Statins:

1. Deplete the ubiquinone (vitamin-like) Coenzyme Q10
2. Change, weaken, damage or destroy muscle (depending on dose and concomitant use of other drugs)
3. Do not slow atherosclerosis
4. Induce sudden total memory loss
5. Increase eye cataract risk
6. Suppress immune function
7. Are linked to cancer
8. Have been linked for 10-years with Rhabdomyolysis and Myoglobinuria
9. Have been linked with elevated transaminase (indicator of liver and kidney damage)
10. Are linked to nerve damage
11. Induce muscle pain
12. Do not extend life
13. Increase serum Lp(a) concentrations (Increasing odds of heart attack or stroke up to 70% SOURCE: CIRCULATION)
14. Reduce left ventricular function
15. Elevate the lactate to pyruvate ratio
16. Enhance LDL cholesterol oxidation
17. Would be expected to interfere with any function (e.g. sex hormone production, hair growth, sleep, or proper brain and nerve function) that depends on cholesterol or CoQ10
18. Are prescribed to 13 million creating a $20b market (Est. 25 million world-wide)
19. Are MORTAL (else will cause predicted 65,000 to 125,000 myopathies. SOURCE: Merck Patents)
20. NOTE: Biopsy is the only reliable test for statin induced myopathy
21. Should have warning per above
22. Should be banned as useless and dangerous

Hypercholesterolemia is the health issue of the 21st century. It is actually an invented disease, a "problem" that emerged when health professionals learned how to measure cholesterol levels in the blood. High cholesterol exhibits no outward signs--unlike other conditions of the blood, such as diabetes or anemia, diseases that manifest telltale symptoms like thirst or weakness--hypercholesterolemia requires the services of a physician to detect its presence. Many people who feel perfectly healthy suffer from high cholesterol--in fact, feeling good is actually a symptom of high cholesterol!

Doctors who treat this new disease must first convince their patients that they are sick and need to take one or more expensive drugs for the rest of their lives, drugs that require regular checkups and blood tests. But such doctors do not work in a vacuum--their efforts to convert healthy people into patients are bolstered by the full weight of the US government, the media and the medical establishment, agencies that have worked in concert to disseminate the cholesterol dogma and convince the population that high cholesterol is the forerunner of heart disease and possibly other diseases as well.

Who suffers from hypercholesterolemia? Peruse the medical literature of 25 or 30 years ago and you’ll get the following answer: any middle-aged man whose cholesterol is over 240 with other risk factors, such as smoking or overweight. After the Cholesterol Consensus Conference in 1984, the parameters changed; anyone (male or female) with cholesterol over 200 could receive the dreaded diagnosis and a prescription for pills. Recently that number has been moved down to 180. If you have had a heart attack, you get to take cholesterol-lowering medicines even if your cholesterol is already very low--after all, you have committed the sin of having a heart attack so your cholesterol must therefore be too high. The penance is a lifetime of cholesterol-lowering medications along with a boring lowfat diet. But why wait until you have a heart attack? Since we all labor under the stigma of original sin, we are all candidates for treatment. Current edicts stipulate cholesterol testing and treatment for young adults and even children.

The drugs that doctors use to treat the new disease are called statins--sold under a variety of names including Lipitor (atorvastatin), Zocor (simvastatin), Mevacor (lovastatin) and Pravachol (pravastatin).