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David Watson's avatar

The brain makes its own cholesterol, but statins can disrupt that. Two kinds of statins, hydrophilic, like crestor, and more conventional lipophilic like atorvastatin. There's a natural barrier called the blood brain barrier that prevents many toxins from seeping into the brain, which the body goes to great lengths to protect. Some statins in lipophilic class can penetrate the blood brain barrier, reducing cholesterol production where we need it most -- in the brain. Our cholesterol fetish has driven statin use to almost universal. At the same time, we've has an increase in dementia conditions. Not "proven" causation, but close enough for me.

Good Calories Bad Calories (Taubes) and Carnivore Code (Saladino) make a good case that arterial plaques aren't caused by cholesterol, but by insulin. And no studies have ever shown that statins increase lifespan. But they significantly increase profits for pharma and prescribers. It's another scam by the medical industrial complex.

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TnDoc's avatar

Excellent.

There has also been an explosion in congestive heart failure cases around the country that seems to follow the use patterns of these agents. We even have special clinics clinics in some cities! I suppose the coming tidal wave of vaxxx-related myocarditis/pericarditis cases will make these centers wildly profitable.

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aj's avatar

I developed left side heart failure after a year on statins; this was diagnosed with echocardiogram, and I was told there was no treatment. Since the pharma companies have a patent of statin compounded with Co-Q10, but do not produce it, I started treating myself with the Co-Q10, later with ubiquinol. An echo 5 years later showed zero evidence of disease, and my arteries completely clear. I think the ubiquinol might be extremely useful to improve mitochondria in the cardiac muscle after any damage.

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TnDoc's avatar

Yes. You are correct. IMO, it is malpractice to put anyone on a statin without insisting they take CoQ-10. Proud that you took command of your own health!

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EO 9066's avatar

Is there a publicly traded company that specializes in heart centers?

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