Back in about 2005 I was diagnosed with Type II Diabetes. Right off the bat the doctor prescribes medication for not only that, but he puts me on Blood Pressure medication as a Ace Inhibitor, to help my kidneys he says, and then cholesterol drugs.
At the time I was walking about three miles a day. As soon as I started taking the cholesterol medication I started having leg pain and trouble with my walking. So I quit the medications, told my doctor, long story short I tried all the different brands with the same side effect.
I started doing my own research and found out just how dangerous these drugs were and told my doctor. He was unimpressed and just told me the information I had given him to read was just someone with an agenda. I pointed out what agenda did he think the drug companies had.
I then ran across a book by a Danish doctor named Dr. Uffe Ravnskov, his book "The Cholesterol Myth, copyright 2000. In that book the doctor went through everything on how the cholesterol was not a culprit, and he had personally read and studied, to that time, every study on Statin Drugs and their protocols.
His conclusion was that no compelling case was made and also that most all of the studies trying to prove such a correlation were paid for one way or another by the Major Drug companies.
Statin Drugs have been, not only the biggest fraud perpetrated on a gullible public, but also one of the single most profitable scams ever done and legally at that. So now we have the main doctor who helped invent this drug and he won't even take it, what in Hell does that tell you??????
Now we have this new drug on the market that cost something like $14,000 a year plus, and the trick is to get the insurance companies to sign on and pay for it.
Karl is right they all should be in jail.
OPINION: the side effects of statins are not worth a 2% drop in risk!
I am one who usually attributes the following quote to PT Barnum but needless to say, this article reminds me of the much older adage of “A fool and his money are soon parted.”
http://www.answers.com/Q/Who_said_a_fool_and_his_money_are_soon_parted
JoMa
Tis why I avoid the Dr office as much as possible. I go once every 3-4 years at this point (mid 30s) and I take zero medication regularly and never have.
Dr Joel Wallach has been preaching for 20 years on this. Glad it is finally catching on. I told my Dr. to stick it.
What a retarded, childish title.
Maybe it would be more effective to use the proper title from the article.
My A1C continues to hover one point above their magical cuttoff for the last 10 years or so. If my back wasnt broke I wouldnt even see a doctor. And he knows that a discussion, and we both have to agree on me taking anything that requires a special note from the DEA for me to buy.
I can see and tell that all the nurses and admin staff pucker their assholes when ever I walk through the door.
Its clear that they do not like being told “NO” or asked honest questions that they take as rhetorical but I demand an upfront answer to.
Every visit includes questions by me to them on why the medical industry stays silent on he crap that our food industry get away with———and we get right down to the business of really why I am here (thank you very much.)
Just say NO to Pharma Drugs.