Most Profitable Pill in Medical History Is Based on Flawed Science (Statins)

Created June 2019

Statin Nation — How Millions Are Damaged in a Post-Health World Statin Nation Mercola

Highlights of book and interview of author with transcript

A Statin Nation: Damaging Millions in a Brave New Post-Health World,” written by Dr. Malcolm Kendrick,

Dec 2018, Amazon $6

Author’s previous books:

Doctoring Data: How to Sort Out Medical Advice From Medical Nonsense

A Statin Nation

  • Of the 9 the committee, there were 124 conflicts of interest with companies making statins or other cholesterol-lowering agents.

  • “..it was found that taking statins was associated with … a 20,000% increase in the risk [of Lou Gehrig’s]”

  • Lipitor says statins provide a a 36% percent relative reduction in heart attacks.

  • Acutal risk reduction (remembered to be) 1.1%

    Apparently placebo trials of statins have found a very low absolute risk of reducing hear problems. The actual data is being hidden by Cholesterol Treatment Trialists’ (CTT) Collaboration which has gotten $400 million from the statin companies.

* Statins and Vitamin D - many studies* Overview Cholesterol and vitamin D* Vitamin D levels are (again) associated with HDL cholesterol levels – Feb 2018* Cholesterol, Vitamins D3 and K2, heart disease, sulfates, LDL, – Masterjohn Interview Jan 2013* Kids have recently reduced both cholesterol and vitamin D – Aug 2012* Eating less cholesterol is harmless other than it causes vitamin D deficiency – June 2011* Vitamin D increases HDL* Cholesterol and vitamin D book - 2009* Fat Is My Friend - Jan 2018* If you must take statins and want to avoid hardening of arteries, take vitamin K2 – RCT May 2015* Statins associated with 14X increase in Polymyalgia Rheumatica (a new disease) – Aug 2012

Vitamin D Life pages with STATIN in title (25 as of June 2022)

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Tags: Cholesterol