Comments on: The Truth About Statins

BusinessWeek And CBS News Examine Whether Statins Are Over-Prescribed

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The Statin Scam Marches On
By Byron J. Richards, CCN
http://www.newswithviews.com/Richards/byron44.htm

"Considering that tens of millions of Americans now take statins to lower cholesterol, the following headline was conspicuously absent from the major media this month: "Statins Found to Turn On Gene that Causes Muscle Damage." It''s now a fact of science; a new study shows that taking statins destroys your muscle to a greater or lesser degree. And let''s not forget that the heart is a muscle."

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Dangers of Statin Drugs: What You Haven''t Been Told About Popular Cholesterol-Lowering Medicines
Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig, PhD

http://www.westonaprice.org/moderndiseases/statin.html

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Gene responsible for statin-induced muscle pain identified
The Harvard University Gazette

http://www.news.harvard.edu/gazette/2007/11.29/11-statinpain.html

"Statins, the popular class of drugs used to lower cholesterol, are among the most commonly prescribed medications in developed countries. But for some patients, accompanying side effects of muscle weakness and pain become chronic problems and, in rare cases, can escalate to debilitating and even
life-threatening damage."

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Statin Drugs - A Critical Review of the Risk/Benefit Clinical Research
Joel M. Kauffman, Ph.D. Professor of Chemistry Emeritus

http://www.laleva.org/eng/2004/04/statin_drugs_a_critical_review_of_the_riskbenefit_clinical_research.html

"Besides cancer, the other side effects of statins listed were incomplete, and should have included constipation, myalgia, myopathy, polyneuropathy, liver and kidney damage, congestive heart failure and amnesia. Side-effects are usually said to affect 2-6% of patients. In fact, a recent meta-analysis noted side-effects in 20% of patients above the placebo rate (65% vs. 45%), and no change whatever in the all-cause death rate for atorvastatin. The PROSPER trial on pravastatin showed no change in the all-cause death rate, and increased cancer and stroke rates. Statins are commonly used at a dose to lower TC to 160 mg/dL, a level noted in the report of a NHLBI
conference to be associated with higher cancer rates.... Statins decrease the body''s production of the essential coenzyme Q-10 and dolichol, among other
things. Low Q-10 levels are strongly associated with congestive heart failure."

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CoQ10 helps relieve statin induced muscle pain

http://www.healthsentinel.com/org_news.php?event=org_news_print_list_item&id=124

"Merck Pharmaceuticals has been sitting on a patent for combining Lovastatin and CoQ10 in the same capsule for 15 years, and I can''t understand why they don''t launch this product. I hope that as more studies show that higher dose statins, used over extended periods, are associated with greater side effects that include carcinogenicity [ability of a substance to cause cancer] and cardiomyopathy [weakening of the heart muscle], Merck will feel political pressure to act on these patents and create a product combining CoQ10 and Lovastatin at last."

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There''s far more dangerous information that you aren''t be told about statins.

Merck''s 1992 Mevacor Statin/CoQ10 patent

http://patft1.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=5082650.PN.&OS=PN/5082650&RS=PN/5082650

"Any pharmacological treatment, any drug treatment such as the clinical administration of MEVACOR to reduce hypercholesterolemia which reduces blood levels of CoQ.sub.10 and thereby reduces the energy coupling and other roles of CoQ.sub.10 can be clinically detrimental such as to cardiac function and even life itself."