300+ Health Concerns Caused by Statins

Statins. Another drug disaster. A new study finds the chemical war against cholesterol using statin drugs was justified through statistical deception and the cover-up of over 300 adverse health effects documented in the biomedical literature.

The cholesterol-lowering drugs have been found to be worthless, or worse when it comes to heart health.

 There are at least 300 adverse health effects evident in the published literature so far, with at least 28 distinct modes of toxicity, including:

• Muscle damage (myotoxicity): view 80 studies here.
• Nerve damage (neurotoxicity): view 54 studies here.
• Liver damage (hepatoxicity): view 32 studies here.
• Endocrine disruption: view 16 studies here.
• Cancer-promoting: view 9 studies here.
• Diabetes-promoting: view 8 studies here.
• Cardiovascular-damaging: view 15 studies here.
• Birth defect causing (teratogenic): view 11 studies here.

If you look at absolute risk, statin drugs benefit just 1 percent of the population. This means that out of 100 people treated with the drugs, one person will have one less heart attack. This doesn’t sound so impressive, so statin supporters use a different statistic called relative risk. Just by making this statistical sleight of hand, statins suddenly become beneficial for 30-50 percent of the population.

As STATS at George Mason University explained, “An important feature of relative risk is that it tells you nothing about the actual risk.”¹²

Beyond the known fact that statin drugs deplete the body of two essential nutrients: coenzyme Q10 and selenium, they are also highly myotoxic and neurotoxic. Because the heart is one of the most nerve-saturated muscles in the human body, these two modes of toxicity combined represent a ‘perfect storm’ of cardiotoxicity – a highly ironic fact considering statin drugs are promoted as having ‘life-saving’ cardioprotective properties.
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The Cholesterol Myth

Having high cholesterol may be a worry that you don’t need to have. Instead of potentially risking your health by taking cholesterol-lowering drugs, you can maintain your cholesterol levels by simply following these eight steps recommended by Dr. Mercola:

• Reduce, with the plan of eliminating, grains and sugars in your diet. It is vitally important to eliminate gluten-containing grains and sugars, especially fructose.
• Consume a good portion of your food raw.
• Make sure you are getting plenty of high-quality, animal-based omega-3 fats, such as krill oil. Research suggests that as little as 500 mg of krill per day may improve your total cholesterol and triglycerides and will likely increase your HDL cholesterol.
• Replace harmful vegetable oils and synthetic trans fats with healthy fats, such as olive oil, butter, avocado, pastured eggs and coconut oil (remember olive oil should be used cold only, use coconut oil for cooking and baking).
• Include fermented foods in your daily diet. This will not only optimize your intestinal microflora, which will boost your overall immunity, it will also introduce beneficial bacteria into your mouth. Poor oral health is another powerful indicator of increased heart disease risk.
• Optimize your vitamin D levels, ideally through appropriate sun exposure as this will allow your body to also create vitamin D sulfate—another factor that may play a crucial role in preventing the formation of arterial plaque.
• Exercise regularly. Make sure you incorporate high-intensity interval exercises, which also optimize your human growth hormone (HGH) production.
• Avoid smoking or drinking alcohol excessively.
• Be sure to get plenty of high-quality, restorative sleep.
• Practice regular stress-management techniques.

FURTHER READING:

Cholesterol Myths by Dr. Mercola

Dr. Jack Wolfson is a board-certified cardiologist and author of the Amazon best-selling book, The Paleo Cardiologist: The Natural Way to Heart Health.

Study Links Statins to 300+ Adverse Health Effects By Kelly Brogan, MD