December 2015 Newsletter
“Statins Linked to Diabetes and Other Complications in Healthy Adults”…was a headline that recently caught my attention. “After adjustment for confounding factors – including the FACT those who used statins had more visits with healthcare providers than nonusers -- those who took statins still had an 85% higher risk of developing new-onset diabetes (odds ratios [OR], 1.85 and more than double the risk of diabetes with complications [OR, 2.53], as well as increase in overweight/obesity compared with those who didn’t take statins.” This information seemed unbelievable, so I went back and read the whole article about the study. All research needs to be scrutinized, particularly when results can affect the sale of something. In this case I saw nothing to sell except the notion to stop taking statins.
There is no question that the makers of statin drugs have a stranglehold on the minds of doctors and patients alike. Even if you have normal cholesterol numbers, doctors have been prescribing statin drugs just because they say that at a certain age you should. Doctors will also reason that you should start taking statins because your cholesterol numbers are ‘up a bit’ from last year. I’ve written this before: fifty-percent of everyone who visits the emergency room with a heart attack has normal cholesterol. Where do we get the idea that lowering cholesterol prevents heart attacks?? It’s the “flip of a coin” if it’s only fifty-percent. What I really want to talk about, though, is diabetes.
I want you, dear reader, to realize the effects of diabetes on all of the rest of your body and mind. They are far more involved and more devastating than most people understand. There are variations of diabetes. Simple cases are a deficiency of insulin because the pancreas doesn’t secrete enough. It is possible that when a person gets too
overweight their pancreas simply cannot make enough insulin to deal with the mass of a
large body. When the pancreas is asked to handle a volume equal to two people, it can break down and sometimes quit completely because its capacity has been exceeded. There is also the possibility that people who eat a lot of sugar wear the pancreas out. Insulin both carries and opens cell doors to help regulate blood sugar. It attaches to the sugar molecule in blood and pushes these little gates on the cell walls to open them and shove the sugar molecule into the cell. Without insulin, the blood sugar hovers outside the cell while inside the cell starves for the needed energy. Normally the body has fabulous mechanisms to keep the level of blood sugar monitored. This is very important because if the blood is overly saturated with sugar it affects the mind and allows bacteria to breed. Too much or too little has deteriorating effects. With simple diabetes the patient tests a bit of blood, scans it in a system and injects artificial insulin if needed, several times a day.
Complex diabetes is when the cell walls have’ locked’ the gates and won’t let insulin push the blood sugar through the cell wall to get the sugar out of the blood and into the cells. Uncontrolled diabetes will usually cascade into a series of other health problems such as high blood pressure, heart problems, circulation problems, liver problems, and kidney problems. Other complications related to diabetes are nerves starting to shut down and numbness in the feet, which leads to ‘bag of bones’ feet where the bones actually deteriorate. This information bears repeating: diabetes almost always leads to heart problems. When we make the connection, taking statins to prevent heart attacks greatly increases the chances of developing diabetes, which will usually lead to heart problems. This is especially true for post-menopausal women. Let me add one more thought. Modern medicine has several surgeries they do to fix a heart, but have little to nothing to ‘fix’ or ‘help’ a pancreas. Because big pharmaceutical companies make so much money on statins, they suppress this information as much as possible. I doubt this study will ever be made public which is why I am telling you HERE.
Statin drugs also affect liver and weight gain, cause muscle wasting, headaches, lack of energy and poor digestion. They really are an awful drug. To summarize the study, out of 25,970 healthy adults, 3,351 statin users and 3,351 non users who didn’t already have diabetes were sorted out into two groups. The researchers then kept track of who developed diabetes from Oct 2003 to March 2012, translating to a few thousand people tracked for a little less than ten years. The scientists tried to figure out if there really was an increase in diabetes among the statin users, or if there were other factors that were making it look that way, called “confounding factors”, using forty-two baseline characteristics. After adjusting for all those things it was then obvious, but hard for the scientists to admit what everyone has been brainwashed to believe for decades. Sometimes it can be too scary to say out loud that anyone who can possibly do without taking statin drugs should avoid doing so.
One researcher, Dr. Mansi, is quoted as saying, “Statin use was associated with a very high risk of diabetes complications. This was never shown before.” I’ve seen this stated in other studies but none so clearly. The article ended with the doctor saying that, in essence, it is uncertain if statins are a concern, and that at least maybe this study would encourage and motivate a patient to make some lifestyle changes before starting to take statins. The case was also made for post-menopausal women not to be given statins to prevent cholesterol from going up. Currently, most physicians push statin drugs as if they were vitamins, as if they were good for you, as if compelled to get people on them and never take them off. This occurs regularly, even in cases of where very obvious crummy side effects are present. If you ask to be taken off of them, be ready for a long argument. Make wise and informed choices and tell a friend.
In a different newsletter…Health Alert, by Dr. Bruce West M.D., advice is given for supplements to take if you are actually dealing with heart disease. Basic cardio nutrition – Cataplex’s B, C, F and Cardio-Plus, Min-Tran or Organic Minerals, and Fermented Cod Liver Oil are some nutrients to help the heart, circulation and even arrhythmias. Research has shown them to help improve an EKG. The heart actually improves in a very short time. If you are interested you probably want to read this article yourself. These are Standard Process organic whole food products with no synthetic ingredients. There is advice for angina, cardiac arrhythmias, heart block or bundle branch block, mitral or heart valves leaking, heart valves hardening or sclerosis, heart infection, inflammations, endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis, atrial fibrillation problems, edema, heart disease with true high cholesterol and blood fats and congestive heart failure. This is advice to take supplements, not drugs, and actually fix/strengthen/ nurture your body. I have two patients who I have helped improve genetic arrhythmias using these supplements. Contact this office and we will make a copy of this Health Alert newsletter for you. If you have any questions, Dr. Bruce West offers to answer them personally. What he sells are these Standard Process products, which frankly are less expensive than most similar products I have seen in stores or online.
No fundraiser or special for December… since the office will be closed for a good part of the month due to the holidays; there will be no monthly special or Saturday fundraiser this month. We will resume them in January, look for next month’s newsletter to see what we have in store for you.
There is no question that the makers of statin drugs have a stranglehold on the minds of doctors and patients alike. Even if you have normal cholesterol numbers, doctors have been prescribing statin drugs just because they say that at a certain age you should. Doctors will also reason that you should start taking statins because your cholesterol numbers are ‘up a bit’ from last year. I’ve written this before: fifty-percent of everyone who visits the emergency room with a heart attack has normal cholesterol. Where do we get the idea that lowering cholesterol prevents heart attacks?? It’s the “flip of a coin” if it’s only fifty-percent. What I really want to talk about, though, is diabetes.
I want you, dear reader, to realize the effects of diabetes on all of the rest of your body and mind. They are far more involved and more devastating than most people understand. There are variations of diabetes. Simple cases are a deficiency of insulin because the pancreas doesn’t secrete enough. It is possible that when a person gets too
overweight their pancreas simply cannot make enough insulin to deal with the mass of a
large body. When the pancreas is asked to handle a volume equal to two people, it can break down and sometimes quit completely because its capacity has been exceeded. There is also the possibility that people who eat a lot of sugar wear the pancreas out. Insulin both carries and opens cell doors to help regulate blood sugar. It attaches to the sugar molecule in blood and pushes these little gates on the cell walls to open them and shove the sugar molecule into the cell. Without insulin, the blood sugar hovers outside the cell while inside the cell starves for the needed energy. Normally the body has fabulous mechanisms to keep the level of blood sugar monitored. This is very important because if the blood is overly saturated with sugar it affects the mind and allows bacteria to breed. Too much or too little has deteriorating effects. With simple diabetes the patient tests a bit of blood, scans it in a system and injects artificial insulin if needed, several times a day.
Complex diabetes is when the cell walls have’ locked’ the gates and won’t let insulin push the blood sugar through the cell wall to get the sugar out of the blood and into the cells. Uncontrolled diabetes will usually cascade into a series of other health problems such as high blood pressure, heart problems, circulation problems, liver problems, and kidney problems. Other complications related to diabetes are nerves starting to shut down and numbness in the feet, which leads to ‘bag of bones’ feet where the bones actually deteriorate. This information bears repeating: diabetes almost always leads to heart problems. When we make the connection, taking statins to prevent heart attacks greatly increases the chances of developing diabetes, which will usually lead to heart problems. This is especially true for post-menopausal women. Let me add one more thought. Modern medicine has several surgeries they do to fix a heart, but have little to nothing to ‘fix’ or ‘help’ a pancreas. Because big pharmaceutical companies make so much money on statins, they suppress this information as much as possible. I doubt this study will ever be made public which is why I am telling you HERE.
Statin drugs also affect liver and weight gain, cause muscle wasting, headaches, lack of energy and poor digestion. They really are an awful drug. To summarize the study, out of 25,970 healthy adults, 3,351 statin users and 3,351 non users who didn’t already have diabetes were sorted out into two groups. The researchers then kept track of who developed diabetes from Oct 2003 to March 2012, translating to a few thousand people tracked for a little less than ten years. The scientists tried to figure out if there really was an increase in diabetes among the statin users, or if there were other factors that were making it look that way, called “confounding factors”, using forty-two baseline characteristics. After adjusting for all those things it was then obvious, but hard for the scientists to admit what everyone has been brainwashed to believe for decades. Sometimes it can be too scary to say out loud that anyone who can possibly do without taking statin drugs should avoid doing so.
One researcher, Dr. Mansi, is quoted as saying, “Statin use was associated with a very high risk of diabetes complications. This was never shown before.” I’ve seen this stated in other studies but none so clearly. The article ended with the doctor saying that, in essence, it is uncertain if statins are a concern, and that at least maybe this study would encourage and motivate a patient to make some lifestyle changes before starting to take statins. The case was also made for post-menopausal women not to be given statins to prevent cholesterol from going up. Currently, most physicians push statin drugs as if they were vitamins, as if they were good for you, as if compelled to get people on them and never take them off. This occurs regularly, even in cases of where very obvious crummy side effects are present. If you ask to be taken off of them, be ready for a long argument. Make wise and informed choices and tell a friend.
In a different newsletter…Health Alert, by Dr. Bruce West M.D., advice is given for supplements to take if you are actually dealing with heart disease. Basic cardio nutrition – Cataplex’s B, C, F and Cardio-Plus, Min-Tran or Organic Minerals, and Fermented Cod Liver Oil are some nutrients to help the heart, circulation and even arrhythmias. Research has shown them to help improve an EKG. The heart actually improves in a very short time. If you are interested you probably want to read this article yourself. These are Standard Process organic whole food products with no synthetic ingredients. There is advice for angina, cardiac arrhythmias, heart block or bundle branch block, mitral or heart valves leaking, heart valves hardening or sclerosis, heart infection, inflammations, endocarditis, myocarditis, pericarditis, atrial fibrillation problems, edema, heart disease with true high cholesterol and blood fats and congestive heart failure. This is advice to take supplements, not drugs, and actually fix/strengthen/ nurture your body. I have two patients who I have helped improve genetic arrhythmias using these supplements. Contact this office and we will make a copy of this Health Alert newsletter for you. If you have any questions, Dr. Bruce West offers to answer them personally. What he sells are these Standard Process products, which frankly are less expensive than most similar products I have seen in stores or online.
No fundraiser or special for December… since the office will be closed for a good part of the month due to the holidays; there will be no monthly special or Saturday fundraiser this month. We will resume them in January, look for next month’s newsletter to see what we have in store for you.
