http://www.wellnessresources.com/fr..._fraud_places_all_statin_therapy_in_question/ Vytorin Fraud Places all Statin Therapy in Question Tuesday, January 15, 2008 Byron Richards, CCN Excessively lowering cholesterol has been the mantra of Big Pharma gone wild. Congressional investigation into a fraudulent cover-up of Vytorin study results led Merck and Schering-Plough to reveal what everyone had been suspecting, the main ingredient in their 5-billion-a-year scam failed miserably to do anything useful. âThis drug doesnât work. Period. It just doesnât work,â said Steven Nissen, head of cardiology at the Cleveland Clinic. Merck and Schering-Plough have raked in 10 billion in sales since knowing their drug was near worthless and their promotion for its sale completely false. They should be forced to refund all the money to patients. Those on the drugs lowered their cholesterol by 40% more, but this had no improvement to their health and was no better than far cheaper generic drugs. This complete failure to produce positive results was in patients with serious heart disease risk. Dr. Nissen points out, âIf a group of patients with LDL levels this high donât benefit from Vytorin whoâs going to benefit?â He also advised that âphysicians should now stop using [Zetia] or Vytorin as a primary therapy for patients with high cholesterol.â This latest fraud in the Big Pharma world, hitting the media at the same exact time of the bone drug fraud, actually throws the entire notion of lowering cholesterol to physiologically abnormal levels with drugs into question. Lower cholesterol is good when it occurs naturally as a result of diet and exercise, but not when it is accomplished by poisoning the body with statins. I explain this fully in my article âThe Statin Scam Marches On.â
Better sources than that. I let the result speak for themselves. No sickness, no allergies, no problems, no complications, no pharma prescriptions. Only been to hospital once in my life, for an xray of a cracked rib. Don't even need health insurance. I love being in charge of my health.
What is amazing to me is that Gorilla's eat mostly plant food (if not all?) and they are stronger than hell. I wonder how they do in the heart disease department.
I haven't seen any stats, but I would guess they have minimal heart disease. Multiple studies in humans have shown that total cholesterol under 150 results in zero incidence of heart disease.