New Discovery Shakes the Foundation of Cancer Research

[Kopp]

Oh, and my doctor gives me crap about my low carb diet and my blood work. Here come the statins and the $$$ for the death industry!

Since I had heart surgery, I tried several statins, and all of them caused severe muscle pain in my trunk, hips and thighs. I will not go back on statins ever.

[Scriptorium]

Since I had heart surgery, I tried several statins, and all of them caused severe muscle pain in my trunk, hips and thighs. I will not go back on statins ever.

Dr Russell Blaylock, well known for his research on excitotoxins, says that they deplete your Coenzyme Q10 and can lead to heart failure. He says absolutely not to take them. There are many other doctors who have studied this and warn that statins are bad news. Good choice to avoid them. I personally think the cholesterol thing and lipid profile is bunk unless you are in very extreme territory, high or low. Not to mention that cholesterol is essential for life! My dad is on statins, and so is my father-in-law, and they won't listen to me about it. My dad smokes too. He's like a poster boy for the industry. Take their poisons, then spend all your money on their poisoned "remedies". Good luck with your health!


Why The Cholesterol-Heart Disease Theory Is Wrong
by MALCOLM KENDRICK, MD
http://www.becomehealthynow.com/ebookprint.php?id=1112

Dangers of Statin Drugs: What You Haven’t Been Told About Popular Cholesterol-Lowering Medicines
by Sally Fallon and Mary G. Enig, PhD
http://www.westonaprice.org/cardiovascular-disease/dangers-of-statin-drugs

[Kopp]

[they deplete your Coenzyme Q10 and can lead to heart failure.

I was aware of that, so I took them with Coenzyme Q10 supplements for that reason, and still got the muscle pain. However, some people do take them with Coenzyme Q10 and it does seem to cut down on the side effects. My aunt was told by her primary care physician to take them together, and it stopped her muscle pain. Not all main stream medicine doctors are ignorant of these issues, as the alternative medical establishment would have you believe.

Personally, I trust neither main stream medicine nor alternative medicine. Some of the biggest proponents of  alternative medicine are just as much frauds and quacks as big pharma proponents.

[Scriptorium]

Personally, I trust neither main stream medicine nor alternative medicine. Some of the biggest proponents of  alternative medicine are just as much frauds and quacks as big pharma proponents.

I agree. I am skeptical of both sides, as I think anyone should be with their health and someone selling you something (including a drug). I generally find, though, with the crooks in alternative medicine you'll be out money, and with the crooks in conventional medicine you'll be out your health and money.

[Heinrich]

The trust thing is a concern. One side is dominated by leftists who have their interests in mind and the other side is dominated by the pharma industry who has their interests in mind. Finding the middle is tough.

[Arun]

I personally like to keep balance in these things also. I personally prefer to go with more natural treatments when possible. I guess alot of that ties in to my precepts of working with the flow of things rather than aganist them. That being said I have encountered some real quack-jobs out there in the land of alt meds. Guys like the bio-oxidative crowd, who can be shut downas simply as explaining to them what happens when weak base meets strong acid (which is what happens when they drink their diluted h2o2 solutions and it hits their stomach acid - yay, salty water!) although I did swerve onto their bandwagon briefly until I opened my mind up and began thinking.
To me, that is the key. Think for yourself and pursue a logical conclusion about what it is you are doing to or puting into your body. Has it been objectively shown to work - in all honesty, probably not, whether pharma or alt or naturopathic or folk meds or whatever. Ok, then how does it claim to work? Does that claim stand up when analysed.

And so forth.

I don't really go to the doc, haven;t been in years. Aside from to grab med-certs from hospital clnics when I needed time off of work.

Cancer, now that's a really ocntroversial topic. But  don't doubt that there are some fat cats out there in the tops of their high rise penthouses, fanning their flabby jowls with wads of pharmaceutical cashflow capital. They don't care what happens to you, so long as the mammon flows.

Prime example - tobacco. There is nothing inherently carcinogenic in tobacco, and I myself have grown and air cured tobacco that burned fine in hand-rolled cigars and cigarettes without any additive chemicals whatsoever!. So long as the starch breaks down into nicotine, which is what happens as you cure the leaves, it'll feed a smoker's itch. In fact the very reason I undertook that project was to help some friends who were smokers.
Everything that is harmful to the body in tobacco is artifically added. Nicotine is, as I just stated, naturally formed and it is certainly addictive but it's not harmful in the doses you find in a cigar or cigarette.
In New Zealand, the government has consistently raised the tax levels on cigarettes and waged a campaign war to get people to stop smokking and vilify smokers. To me, they are just revenue gathering. Otherwise, they would simply require the companies to produce tobacco without the 2,000 odd chemicals that they add to it. We had tobacco farms in the South Island and there used to be a lot of locally produced tobacco, so it ain't unreasonable.

And of course the other side of the coin is that if I want to use natural medicine, I have to wade through the stinking sepulchre of unwashed hippiedom, pusing it's reiki and crystal healing and bogus waffle. Personally I source a lot of stuff myself and focus research on folk wisdom and medicinal herbs where possible. Other than that, well...

It's a catch 22 sometimes.