Crestor is one of the statin drugs designed to lower cholesterol. Cholesterol is not a disease. It was created as a disease when the drug companies found out that it was easy to test for cholesterol in the doctor’s office.
Let’s take a look at the scientific facts surrounding this issue:
High cholesterol as a risk factor for cardiovascular disease is a disproven theory. Many medical experts have refuted this hypothesis for years. Studies using cholesterol medications to lower the risk for heart disease are funded and sponsored by pharmaceutical companies. Both the editors of the New England Journal of Medicine & Journal of the American Medical Association have admitted that published papers in the two journals are often times fraught with conflicts of interest and that many studies that yield non beneficial drug effects go unreported. Many studies overstate the benefit of medication use by manipulating statistics and reporting relative risk reduction instead of actual risk reduction. For example, a recent study reported a 53% “relative” reduction in heart disease using Crestor, but the actual risk reduction was only 0.9%.
Multiple studies have shown that people with higher cholesterol live longer. High cholesterol has not been shown to be a risk factor for heart disease in women, diabetics, coronary heart disease patients, or the elderly As a matter of fact, several studies have shown that higher cholesterol levels in the elderly population is associated with greater longevity and a reduced risk of dying from cancer and infection.
Add the following facts to the above information: Low cholesterol has been linked to an increased risk of stroke, depression, aggressive and violent behavior, and suppression of immunity.
How can something responsible for so many critical functions be so bad?
1. Cholesterol is a precursor to all sex steroids (progesterone, testosterone, estrogen)
2. Cholesterol allows your body to make vitamin D (deficiency of vitamin D causes heart disease)
Studies show that higher cholesterol could slash your stroke risk by nearly 300%!
William Campbell Douglass, M.D.
Keeping cholesterol levels HIGHER can...
• Revive your sex drive...
• Lower your likelihood of cancer...
• Improve your brain function...
• And make you far less likely to die!
That’s because of one simple truth: Cholesterol is not your enemy!
1. HIGHER cholesterol makes you far less likely to die...
FACT: Lowering cholesterol can make heart disease worse. A review of medical studies on cholesterol and mortality in heart patients found that lower cholesterol levels led to death––not survival, like the drug companies want you to think.
FACT: Low cholesterol can trigger the deadliest kind of stroke. It’s called a massive stroke and it happens when blood vessels in your brain are so weak, they burst open. Any cholesterol count below 200 is a red flag for this kind of stroke.
FACT: Low cholesterol may raise your cancer risk. Yes, a new study actually links low LDL levels with an increased risk of developing cancer. And it’s not the first one. In fact, more than 20 studies have been done on cholesterol and cancer. And the overall majority linked cancer with low cholesterol!
How could all this be so? For the same reason that your body makes its own cholesterol. It’s a vital nutrient! Cholesterol is a necessary building block for your immune system and especially your brain cells. In fact...
2. HIGHER cholesterol may improve your memory, stave off depression and even protect you from Alzheimer’s...
Believe it or not, healthy brain cells are chock full of cholesterol. Yup, 25% of your body’s cholesterol is in your brain. It fuels the electrical impulses that make thinking possible. Plus, studies show...
FACT: Low cholesterol impairs brain function. It’s been linked to depression. And cholesterol-lowering drugs have been shown to trigger memory loss. (Drug companies want us to forget this — and we may – if we keep taking statin drugs!)
FACT: Low cholesterol is linked to Alzheimer’s. The eminent researcher Iwo J. Bohr recently published a peer-reviewed paper on the subject. He points out that Alzheimer’s patients typically have lower cholesterol and suggests that a great way to prevent the disease may be to eat a high cholesterol diet.
FACT: Low cholesterol is even linked to suicide ––and it’s not just because folks are fed up with celery and tofu! The real reason is probably that low cholesterol literally makes you crazy!
And now for some upbeat news...
3. HIGHER cholesterol could super-charge anyone’s sex life...
Why? Because cholesterol is the “raw material” for your sex hormones. Without it, you can’t manufacture testosterone, women can’t make estrogen––and none of us would have any more sex drive than an earthworm!
Now aren’t you ecstatic that your cholesterol is over 200?
If it isn’t, think of all the fun you’ll have getting it back up to healthy levels!
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Part of the endemic problem of healthcare in the US is subsidized pharmaceuticals, which are just transfer payments to big pharma designed to maximize the number of people on unnecessary prescriptions. If Obamacare "sticker shock" causes people to question why they are taking these drugs perhaps there will be some (inadvertent) health benefits after all.
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Is it safe to stop statins once you are on them? Or do you have to wean gradually off of them?
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