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Statins Exposed: The Truth Behind America’s Most Prescribed Drug

You’ve heard that cholesterol causes heart disease. But the truth is, it actually helps repair damaged arteries.

Over 40 million Americans take statins for “heart health”—but they may be unknowingly harming their muscles, liver, and nerves in the process.

If someone you love is on a statin, read this before it’s too late.

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Cholesterol was never the villain.

The idea that it clogs arteries like grease in a pipe? That’s Big Pharma marketing. Not science.

In truth, cholesterol repairs damaged blood vessels. And lower cholesterol is actually linked to higher mortality.

Let that sink in.

Now, prepare to have your mind blown and forget everything you’ve ever been told about cholesterol.

@MidwesternDoc is shining a light on the lies and the growing statin crisis.

So how did the cholesterol myth begin?

In the 1960s and 70s, a fierce debate emerged over the cause of heart disease.

A scientist named Ancel Keys cherry-picked data from seven countries to “prove” that fat and cholesterol were the cause.

But if he had chosen different countries? The results would have shown the opposite.

To put it plainly, his research was garbage.

A garbage study is now nutritional dogma. And it’s fueling a trillion-dollar industry.

@MidwesternDoc Meanwhile, another scientist, John Yudkin, warned that sugar added to food by the processed food industry was the real culprit.

Which seems like a valid hypothesis.

But what happened? You can probably guess…
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@MidwesternDoc The sugar industry paid off scientists to discredit Yudkin. They buried his work—and hijacked public health for decades.

Sound familiar?

“Trust the science!” lol.

@MidwesternDoc This fake science paved the way for statins—the cholesterol-lowering drugs that we’ve been told save lives. But do they?

Statins have since become a $1 trillion market.

It’s all a bit suspicious, if you ask me.

@MidwesternDoc Read @MidwesternDoc’s full report to uncover why—and see the truth Big Pharma doesn't want you to know.
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@MidwesternDoc Here’s the kicker: taking statins for 5 years increases your life expectancy by… 3 to 4 days.

Yes, really.

Well… at least there are no significant side effects… Right?

@MidwesternDoc Wrong.

Around 1 in 5 statin users suffer muscle pain, liver damage, nerve dysfunction, cognitive decline, or worse.

And pharma’s response? “It’s all in your head.”

They literally blamed the nocebo effect.

Can someone point me to the science here? I can’t seem to find it.

@MidwesternDoc One of the most striking stories comes from NASA flight surgeon Dr. Duane Graveline.

He took Lipitor—and soon after developed global amnesia.

He lost years of memory! How terrifying is that?
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And guess what? His neurologist dismissed him… despite the fact that Dr. Graveline is himself a doctor.

“Statins don’t do that.” Well, people don’t just suddenly develop amnesia either. Something had to have caused it.

So Dr. Graveline stopped taking Lipitor. Incredibly, his symptoms vanished.

@MidwesternDoc The following year, Dr. Graveline was persuaded to give statins another try (at one-half the previous dose).

Six weeks later, he, once again, descended into the terrifying pit of amnesia.

Correlation or causation? I’ll let you decide.
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But maybe this will help: During the first human trial of Lipitor, seven of the 2,503 patients developed transient global amnesia and four others experienced severe memory disturbances.

That’s 4.4 cases of severe cognitive loss per 1,000 patients taking Lipitor.

Seems like Pfizer knew something was wrong and neglected to share it with physicians tasked with prescribing the drug.

Remind you of anything?

@MidwesternDoc So, what makes statins so dangerous?

They block an enzyme that is essential for producing cholesterol, CoQ10, dolichols, Tau protein, and selenoproteins.

These things aren’t optional. They’re vital for brain, cell, energy, muscle, and heart function.
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@MidwesternDoc Statin use has been linked to a huge list of really significant problems, including:

• Chronic fatigue
• ALS
• Muscle breakdown
• Cognitive decline
• Nerve damage
• Heart failure

All that for an extra 3-4 days? I think we can all agree that hardly seems worth it.

@MidwesternDoc To truly understand what a massive crisis this really is, check out @MidwesternDoc's full report that details more about the negative effects of statins.
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It’s also extra concerning that statins are marketed most aggressively to people with diabetes despite the fact that they increase the risk of developing diabetes and neuropathy.

The very people most vulnerable to statin harm are told they “need” them the most.

If the goal is to help people, it doesn’t even come close to adding up.

But if the goal is to make lifelong customers… Things start to make a lot more sense.

As if all of that wasn’t scandalous enough, the biggest scandal is this:

The entire cholesterol–heart disease model is wrong.

All of that fear, the diets, the medications? Wrong.

But it sure was clever, I’ll give them that.

Fat clogs the arteries just like a drain pipe. We can all picture it. It makes sense. So it must be true.

Wrong.

Dr. Malcolm Kendrick has suggested that, rather than cholesterol, the real culprit when it comes to heart disease is the following process:

A blood vessel gets damaged.

The body repairs the damage with clots.

As the blood vessel heals, the clots are pulled into the wall of the blood vessel and a new layer of endothelium grows on top.

If this occurs many times in the same area, the damage becomes greater and more abnormal.

Cholesterol is the scapegoat.

Something else causes damage, and the body goes into repair mode.

So what is cholesterol covering for? What is causing blood vessel damage and heart disease?

• Stress
• Pollution
• Cigarette smoke
• Inflammation
• Lead exposure
• Some medications

But those aren’t very profitable to treat. And when they are treated, there is usually a positive outcome—so the medical industry mostly ignores them.

@MidwesternDoc Meanwhile, the media keeps pushing the same lie:

Cholesterol is dangerous. Statins are essential. And if you have questions, you’re a “science denier.”

Where have we heard that before?

Sounds a lot like the playbook they used for COVID-19 shots, doesn’t it?

Dr. Aseem Malhotra—once a pro-statin cardiologist—publicly changed his stance after his father died from what he believes was statin-induced heart failure.

He’s now warning the world (because who wouldn’t):

Statins aren’t just ineffective—they’re deadly.

And the data has been manipulated for decades.

@MidwesternDoc The parallels to COVID are undeniable:

• Garbage data.
• Regulators looking the other way.
• Censoring dissent.
• Mocking personal experience.
• And the very real suffering of very real people.

It’s not about science. It’s about control and profit.

@MidwesternDoc But the truth is out now. Millions are still taking these drugs daily—without ever being told the full story. But millions more are starting to learn the truth.

It’s time to break the cycle and take control of our health.
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You don’t have to settle for statins. There are better ways to protect your heart:

• Reduce chronic inflammation that damages blood vessels over time

• Boost nitric oxide levels to support healthy circulation and arterial function

• Fix lifestyle and environmental risks like poor diet, stress, toxins, and inactivity

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@MidwesternDoc Read the full report by @MidwesternDoc. Share this thread. And if someone you love is on a statin, tell them what you just learned.

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@MidwesternDoc Thanks for reading! This information was based on a report originally published by @MidwesternDoc.

Key details were streamlined and editorialized for clarity and impact. Read the original report here.
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@MidwesternDoc For a deeper dive into what modern medicine has overlooked—or intentionally buried—check out these other eye-opening reports by @MidwesternDoc:

DMSO is a Miraculous Therapy for Chronic Pain and Musculoskeletal Injuries
midwesterndoctor.com/p/dmso-is-a-mi…

@MidwesternDoc The Great Dangers of Blood Pressure Medications
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@MidwesternDoc What's The Healthiest Water To Drink?
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@MidwesternDoc While you’re at it, give @MidwesternDoc a follow.

No one brings more research, clinical insight, or historical context when it comes to exposing the health myths we’ve all been fed.

This is easily one of the most valuable accounts you’ll ever follow.

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Polio didn’t disappear the way you think it did.

Google why we no longer see crippled kids from polio. You’ll get one answer: vaccines.

But Dr. Suzanne Humphries says that’s not what the facts show—and when you dig into the history, the real story is jaw-dropping.

First off, polio never actually disappeared. “Polio is still here. Polio is still alive and well,” Humphries says.

What changed? The definition. Once the vaccine was introduced, the medical establishment redefined what counted as “polio.”

Humphries explains: “Polio is called different things today. Whereas back in the 1940s, 1950s, the criteria for diagnosing polio were completely different to the year that the vaccine was introduced. The playing field, the goalposts—everything was changed… they were able to show a complete cascading drop of paralytic polio simply because of the way they changed the definitions of what polio is and what could cause it.”

Suddenly, cases that would’ve been labeled polio were now called Guillain-Barré syndrome, coxsackievirus, echovirus—or simply chalked up to heavy metal poisoning. “They didn’t have virus, or they had coxsackievirus or echovirus, or they were lead poisoned or mercury poisoned, which was—the mercury and lead were the leading treatments of the day,” she said.

But it gets worse.

The rise of polio, she says, directly mirrored the use of toxic pesticides like DDT. “The tonnage of production of DDT absolutely mirrored the diagnosis for polio.” And even today, “the countries that still make DDT today is where we’re still seeing this paralytic polio situation happen.”

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When asked where all the paralyzed children were, she recalled: “They were like, ‘We don’t have any of that problem.’”

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Bottom line? According to Dr. Humphries, polio didn’t disappear because of vaccines. It disappeared behind a curtain of redefinitions, misdiagnoses, manmade disasters—and a whole lot of propaganda.

And if they went that far to deceive you about the polio vaccine, what else are they lying about? 🧵

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We’ve been told it saved humanity from a deadly disease, but what if that’s a lie?

Dr. Suzanne Humphries explained to Joe Rogan what happened to children who received the vaccine. They developed large ulcers, high fevers, and widespread infections. With no antibiotics available, treatments were limited to mercury, arsenic, bloodletting, or isolation in dark rooms.

These severe reactions weren’t considered rare. In fact, they were referred to as “a good take.”

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But for those who experienced the injuries firsthand, and for those who study its full history, the story isn’t so simple.

“This is the one vaccine that eliminated, eradicated a disease,” Dr. Humphries said sarcastically. “Can you believe that fairytale?”

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But when you read the actual clinical observations recorded by doctors who lived through its rollout, a far more unsettling picture emerges.

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And much of it was quietly buried.

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There’s a reason doctors love pushing vaccines. The more they inject, the more money they make.

The foot traffic alone brings in big money, but there’s another perverse incentive, and once you hear it, it will make you angry.

RFK Jr. explains: “Pediatricians who vaccinate 80-85% of the kids in their office, get these giant bonuses... And that's why they throw you out of the office if you fight back…You'll lose them their bonuses.”

Sadly, these perverse financial incentives aren’t limited to vaccines but across many areas of medicine.

Dig a little deeper, and another disturbing pattern appears. Once you see it, you’re left gobsmacked by just how far the corruption runs beyond money. 🧵

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After conquering most deadly contagious diseases, it turned toward chronic illness—and failed.

Instead of questioning why children are getting sicker, it doubled down on vaccinating more, earlier, and without dissent, often dismissing safety concerns as heresy.

Watch this video. Then ask yourself what matters more in modern medicine: children’s outcomes—or institutional certainty.

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A lawsuit filed several years ago exposed something far more disturbing than a single act of medical misconduct.

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The real cause of heart disease has been buried for decades in favor of the lie about cholesterol.

40 million Americans take statins to lower their cholesterol, thinking it’s the best way to protect their hearts.

But what doctors never tell them is that statins interfere with the body’s natural repair system, weakening the very cells that rely on cholesterol to function.

In trying to prevent disease, they’re paradoxically fueling it.

This report exposes what really happens to the body when you take a statin every day.

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This information comes from the work of medical researcher @MidwesternDoc.

For all the sources and details, read the full report:

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For years, doctors have been taught that high cholesterol causes heart attacks. They’ve passed the warning along to their patients, and most of us have believed them.

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This information comes from the work of medical researcher @MidwesternDoc.

For all the sources and details, read the full 9,000+ word report below.

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That framing matters. It reveals how even skilled observers of persuasion can mistake marketing consensus for truth—and how the same system that manufactures medical certainty also hides the limits of medicine, until reality forces a reckoning.

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