Statins: Heart disease drug speeds up aging process, warns new Tulane University research study.
Posted by freedomforall 8 years, 7 months ago to Science
STATINS make regular users become older faster, leaving them open to long-term mental and physical decline, according to disturbing new research.
"The new research by scientists at Tulane University in New Orleans has reignited the debate about statin side effects which many doctors say have been played down.
They include memory loss, muscle pain, diabetes, cataracts, liver dysfunction, diabetes, fatigue and memory loss.
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Millions of Britons currently take statins to combat the risks of heart attacks
Professor Reza Izadpanah, a stem cell biologist and lead author of the research published in the American Journal of Physiology, said: “Our study shows statins may speed up the ageing process. "
"The new research by scientists at Tulane University in New Orleans has reignited the debate about statin side effects which many doctors say have been played down.
They include memory loss, muscle pain, diabetes, cataracts, liver dysfunction, diabetes, fatigue and memory loss.
GETTY
Millions of Britons currently take statins to combat the risks of heart attacks
Professor Reza Izadpanah, a stem cell biologist and lead author of the research published in the American Journal of Physiology, said: “Our study shows statins may speed up the ageing process. "
In the past two years, with bariatric surgery, I've changed my diet (less red meat, etc.) and shed 135 pounds or so, and my cholesterol levels have come down into the "excellent" range.
So I finally saw the doc and watched him weasel-word out of actually SAYING "stop taking them".... why not say that? Potential liability, of course.
When I finally phrased it something like (if I stop taking them, do I need to wean myself or can I just stop) he finally said that there should be no bad side-effects from stopping cold-turkey.
Which I did that night. No major side effects visible yet. Time will tell. but it's nice to at least get off ONE potentially hazardous med.
Well done, jjj.
It is scary to contemplate the role that bad information has played in the health arena. Genetics, mental outlook are important factors, but flat out bad, wrong information like the federal food pyramid and bogus medical/pharmaceutical "research" is horrendous in these matters. We are of the generation(s) that as kids played out doors for hours, ate eggs (cholesterol, oh no!), lavishly applied butter (saturated fats, oh no!), ate red meat, and were thin as a rail into adulthood.
And then the feds and the AMA stepped in with their federal food pyramid, their cholesterol and blood pressure scares, triglycerides, bad HDL and then oh! good HDL. And we end up with adults on horrendous cocktail mixes of expensive prescriptions with side effects and medications for side effects and then with 12 year old kids that can hardly get off the couch and waddle outdoors!
The feds and their sanctioned medical monopolies! This can't be this screwed up just by accident.
I avoid vaccines like the plague. I don't have kids, so haven't had to deal with that whole thing from that angle. But, I keep hearing that the vaccine/autism link has been thoroughly debunked. Quickly followed by the disparagement of vaccine conspiracy believers as kooks, nuts, and the fringe element.
Sounds an awful lot like the "science is settled" argument.
For the record I'm routinely figured for 15 to 20 years younger than my true age even after using Just For Men in Grey. Sounds like another rogaine ad to me.
The purpose of statins is to lower the amount of cholesterol in the blood. But, as of this year, the medical community is (at last) revising its image of the role of cholesterol, which was based on a flawed survey done in the 1950's by Ancel Keys. So, if you are taking statins, you are taking something to lower a substance (cholesterol) in your blood that may have no correlation with heart disease. There may be some ancillary benefits to statins, but you need to think about this and discuss it with your doctor. Warning: Most doctors were raised and trained during the era of Cholesterol is Satan, so you probably need to do some groundwork if this conversation is to go well.
I always look stuff up before I take it (or give it to my dogs).
Jan
Please see my comment above. If the negative side effects of statins are limiting your life, you really need to take charge of whether or not you continue your prescription.
Jan
There is no good news about the detection of Lyme disease: the spirochetes are sparse and, even using the most sensitive technologies available, they are difficult to find (eg 30% - 50% correct detection rate). There is a new test that uses antigen-capture on a urine specimen, since bits of the membrane of Borrelia are shed into the urine. I think this is a reasonably priced test (in comparison to the other high tech Lyme tests) and it has come up with some positives that the other methodologies have missed. You might ask about it. If you have not had an aggressive antibiotic therapy targeted at Borrelia during the last 2 years, you might discuss this with your GP too. Maybe the best path is to assume that you have it and then try to get rid of the damn spirochete.
Good luck.
Jan
I am so sorry ... physical ailments adversely affect so much of our quality of life. I found this article by WebMD which I listed below. I hope there's some ideas in there that may help you.
http://www.webmd.com/cholesterol-mana...
Woman wakes up one morning and says “good morning” to her husband, who replies “I'm dead.” She says “WHAT?” and he repeats “I'm dead”. She says “You can't be dead, you're talking to me! What makes you think you're dead?” He replies “I seem to be awake, but nothing hurts.”
when the MD asked how he could help, he
replied: "I just had an autopsy and I wanna
know the results."
I've been taking CoQ10 and avoiding statins for 20 years, am in reasonably good health at 72.
Pay attention to what those study readers try to do to you. Too many Drs. and PAs. practice medicine by rote directions and pharmaceutical studies. How many studies have we seen in the last 2 or 3 years that turned out to be total BS or had bad results hidden?
Besides, if people would reduce their carbohydrate/sugar/starch intake, their cardiovascular disease risks would drop so they wouldn't need a statin.
The only side effects to working With the body, giving the body what it needs to avoid disease or to heal itself is eradication of all disease.
The very best way to start this process is to eat, exercise and live right for YOUR body type and blood type. It is simply a place to start and a place inwhich all other measures be judged by.
It's just plain ole common sense.
right4yourtype.com
Just say NO to prescription drugs!
I am a medical technologist, and for 17 years my job included crossmatching units of blood for transfusions. As a result of this, and of an interest in genetics, I have studied the immunology of blood types in fair depth. There are some statistically significant differences in response to disease and in predilection to certain disorders (eg gastric) per blood type. But I have yet to see a valid study of eating or lifesyle correlated positively with blood type (most of what I have read on this topic I would feel generous labeling as BS).
If you know of such a study, please send it to me.
Medications, prescription or otherwise, are tools, the same way a hammer or a screwdriver is. You have to know how to use them, but once you do your ability to make changes to your environment is vastly enhanced. So do not disregard prescription meds...and herbal meds are just less pure and regulated OTC versions thereof.
Jan
Have you had genomic analysis done? It is quite interesting.
Jan
I have a great recipe for Paleo-breakfast-bars, if you are interested.
Jan
He gives many resources and an illuminating history of Bloodtype thought and an anthropological history of the 4 bloodtypes.
Literally millions have engaged this body of work and have benefited.
As I stated...It's the place inwhich we start and consider before we start messing with the nature of the 4 human blood types.
I call it in my book: The Prime Law of human health.
Jan
I say to you...try it, apply it and note the blood types your working with and then collect the data.
Oh, and finish reading the book, the one's I mentioned are prime.
You can always ask him questions, then take it to task.
This process is total integration of data, what I call in my book: Wide Scope Accountability.
over my private gulch, I estimate 9.6 years:-)
Lipitor??
Fortunately, we have a number of alternative/homeopathic friends that stepped in, took control, got him off the crap. His lucidness and his energy have all returned and he is busy, busy drilling water wells.
There's another possible risk with their use - onset of type II diabetes.
However, I suspect that this story will disappear quickly and, yes, statins will be added to municipal drinking water systems.