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Tag Archives: cholesterol
STATIN DRUGS – KNOW THE DANGERS
If you use any drug with the word statin in it then you need to read this material and make up your own mind. The question should be “are they effective in reducing heart disease”?
In very simple terms the pharmaceutical companies produced statin type drugs to respond to the belief that you can reduce the incidence of heart attacks by reducing the level of cholesterol in the blood.
The basis for the belief and use of statins comes from the call to adopt low fat/low cholesterol diets of the late 1980s and 1990s.
Maybe, just maybe, its not a sound decision. Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 1990s, Belief That, cholesterol, Heart Attacks, heart disease, Low Cholesterol Diets, Low Fat Low Cholesterol, Low Fat Low Cholesterol Diets, Pharmaceutical Companies, pharmaceutical drugs, Reducing Cholesterol, Sound Decision, Statin Drugs, Statins
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The Great Cholesterol Con Trick – Again
For those of you that follow my ravings you’ll recognise the theme of this post. Cholesterol is vital for the body to function correctly and we are falsely pushing it down because someone somewhere long ago thought it was a … Continue reading
Posted in Family, Food and Drink, Health and Fitness, cholesterol, homones
Tagged cholesterol, Cholesterol Drugs, Cholesterol Levels, drugs, Kendrick, Statin Drugs, Statins
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C Reactive Protein
One of the best indicators of Ageing is level of inflammation in your systems. C-reactive protein (CRP)was originally discovered by Tillett and Francis in 1930 as a substance in the serum of patients with acute inflammation. As inflammation increases so does the level of CRP – it is this CRP that is reduced with both Steroids and Statins (those drugs that reduce Cholesterol) Continue reading
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Tagged Acute Inflammation, ageing, C Reactive Protein, cholesterol, Crp, drugs, Inflammation Increases, Serum, Steroids, Tillett
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Confused about cholesterol
Cholesterol is a bit like Cinderella - she came in for some unwarranted attention from the ugly sisters and the same can be said of Cholesterol except in the case the ugly sisters were the pharmaceutical lobby and governments. Heart … Continue reading
Heart Failure and CoQ10
For almost 10 years I’ve been concerned about the effects of Statin drugs (simvastatin etc) because I sensed that something wasn’t right in the medical approach. The evidence that was being put forward by the government and the pharmaceutical companies … Continue reading
Posted in CoQ10, Diseases, Conditions and Treatments, homones
Tagged cholesterol, Coenzyme Q10, CoQ10, HDL, LDL, Statins
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Cholesterol – how they have tricked us
In the early 1900s, experiments were conducted where rabbits were fed very large amounts of (synthetic – and easily oxidised) dietary cholesterol every day Their blood cholesterol rose from a normal of 100mg to 20 times that level. In a … Continue reading
Posted in Diseases, Conditions and Treatments, Food and Drink, homones
Tagged artheriosclerosis, cholesterol, fact, HDL, heart disease, LDL
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dangers of statin drugs
If you use any drug with the word statin in it then you need to read this material and make up your own mind. The question should be “are they effective in reducing heart disease”?
In very simple terms the pharmaceutical companies produced statin type drugs to respond to the belief that you can reduce the incidence of heart attacks by reducing the level of cholesterol in the blood.
The basis for the belief and use of statins comes from the call to adopt low fat/low cholesterol diets of the late 1980s and 1990s.
Maybe, just maybe, its not a sound decision. Continue reading
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Tagged 1980s, 1990s, Belief That, cholesterol, Dangers Of Statin Drugs, Heart Attacks, heart disease, Low Cholesterol Diets, Low Fat Low Cholesterol, Low Fat Low Cholesterol Diets, Pharmaceutical Companies, pharmaceutical drugs, Reducing Cholesterol, Sound Decision, Statins
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Cholesterol Theory – Fatally Cracked
As many of you may know I have a particular interest in the Cholesterol Theory of heart disease and this article came across my desk today and i thought it so important that i just had to post it. The … Continue reading
Posted in Omega 3, cholesterol, diet, drugs, food, heart, medicine, pharmaceutical drugs
Tagged cholesterol, heart disease, Statins
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Statins For Children
I saw this report in Natural Nwes today and was frankly appalled but not surprised.
Cholesterol – lowering with drugs is ineffective
Hey – seems as if my drift on Cholesterol is right on cue. To hear that drug companies in the advertisements are now saying that with small print like this “In a large clinical study, 3 percent of patients taking … Continue reading
Posted in cholesterol, drugs, health, heart
Tagged cholesterol, liptor, serum lipids, Statin
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