesterol.

Olive Leaf Extract Lowers Blood Pressure & Cholesterol

- Friday, August 29, 2008
1000 mg of olive leaf extract per day was helpful in lowering mildly elevated blood pressure and reducing LDL cholesterol.

Bone Loss Linked to Hardening Arteries

- Wednesday, August 27, 2008
Postmenopausal women have another good reason to do everything they can to help maintain healthy bone density – the failure to do so is now linked to an increase in plaque in the carotid artery

15% of Population at High Risk for Statin Injury

- Tuesday, August 26, 2008
The New England Journal of Medicine reports on a detailed analysis of the human genome in those with statin-induced muscle damage. Scientists have uncovered an alteration in a gene that causes statin drugs to be more readily absorbed by the liver, thereby making the drug very toxic. 15% of our population has the risk-related gene variant.

More Insane Statin Pushing on Children

- Thursday, August 07, 2008
The American Heart Association (AHA) has gone mad, apparently suffering from overexposure to mercury-amalgam fillings. In their marketing magazine, Circulation, which masquerades as a scientific journal, they have now published research advocating an all out national war on childhood cholesterol – seeking to lower LDL cholesterol to 50 mg./dl.

Cholesterol is Not the Cause of Heart Disease

- Thursday, August 07, 2008
Several articles in recent months have called attention to the severity of the statin fraud….

Are Cargill’s Plant Sterols Dangerous?

- Wednesday, July 23, 2008
By now you have certainly seen the ads – take plant sterols and lower your cholesterol. These wild cholesterol-lowering claims, which the FDA is ignoring because Cargill is pushing them, are associated with various health risks. A new study shows they may be quite dangerous for your heart.

Vytorin Increases Cancer Risk by 64%

- Tuesday, July 22, 2008
Researchers were shocked to see that Vytorin increased the rate of cancer by 61%.

Silymarin Protects Against Cholesterol Forming Plaque

- Friday, July 11, 2008
Silymarin (milk thistle) is widely acknowledged as a nutrient powerhouse for protecting your liver and for helping your liver clear toxins. It also possesses antioxidant activity that was explored in detail in relationship to mechanisms that protect your arteries against plaque formation.

Insane Doctors Recommend Statins for Children

- Wednesday, July 09, 2008
The American Academy of Pediatrics has now lost all credibility – actively promoting the use of statin drugs for children as low as 8 years of age. This is beyond disgusting, it is a crime. The inept FDA is nowhere to be found as drug pushing of inappropriate medication is rapidly becoming as large a public health problem as street drugs.

Citrus Flavonoids Lower Cholesterol

- Tuesday, July 08, 2008
Previous studies have shown that citrus flavonoids lower cholesterol in humans. A new study seeks to understand exactly how this is done, and it shows that the citrus flavonoids work at the gene level to enhance the natural metabolism of cholesterol by the liver with consequent improvement in cellular metabolism of fat.

Don’t Forget Vitamin C for Your Arteries

- Saturday, June 28, 2008
Vitamin C has been around so long some people forget just what a great nutrient it is. A comprehensive analysis of the biochemistry of vitamin C as it relates to important cells lining your arteries concludes by saying that vitamin C plays a favorable role in ameliorating the earliest stages of inflammation that leads to atherosclerosis.

Milk Thistle is Cardio Protective

- Saturday, June 07, 2008
A new study shows that Milk Thistle reduces the oxidation of LDL cholesterol and helps prevent immune cells from sticking to damaged cholesterol – thus blocking key processes that lead directly to hardening of your arteries.

Vytorin Fraud Plot Thickens

- Sunday, April 13, 2008
Merck and Schering-Plough find themselves on a hot seat, likely to be held accountable for 10 billion dollars worth of fraud due to false marketing of their cholesterol-lowering drug Vytorin.

Low LDL Cholesterol Associated with Parkinson’s Risk

- Sunday, April 13, 2008 It is a rather sad commentary on American Heart Association’s and Big Pharma’s aggressive marketing of statin drugs that their abnormally low proposed levels of LDL cholesterol for heart health (<90) are the very same levels associated with a new study’s findings for a significantly increased risk for Parkinson’s disease.

Vytorin Fraud Blasted at Heart Meeting

- Tuesday, April 01, 2008 It is not often that Big Pharma-friendly doctors pile on to a drug that is in a tailspin. That was the picture last weekend at the big American College of Cardiology meetings. A physician panel as well as the New England Journal of Medicine blasted the cholesterol-lowering Vytorin – a move sure to relegate its use to mothballs.

Tocotrienols – A Multi-Dimensional Nutrient Powerhouse

- Friday, March 07, 2008 Tocotrienols should be a main part of any person’s dietary supplement program. Not only do they offer superior antioxidant protection, they work in numerous other ways to provide powerful health protection – especially to your brain and circulatory system.

Cholesterol Medication Causes Tendon Ruptures

- Monday, March 03, 2008 Painstaking analysis from a French medical database is the first to clearly link tendon injuries and tendon ruptures to the use of statins – a problem that is worse for middle aged men. How can anyone stay fit by injuring their tendons?

Boswellic Acid Reduces Hardening of Arteries

- Thursday, January 31, 2008 A new study has shown that boswellic acid, a natural herbal dietary supplement, dramatically reduced plaque formation in mice. In the experiment mice were injected with a toxin (LPS) that produces circulatory inflammation resulting in arteriosclerosis (hardening of arteries). Mice treated with boswellic acid were far more able to withstand the toxic exposure, showing half the size of lesions compared to untreated mice.

Vytoringate Builds Steam – Folic Acid Ignored

- Friday, January 25, 2008 The Wall Street Journal now calls it Vytoringate – one of the biggest drug frauds in history. Merck and Schering-Plough sat on bad drug trial results of their cholesterol drug and raked in close to 10 billion dollars selling snake oil…Meanwhile, nobody seems to be mentioning that folic acid has already been proven to do what Vytorin was supposed to be doing.

Low Levels of Vitamin E Linked to Declining Health of Seniors

- Wednesday, January 23, 2008 Over the past few years Vitamin E was fraudulently attacked by scumbag drug pushers. As a result seniors across the country were terrorized by their low-IQ physicians to stop taking vitamin E. Such advice, which continues to this day in many doctor’s offices around the country, is harming seniors and causing a decline in their health. This is a crime against elderly citizens of this country.

Vytorin Fraud Places all Statin Therapy in Question

- Tuesday, January 15, 2008 Excessively lowering cholesterol has been the mantra of Big Pharma gone wild. Congressional investigation into a fraudulent cover-up of Vytorin study results led Merck and Schering-Plough to reveal what everyone had been suspecting, the main ingredient in their 5-billion-a-year scam failed miserably to do anything useful.

Oat Fiber for Healthy Cholesterol Levels

- Tuesday, January 08, 2008 University of Kentucky researchers have reviewed the oatmeal science over the past 10 years and found the evidence of benefits to be stronger than when the FDA first approved claims for this food a decade ago. The research clearly shows that total “cholesterol levels are lowered through oat consumption…

Tocotrienols and Citrus Flavonoids Lower Cholesterol by 20-30%

- Tuesday, December 04, 2007 A new study shows the power of natural substances to help promote healthy levels of cholesterol. A combination of tocotrienols and citrus-derived polymethoxylated flavones were tested on men and women with high cholesterol (total greater than 230).

High Dose Vitamin E is Safe for the Heart

- Tuesday, November 20, 2007 A randomized, double-blind, placebo controlled study tested 1200 IU of vitamin E per day for two years in patients with coronary artery disease. The study is significant because various forces promoting drugs have fraudulently concocted anti-vitamin E studies in an effort to get older people to take more drugs and to not take vitamin E. Of course, the Big Pharma-sponsored media did not report the pro-vitamin E study.

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