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"According to a 211 Statin drugs: statin drugs are a class of drugs used to lower cholesterol levels in people who are at risk with cardiovascular disease. recent article in Business Week, statin drugs are virtually useless for preventing cardiovascular disease. The number of patients needed to be treated to reduce one death in three years is over 100. This means that 99 people take a drug for several years and get absolutely no benefit." "One of our experts feels that only 3% of drugs are effective and 97% are ineffective. What is your opinion on useful drugs vs. non-useful drugs?" Dr." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (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.)

"A potentially very dangerous but rare side effect associated with high doses of potent statin drugs is muscle damage called rhabdomyolysis. If you take statin drugs and experience severe muscle pain or weakness, contact your physician immediately. Niacin is available as a supplement as well as in a prescription, sustained-release form. The prescription form is significantly more costly and not much better in terms of side-effect profile or tolerability. There are three forms of niacin available: nicotinic acid, nicotinamide, and inositol hexaniacinate." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"However, reviews on the relationships of the statin drugs with free radical generation and inflammation provide evidence that statin drugs have a strong protective effect over and above their more well-known cholesterol-lowering activity [110]. Some of these protective effects may, however, be due to increased expression of antioxidant enzymes such as catalases and a suppression of pro-oxidant enzyme systems which reduce the production of the free radicals superoxide and peroxynitrite [111, 112]." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (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.)

"We have embraced the convenience of statin drugs for reducing cholesterol, when the inclusion of foods with innate heart-protecting properties—such as fatty fish, oats, almonds, and beans—might be just as effective. And many of the shortcuts of modern medicine are not without their costs. In fact, Americans who visit physicians following adverse reactions to medications account for well over two million physician visits each year!" - David W. Grotto, RD, LDN, 101 Foods That Could Save Your Life! (Get the book.)

"That's because statin drugs deplete CoQl 0, and Crestor is the most potent statin. 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." - 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.)

"Nevertheless, the article concluded that treatment of low HDL cholesterol with statin drugs could significantly decrease the risk of stroke—ignoring its own findings that the overall effect on cholesterol would be associated with increased risk of stroke. I started to wonder why the article focused on cholesterol at all. The study found that other factors were just as significant as low HDL cholesterol in increasing the risk of stroke: untreated blood pressure, lack of exercise, cigarette smoking, heavy drinking, not graduating from high school, and being uninsured or on Medicaid." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "The ALLHAT study had been designed in the early 1990s in a way that fortuitously turned out to be a good test of the expanded use of statin drugs recommended in the 2001 guidelines. Starting in 1994, the ALLHAT study enrolled more than 10,000 patients at high risk of coronary heart disease—equal numbers of men and women age 55 and older whose risk factors for heart disease would have qualified about 90 percent of the men and 75 percent of the women for statin therapy according to the new guidelines." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.) "These interventions include preventing heart disease (with statin drugs), mitigating the complications of diabetes (with drugs to control blood sugar, statins to protect the heart, and ACE inhibitors to protect the kidneys), treating strokes after they occur (with an expensive new treatment that actually helps fewer than one out of 25 stroke victims), and relieving the pain of osteoarthritis (with expensive new arthritis drugs). There are also medical treatments for obesity itself: surgery (now even in children) and new medications in the pipeline that are sure to be instant blockbusters." - John Abramson, Overdosed America: The Broken Promise of American Medicine (P.S.) (Get the book.)

"Furthermore, a doctor is needed to tell us that we need statin drugs for an elevated cholesterol level, diuretic pills for high blood pressure, and an angioplasty to unclog our blocked arteries. The list goes on almost indefinitely. The masterminds of collective programming (those with the most vested interests in taking advantage of the ignorance of the masses) have succeeded in manipulating the food and medical industries for their own profit and control. Today, the masses no longer think for themselves and have lost trust in their innate and instinctive healing ability." - Andreas Moritz, Cancer Is Not A Disease - It's A Survival Mechanism (Get the book.)

"People with heart disease, hypertension, gingival disease, Parkinson's disease, and the other disorders we've discussed, as well as anyone on statin drugs, are known to be deficient in coenzyme Q10. Whether these deficiencies are the cause, or the effect, of these varied medical problems, the end result is that they sap the life out of their mitochondria and reduce their energy supplies. You see, coenzyme Qi0 cannot function properly if electrons are not coming out of the Krebs cycle, and the Krebs cycle won't work without the fuel that's transported into the mitochondria by L-carnitine." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"Risk has been reported to be lower among users of cholesterol-lowering statin drugs [42] and among women who have used postmenopausal estrogens [43] or have reproductive health histories that heighten exposure to endogenous estrogens [44]. Several aspects of diet could modify these risk factors or independently influence the risk of cataracts." - Ann M. Coulston and Carol J. Boushey, Nutrition in the Prevention and Treatment of Disease (Get the book.)

"The pharmaceutical industry likes to claim that statin drugs save lives. Indeed, large studies carried out in patients with known CVD have consistently shown a reduction in cardiac events and death rates with statin therapy as compared to placebo. We agree with these conclusions. However, the studies also consistently tell us that cholesterol lowering is associated with an increased death rate due to other causes, such as cancer, suicide, and motor vehicle accidents. Why this rise in disparate deaths? Researchers haven't given us the precise answers yet." - 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.)

"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.) Niacin did "0 C 73 m n c 73 m (/> not cause any major side effects, and only 20 percent of the patients experienced the typical "niacin flush," an annoying but completely harmless sensation of itching and burning of the skin that often accompanies high-dose niacin therapy. This study is noteworthy in that a comparatively small amount of niacin produced a beneficial effect when combined with a prescription cholesterol-lowering drug." - 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.)

"If you take statin drugs and experience severe muscle pain or weakness, contact your physician immediately. Niacin is available as a supplement as well as in a prescription, sustained-release form. The prescription form is significantly more costly and not much better in terms of side-effect profile or tolerability. There are three forms of niacin available: nicotinic acid, nicotinamide, and inositol hexaniacinate. Nicotinic acid can decrease triglycerides and raise HDL cholesterol, but this requires high doses (typically 1.5 to 3 g daily), which can cause flushing and liver toxicity." - Steven V. Joyal, What Your Doctor May Not Tell You About Diabetes: An Innovative Program to Prevent, Treat, and Beat This Controllable Disease (Get the book.)

"Used as adjuncts to the nutrition plan, these remarkable statin drugs help to do just that. And there is another benefit, as well—this one psychological. As you embark on this nutrition plan, you, yourself, are in control, as Joe Crowe and Abe Brickner learned. And the empowering effects of being able to see dramatic improvement quickly, over just a matter of weeks, are impossible to overstate. You have numerical proof, in the form of radically lower cholesterol levels, that you are conquering the disease that was destroying you. But remember: the drugs alone are not enough." - Caldwell B. Esselstyn, Jr., M.D., Prevent and Reverse Heart Disease (Get the book.)

"Clearly, as a practicing cardiologist 1 recognize the important benefits statin drugs have in lowering the risk of cardiovascular disease. And, although the use of statins in high-risk coronary patients, especially those with inflammatory markers, is good medicine, overuse of these potent pharmacologic agents in otherwise healthy people is likely not justified, given the known and unknown side effects of their long-term use. It is extremely important that physicians be aware of the potential for statins to adversely affect coenzyme Qio levels." - Stephen T. Sinatra, M.D., The Sinatra Solution Metabolic Cardiology (Get the book.)

"As with most of my patients, her various doctors had told her that her cholesterol of 128 was spectacularly low because of the statin drugs they were giving her, but they hadn't bothered to mention that her HDL was 33, which is dangerously low. Moreover, her extremely low level of the fluffy type of HDL, which helps clear bad cholesterol, was minute, putting her in the highest risk category for heart disease and stroke. There was no time to waste! Eight months after Lynn started Diet Evolution, she shed 52 pounds, breaking through her psychological barrier of 200 pounds." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"This is especially true in people with high blood pressure, people taking statin drugs, and in women with severe mitral valve prolapse. For these people, D-ribose supplementation increases the cardiac energy reserve and helps the heart restore normal diastolic cardiac function. We also know that the health of our mitochondria suffers as we age. As a result, even minor metabolic stress can have a dramatic effect on cellular energy stores in an aging population." - 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.)

"And I am afraid there are a lot of people who are getting more harm than good from Lipitor and other LDL cholesterol—lowering statin drugs like it. Remember when Tom Cruise had a meltdown and started jumping on Oprah's couch and when he shouted at Matt Lauer that he didn't know anything about psychiatric drugs? In the aftermath of those episodes, an anchorwoman from the television show Dateline asked me to provide a psychiatric perspective on Cruise's comments." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.) "For instance, in the May 10, 2004, edition of Newsweek, it was reported that heart disease is a "grave threat to women's health, but no one needs to take it lying down. statin drugs (Zocor, Lipitor, Pravachol and others) can slash a woman's heart-attack risk by more than a third—just as they do in men . . . should you be taking one of these medications?" The answer is probably not." - J. Douglas Bremner, Before You Take that Pill: Why the Drug Industry May Be Bad for Your Health (Get the book.)

"Many doctors haven't heard of what I call "bad cholesterol with an attitude," and even if he or she has, your doctor has been taught that neither statin drugs nor dietary changes have any effect on it and therefore they don't bother testing you for it. If your ancestors hail from northern Europe or the British Isles, there's a good chance you carry the gene. The harsh climate in northern Europe meant that the diet was often deficient in vitamin C, predisposing the population to scurvy." - Dr. Steven R. Gundry, Dr. Gundry's Diet Evolution: Turn Off the Genes That Are Killing You - And Your Waistline - And Drop the Weight for Good (Get the book.)

"Business Week, statin drugs are virtually useless for preventing cardiovascular disease. The number of patients needed to be treated to reduce one death in three years is over 100. This means that 99 people take a drug for several years and get absolutely no benefit." "One of our experts feels that only 3% of drugs are effective and 97% are ineffective. What is your opinion on useful drugs vs. non-useful drugs?" Dr. Whitaker: "It's hard for me to put a number on it, but I would say the percentage of effective drugs is very, very low. And I'm not the only one who feels this way." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.) "Other drugs, which are used to control the production of cholesterol, are the statin drugs. However, like Coumadin and aspirin, it has side effects too. And one that cannot be ignored is possible liver damage, which can develop without causing symptoms. The patient would never know that his liver was being damaged. Thus, when taking a Statin drug, the patient "should have their liver function tested periodically." - Kenneth W Thomas, Ron Gilbert, Gerd Schaller, Side Effects: The Hidden Agenda of the Pharmaceutical Drug Cartel (Get the book.)

"A recent study found that dietary intervention with plant sterols could reduce cholesterol levels by about 30 percent, or approximately the same extent as one of the statin drugs, levostatin.330 Most studies have found no effect of these sterols on triglyceride levels, but some individuals have shown effects in recent studies.331"333 Sterols do not seem to lower HDL levels. Sterols and stanols are often added to selected brands of margarines, semisolid food spreads, and salad dressings." - Tori Hudson, N.D., Women's Encyclopedia of Natural Medicine: Alternative Therapies and Integrative Medicine for Total Health and Wellness (Get the book.)

"In one study, which examined over 1,600 patients who had been hospitalized for heart disease, including heart attack, it was found that when statin use was discontinued, patients were nearly three times as likely to suffer from a recurrence of their heart problems as were patients who continued to use statin drugs. Such research clearly points out the potential benefits statin drugs can provide for people with heart disease." - Shari Lieberman, Alan Xenakis, Mineral Miracle: Stopping Cartilage Loss & Inflammation Naturally (Get the book.)

"Surprisingly, some studies champion statin drugs as novel anti-cancer agents. [Clin Cancer Res 7:2067-75, 2001] Over a five-year period, one study did not confirm any association between statin drugs and the risk of cancer. [American Journal Medicine 15;110: 716-23, 2001] But other disturbing studies do confirm a relationship between statin drug use and breast and prostate cancer. [Epidemiology 13: 262-67, 2002] More studies are underway. Electrical and magnetic fields Wherever electricity flows, electric and magnetic fields are present." - Bill Sardi, You Don't Have to be Afraid of Cancer Anymore (Get the book.)

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