Today's medical lie

Today I want to rant. I mean really rant and all because of the news.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=96805507
Which says: Statins May Help Already Low Cholesterol Levels

A large research study released Sunday at the American Heart Association meeting in New Orleans is rocking the cardiology world. It suggests that even people with normal or low cholesterol levels can benefit from a cholesterol-lowering drug known as a statin.

In other words not just people who are told that they have high levels of cholesterol, but ordinary people should take them too to reduce potential risk.

I am hereby stating that this is the biggest medical lie of these last two decades. Cholesterol does NOT kill you!
The only amazing thing about statins are that the drug manufacturing business is making more money on this product and I'm not adverse to any company making profit, but I do mind when they do it wrongly.
Hey Jazz are you a chemist or a doctor?
No I'm not, but I know people who are. I'm not mentally deficient and I had a decent education, but not in this field. This does not prevent me from trying to basically explain the great con.
I do say it's a great con because there are people who know exactly what it is and still sell you a myth in order to give themselves profit. This is not a case of the harmless placebo effect either because statins are potentially dangerous.

How confused are we?
As confused as they tried to make us!
We are told omega 3 is good, then it isn't, coffee is good, then it isn't, green tea is good and then it isn't and its really confusing to us but good for you because you get to write a book about it and get a research grant.
The heart-diet hypothesis clearly reports that if you eat too much food containing cholesterol and or saturated fats the level of cholesterol in your blood will rise. Over time this thickens and is deposited on artery walls which can lead to blockages of the artery which leads to a heart attack.
This dear reader is wrong. It is wronger than the wrongest thing on the wrong day of the wrong year. Yet like todays version of an old wives tale many people believe it. So many believe that high cholesterol levels were the biggest factor for heart attacks and then they all started to look for a wonder drug to lower it. In the early years of the 60's and the 70's some new drugs designed to do just that actually killed more people than they saved, but hey we have to start somewhere, right?
Along come statins.

There is a small valley in Northern China where a curios little plant clings desperately to life. It is red yeast rice and is stays alive by making a poison so animals don't come along and eat it. It was from this poison that lovastatin was produced which blocked the enzyme responsible for cholesterol synthesis in the liver. Ergo in less than fatal does it should lower the levels of cholesterol in blood and hey, they have a great way to make money say the patent holders, Merck and every other rival company cried because they missed a trick but oh how they wanted their own versions of this wonder poison drug. Since then many other statins have been developed by the rival companies to their smiling all the way to the bank, faces.

Fact: Atorvastatin is the world's biggest selling drug today.
But it has its rivals and for the ruthlessness in the business side - see this article. http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/feedarticle/8008324

Many doctors didn't believe it at first, but these companies made so many 'clinical trials' in an attempt to gain sympathetic understandings and increase belief and it's worked!
So how do these companies continue to sell us this crap?
They send us to do a blood test and we become frightened by the result that you have ... drum roll please... a dangerously high blood cholesterol level. There are wrong things that doctors have been taught over the years but the same as you and I, the medical hierarchy is reluctant to admit any mistakes ever.

Here are the true facts and they are important that you accept them so not to be frightened by this medical myth that is fulled by greed.

1a. A high fat diet, saturated or not has no impact on your blood cholesterol level.
1b. There is no such thing as a blood cholesterol level!
2. High cholesterol levels don't even cause heart attacks
3. Statins do NOT protect against heart disease by lowering levels of cholesterol
4. Statins have more side effects than any protection they may offer (deaths and deformed babies)
5. Experts who promote statins are paid lots of money to read us the company definition and not the real truth.

Cholesterol is not some deadly toxin that we have to try to avoid or lower levels to a healthy tolerance. Without cholesterol we would die.
Question: Why is an egg yolk so full of cholesterol?
Answer: Because it takes a hell of a lot of the stuff to make a chicken.
Cholesterol is manufactured by your liver and in 24 hours it can create the same amount in your body as if you ate six to eight egg yolks. If today I ate six egg yolks then my liver would shut down production of it for 24 hours because I have ingested enough and so it need not manufacture the stuff. Cholesterol is the stuff that makes your cell membranes maintain their wall structure & integrity and its not just the liver that can make this essential chemical, its nearly every cell except nerve cells that can make it.
There is even a disease, called the Smith-Lemli-Opitz syndrome in which sufferers have dangerously low levels of cholesterol, and the danger of that poor brain synapse construction. Vitamin D is made from cholesterol by sunlight on skin stops. Cells disintegrate. Sex hormones are not made. Bile is not produced (no digestion)
Cholesterol is necessary for life.

There is no such thing as a good cholesterol level or a bad cholesterol level or a total cholesterol level or even a ration of good and bad.
Cholesterol does not dissolve in water and therefore will not dissolve in blood and so it's carried around in blood by cells called lipo-proteins. Another substance that won't dissolve in blood is fat and so they are also carried by lipo-proteins and that is the ONE AND ONLY connection between fats and cholesterol.
So what happened to cholesterol blood level?
It cannot exist - perhaps they mean lipo-protein level and the problem with that is there are several different kinds of these and some are not even called by that name.

So already you know that if you eat less cholesterol, your liver produces more just to maintain your levels.
and you know there is no cholesterol in your blood. Forget and dismiss headlines that say "High dietary cholesterol leads too .... Low levels healthy..... It's all a big lie making drug companines rich on a modern myth.

What the hell do you know Jazz? There are experts out there that say statins are good and I have to lower my cholesterol. It's a healthy option.


I say type "The truth about Cholesterol" into any search engine and get a different opinion.
If you want to lessen your risk of heart disease -do the following.
1. Don't smoke
2 Eat fruit and vegetables (look at our teeth, we are not natural carnivores)
3 Exercise
4 A moderate alcohol intake
5 Avoid stress where you can, stress is not something we cope with easily despite company papers saying meet it as a challenge. Yes we have to find ways to cope with it but you need to find the differences between physical / psychological stressors that create 'healthy' and 'unhealthy' stress responses.



I posted this because I told Hitomi not to attend a clinic for measuring her cholesterol level and a chat with several friends in the know.
I would like to thank Doctor Kendrick for much of my knowledge on this topic.