It just infuriates me!

We NOW have photographic evidence of the damage to nerve cells statins cause. I'll put that link up here for those coming to this thread:

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases...0510150143.htm

This is not really "new".... I recall a Newsweek article years ago where doctors said statins are so safe, you should put them in our DRINKING WATER.

A year or 2 ago, they were suggesting children be treated routinely. Our Pediatrician told us children are SUPPOSED to be higher in cholesterol because they are GROWING and need it.

Poison our children? Poison our water? This is just a desperate ploy because the patents are gone, and no new statins are being approved by the FDA. This is just a last "push" to make more money before the whole topic is exposed, and dries up eventually! (like TransFats, that poisoned us since the mid-30's!)

This generalizing the treatment to increase sales, is because the cholesterol MYTH has been revealed and debunked pretty well now. So they need NEW guidelines supposedly to keep the flow of $$ coming in. There was once a push for MS patients to use statins...what did they find? That statins inhibit growth factors the nerves make to fix damaged neurons!

Then there was the "anti-inflammation" claims.... Well, it has been learned that curcumin gave the same benefits as Lipitor in a large study to reduce inflammation!

I tend to turn off Dr. Gupta... except when he showcases patients who have overcome obstacles. But he is just a paid mouthpiece for medical propaganda most of the time. Vaccines esp!