Posted on 11/15/2016 11:54:51 AM PST by nickcarraway
Everyone must be medicated!
Next they’ll put it in the water, like fluoride...
[ People with no signs, symptoms, or history of cardiovascular disease can still be at risk for having a heart attack or stroke, said Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo, who chairs the task force. ]
Hey and all these “deplorable” people out there may be at risk for developing “Opposition Defiance Disorder” so we should dose everyone up on Psychotropic drugs...
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Yeah, that’s the ticket...
Sounds kind of nutty to me. Maybe changing your lifestyle might be more beneficial. ‘Course, I ain’t no docter...
This is ridiculous. Statins are about the worst thing you can take.
Dangers of Statins: Why Your Body Needs Cholesterol
https://draxe.com/dangers-of-statins-why-your-body-needs-
Do You Take Any of These 11 Dangerous Statins or Cholesterol Drugs?
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/07/20/the-truth-about-statin-drugs-revealed.aspxcholesterol/
agreed, statins are a scam....
As long as they don’t put in imported beer, I’m safe
Statins are the same as Global Warming.
The first studies were deliberately flawed.
Points that didn’t agree with the desired results were eliminated.
I am convinced that if I had stayed on Statins, I would be dead by now. Or at minimum, I would be wishing I was dead.
No.
Not me.
Oh, frig off. People are not supposed to all live to be 120 years old anyway. That’s one reason our country is going to go broke, because we are using technology to extend lives without bothering to wonder who will support those lives that can no longer support themselves.
[Statins are the same as Global Warming.]
It’s all about the $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$.
Everybody in Big Pharma wants to own a mansion and a yacht.
These ‘folks’ can “kiss my grits”
I'm over 60 and I've never taken a flu shot. If a cardiologist were to prescribe statins to me I'd kick him in the nuts (figuratively speaking, of course; I already fired a cardiology clinic for telling me to get a pacemaker). I simply do not buy into the cholesterol theory of cardio-vascular disease.
Another drug like this, they may become more widely used in a preventative mode: Metformin.
Right now it is used primarily to manage blood sugar spikes in diabetics. However, as a side effect it interferes with the uptake of sugar in cancer tumors. Most cancers need sugar to grow.
Diabetics, on Metformin, get cancer less often than other cohorts.
Dr tried different ones on me.
All of them made me feel like someone had beaten my lower back with a souvenir baseball bat.
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