How Statins Affect Brain Function
While some doctors and researchers seem keen to downplay the potential hazards of statins, their use is linked with a range of unwanted effects including muscle weakness, muscle pain, liver damage and kidney damage.
Statin Drugs Found To Accelerate Arterial Calcification
Newly published research reveals that more frequent statin drug use is associated with accelerated coronary artery and aortic artery calcification.
Statins – Are YOU Taking These Dangerous Cholesterol Drugs?
Tens of millions of Americans are taking cholesterol-lowering drugs—mostly statins—and some "experts" claim that many millions more should be taking them. I couldn't disagree more.
A New Greek Name for Statin Toxicity: Polymyalgia Rheumatica
Few drugs are as toxic to the organ they are prescribed to "treat" as statins. There are already hundreds of studies indicating that statin drugs are muscle-damaging (myotoxic) and nerve-damaging (neurotoxic).
Study Review Questions Aggressive Cholesterol Treatment
The Cholesterol Treatment Trialists (CTT) is a UK-based collaboration of doctors and researchers who, on the whole, push for aggressive treatment of cholesterol to low levels.
Conflicts Of Interest With Cholesterol Screening For Children
New cholesterol guidelines are marred by conflicts of interest and are set to convert millions of kids into cholesterol ‘patients’ despite there being simply no good evidence that this will benefit them.
Drug Side Effect Discovery from Online Patient-Submitted Reviews: Dangers of Statin Drugs
We find a highly significant correlation between statins and a wide range of disorders and conditions, including diabetes, amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS), rhabdomyolysis, neuropathy, Parkinson’s disease, arthritis, memory loss, and heart failure.
Statins do not save women’s lives
There is evidence that statins are often ineffective, and evidence suggests this is particularly true for women.
Adding Cholesterol to Diet Reduces Autism Symptoms
The cholesterol has changed our life. It is exactly what she needed, and the development started almost immediately.
Study: High cholesterol diet helps mice with fatal genetic disease of the brain
A diet high in cholesterol may help people with a fatal genetic disease which damages the brain, according to early studies in mice.