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“Statins Linked to Raised Risk of Type 2 Diabetes”

Keep ranting! I also think they’ve finally owned up to Statins and Cataracts.

And all one has to do is watch the videos on how the numbers were fudged for Statins. To paraphrase: The claim is something like “Statins reduce the risk of heart disease by 33%” - then you look at the study that ‘proves’ it, and you’ll see that for a large group of people 50 to 60 years old, that heart disease dropped from 1.2% to 0.8% over a 2-year period. In other words, from just over 1% to just under 1%. But Statin or not, your odds of NOT getting heart disease in that group, over those 2 years, was right about 99% either way.

...but then they had to include a statistically significant finding from that study. People in that study who developed diabetes went from something like 10% to 14% (I know these numbers aren’t right, but I’d have to watch the video again to get those numbers) - in other words, to achieve a 0.4% reduction in possible heart disease, one had to increase their risk of diabetes by 4.0%. So for each person who did not get heart disease, 10 people developed diabetes, due to Statins...so there’s certainly some risk with going on Statins. Nice to see it starting to get disclosed.

Agree.

One of our research team members says he is waiting for the day to see the first of the bad drugs lawsuits. He calls it the mother of bad drugs.

Pantethine was the front line metabolite for lipid disorders prior to the statins "takeover" of research. Pantethine (two pantetheine with a disulfide bond) is a very, very, very safe human metabolite (pantetheine) with multiple functions.

These inclulde raising HDL, lowering triglycerides, normalizing platelet function, reducing small particle LDL, potentiating reactive oxygen species (ROS) scavengers as well as numerous other benefits to metabolic processes.

There are hundreds of papers. There is also no money to made. High dose pantethine treatment (450mg-TID) is less than $0.75 a day.

Note. Pantethine is not B5. Pantethine is converted mostly in the lumina of the intestine by Vanin proteins (pantetheine hydrolase) to B5 and cysteamine.

I am 81, my cholesterol has been hovering between 220 and 245 for years, but my hdl is high. I just took a Web MD test and they say my risk for heart attack is low. My doctor wanted me to take Lasix, but I told him my parents died at 90 and each had a risk factor that I don’t have, and my paternal grandfather died at 98, and several of his sibliings, 93, 96, and 103. So the doctor stopped bugging me about it. Since there is diabetes 2 and cataracts in the family. Why take the risk? Also, I became aware of cataract formation a few years ago, but I am taking additional supplements targeting cataracts and my vision is improving so I think I have avoided surgery for who knows how long.