Cholesterol now deserves a full pardon and should be awarded ‘Freedom of the Body’. We now know cholesterol is (and always was) a hero in all the cells of our bodies. The cell walls are made of fat and cholesterol working together to protect, give shape and function to each cell..So when you seek to lower your cholesterol you can expect some loss of function and ill effects (see http://bit.ly/1LdEqhn for details)

Statin Damage: We have seen a huge growth in on-line social media groups complaining bitterly the devastating health effects of statin medications. Statins stop an enzyme in the liver from working, depriving the body of vital substances and signalling compounds (Cholesterol, Hormones and Co-Q10 and more). Eventually tissues break down (muscle & neuron loss) and stop communicating (signalling loss).  The adverse effects are well documented and we have some idea of the numbers  from the FDA’s own FAER database. results have been documented. This “Mevalonate Blockade” is basic cellular biochemistry so the question is why is modern medicine unwilling to acknowledge and deal with this statin damage?

Sugar-Damaged Lipids

After 50 years of blaming cholesterol for upsetting our blood lipids it has come as a shock to the medical profession to find that the guilty party is sugars (fructose & glucose). Diabetics and their clinicians are increasingly commenting on the fact that Lipid tests show improvement (LDL/HDL ratio in blood fats) if excess blood sugar is well managed. The most important number a medical check-up can give you is a blood sugar-damage test called HbA1c or A1c. Get this number under control and the LDL/HDL ratio improves along with general health. The reason that good control of blood sugar improves blood lipids is the reduction in damage caused by sugar to the LDL lipid receptors that absorb the lipids into our cells and organs . The blood LDL lipids are responsible for transporting all the fats, fatty nutrients and cholesterol to our organs to ensure they work.  The HDL collects and returns excess fatty substances for recycling.

So it was sugar that stopped the cycle from working – not cholesterol!

An ultimately lethal combination of excess blood sugar, low-fat diets and statins is doing huge harm among our mature population.

Fortunately many patients abandon statins after a few months of experiencing their effects but some persist believing they owe their lives to the misguided claims that they prevent heart disease. Some pharmaceutical companies fund CPD courses on which Doctors are advised to see the statin side-effects as part of the progression of the diseases the statins are claimed to prevent. Treating statin adverse side-effects adds to profitability and makes good financial sense. This is a poor unethical way for drug for the Pharmaceutical Industry to behave and independent regulatory investigation is urgently required. The problem is finding independent experts who are not ultimately dependent of the system for funding!

What has changed is the science. Over recent decades evidence was building that blood sugar-damage was damaging the lipid nutrition cycle by attacking the LDL receptor mechanisms.

Excess Sugar+ Low-Fat+ Statins = Debilitating Deterioration of Organs