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Clearing up the Confusion: Understanding Cholesterol

by The NHCAA | General, General Health, Heart & Cholesterol

Cholesterol has long been a topic of discussion when it comes to health, and it is surrounded by a fair share of misconceptions.

Many people believe that cholesterol is inherently bad, should be avoided, and serves no positive role in the human body. However, cholesterol is actually a vital component for our overall well-being and plays several important roles in our physiological processes. In this article, we aim to dispel some of the misunderstandings surrounding cholesterol by addressing common questions and providing accurate information.

To begin, let’s define what cholesterol truly is. According to the definition provided in my Human Anatomy & Physiology book, cholesterol is a lipid, or fat-like compound, produced by body cells. It serves as a building block for synthesizing steroid hormones and is excreted into the bile. This unbiased definition reveals that cholesterol has crucial functions in the body, and it is not solely a negative substance, as often believed.

Contrary to the misconception that having zero cholesterol is ideal, humans cannot survive without it. Cholesterol plays a vital role in our health, contributing to cellular function, tissue repair, and hormone production. It is important to note that cholesterol is not solely derived from the food we eat; approximately 80% of cholesterol is produced by our bodies, while only around 20% comes directly from dietary sources. This means that even if you were to eliminate high-cholesterol foods from your diet, your body would continue to produce cholesterol as needed.

Many individuals are concerned about their cholesterol levels and seek to lower them through dietary changes. However, it is essential to understand that cholesterol is not solely a result of dietary intake. Factors such as genetics, lifestyle, and overall health influence cholesterol levels. Therefore, diet alone may not be sufficient to lower cholesterol, especially if it is predominantly produced by your body.

When discussing cholesterol levels, it is important to understand the significance of individual cholesterol markers beyond the total cholesterol number. Here is a breakdown of the different components:

Total cholesterol: This number is a sum of low-density lipoprotein (LDL), high-density lipoprotein (HDL), and 20% of triglycerides. It is important to note that the total cholesterol number alone does not provide enough information to make accurate assessments of your cholesterol profile.

HDL (high-density lipoprotein): Known as “good” cholesterol, HDL helps remove “bad” cholesterol from the bloodstream and transports it back to the liver. Higher levels of HDL are desirable and can protect against cardiovascular diseases. For both men and women, HDL levels should ideally be over 60mg/dL. Foods such as wild-caught salmon, walnuts, and flaxseed oil can help increase HDL levels.

LDL (low-density lipoprotein): Often referred to as “bad” cholesterol, LDL levels can increase with a poor diet, lack of exercise, and high levels of stress. Elevated LDL levels have been linked to work-related stress. A healthy diet, stress reduction techniques, regular exercise, and sufficient sleep are important for managing LDL levels. The conventional medicine target for LDL is generally less than 100mg/dL.

VLDL (very low-density lipoprotein): Primarily composed of triglycerides, VLDL levels can provide valuable insights when assessing cholesterol profiles. A VLDL value less than 19 is considered optimal for a healthy individual.

Triglycerides: These are created when our bodies do not immediately utilize the energy from the food we consume. Triglycerides are stored in adipose/fat tissue as a form of energy reserve. High triglyceride levels can be influenced by factors such as a diet high in sugar, frequent snacking, and late-night eating. Strategies such as intermittent fasting, low-carbohydrate diets, and reducing processed foods and sugars can help lower triglyceride levels.

If you have been informed that your cholesterol levels are high, it is crucial to obtain the individual numbers for HDL, LDL, triglycerides, and VLDL. These numbers will provide a more comprehensive understanding of your cholesterol profile. Discussing these results with your healthcare provider or practitioner will help determine the appropriate course of action, whether it involves dietary adjustments, supplementation, or lifestyle changes.

Furthermore, it is essential to consider the trend of your cholesterol levels over time rather than focusing solely on a single test result. Evaluating trends in your labs can provide more meaningful insights into your overall health. If you have not had your cholesterol labs done in several years, it is recommended to establish multiple follow-up labs to assess the trend accurately.

In conclusion, understanding cholesterol involves dispelling common misconceptions and acknowledging its essential role in our bodies. Cholesterol is not inherently bad but rather serves important functions in our cells, hormones, and overall health. By comprehending the different cholesterol markers and discussing your specific cholesterol profile with a healthcare professional, you can gain a more accurate understanding of your cardiovascular health and make informed decisions to support your well-being. Remember that total cholesterol alone does not provide sufficient information, and it is essential to consider individual cholesterol components and their interplay in your overall health.

The NHCAA

Calcification In Your Arteries? NanobacTX + Ketosis for CAC Heart Health

by Dr. Darren Schmidt | Dr. Schmidt's Blog, Heart & Cholesterol

If you’re someone who has calcification in the arteries, it means you are at higher risk of having a heart attack. Learn how to improve heart health below.

NanobacTX + cycling in and out of ketosis is a potent combination to combat increasing artery calcification.

How?

Nanobacteria Making Biofilm

There are two potential theories at work about how the calcium deposits form in the first place. First, there is the nanobacteria theory. This theory says that there are tiny organisms, smaller than normal bacteria, that live anywhere in your body (there’s even speculation that nanobacteria have been found on meteorites). Much like fungus or parasites, the tiny creatures manufacture biofilm to live in. This film eventually calcifies, necessitating the making of more film, which calcifies, and more film, which calcifies, and on and on and on. That’s the first theory as to how you build up more and more calcium deposition in your arteries and in your heart.

As for the second theory, there’s an article, The birth, and death of nanobacteria, that states that instead of nanobacteria creating the calcification, it’s an abiotic biochemical reaction. For example, in Yellowstone National Park, there is crystallization, or calcium deposition, around the perimeter of hot spring pools. As you can see in the picture, there’s a spectrum of colors in these pools, a variety of chemical reactions happening, and the article illuminates that it isn’t nanobacteria doing the work to transform the pools, but simply the chemistry of the water interacting with the chemistry of the soil. It could be that in your own body, stones and deposits form because of the blood chemistry interacting with the arterial wall or other tissues.

No matter which theory is correct, the solution to the problem is the same: take NanobacTX + cycle in and out of a ketogenic diet.

NanobacTX

NanabacTX works in a way that is similar to how EDTA chelation works. EDTA is a chemical used in healthcare to pull heavy metals and toxins out of your body; it’s used to clear out your arteries via IV insertion of the chemical or via a pill. (NanobacTX is not EDTA, or Ethylenediaminetetraacetic acid, but is made with something similar: edetate disodium dicalcium). The IV costs about $100 to $300 per treatment, and people will often get one treatment per week, 12 to 20 times to clear out their arteries. One issue with it is that the half life of EDTA chelation in your blood is 15 minutes. This means that after 15 minutes, the drug has diminished in the body by half its potency. Dr. Gary Mezo, the creator of the formula of NanobacTX, figured out a way to make NanobacTX have a half life of 12 hours, which means the supplement is in your blood, circulating, doing its work, for significantly longer than EDTA would be and this makes it work better.

Along with the edetate disodium dicalcium, NanobacTX uses enzymes to penetrate the top layer of calcium or biofilm to stop the growth and uses certain nutrients to penetrate and clean in the body, thereby helping the immune system. It’s an excellent formula.

Ketosis Cycling

The ketosis half of the equation is equally as important as the supplement half because if you have a poor diet, your immune system is suppressed; your body’s ability to deal with calcium deposits is diminished. This is true in the case of either calcification theory: either your body can’t fight off the nanobacteria creating the calcified film, or your diet is creating the bad chemistry that causes the biochemical calcification. In the latter case, if you’re eating an unhealthy diet such as the Standard American Diet, you’re poisoning the blood—for this phenomenon, I use the term lactic acidosis. Your blood is dirty and now it’s crystallizing and forming this stone material inside your arteries.

Usage

The proper dose of NanobacTX is one pill per 20 pounds of body weight per night. If you weigh 200 pounds, that’s 10 pills at night, taken on an empty stomach before bed. You can eat dinner, but you can’t take any supplements past 3 PM. If you lose weight, then you recalculate and take the appropriate amount for your weight.

If you’re unsure whether or not this program would be beneficial for you, you can find out how much calcium is in your arteries by getting a CAC, or Coronary Artery Calcium, test. Your score will range from 0 to above 1000. Anything over 400 is very high and is dangerous. The normal rate of increase in the calcification is 15% to 55% increase per year.

Program Success Stories

I started working with NanobacTX in our office back in January of 2018. Here are some of the successes I’ve had with it:

In 2015, one of my patients had a Coronary Artery Calcium score of 1,000. He was eating a Standard American Diet. In May of 2018, he tested again and his CAC was 1,727. Basically, at that time, his scores were following the normal pattern of increase of calcification. Then, he started the program, NanobacTX + cycling ketosis. In November of 2018, six months later, his score was 1,735. Where before he had been averaging an increase of about 121 points per six months, during those first six months on the program, his score had only increased by 8 points.

Another patient of mine, while on the program, had only a 1% increase in his CAC over two years, despite an original score over 1,000. It’s important to note here that to halt the progression of the calcification is a worthy goal. When there’s no increase in your CAC, it’s as if your score is zero, and is a stable plaque.

The third success is a woman who’d had a scary increase of calcification over the years. Just as some people have a tendency to form kidney stones or gallstones, or as some others have a greater tendency to form arthritis bone spurs, this woman had a high tendency to make calcium deposits in her body. In just eleven years, she’d had three stents put in. After six months on the NanobacTX program, she said to me that she could feel her arteries were clearing and that she could breathe better. The calcium that’s embedded in the tissue (deposits that are not from trauma) can dissolve with the NanobacTX.

Another man who’s been a patient of mine for about ten years had autoimmune issues, chronic infections. His CAC was low: less than 100—in the healthy range. His main concern was immune problems in the right side of his face and down his arm. I had him start taking NanobacTX and he’s doing much better now, progressively improving month by month like I’ve never seen before (and I’ve had him on a lot of different supplements). I’m very happy with the results and it’s thanks to NanobacTX.

My final example is that of a young woman in her late 20s or early 30s—a dancer. When I first started treating her about two years ago, I’d walk into the room and she’d be laying on her back on the table—she was always laying down. When I’d have her stand up, she was hunched over. She was miserable. She had parasites in her intestine, so I gave her Para 1 (I’ve talked about this product in videos of mine — Video on Para 1), and from this, she was eliminating three foot tapeworms. Now, she’s been through five bottles of NanobacTX and she’s told me several times that NanobacTX is the best thing she’s ever taken. She looks fantastic: her skin is clear and glowing, and her posture has improved notably. Now she’s got the parasites out, and with the NanobacTX she seems taller and she looks much healthier; she has more energy and is more able to endure her dancing.

Interestingly, there was a book to be published on the NanobacTX + ketosis cycling program, a collaboration between Dr. Mezo and Dr. Atkins. Dr. Mezo was staying at Atkins’ house at the time while they wrote the book. However, in the middle of the process was when Dr. Atkins hit his head in a fall on an icy sidewalk, resulting in a week-long hospital stay and his eventual passing. Luckily, the information survives as does the supplement. I feel very privileged to be able to share this with you.

Yours in Health,
Dr. Darren Schmidt

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Dr. Schmidt’s Video from a Class: Calcifying Nanoparticles

Related Links:

Calcification in coronary artery disease can be reversed by EDTA-tetracycline long-term chemotherapy
Anti-nanobacterial therapy for men with chronic prostatitis/chronic pelvic pain syndrome and prostatic stones: preliminary experience.
A 5-minute video describing how nanobacteria cause calcification of arteries. Older video production but still valid information.: https://vimeo.com/25604437
Typed interview of a doctor describing it: http://www.crnano.org/interview.mezo.htm
More technical data on nanobacteria: https://www.facebook.com/gary.mezo/posts/10153361773390741
Calcium Bomb book
More on nanobacteria: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3266001/
Nanobacteria not living? If not, it is still calcium that builds up and needs to be detoxed out with edetate disodium dicalcium: https://www.labroots.com/trending/microbiology/3466/birth-death-nanobacteria

Anti-Inflammatory Medications Put Your Heart at Risk

by Dr. Amanda Childress | Heart & Cholesterol

In 2015, the FDA issued a strong warning regarding the safety of NSAIDs (Non-Steroidal Anti-Inflammatory Drugs).

Here at The NHCAA we’ve known for a long time that NSAID medications wreak havoc on your health; now there’s research that substantiates that as well.

The FDA has been reviewing the safety of NSAIDs since 2005 and as a result, have come to some alarming conclusions.

Here is an excerpt from the announcement on the FDA website:

“The U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) is strengthening an existing label warning that non-aspirin nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) increase the chance of a heart attack or stroke.”

Here is the link to the full article: http://www.fda.gov/drugs/drugsafety/ucm451800.htm

The announcement goes on to say that the increased risk of stroke and heart attack can occur even in cases of short-term use and in people without risk factors; however, NSAID risks are compounded with long term use and higher dosages.

The FDA also announced that “patients treated with NSAIDs following a first heart attack were more likely to die in the first year after the heart attack compared to patients who were not treated with NSAIDs after their first heart attack.”

Inflammation is a natural part of the healing cycle. In a healthy body, the inflammation occurs, the body heals the problem and the inflammation is gone. In a situation where the inflammation is never controlled, it can actually lead to more tissues damage and can perpetuate a cycle of pain that’s very hard to break. NSAIDs reduce the inflammation and can make you feel better short term, but they do not cure the cause.

Although this is concerning information for those of you who are using these medications, you do not have to worry. There are alternatives that work that do not shorten your life! There are many supplements, essential oils and dietary/lifestyle techniques that can lower your inflammation to get to the source of your pain.

Any recommendations on the correct supplementation for you is dependent on the cause of your pain and your body’s needs. If you are taking one of these medications and would like help finding alternatives, come see me. I can help you make a plan to become NSAID free and to conquer your pain.

Yours in Health,
Dr. Amanda Childress, PharmD

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Addressing High Blood Pressure Naturally

by Dr. Amanda Childress | Heart & Cholesterol, Prescription Drugs

As a pharmacist, I dispensed thousands of prescriptions to treat high blood pressure. Many patients were taking 2-4 blood pressure-lowering medications, yet still were failing to obtain and maintain optimum blood pressure.

I have also observed a broad range of side effects of these therapies including fatigue, dizziness, fainting, depression, loss of sense of taste and smell, and many more. Learn how to lower blood pressure naturally with supplements and lifestyle changes.

Blood pressure medications can be lifesaving. I’m glad they exist, especially when someone goes into crisis. However, over the long term, they can create other issues in the body and put additional stress on your vital organs. These medications don’t actually address the cause of high blood pressure. Often, the problem in your body that is driving your blood pressure up has greater implications for your health than the high blood pressure itself. This is why addressing high blood pressure naturally is so important.

High blood pressure is a symptom of a greater problem! Most high blood pressure issues are induced by stress on the following organs:

Heart and arteries
Kidneys
Adrenals
Liver

If you have high blood pressure, it’s likely you need nutritional support for one or more of the organs listed above. It’s different for every person. With muscle testing, we find the organs that are stressed and then find the nutritional support appropriate for your body.

The most common natural high blood pressure supplements I use in patients are whole food B vitamin complexes (most commonly Cataplex G by Standard Process), wholefood vitamin C (Cyruta), magnesium, and supplements that encourage decongesting of the kidneys and liver.

Other healthy/natural interventions are:

Get off of sugar- this is key to getting high blood pressure under control
Drink plenty of water throughout the day
Replace table salt with Celtic sea salt
Avoid processed food – Shop the outer perimeter of the grocery store buying primarily unprocessed meats and produce.
Avoid alcohol
Avoid caffeine
Sleep at least 7 hours a night
Exercise regularly. Walking works great! It’s low impact, doesn’t overly stress the body but can do wonders for your health.

The program of natural high blood pressure supplements varies from person to person. Even given this variability, one thing is for sure; if you have high blood pressure your body needs help! You have nutritional deficiencies present that need attention.

You don’t have to play a guessing game with your health. Come in for a consultation and find out what food choices are healthy for your body and the correct supplements and vitamins for high blood pressure to feed your deficiencies.

Yours in health,

Amanda Childress, PharmD
Holistic Pharmacist

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This Vitamin Can Heal Arteries, But There’s a Catch! [Updated]

by Dr. Darren Schmidt | Dr. Schmidt's Blog, Heart & Cholesterol

Feeding and Healing Arteries

This article unveils the intentionally hidden secret that has caused millions to suffer from heart problems.

In 1998, I attended a seminar by a holistic cardiologist that explained how to repair arteries. I listened intently and later, observed for results in the real world. Unfortunately, I did not see the results even though the seminar’s content made sense. Then, in January of 2009 (11 years later!), a fortuitous series of events occurred that showed the truth. Now for the benefit of many, we are changing lives for the better. Here’s what I learned.

First, I need to go over some physiology. Arteries are muscular tissue. They flex and contract with the pulsing of blood, so they need to stay strong yet pliable. The arteries that are stressed the most in the whole body are the medium-sized ones that feed the heart muscle. They come right off the aorta which is the large artery that is the exit for all the blood that goes to the body.

The reason why they are the most stressed arteries is that the heart NEVER STOPS BEATING. These arteries are constantly being flexed by this action. If they are not nourished and healthy, they start to get small splits in them like an aging car tire.

If these splits are not repaired, then they get packed in with a gummy substance that acts like a plastering agent. This plastering agent is called cholesterol. The artery tissue may also become weak and balloon out.

There is some debate about whether or not this is truly the cause of heart attacks. Another theory says that the tiny capillary arteries get diseased and as a group, starve a section of the heart muscle. These capillaries are so small, only one red blood cell can get through it at a time, and they do not get clogged with cholesterol. They get polluted with toxins or become deficient in their essential nutrients so they don’t work as they should.

Either theory responds with the solution described below.
What I learned in 1998 is the nutritional deficiency that causes the arteries to age and split. It is Vitamin C deficiency.

(You may have heard about Vitamin C deficiency and heart disease before, but please read on. There’s a catch!)

Vitamin C acts like glue to hold tissues together. It keeps the arteries strong, yet pliable. A deficiency of Vitamin C can be seen first as micro-tears in the arteries. These tears become larger and larger, and bleeding becomes more prevalent and profuse. Excessive bleeding is first seen in the jaw and gums because chewing is a harsh action often done. This is scurvy!

Sailors often died from scurvy until discovered that limes, oranges, and other citrus fruits prevented it. Limes were good for long sailing trips because they had a long shelf life. Sailors were called “Limeys” because of this.

In March of 2009, an old manuscript was uncovered that showed it was a woman who discovered this connection. It was 1707, and her name was Ebbot Michell.

As stated above, when there is a deficiency of Vitamin C, the body packs cholesterol into those cracks. It’s like putting toothpaste into a hole in the drywall before painting it. It doesn’t belong there, but “it’ll do” until you fix the problem. This cholesterol patch becomes plaquing, and it builds up, especially when you eat unnatural fats that are “sticky” like margarine, corn oils, and vegetable oils. Natural fats slip right on by without sticking. Animal fats, lard, tallow, butter and dairy products are some examples.

This all makes sense, but unfortunately, I didn’t believe it for 11 years!!

Why is that? Because I never saw Vitamin C reverse cholesterol plaquing.

I saw heart patients take vitamin C for heart health but never get better. I saw people continue to have heart problems while on lots of Vitamin C. This was apparently not a solution.

Why? The answer came in January of 2008.

At that time, I had a young patient who was experiencing irregular heart beats and chest pain after only a few minutes of exercise. He was a vegetarian and ate way too many grains and sugar.

I asked him to put his finger where his heart pain occurred. He did so and I muscle tested him. He needed Cyruta, which is a whole-food supplement that works like roto-rooter for arteries. I gave him 8 per day and in two weeks he said he was 60% better! He could exercise for 30 minutes with no pain! We had just nourished and improved his arteries and heart.

Here’s why I missed the connection for 11 years: Cyruta is made of the juice taken from the leaf of the buckwheat plant which is the greatest source of Vitamin C. The key is: It is WHOLE FOOD VITAMIN C for heart health, not the synthetic version (ascorbic acid).

Here’s the catch! Food manufacturers have convinced our government to say that Vitamin C is ascorbic acid. Only it isn’t! This is an intentional misunderstanding of basic science. It has fooled nearly everyone. The truth is ascorbic acid is only a small percentage of the Vitamin C molecule. It is the outer protective layer, like the paint on your car.

For 11 years, I saw people taking the synthetic vitamin C (ascorbic acid) which DOES NOT WORK!

Whole food vitamin C for heart health does work.
It repairs arteries (like scurvy) in a matter of a few weeks. It is simple, noticeable and clinically significant. Using the FDA-approved Meridian machine, we have seen the risk for heart problems decrease.

When researching Vitamin C and heart health on the Internet, be wary of what substance is used for research. It’s all synthetic ascorbic acid, not the real Vitamin C. That’s why research on ascorbic acid is only “promising”, “inconclusive”, “might work” or “controversial”. If they used the whole food vitamin C, there would be no doubt that it works.

What is in your vitamins in your kitchen? this-vitamin-blog
Is the ascorbic acid label over 10 mg? If so, it’s not the whole vitamin C. It’s hard to find a pure vitamin C product at a health food store. Even the good ones are “enhanced with bioflavonoids” which indicates it’s not pure. I saw one that said “blended with raw carotenoids” which is a very dishonest way of saying, “We added synthetic vitamins because everyone else is doing it and we don’t know any better.” Otherwise, it would have been a great product. If you look hard it is possible to find a pretty good whole food Vitamin C in a health food store. But…. Do you test for it? Will it work? Only muscle testing can verify that.

The medical attempt of cleaning out arteries is to reduce the amount of cholesterol in the blood. It’s like taking away the toothpaste from your bathroom so you cannot temporarily repair the holes in your drywall before painting. That’s not a right fix.

If you have adequate vitamin C and healthy arteries, your cholesterol can be 400 (which is considered high) and have no plaquing and no diseased arteries. Also, half of people who have heart attacks have normal cholesterol.

We’ve had many people improve the condition of their hearts and arteries since we discovered the benefit of whole food vitamin C for heart health. One was experiencing knife-stabbing pains through her heart to her back. Cyruta cleaned and repaired her arteries, and she felt the pains less frequently and with less intensity. She was 75% better in just three weeks!

Avoid the foods that cause arteries to split, tear and plaque. They are sugar and white flour products and are too commonly consumed.

Vitamin C competes with sugar to get into cells, but sugar is heavily favored. In other words, sugar crowds vitamin C away from cells.

Eat whole foods rich in Vitamin C. It doesn’t take a lot. A sailor only needed a little lime juice per day! This is a revolutionary, applicable, inexpensive solution for a national scourge.

Yours in health,
Darren Schmidt, D.C.

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Disclaimer: The nutritional program that is described here does not interfere with any drugs. It can be done concurrently. These statements have not been evaluated by the Food & Drug Administration. These products are not intended to diagnose, treat, cure, or prevent any disease.

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P.S. 2016 UPDATE. I have discovered two more mechanisms by which cholesterol gets embedded into arterial walls. There’s a condition of too much lactic acid in the blood and not enough oxygen. The body lays down cholesterol inside the arteries to protect them from the acid in the blood. The other is a nanobacterium causing calcification of the arterial wall and plaquing. Cyruta is still a valuable tool for all 3 mechanisms.

I made a quiz you can take to see if you may have lactic acidosis caused by a nutritional deficiency. —>>> Lactic Acidosis Quiz >>

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Heart Disease Is Not Caused By A “Statin Deficiency”

by Dr. Amanda Childress | Heart & Cholesterol, Prescription Drugs

According to the CDC (Center for Disease Control), the number 1 cause of death in the United States is heart disease.

With a health crisis like this on the loose, the finger must be pointed somewhere and it has been incorrectly pointed at eating fat. We have all heard from our Medical Doctors, TV, magazine and all the best hospitals and health “experts” that high cholesterol is the cause of heart attacks and strokes. We have become convinced we should avoid eating any saturated fats, butter, and eggs. With all these messages warning us of the ever-present dangers of high cholesterol and the risk of death from heart disease so high, people get understandably anxious about their cholesterol levels.

The standard medical route addresses high cholesterol by prescribing a class of drugs called Statins.

Originally, these drugs were only given to people who had already experienced a stroke or heart attack to prevent a second occurrence. Currently, the trend has changed and statins are being prescribed freely to both people with only slightly elevated cholesterol levels and people who are perfectly healthy in hopes of preventing stroke and heart attack.

This is not only completely unwarranted but dangerous and health damaging. Although generally promoted as safe, statin drugs have very dangerous and potentially fatal side effects. The true range and significance of the side effects were not expressed in clinical trials because many of these studies excluded people who could not tolerate the drug from their final results. So, as with all too many drug studies they are skewed in favor of potential profits instead scientifically proven life-saving or health improving properties.

The most common adverse effect of statin therapy is unexplained muscle weakness and pain.

This side effect is highly significant because it can indicate that muscle tissue is being destroyed and can lead to shutting down the kidneys and ultimately death.

Although these drugs are supposed to protect the heart, they may destroy its tissue because the heart itself is a muscle. If muscle pain is severe, patients are often fortunate enough to link it to the drug and stop their therapy. The problem is many people have low-grade muscle pain and weakness they attribute to other conditions or aging so they continue with the statin drugs and never discover the actual cause…which, of course, is the drugs themselves. In fact, there are other dangers of statin drugs.

Other common side effects are headache, stomach pain and nausea. These drugs often do damage to the liver and kidneys.

The longer statins have been around and the more this list grows longer the longer these drugs are on the market. Statin dangers include problems such as hormonal imbalances, joint pain, memory loss, as well as “psychiatric” conditions such as depression, sleep disorders and nightmares.

The truth of the matter is high cholesterol is not the cause of heart attack and stroke, but a symptom of other underlying problems.

Believe it or not, the real culprit is not fat or “statin deficiency”! High cholesterol is caused by a diet high in sugar and carbohydrates. The good news is you can fix it safely, effectively, and without harmful drugs! This can be achieved by a good diet (yes…you can eat eggs and butter!), exercise and whole foods supplements such as Cyruta.

Dr. Amanda,
Wholistic PharmD

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