Patients REFUSING to lower cholesterol with statin drugs, despite ‘officially’ being eligible
Folks are CATCHING ON to the dangers of statins… finally!
It’s a situation that must be just MADDENING for Big Pharma to face.
They’ve managed to TWEAK the eligibility for a drug… to get as many folks as POSSIBLE cleared to take it…
And yet they REFUSE to comply!
That’s what seems to be happening with an entire drug class right now – one that I would argue NOBODY needs to take, EVER.
It’s statins.
Folks who’ve been ZEROED IN on as prime candidates for the drugs AREN’T giving in to the sell…
And drug companies are MISSING OUT on customers!
If you ask me, it’s about time…
Because the system has been rigged FOR OVER A DECADE.
And it’s time that patients WOKE UP… and took back some control over their health.
See, the number of prescriptions for these cholesterol-lowering drugs nearly DOUBLED between 2008 and 2019… resulting in a MULTI-BILLION-DOLLAR business for drugmakers.
That was largely because of NEW guidelines released by the American College of Cardiology and the American Heart Association Task Force in 2013…
Which made the number of Americans eligible to take statins SKYROCKET by 12.8 million.
By those standards… which mainstream medicine still follows today… you DON’T need to have experienced ANY prior heart issues…
And you DON’T need to be at a heightened risk of heart disease or stroke.
It all boils down to a numbers game – because you ONLY need to have an LDL reading of 190 or above.
Never mind the fact that your cholesterol numbers can fluctuate over time…
Or that it’s the ratio of LDL (a.k.a. “bad cholesterol”) to HDL (a.k.a. “good cholesterol”) that’s more important than either of those numbers on their own…
Or that high LDL on its own isn’t necessarily dangerous… only if the cholesterol has been DAMAGED (a.k.a. “oxidized”).
The mainstream also IGNORES that there are ways to NATURALLY improve your cholesterol numbers… and that your FIRST line of defense should be dietary tweaks and not pharmaceuticals.
Now, the latest research shows that 65% of adults who are eligible to take statins are actually ABSTAINING from the drugs.
I wish it was ONLY because they’d come to understand all these facts I just shared with you…
But the truth is, there’s one simple thing that’s SCARING them off of statins.
Side effects.
I’m talking about muscle pain and weakness… joint pain…
And a very real possible risk of EXACERBATING cognitive decline (something the mainstream LOVES to deny).
Drugmakers can only blame themselves for that.
But there’s something else… and I’ve gotta be honest, this one gave me a chuckle.
One expert not involved directly in the study told Medical News Today that he’d heard patients complain “that doctors are in cahoots with pharmaceutical companies to make money off statins.”
Finally – folks are catching on!
And I couldn’t have said it better myself.
In pursuit of the truth,
Dr. Marc S. Micozzi, M.D., Ph.D.