Lipitor is poison.......While Lipitor has been proven to significantly reduce the potentially life-threatening risk for cardiovascular disease faced by some patients, the statin class of medications has been associated with multiple serious side effects, including:

An increased risk of type 2 diabetes
Muscle Disease
Liver Complications
Kidney Complications


The Art of Turning Healthy People Into Patients
heart-attack-from-heart-medicationChoosing sexy-time with a Carny inside of a smoky, beat-up RV as an alternative to taking Lipitor might seem a bit extreme to some. But, the system is designed to make people think like thisThe uninformed are easy to fool. Think about it.

When was the last time you were taught anything substantial about medicine? Never. Instead, youre bombarded with commercials urging you to ask your doctor if this drug is right for you?

This lack of education helps the industry swindle your uninformed ass into taking drugs. If you can look beyond the Kardashians for a few minutes, youll see this corporate business model in plain sight. It makes you fear an unknown or misunderstood enemy, and offers a false solution.

According to the American Heart Association (AHA), over 105 million Americans have total cholesterol levels of 200 mg/dL or higher. To the pharmaceutical industry, this equates to 105 million potential customers. In order to turn these millions of people into patients, America has been told this cholesterol level is bad for them so the lower the better.

But in reality, rising cholesterol levels are simply an observation of biology, which is no different than observing how many heart attack patients owned a refrigerator.

In other words, Its a fact of life, not a sign of illness.

I Used to Think People Were Stupid
With dollar signs in their eyes, drug companies have launched a massive fear campaign about cholesterol. Being led by the pharmaceutically-compliant National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP), the campaign convinced the entire world that LDL- cholesterol is bad and that total cholesterol levels should remain below 200 mg/dL in order to prevent heart disease. (Of the nine nerdy members of the NCEP, eight had financial ties to cholesterol lowering drug makers like Pfizer, Merck, Bristol-Myers Squibb, and AstraZeneca. This fact was concealed when the NCEP made its recommendations public.)

The professional alarmists of the NCEP successfully created a cholesterol problem in the minds of millions while providing a false solution: the cholesterol-lowering drugs. It worked too, cause nobody knew what the hell cholesterol was prior to the scary advertising disguised as educationAnd nobody was sick from it

sources..........everywhere.....


peace
BT

I, for one, am informed through my own extensive research about conventional medicines and I agree. When there is a health problem that needs to be addressed doctors slap a bandaid on and cover up the symptoms which does nothing but exactly that, covering up symptoms. What they should be doing is finding where the problem has stemmed from and try fixing that for a change but then they won't get their kickbacks from pharmaceutical companies. Since I could care less about the Kardashian's and everything else on tv, I have done enough research thus far to know that studies have shown vitamin B 12 deficiency can affect dopamine production. There have also been studies with Lipitor and vitamin B 12 deficiency. I am curious if there are a number of people that have been diagnosed with Parkinson's while taking Lipitor.

Dr. Xuemei Huang has several papers published relating low cholesterol levels to onset of Parkinson's. The latest which received almost NO coverage in the US: http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/mds.26152/abstract
Read Spacedoc, a blog written by an MD who developed a neurodegenerative disease due to statins. Best of luck

em...now thats some interesting stuff!!! very nice info! eml.

Lauri...i have a full library compiled on PD and related stuff id be happy to share but need you to be specific as to your questions.......

welcome to allopathic medicine where docs dont know what healthy looks like just illness.

peace BT

LauriB, Well, you got me thinking. Thanks for that. I have been taking 80 mg of atorvastatin (Lipitor) ever since I was Dx'd w/ hypercholesteremia many years ago. 18 mos ago, following two silent heart attacks, the dose was bumped to 80 mg/day. I also have PD, that having been Dx'd 4 yrs ago. For that, I now take Azilect, Sinemet, and Carbodopa. You don't want to know about the rest.

You posting (and that of BrerT) caused me to look at what I might be doing to myself. So I Googled

LauriB, Sorry, the important part of my post was somehow deleted.

I Googled the terms

LauriB,

Don't you just LOVE technology? The last paragraphs got clipped off again. I'll try just this last time. Look at the conflict between these two recent 'scientific' studies:

http://www.ajmc.com/journals/issue/2013/2013-1-vol19-n8/long-term-statin-use-and-the-risk-of-parkinsons-disease

http://www.parkinsons.org.uk/news/9-march-2015/new-insights-link-between-statins-and-parkinsons

Choose your poisons carefully.

Beekeeper

Beekeeper, Technology at its finest...my computer doesn't do what I tell it to do either :) Thank you for the links and for your response. After my father was diagnosed I started doing research and stumbled across similar articles. I was very curious how many other people were on Lipitor or a similar drug prior to diagnoses. After receiving help and advice from a new friend I am hopeful that he will come off of his medication and control his cholesterol with his diet. It's crazy that the very thing that is supposed to "help" you, causes more damage than good. Medication has always scared me which is why a few years ago I started doing research on more natural alternatives. My children and I rarely take anything other than supplements and natural "medicine" and home remedies and I have to say, it works MUCH better. There is the rare occasion when I have to call the dr but thankfully it's not often. I hope you may be able to find the answers you are looking for!

Hello Beeman! conflicting data stinks doesnt it? note the paper you linked to that had mixed results was 2013 and the link with more definitive results was 2015. that should help....you can see a progression in scientific results, from statins are good (when they first got on the market), to statins maybe arent good, to statins might be killing you (most recent)...typical big pharma! throw the pill onto the market based on in house studies, wait and seee how many get killed or maimed by the pill, determine if the lawsuits are worth it or not, then DC the med if the lawsuits exceed the profit margin.........capitalism run amok! wouldnt it be cool if we were back in the day when the FDA looked out for us better?

watch out for rat turds in your peanut butter! hahahaa


have a peaceful day

BT