Mickey Braw wrote:There are those who want to prescribe statins to everybody over 50yo.
This is big pharma at it´s evil worst.
Ab-So-Lutely, they are the biggest con perpetrated on the general public since I don't know when, I have been following this subject for some time now and I have noticed they keep shifting the goal posts (downwards) to pull more and more people into the net of hooking them for life.They now want to prescribe them to children. These drug companies invest a lot of money in developing these drugs and they give the doctors huge incentives(free meals, free holidays etc.) to push their products. The doctors will probably deny it but it's true.
If you think about it , why would the body produce something that is harmful to itself , cholesterol is a very necessary ingredient to the bodies wellbeing, it builds cell walls and is important in many other processes in the body, My doctor put me on them and I couldn't tolerate them, terrible muscle pains, I stopped taking them and the pain went. The thing is that the people on the governing body that decide the levels at which people should start taking them are directors of the drug manufacturing companies, (No conflict of interest there then).
They MAY be of some use to a person that has suffered a heart attack but not before. Every time I am given a new drug I go straight home and check it on the Internet. "Google" PHARMACOPEIA and look up what you have been prescribed . It has been known for doctors to misdiagnose so it's up to the individual to monitor their own wellbeing. It has now been admitted that it is inflammation that cause the problems, not HDL or LDL cholesterol.
I am sure this is a subject that will run and run because there is so much misinformation out there and people get very heated on the subject, so let the battle begin.
Posted: Tue Aug 23, 2016 10:27 pm