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If you're unfortunate enough to be prescribed and taking a statin drug you need to read this and then do some real soul searching. You have to have the courage to make a decision that your physician may not like. To find a safe way to get yourself off of statin drugs once and for all. The evidence of the dangers of statin drugs continues to mount. While the debate over the efficacy of statin drugs to reducing the rate of first and second heart attacks have come under fire in recent years, the mounting negative effects on other physiological systems continues to mount. Regular statin drugs used as prescribed is linked to dementia, muscle wasting, and muscle pain. Diabetes, cataracts, liver dysfunction, fatigue and now add advanced aging. In a recent study[1] published in the Journal of The American Physiological Society scientist discovered an unintended effect of statin drugs that...

Statins are quickly becoming the front-line method for primary prevention of cardiovascular disease (CVD) due to their outstanding ability to reduce LDL-cholesterol levels, and the most recent Cochrane Review indicates that statins are effective at reducing all-cause and CVD mortality. Of particular concern, however, was the fact that all trials were either fully or partially funded by pharmaceutical companies (five by Bristol Myers and Squibb, three by Pfizer, four by Astra-Zeneca, two by Merck and one by Bayer, one by Bayer and Merk, one by Pfizer, and the remaining by Sankyo Co Ltd). Moreover, the reporting of adverse events in these trials was generally poor, with failure to provide details of severity and type of adverse events or to report on health-related quality of life. There really is no doubt that statins are effective at doing what they were designed to do – lower LDL-cholesterol. However, statins don’t target LDL-c directly;...