AS WE SUSPECTED:
Cholesterol Panel Issuing New Aggressive Guidelines Pointing To Wider Use Of Statins Does Not Reveal Ties To Drug Companies Manufacturing Those Drugs
The latest U.S. cholesterol guidelines have no value. There is no point in mincing words about this. Of nine panel members, six had financial ties to the drug industry. Did someone simply forget to cite these ties? The chairman of the national Cholesterol Education Program, a division of the National Heart, Lung and Blood Institute, referred to the omission as an "oversight." This is hard to swallow. Furthermore, even if the ties had been revealed, what difference would this make? Are we to feel comfortable that most of the panel members pushing highly aggressive cholesterol guidelines have ties to manufacturers? What nonsense this is to put together a panel with the drug industry sitting on the shoulders of these so-called experts.
It's hard to know what to do about all this. The emotional brain cries out to see these people fired from their academic posts for engaging in what many people will feel is a high-level swindle. They are playing with human lives - although they clearly do not see it. Given past statements made by those caught in the same circumstances, it appears that many doctors and scientists think they somehow have the ability to push aside powerful influences and make up their minds in an "objective" manner (whatever that could possibly mean these days).
Members of Cholesterol Panel have ties to Drug Manufacturers...
The latest US guidelines for cholesterol levels have become even lower. In fact in the opinion of many creditable scientists and medical experts, they are now too low! What is motivating the 'Cholesterol Panel' to recommend such artificially low levels of cholesterol which if followed would put a significant percentage of the American population at risk, and thus candidates for the statin drugs?
Nicholas Regush the editor of Red Flags Daily (RFD) has some thoughts on the matter when he cites that 6 of the 9 members of the Cholesterol Panel have financial ties to the drug industry who are being handed a financial bonanza on a golden platter. Read what he has to say by clicking here.
Warren Matthews comments: This is a serious problem. There is no doubt that high cholesterol is a definite factor in heart disease and must be kept within reasonable limits. If this was not the case we would not have developed our new generation cholesterol lowering formula which is the most advanced in the world today.
However, cholesterol is only one of the markers for cardiovascular disease! If your triglycerides are OK, your homocysteine is normal and so is your C-Reactive Protein, then you don't have to panic if your cholesterol is a little high. Certainly you don't have to rush and accept a prescription for a statin drug with all the inherent risks associated with it.
We are seeing an increasing number of subscribers being pressured by their Doctors to go onto a statin drug even though their overall health is good. Remember that cholesterol is an important substance which is why your liver manufactures 80% of it and only 20% comes from diet. If your cholesterol becomes abnormally low which can happen with a statin drug your risk of a stroke is increased exponentially. So... be cautious about accepting a statin unless your cholesterol is way out of control and you are in imminent danger!
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