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\nOf course it would, but that is no way to go about selling a bunch of expensive pills.
\nNaturally if all those healthy people start taking these satins they will quite probably in short order develop all sorts of other ailments.
\nAh, but not to worry as I\'m sure they already have many other pills to fix any problems that they create. \r\n

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\r\n \r\n What happened to the current influence to get people to take aspirin every day? Too cheap? Time to buy more company stock in pharmaceuticals.\r\n

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\r\n \r\n Anyone who drinks unfiltered tap water is already injesting statins.
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\n...And blood pressure medications, diabetes drugs, chemo drugs, etc..\r\n

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\r\n \r\n Details here
\r\nPharmaceuticals in Drinking-water\r\n

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\r\n \r\n I won\'t be buying any shares in the blighters, but I know what you mean.
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\nOver here British herbal medicine has been hamstrung thanks to them (Big Pharm)... They\'ve twice tried to derail the vitamins/minerals supplements market, no doubt they\'ll try again... Natural cancer therapists are hounded out of business... They want a medical monopoly.
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\nThey\'re concentrating on vaccines, which are hugely lucrative. The industry has made hundreds of millions out of the cervical cancer vaccine for example. Imagine the profits on a vaccine for breast or prostate cancer.\r\n

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\r\n \r\n You\'re right there. Every pharmaceutical drug has at least one side effect. And the allopaths answer to that is to prescribe another drug to combat the ill effects of the first! A slippery slope...
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\nMind you, I\'m inclined to think most people would rather continue eating their junk food and drinking too much alcohol and slobbing out in their armchair than eat a healthy diet and go for a jog in the park. I think they want a \'wonder\' pill or jab that will allow them to continue their self-destructive lifestyles without, as they perceive it, the risks and that plays into the hands of Big Pharm.\r\n

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\r\n \r\n Peter Attia has a good series on cholesterol in his War On Insulin blog
\r\nThe Straight Dope on cholesterol
\r\nIt\'s important to understand the whole science of cholesterol and the way too many particles damage artery walls. In the first of his blogs he links to various experts who have a good series of you tube videos. Some of those experts are actually commenting on the responses to his blog so it\'s important to read the comments as well as the actual articles.
\r\nThomas Dayspring points out in one of these exchanges that in practice "statins fail to lower LDL-P to goal in upwards of 2/3 of patients." as it\'s the amount of particles that need lowering to reduce the potential for harm.
\r\nSo most people taking statins only enjoy the side effects and none of the potential benefits.
\r\nIf you are getting older it\'s worth knowing that each 1-mmol/L increase in total cholesterol was associated with an approximately 12% lower risk of noncardiovascular mortality
\r\nso if you\'re 65 and older and anyone tells you to lower your cholesterol then you can be sure they are suggesting you should leave this world sooner rather than later.\r\n

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\r\n \r\n Its terrible really, my dr isn\'t too happy with me because I won\'t go back on statins,I even told him that they made me feel unwell, Drs just don\'t want to know about that though, when I have finished dealing with him I won\'t be going back to him.\r\n

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\r\n \r\n Seems most people feel like shit when they are on them. This one pharmacist told me anyone who goes on lipitor will usually have side effects sooner or later.\r\n

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\r\n \r\n My brother has been on statins for 8 years. He\'s MISERABLE.....fatigued, gained 50 lbs,, no sex drive, depressed - just waiting for death as he says. Very sad.\r\n

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\r\n \r\n Have mim cut down, take half a dose for a week and then stop. Have him eat an apple a day (with the peel) and take a fish oil capsule.\r\n

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\r\n \r\n On yahoo news, they were pimping statins for all sorts of things this morning.\r\n

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