I was just reading an Epoch Times article about how statins, that have become so prevalent, are the cause of many issues with covid. Statins suppress cholesterol, which the body needs to form Vitamin D. I wish I could post the entire article, but there’s a paywall. Here’s an excerpt:
In 2013, the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association recommended that everyone between the ages of 65 and 75 who were at elevated risk of cardiovascular disease (nearly everyone) be prescribed a statin drug. Then, by 2019, statins were a $10 billion market, and over 92 million people—35 percent of the U.S. population—mostly older adults, were taking statin drugs. This number was a threefold increase from the previous decade. By 2020, the United States ranked sixth in the world in per capita statin use.
So in 2019, the American public was about as saturated with statins as we had ever been.
The perhaps unintended result was that statin saturation rendered many seniors vulnerable to devastating outcomes from an infectious illness such as COVID-19. That cumulative vulnerability, which peaked in 2019, likely represented the lowest point of collective immune capability, and those extremes crested right before COVID-19 hit, as I will show in this article.
Statin drugs lower a person’s cholesterol, and cholesterol is not a luxury but rather a necessity for forming the vitamin D molecule—the conductor of the symphony, so to speak, of the human immune system.
Three organs are involved in your vitamin D production: first, the skin, then the liver, and finally, the kidneys. This is to take vitamin D to where it’s fully activated for its role as the executive director of all of a person’s immune function, as in the diagram below.
Vitamin D is the gateway nutrient to the proper functioning of the rest of the immune system, and was especially crucial in battling COVID-19, as I showed in over 130 study references to vitamin D’s role against COVID-19 and other infectious illnesses—in both treatment and prevention—in my 2021 book, “The Defeat of COVID.” Both those with higher blood lab values of vitamin D and those who supplemented vitamin D vanquished COVID-19 much more readily—with respect to lower hospitalization and lower deaths—than those who avoided vitamin D or who were deficient in it.
just take a pill. Obama.
Basically, just do opposite of what typical, conventional modern medicine advises and you’ll be healthier for it.
Because over the decades, I have noticed that everything conventional medicine sneers at that the natural health community advocates has come to be beneficial.
FINALLY, conventional medicine finds a *study* that demonstrates what natural medicine has stated all along and they act as if they made this amazing new discovery, and paint themselves as heroes after destroying the health of so many for so long.
FWIW, mr. mm’s grandmother died in her mid-90’s and we found paperwork of some of her health care, and a couple years before she passed, her cholesterol was 350+.
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