1/7 The acuteness of critical thinking depends on the number of causalities in one’s vocabulary and the number of precedents in one’s library.

Statins have long been pushed by pharmaceuticals and their public health lapdogs. Their rhetorical syllogism for public consumption has
2/7 been that blood cholesterol causes cardiovascular disease and Statins lower blood cholesterol without side effects and THEREFORE statins are beneficial. Some public health statinators even called for addition of statins to municipal drinking water systems.
3/7 But where is the evidence that lowering blood cholesterol decreases cardiovascular disease risk? Cholesterol is an essential element of cellular building and repair. Of course cholesterol and, eventually calcium, will collect at the sites of vascular injury—these are natural
4/7 healing responses of the body.

The rhetorical myth of the statinators was the “gradient” theory that 🔼 blood concentration of cholesterol meant more cholesterol magically seeped through artery walls to collect in pools and cause plaque swelling, pinching off blood flow
5/7 and causing heart attacks and strokes. This might make sense for someone with no understanding of biological evolution.

The fallback argument that bloodstream cholesterol causes cardiovascular disease was based on studies showing that statins reduce the risk of adverse
6/7 cardiovascular outcomes. Statins lower cholesterol. THEREFORE lowering cholesterol lowers cardiovascular disease outcomes. THEREFORE blood cholesterol causes cardiovascular disease.

Deign to question this dogma and one would be ostracized from medical conversation strongly
7/7 Influenced by pharma, which means being bullied into the margins of influence

A rudimentary understanding of evolutiionary biology exposes glaring flaws in the statin-logick. Most importantly, all drug interventions have side effects relative to their chalkboard design.

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30 Dec 21
1/4 So sad for these poor souls who still believe that ⬇️ Cholesterol = good health. “I started taking Repatha last July. I had been previously taking Lipitor. I had side effects especially muscle pain and joint pain. I had been stopped for about 5 months.
2/4 My current Cardiologist said I should try Repatha due to the low number of reported side effects. During second months injections (every two weeks) I felt mild muscle pain and weakness. I took Tylenol to help with the pain. It has become progressively more insidious.
3/4 Yesterday, 5 days from last injection I could not get out a chair, running nose, trouble walking, can't go up and down stairs, severe pain in ankles, knees, hips and back. loss of upper body strength, itching.
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30 Dec 21
1/9 Chronic inflammatory diseases, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, and infections, such as periodontal disease p.gingivalis & HIV, are associated with an increased risk of CVD. Patients with these disorders also have an increase in coronary artery calcium
2/9 measured by CT & carotid intima media thickness measured by ultrasound. WHY ?? Because inflammation & infections induce a variety of alterations in lipid metabolism that may initially DAMPEN inflammation or fight infection, but if chronic could contribute to the increased
/3
3/9 risk of atherosclerosis. The changes in lipids and lipoproteins that occur during inflammation & infection are part of the innate immune response & therefore are likely to play an important role in PROTECTING the host.
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29 Dec 21
1/4 Ethan Weiss on Statins: Not sure if to laugh or cry. "And the statin trial comes with an important condition: the drug must not make people feel bad. I tell patients that statins are probably the best studied class of medicines in history" 😂😂😂
2/4 "My read of the data suggests that they are safe (they will not cause adverse events) except small effects on blood sugar which are real but small. I tell people that we will focus then on tolerability"
3/4 My thoughts: What planet does he inhabit ? He hasn't read the data, or he hasn't understood it, he has absolutely no idea about the mechanism of action of Statin drugs, and no clear idea about what actually causes heart disease. This guy lives in cloud cuckoo land.
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29 Dec 21
1/7 Read this, read it again, and understand it.
To me it is mindblowing. It points to the fact that lipids are PROTECTIVE. Part of the innate immune response, and it makes the 'infective cause' of CVD far more plausible.
2/7 Lipoprotein particle levels and their constituents are extensively altered by acute inflammation and infection (Gabay and Kushner, 1999). In fact, hypocholesterolemia (low cholesterol) has been consistently correlated with WORSE outcomes in critically ill patients
3/7 (Windler et al., 1994; Gordon et al., 2001; Gui et al., 1996; Marik, 2006). The molecular mechanisms underlying this are poorly understood but measurements of various lipid parameters in patients with severe sepsis or septic shock indicate that apoB lipoprotein levels can
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24 Dec 21
1/4 Here is one from the heart. I just had a conversation with my Step sister. She has been on 40mg Lipitor for 18 years. During that time she has been diagnosed with Breast Cancer (hardly surprising). She has undergone a knee operation (Statin muscle damage),
2/4 a shoulder operation (rotator cuff, very common with Statin use), and more recently has been suffering from hand and food tremors. She has recently seen a Neurologist, and the diagnosis is Parkinson's disease. I have tried and tried to tell her how Statin Drugs can
3/ cause this. She just will NOT listen. I feel so bloody helpless, because I know for sure from my research on these fungal mycotoxins that they are causal in ALL her problems. She has now been given Levodopa to try and counteract the Parkinson's disease.
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23 Dec 21
1/7 Statins are fungal secondary metabolites which selectively inhibit (HMG-CoA) reductase, the first enzyme in cholesterol biosynthesis.
’Secondary metabolite” is the euphemism that agenda-driven scientists and drug companies use for toxic Statins.
2/7 There are many ways to lower cholesterol. There are a few poisonous food mold toxins that will do the trick if you’re willing to take the risk:

To name but two

Ochratoxin-A (lactone/UV-flourescent)
Citrinin (inverted lactone/UV-fluorescent
3/7 A friend suffering from MND/ALS after using 80mg Lipitor took the drug to an INDEPENDENT lab to get the drug tested.
Two tests on 80 mg of Atorvastatin (Lipitor) came back with Ochratoxin A and Citrinin with 39 ug/g
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