Ok. I’ll admit it. I am completely stumped as to why drugs to lower cholesterol are among the most successful drugs that drug companies manufacture. The evidence for their effectiveness pretty much sucks. Out of 100 people who are prescribed statins over the course of 5 years, only a single person will actually benefit. Not […]
ARE THE DATA FROM ASTRAZENICA, CRESTOR JUPITER TRIAL ON STATINS LOOKING FISHY? Wow. I really think if most of the American public knew the real story of what goes behind some of these trials we’d all be sickened. In it’s essence, the Jupiter trial looked at the prevention of heart disease in patients who had […]
IS THIS THE BEGINNING OF THE END OF STATINS (LIPITOR, CRESTOR, ZOCOR, VYTORIN, etc…)? It should come as no surprise to regular readers of my posts that the research just does not support the use of statins to prevent a first heart attack. The data is very, very weak. Which would be fine if it […]
It is now clear that cholesterol lowering drugs cause diabetes. But the proponents have clearly stated that the risk was in those already at risk. Ironically, pretty much everyone with cholesterol issues is, to some degree, already on his or her way to developing diabetes. Giving a drug that is now proven to push patients […]
Despite all the less-than-stellar research on cholesterol lowering drugs, the powers-that-be want us to take even more of it. The latest “cholesterol guidelines” released late in 2013 have drastically increased the number of patients who would potentially be given a statin. They have finally dropped the fallacy that total cholesterol has any value (you know–total […]
