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Statins – More Trouble Unearthed

First comprehensive paper on statins’ adverse effects released Provides evidence for reported side effects including muscle and cognitive problems A paper co-authored by Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD, associate professor of medicine at the University of California, San Diego School of … Continue reading

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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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Co Enzyme Q10 – CoQ10 and Heart Health

With the promotion and adoption of statin type drugs that suppress Cholesterol levels in the blood stream it’s also worth knowing that these same drugs can also suppress the body’s natural ability to make CoQ10 – if you choose to … Continue reading

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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

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