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/
No.
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.
Everybody in Big Pharma wants to own a mansion and a yacht.
These ‘folks’ can “kiss my grits”
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.
Maybe then the rest of us will think about using them.
Q: Who the heck has a name like ‘Kirsten Bibbins-Domingo’?
A: Somebody who invests heavily in statin-producing pharmaceutical companies.
I was 52 with a cholesterol of 190 when I had chest pains and was diagnosed with a 95% blockage of my left anterior descending coronary artery.
I’m on statins and my cholesterol is now under 150. I doubt it will make any difference in plaque buildup in my arteries, but I do as I’m told.
My doctor has me on statins. Why, I’ll never know. My total cholesterol is 87. The human body needs cholesterol to heal and make regulating compounds, like steroids for pain, vitamin D for bone and teeth development; even testosterone.
My cholesterol is so low that if I get a paper cut and don’t go off the meds, it will take 2 or 3 months to heal.
High cholesterol is an invented disease for a “problem” that emerged when health professionals learned how to measure cholesterol levels in the blood.
I think there’s more to this than mentioned.
Cholesterol has been downgraded as a cause of heart disease, in fact a couple of major studies have found it’s not relevant. The need for statins therefore has become questionable.
Now you’re seeing that statins are suddenly being pushed as a method to lower the risks from high blood pressure, lifestyle, etc. Suddenly it’s not cholesterol anymore, statins are cure all for all manner of things.
Very convenient that this study comes out when cholesterol is no longer seen as the threat it was. Drug companies are desperate to preserve sales (statins are a cash cow).
Imo, this is a money grab by the pharms so they can get on the gravy train similar that of the ED drug price fiasco. Besides which, the field testing is faulty. My reading tells me that the test groups are not representative of the main target population. (..not a doctor)