Permanent Side Effects from Statin Drugs

Retired NASA astronaut and USAF flight surgeon Duane Graveline, MD, MPH, writes:

"I was still in practice, over twenty years ago, when lovastatin, the first statin drug, became available for use by primary care physicians. We learned to expect liver inflammation and occasional muscle aches and pains. With the dosages used at that time and with a relatively small number of patients on the early statins, the side effect issue impressed me as being acceptable.

"This is no longer true. Today, with more potent drugs, millions of people taking them and at doses triple and quadruple those of the past, the side effect profile has radically changed. Now, cognitive damage, emotional and behavioral change, neuropathies and even neuro-degenerative damage are increasingly recognized as associated with statin drug use. But there is something even more perverse - the element of permanence of some of these consequences." (continue at [www.spacedoc.net])

That is interesting. I wasn't aware of the risk associated with statins crossing the blood brain barrier.

[www.medscape.com]

This has been known since Dr. Graveline went on his crusade a number of years ago and one of the reason why I am continually directing people to his website. I hope everyone spends some time there to become acquainted with his story. Jackie

This is one of the greatest scams today. There is no LDL or HDL they made this concept up fueled by money making greed. There is only one cholesterol and that's it. The so called LDL is the waste product after the cell metabolizes the cholesterol which becomes a waste product that the body in excreting. The LDL is the **** after the cell burns cholesterol to maintain life. Its not even an issue. These cholesterol drugs are a scam. They cause cataracts, destroy liver, kidneys and create more health problems. Half of the people who have heart attacks have low cholesterol. In older people cholesterol is a necessity. It re-enforces the thin areas of the artery walls. It also coats your artery walls and prevents small particles from scraping the artery walls which can cause them to bleed. Liver tests can only detect liver damage when the liver is damaged 80%. By that time you will need a liver transplant.

Medicines has a purpose to be taken for a short period of time to correct and cure a problem. The system has become so corrupt there is no longer a FDA. The pharmaceutical companies got there people in there years ago and took it over. Its basically a private entity funded by tax payers money. Look at all these transplants. The organs are damaged by the foods and then the medicines that suppose to correct the problems caused by the food also destroy them. Its become a perverted and corrupt system fueled by violent greed. Best way to avoid health problems eat healthy organic foods and drink clean water the way our grandparents did.

This is one of the greatest scams today. There is no LDL or HDL they made this concept up fueled by money making greed. There is only one cholesterol and that's it. The so called LDL is the waste product. After the cell metabolizes the cholesterol which becomes a waste product that the body in excreting. The LDL is the **** after the cell burns cholesterol to maintain life. Its not even an issue. These cholesterol drugs are a scam. They cause cataracts, destroy liver, kidneys and create more health problems. Half of the people who have heart attacks have low cholesterol. In older people cholesterol is a necessity. It re-enforces the thin areas of the artery walls. It also coats your artery walls and prevents small particles from scraping the artery walls which can cause them to bleed. Liver tests can only detect liver damage when the liver is damaged 80%. By that time you will need a liver transplant.

Medicines has a purpose to be taken for a short period of time to correct and cure a problem. The system has become so corrupt there is no longer a FDA. The pharmaceutical companies got there people in there years ago and took it over. Its basically a private entity funded by tax payers money. Look at all these transplants. The organs are damaged by the foods and then the medicines that suppose to correct the problems caused by the food also destroy them. Its become a perverted and corrupt system fueled by violent greed. Best way to avoid health problems eat healthy organic foods and drink clean water the way our grandparents did.