FReepathon day 42.
Two percent a day keeps the 404 away.
Posted on 08/12/2014 9:21:41 AM PDT by Sean_Anthony
“MY SPIRIT IS BROKEN” Will the New Statin Guidelines Do More Harm Than Good?
Part 1: A $29-billion-dollar-a-year industry
When he was nearing the end of his career, Henry Gadsden, then-CEO of pharmaceutical giant Merck, gave an interview to Fortune magazine in which he said that he regretted that he couldn’t sell drugs to healthy people. He said his dream was to be able to peddle his company’s wares to everybody, like chewing gum giant Wrigley’s.
Mr. Gadsden’s dream soon began to come true. A few years earlier, Japanese biochemist Doctor Akira Endo surmised that a compound that could inhibit the production of cholesterol could be used to treat or prevent Cardiovascular Disease, CVD, then as now the number-one killer in the developed world. He also reasoned that since cholesterol was such an essential, life-sustaining substance, natural selection would favor microorganisms that could produce a poison to prevent its synthesis, enabling them to kill off competing microbes. He was right. The first statin, mevastatin, proved too toxic for human use, but senior officials at Merck got wind of Dr. Endo’s discovery, and the race was on.
(Excerpt) Read more at canadafreepress.com ...
Awfully fond of Canada Free Press, aren’t you?
http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/by:seananthony/index?tab=articles
Are you paid per article posted or via a percentage of the hits?
I was having chest pain and had an abnormal stress test. I bike 20 miles a day, eat little fat or carbs, and my cholesterol is off the charts due to heredity. They increased my simvastatin dose, my cholesterol dropped substantially and the symptoms went away. I have no side effects.
It’s a freakin’ miracle drug.
You might want to do a little more research on Statins. They can be harmful and there is no correlation between Cholesterol and Heart Disease. None.
Get off his back. CFP has some good articles.
CFP has more truthful articles than the USA main stream media- what’s your complaint ?
CFP isn’t the issue.
Posting only from that one source is suspect.
It doesn’t occur to you to wonder WHY?
Did you ever wonder why this guy NEVER makes a comment?
That seems perfectly normal to you?
“Did you ever wonder why this guy NEVER makes a comment?”
Perhaps he’s the strong silent type. Perhaps all he ever says is “Yup.” (I love the Canadian Free Press.)
Maybe because he’s Canadian?
I Ride bike like you and lift as well. I'm making progress without that crap.
If I had a store, and my competitor, Joe, sent a sandwich board advertiser into my store, and the sign read “Don’t shop here, shop at Joe’s!”, I’d think he was nuts, AS I was throwing his lackey out the door.
That’s how I view blog-pimping. They come into JimRob’s store, Free Republic, and they advertise for freepers to go over to another website instead.
Granted, some sites have their big, bad lawsuit, excerpted use only, and all that, but that doesn’t explain (1) not posting full articles when you can, and ESPECIALLY when you are connected to the website or article in some way, (2) not taking the time to intelligently select highlights of an article instead of posting a few opening lines, (3) posting a excerpt to an article that requires a sign-up once you get to the link, and (4) disappearing and not engaging the comments on your own thread that you’ve posted.
I think it’s disrespectful at best and theft at worst.
“Statins are a class of drugs often prescribed by doctors to help lower cholesterol levels in the blood. By lowering the levels, they help prevent heart attacks and stroke. Studies show that, in certain people, statins reduce the risk of heart attack, stroke, and even death from heart disease by about 25% to 35%. Studies also show that statins can reduce the chances of recurrent strokes or heart attacks by about 40%.”
http://www.webmd.com/cholesterol-management/side-effects-of-statin-drugs
Except when it isn’t. I just stopped taking my statin. I’d been feeling weak, my trainer had even noticed, a lot of muscle pain. Stopped the statin and within a couple of days the pain was gone and I had a lot more oomph both on the bike and in pushing weights. The eating your muscles thing can be a nasty side effect, and it might not start immediately, I was on it almost 2 years before things started getting odd.
And now I’m free to enjoy grapefruit juice again. We’ll see what the numbers are next checkup, but one way or the other no statins for me.
Consider yourself among the lucky ones, who take the statins.
The temporary side effects, those which go away when the statins are discontinued, have a very high % rate among statin users. Some of these are very severe and directly related to the intake of the statin drugs.
Then, there are long lasting and sometimes permanent side effects even after the statins are discontinued.
Your reduction of carb intake may be what is helping you.
However, you probably should continue to take them and do the other things you are doing as your program is working for you.
I checked his page a week or so ago and could not find one reply from him. He makes a post from this one web site and runs.
Statin drugs are dangerous to your health, and cholesterol is not you biggest problem. Statins can cause diabetes and some say cancer. The Chiropractor says they affect your bones.
You realize that mumblebumbler is a shill for the mainstream press, right?
Most of his posting consists of tirades against people who post articles from sources outside the legacy papers and broadcasters. He demands more stingent rules for the benighted peons outside the hallowed halls of the old guard.
If you take away the links to /excerpts from other sites, what/s left? Vanities? I remember when FR did post entire articles, and it ended up costing plenty, didn’t it?
As others have noted, the Canada Free Press is popular with FReepers. If this poster chooses to post some of its articles (from various authors), what’s the problem? Love the way folks are driven away by the blog and grammar police. I have yet to be forced to click to one thread, or to click to its link. Probably each of us bypasses more threads than we ever do read.
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