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Cholesterol Lowering Statins Cause Permanent Muscle Damage
By admin | November 2, 2009
Cholesterol lowering statin drugs are known to produce muscle pain and weakness. Cardiologist Stephen Sinatra reports that 70% of the patients he sees, who are already on statin drugs, report muscle pain and/or weakness. Recent research demonstrates that destruction by statin drugs can be permanent. Real Cures, October, 2009… by Frank Shallenberger, M.D. reports on a study done that demonstrates this.
A total of 83 patients were involved in the study. Of these, 44 were on statins, and complaining of muscle pain. Nineteen of the statin drug users were without complaints. Twenty more were not on statin drugs and were used as controls to measure against as “normal”.
The testing involved a needle biopsy on the front thigh muscle. This involved extraction of a small amount of muscle tissue with the syringe. Under the microscope the syringed samples were examined. Out of the 44 who complained of pain, 25 demonstrated significant damage to the muscle tissue. That amounts to 57% of those tested. You may ask why not all of the statin users tested? It was concluded the probable explanation for this damage free group was they had not been on the statin drugs long enough to exhibit muscle damage.
An interesting result of the study was the fact that of those 25 who demonstrated muscle damage, 96% had acceptable levels of creatine phosphokinase. The significance of this is creatine phosphokinase is considered a reliable indicator of damage occurring to muscle when it really is not reliable! Even if your doctor tests you for muscle damage, the results will not prove anything.
In other posts on this blog http://naturalhealthsecrets.ws I have noted other damage, such as twice the heart failure rate on those taking a cholesterol lowering statin drug. In addition reliable studies such as the large one done by Harvard University found fully half of those having heart attacks had normal (150 to 200) cholesterol. Yet another study demonstrated after 75 your life expectance was longer if cholesterol levels were higher. I believe the evidence is overwhelming that cholesterol lowering statins cause more damage than benefit…Denis Van Loan D.D.S.
Topics: Alternative, Health, Heart Disease, alternative health | 1 Comment »
November 10th, 2009 at 1:25 am
Increase in Cholesterol level may lead to heart attack and other heart related problems.So people are taking drugs to lower the level of Cholesterol.But by taking these drugs many people are getting muscle pain and weakness.So Thanks for sharing such a great information with us.
Dr. Van Loan’s comment: Dozens of recent studies and dozens of alternative doctors…M.D’s, PhD’s, Cardiologists… concur that lowering cholesterol does not prevent heart attack or cardiovascular disease. A huge study at Harvard found just as many heart attacks occurred in patients with “normal” cholesterol at 150 to 200 levels. The real issue is inflammation that attracts LDL cholesterol and dangerous atherosclerotic plaque in arteries. This can lead to heart attack or stroke.