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"Magazine ads for lipitor leave you with the impression that if your cholesterol is even slightly elevated, taking the popular drug will save your life. But lipitor is only approved by the Food and Drug Administration to reduce the risk of heart attack if you have multiple risk factors for heart disease, and its benefits are based largely on its supposed ability to lower cholesterol, which may or may not have anything to do with preventing cardiovascular events and death." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.) "In fact, if you read the small print on television ads for lipitor a couple of years ago, you'd briefly see the following words flash on the screen in tiny letters: "Lipitor has not been shown to prevent heart disease or heart attacks." Another example: As of 2004, Fosamax (for osteoporosis) was the third most frequently prescribed drugs for seniors. As my friend John Abramson, M.D., professor of medicine at Harvard and author of the superb book, Overdosed America, writes, "One wonders how many of the women taking this drug actually benefit, since ..." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"LIPITOR?is not for everyone, including those with liver disease or possible liver problems, and women who are nursing, pregnant, or may become pregnant. lipitor?has not been shown to prevent heart disease or heart attack. If you take lipitor? tell your doctor about any unusual muscle pain or weakness. This could be a sign of serious side effects. It is important to tell your doctor about any medications you are currently taking to avoid possible serious drug interactions..." - Andreas Moritz, The Liver and Gallbladder Miracle Cleanse: An All-Natural, At-Home Flush to Purify and Rejuvenate Your Body (Get the book.)

"Health Plans and various others against Pfizer, the manufacturer of the industry-leading statin lipitor, which had worldwide sales of $10 billion in 2004. The suit alleges "violation of State unfair and deceptive trade practice laws... arising from the marketing of the brand-name drug Lipitor" for indications for which there is no scientific support. This will not be the first time that the plaintiff's bar has used the mechanism of a class-action suit to hold the pharmaceutical industry more accountable (Kesselheim and Avorn 2007)." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"In addressing lifestyle issues rather than actual diseases, Prozac vastly expanded its market base and paved the way for a succession of lifestyle-enhancing medications— Viagra, most notably; lipitor and other cholesterol medications; a series of other psychiatric drugs—which have overwhelmingly driven Big Pharma's profits over the last decade. It worked beyond anybody's expectations. Sales of Prozac hit $2 billion in 1998.4 In 2002, more than 11 percent of American women and 5 percent of American men were taking antidepressants, which amounts to about 25 million people." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"The beauty of taking niacin is that it's even complementary when used in conjunction with statin drugs, like lipitor. A study in the 2002 American Heart Journal showed that a relatively small amount of niacin added to a statin drug regimen led to significant improvements in HDL cholesterol. (Remember, statin drugs are usually good at reducing the "bad" LDL cholesterol but do not have a significant impact on raising the "good" HDL cholesterol." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The Most Effective Natural Cures on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth about What Treatments Work and Why (Get the book.)

"In the Prove It study, the people over the age of 65 derived no greater benefit from lipitor than from Pravachol, one of the earlier statins.) Lovastatin, however, did not make the top 50 list. Vioxx made the top 15 as well, despite a little-known fact buried in data from the manufacturer's own study: treating 100 patients over the age of 65 with Vioxx instead of naproxen will lead to 2.5 additional serious cardiovascular complications each year." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "The best-selling statins as of 2003 were lipitor, Pravachol, and Zocor. The newest entry into the U.S. statin market, Crestor, was approved by the FDA in August 2003. WHY DOES CHOLESTEROL GET SO MUCH ATTENTION? It is important to keep in mind that cholesterol is not a health risk in and of itself. In fact, cholesterol is vital to many of the body's essential functions. For example, cholesterol is the most common organic molecule in the brain (this could explain why statins have a small but statistically significant negative effect on cognitive function)." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "For example, Pfizer, the manufacturer of the best-selling cholesterol-lowering statin drug lipitor, sponsored a special meeting of leaders in the field of cardiology—doctors who could influence other doctors' prescribing patterns. The meeting was held in Sydney, Australia, and happened to coincide with the 2000 Olympic games. With tactics like this, it is hardly surprising that companies manage to gain the allegiance of influential doctors." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"LIPITOR?has not been shown to prevent heart disease or heart attack. If you take lipitor? tell your doctor about any unusual muscle pain or weakness. This could be a sign of serious side effects. It is important to tell your doctor about any medications you are currently taking to avoid possible serious drug interactions..." According to a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association, entitled "Cholesterol and Mortality," after age 50 there is no increased overall death rate associated with high cholesterol." - Andreas Moritz, The Liver and Gallbladder Miracle Cleanse: An All-Natural, At-Home Flush to Purify and Rejuvenate Your Body (Get the book.)

"The drug companies have become marketing machines, selling antidepressants like Paxil, pain pills like Celebrex, and heart medications like lipitor with the same methods that Coca-Cola uses to sell Sprite and Procter 8c Gamble uses to sell Tide. Selling prescription drugs—rather than discovering them—has become the pharmaceutical industry's obsession. Prescription drug marketing now permeates every corner of American society—from Sesame Street to nursing homes to the nightly news." - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"He went to his doctor, who checked his cholesterol and put him on lipitor. He developed muscle pain, and now he can't play tennis anymore." "That's called myalgia," I responded. "It's a possible side effect of statins. If he was a tennis pro he probably didn't have any risk factors for heart disease, like obesity, smoking, diabetes, or high blood pressure, right?" "Right. He's only forty years old and in perfect health." "And he went to the doctor because you nagged him because he hadn't had a checkup in years?" "Right." Poor woman." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"In the German study, fewer diabetic patients taking lipitor had heart attacks or died from heart disease, but more of them died from stroke than those who had taken sugar pills. Dr. Robinson argued that the researchers should have looked only at the heart disease data and ignored the slightly higher death rate from stroke. The German scientists were blunt in their reply to Dr. Robinson's suggestion that they selectively report their data so that Pfizer's product, also known as atorvastatin, looked beneficial. " - Melody Petersen, Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs (Get the book.)

"A plant in Barceloneta makes Zoloft and Viagra, and another in Vega Baja makes lipitor and Neurontin.)82 I loved the scientific poetry of some of the names of the drugs, and when I came across a really terrible new name, like a new antipsychotic called Abilify, I resolved that I could do better, and my next career should be as a namer of drugs. Some of the drugs cost $5 for a month's supply, and others $250. Most of my clients were taking three, four, five, six different types of drugs, typically at a cost of $200 to $300 a month. And my first experience with Millie was in many ways typical." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"A lawsuit is filed for off-label promotion of lipitor. Wilke, John R. and Hensley, Scott Pfizer Is Named in Lawsuit over Marketing of lipitor Wall Street Journal 3/28/2006 Statin study data is easy to manipulate and offer modest results in certain circumstances. 2. Jackson PR, Wallis EJ, Haq IU, Ramsay LE. Statins for primary prevention: at what coronary risk is safety assured? Br J Clin Pharmacol. 2001 Oct;52(4):439-46. 3. Friday KE. Aggressive lipid management for cardiovascular prevention: evidence from clinical trials. Exp Biol Med (Maywood). 2003 Jul;228(7):769-78. 4." - Byron J. Richards, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of America (Get the book.)

"Detorre, the president of the Institute (which came up with the names for lipitor, Clarinex, and Allegra), "the harder the tonality of the name the more efficacious the product in the mind of the physician and the end user."114 The cost of developing a trade name for a drug is an estimated $500,000 to $2.5 million.115 Names are registered even before the drug exists. There are "only so many Z's and X's to go around," Professor Trombetta notes." - Charles Barber, Comfortably Numb: How Psychiatry Is Medicating a Nation (Get the book.)

"I use them a lot in my practice in lieu of lipitor or other lipid-lowering medications and if women are having breast tenderness. Sitosterols, a type of phytosterol, are found in all plant foods, particularly wheat germ, soybeans, corn oil, peanuts, wheat bran, and rye. Other foods that contain high levels of sitosterol are avocados, grape leaves, olive oil, corn oil, lentils, and even baking chocolate. Nuts such as macadamia nuts, peanuts, hazelnuts, walnuts, pecans, and almonds are also good sources of phytosterols." - Phuli Cohan, The Natural Hormone Makeover: 10 Steps to Rejuvenate Your Health and Rediscover Your Inner Glow (Get the book.)

"The FDA issued four letters to Pfizer for violations related to unfounded lipitor claims including the assertion that lipitor could reduce heart disease and was safer than competitors' rival drugs. But, as a GAO investigation reported, "Many television DTC advertisements are on the air for only a short time—about one-fifth of them for one month, about one-third for two months or less."29 Yet, the FDA's warnings would take up to 78 days to issue—long after the ads may have stopped being shown anyway." - Dr. Timothy Scott, America Fooled: The Truth About Antidepressants, Antipsychotics and How We've Been Deceived (Get the book.)

"Whenever we prescribe less powerful statins, such as lipitor, we prescribe at least 100 mg daily of CoQIO. A positive study such as this one often inspires a rush to prescribe. But prescribing Crestor to a forty-year-old with high cholesterol is not smart medicine. It could, in fact, be deadly. It may be valuable for an older (sixty to eighty] patient who can't get another bypass and who has a totally unsatisfactory quality of life, and with the drug he or she can get some plaque regression, symptom improvement, and life extension. That's smarter medicine and where Crestor may be beneficial." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.) "Statins sell under a variety of brand names: Mevacor, lipitor, Prava-chol, Zocor, Lescol, and Crestor. Technically, they are HMG-CoA (3-hydroxy-3-methylglutaryl coenzyme A) reductase inhibitors, meaning they reduce the action of the principal enzyme in the liver that produces cholesterol. The targeted medical effect is to decrease LDL cholesterol. We use statins extensively but selectively in our practices. They have definite therapeutic value, but they also have definite downsides. They are too often inappropriately prescribed by physicians solely preoccupied with cholesterol." - Stephen Sinatra, M.D. and James C., M.D. Roberts, Reverse Heart Disease Now: Stop Deadly Cardiovascular Plaque Before It's Too Late (Get the book.)

"Michelle Petri, who is involved in a trial to treat lupus patients prophylactically with lipitor, a potent anticholesterol drug thought to lower the risk of heart attack, says that "the risk is fifty times greater of having a heart attack if you have lupus." The concern here extends beyond the autoimmune patients who may develop heart disease. It encompasses those with atherosclerosis who do not know that autoimmunity is involved in their disease and who may be unaware that they are more susceptible to other autoimmune diseases as well." - Donna Jackson Nakazawa, The Autoimmune Epidemic (Get the book.)

"There is at least one case study that suggests that lipitor can cause severe mental problems.110 Plavix is used to prevent stroke and plaque buildup on artery walls. It caused adverse side effects in 13% of the test group of which there were 11,300 patients. Hemorrhaging (internal bleeding) occurred in 2% of the cases." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"In September 2005 a class-action lawsuit was brought against Pfizer, alleging that the company engaged in a massive campaign to convince doctors and patients that its statin, lipitor, is beneficial treatment for nearly everyone with high cholesterol ?despite the lack of evidence in major segments of the population and the puny evidence discussed above in middle-aged men. Several organizations have tried to dampen the enthusiasm. For example, the American College of Physicians weighed in on the debate on cholesterol screening and treatment in 1996 with conservative guidelines." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.) "Lipitor" for indications for which there is no scientific support. This will not be the first time that the plaintiff's bar has used the mechanism of a class-action suit to hold the pharmaceutical industry more accountable (Kesselheim and Avorn 2007). We will discuss below the fates of cerivastatin (Baycol), another statin, and troglitazone (Rezulin), an oral hypoglycemic, both of which bit the dust when it came to light that the published studies minimized their risks. In chapter 9, I'll explore the canard that enveloped the coxibs Vioxx and Bextra." - Nortin M. Hadler MD, Worried Sick: A Prescription for Health in an Overtreated America (Get the book.)

"What concerns me is new research on the statin drugs (drugs designed to lower cholesterol, like lipitor and Zocor), which shows that they are mitochondrial poisons. Statins block the body's ability to produce its own coenzyme Q10.39 We know that statins cause muscle damage,40 but even in people without any symptoms41 or abnormal blood tests,42 muscle biopsy shows cell injury. How does this affect a susceptible population?" - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.) "After lipitor and Plavix (drugs for cholesterol and heart disease), an acid-blocking drug is the third top-selling drug in America's $252 billion drug market.36 In fact, three of the drugs to treat reflux-Nexium, Protonix, and Prevacid-are in the top twenty bestselling drugs and account for $12.1 billion in sales annually! The problem is that these medications have long-term side effects with significant implications for your brain (as well as your gut, immune system, bones, and more)." - Mark Hyman MD, The UltraMind Solution: Fix Your Broken Brain by Healing Your Body First (Get the book.)

"Since his serum cholesterol was 285, he was put on lipitor, a cholesterol-lowering drug. A friend who worked at the hospital said that since his liver was shot, he could die from taking this medication. Tim was so disturbed that his doctor hadn't even tested his liver before prescribing the drug that he became afraid of drug therapy. He looked everywhere for a naturopathic physician, but he had to ask around discreetly because the practice was not legal in Florida. Finally, a friend referred Tim to her teacher at a massage therapy school." - Susan E. Schenck, The Live Food Factor: The Comprehensive Guide to the Ultimate Diet for Body, Mind, Spirit & Planet (Get the book.)

"In 2002, more than 56 million prescriptions were written for Lipitor; as a group, statins were the third most prescribed drug. What can we conclude about their effectiveness? First, they do treat the sign. Blood cholesterol, particularly "bad (LDL) cholesterol" is reduced. One might therefore expect statins to be effective in the primary prevention of heart disease. Unfortunately and counterintuitively, treating the sign has little impact on dying from the disease. Statins are not effective in primary prevention." - Gerald E. Markle and Frances B. McCrea, What If Medicine Disappeared? (Get the book.)

"I recommend taking a statin that you can buy in generic form, like atorvastatin (generic lipitor), since it costs much less." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

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