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Eric Weinstein was talking about how science has been a scam for decades, implying that string theory was all a sham to keep physicists from discovering deeper understanding of nuclear physics and such after nuclear secrets started leaking to the public in the 60’s and 70’s.
Edifying.
Thank you
The AK position was bought and paid for.
Americans have been far too naive for generations now.
I later found out that that she had been taking simvistatin for 13 months
prior to her passing from a massive cluster of heart attacks (Myocardial infarction).
So did the simvistatin delay the inevitable, or cause it?
I don’t know.
She was 82 when this transpired. She had no prior history of heart problems.
Thanks.
1. Is there a difference between the Cholesterol we ingest as opposed to that which the liver creates?
2. I learned in Physiology that hydrogenated cooking oil has free radicals that wreak havoc on our system, destroying cells. Eating high anti-oxidant foods help combat that.
I also remember reading that Americans generally had "high" cholesterol until it was decided that it was bad (Keys) and the benchmark for cholesterol levels was lowered.
Enter Big Pharma...
Much of what Americans eat is not food. Look around.
Hydrogenated vegetable oil? Palm oil? What’s that? It doesn’t come from the coconut. Canola oil? Marketing was smart on that. What’s a canola?
We’re watching Ken burns’ baseball. The kids around here marvel at the look of the people, the kids in and around the games. They are so healthy. They look different from us
Well people who are in good physical shape and healthy body weight need to stop that exercise and start sitting on their couch all day and load up on the donuts, etc. as exercising and maintaining a healthy body weight vastly lowers cholesterol levels and doing the latter vastly raises it.
Who knew laying on the couch on all day eating Krispy Kreme and getting yourself to 300+ lbs is the way to longer, healthier lives? The "fatphobic" movement was right all along! < / s >
Fascism through medicine.
At some point it’ll be worth it to roll the dice and cast aside insurance and go for cash only treatment.
Cost too much? Declare bankruptcy.
Many cardiologists still say that high LDL is always bad. That is not true. Studies have shown that high cholesterol levels are actually protective in older people.And low cholesterol caused by statin drugs is associated with brain hemorrhages, dementia, and a worse prognosis.
In addition, statin drugs are associated with a great number of side effects, many deadly. For instance, we see a tremendous increase in peripheral neuropathy among statin users, as well as a high risk of ALS, which is a fatal disease.
Statins also lower immunity substantially. With at least 80 million people now on statin drugs, we’re seeing a higher risk of infections, including COVID.
Even children are now being put on statins.
Yet there is no evidence that statins reduce strokes and heart attacks.
The real culprits are carbohydrates — especially high-fructose corn syrup.
Studies have shown that the only harmful fats are omega-6 fats (corn, peanut, safflower, sunflower, and canola oils) and trans fats (partially hydrogenated oils). Omega-6 fats increase inflammation and the risk of disease, especially cardiovascular and neurodegenerative diseases.
Good article, thanks for posting. I dropped statins because of overall joint pain and have improved since quitting. Please post the upcoming article on blood pressure management as I have a vested interest in that as well.
what are the 3-5 tests that do the best job of accessing cardio vascular risk?
As someone who has suffered from statin poisoning, I suggest they be used with caution. My symptoms began three years ago after using Atrovistatin for a couple of years. Stopped taking it around 6 months after symptons became apparent and increasingly debilitating (when I realized the likely cause when I came across comments on the web of statins causing muscle pain/degradation).
Took out my upper left arm, abdominal, and right thigh muscles, also caused back pain. Destryed my walking gait (it’s hard to re-learn to walk properly; there’s a lot of good related info on the web -e.g., Dr. Tood Martins YouTube series on walking), has taken me over a year to largely recover. Also near that time I developed a persistent left facial muscle spasm that affects my hearing to some extent, and might be related to a left eye cataract that is developing.
Again, use with caution!
Need a degree in biochemistry to understand this article.
When a single dubious medical claim isn’t sufficient, use the mass boilerplate method to make the kookery look more like it has substance.
Later.
I took statins for about 7 months, then read that somethings I was experiencing ( joint pains where I never had them before, ridiculous short term memory loss…) were side effects)
Stopped using them, 3 months ago……symptoms abated, not (yet) completely cleared