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Why Honest Doctors
Hide Cholesterol
Drugs Side Effects
The
most common cholesterol
drugs prescribed by doctors to lower cholesterol is statin.
These
are powerful cholesterol
drugs with severe, common side effects. Such as muscle pain, ED,
sleep disturbance, and cognitive impairment.
More
serious are life-threatening muscle damage, liver damage, kidney failure and
death.
A
new study reveals that most honest, well-meaning doctors don’t inform their
patients about how dangerous these cholesterol
drugs are.
But
their hiding is because of a different reason than you’d think.
British
and Swedish scientists recently decided to examine whether people’s
expectations of side effects influence their perception of the side effects.
In
other words, are the side effects created by the cholesterol
drugs, or by the user’s expectations that they will suffer from side effects?
They published the study in the journal The
Lancet.
They
constructed the study with two phases:
In the first phase, more than
10,000 people at risk of high cholesterol, with an average age of 61, were divided into two
groups: the first group took a statin and the second a placebo (fake
treatment). Neither the patients nor the doctors knew which people were taking
the drugs and which were taking the placebos.
In the second phase, 9,899 patients
were given the choice of whether they preferred to take statins or not. Both
doctors and patients obviously knew who took statins and who didn’t.
In
the first phase, which lasted three years, similar percentages of both the
statin-takers and placebo-takers complained of muscle pain and erectile dysfunction.
In
the second phase, lasting two years, there were 41 percent more complaints of
muscle pain among the statin-takers than among the non-takers.
What
the study suggests is that it is your expectation of pain and erectile dysfunction that causes the pain and erectile dysfunction, not the
drug that causes them.
That
is why doctors may want to hide side effects from you. They want you to take
the drugs without expecting side effects and thereby experiencing the side
effects.
The
main researcher suggests that the Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory
Agency in the United Kingdom should drop its requirement that these side
effects be listed on the labels, which would leave you with no information on
which to base your own decisions.
I
think however this shows even more clearly how flawed scientific studies can
be.
The
fact is that the majority of men over 55 (the same age as would take statins)
experience some level of erectile dysfunction. And who hasn’t felt muscle pain from time to time.
I
think the main reason people brought it up more when they took the drugs and
knew about the possibilities of side effects was that they believed something
could be done about it. That is “get
me off those horrible drugs”.
Another
thing is that people in the second phase had a choice if they would take a drug
or not. Obviously it’s a different type of person who chooses to say no to a
pharmaceutical than those who gulp it up and ask for more.
They
tend to take life in their own hands and live a healthier lifestyle, and are
therefore less likely to suffer lifestyle-based diseases such as muscle pain and
erectile dysfunction.
And maybe most of all: Pfizer, the
large drug manufacturer funded the study. Although the researchers insist that
the company did not participate in, or interfere with, the research, we must
assume they were somewhat leaning towards their funder’s views. Having side
effect labels removed is obviously something that would thrill drug companies.
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This post is from the
Oxidized Cholesterol Strategy Program created by Scott Davis. He once suffered
from High Cholesterol so much that he even had a severe heart attack. This is what essentially
led him to finding healthier alternatives to conventional medication.
The program is highly
focused on eliminating one simple ingredient you consume every single day, an
ingredient you had no idea you were even putting it your body. What’s scary
is that this ingredient isn’t even listed on the label of many common food
choices. It’s terrifying stuff! So, this system starts you off with valuable
information about this one simple ingredient, what it’s doing to your body and
what you can do about it. But it doesn’t end there.
The Oxidized
Cholesterol Strategy goes on to
teach you a wide range of diet, fitness, lifestyle, exercise, sleep and eating
tips that will help you maximize your results. More importantly, these tips
will help completely clean out any plaque build-up in your arteries.
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