Thread by @VigilantFox

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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The information in this thread comes from the work of medical researcher @MidwesternDoc. For all the sources and details, read the full report below.
midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-are-stat…

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.

But that idea came from one man: Ancel Keys.

Keys cherry-picked data to make fat and cholesterol look deadly while ignoring the real culprit: sugar.

John Yudkin tried to warn the world that sugar—not fat—was driving heart disease. But no one listened. He was ridiculed, silenced, and erased from history.

Evidence now shows the incredibly influential study from Keys was pure manipulation.

If he had chosen data from a different set of countries, the results would have shown the exact opposite—that more saturated fat actually meant less heart disease.

That’s huge.

And it turns out hidden research funded by the sugar industry paid scientists to shift the blame to fat.

What came next was the multi-trillion-dollar low-fat, high-sugar processed food empire—and an epidemic of chronic illness—that we’re now stuck in the middle of.

By the 1980s, the cholesterol myth became medical dogma. Everyone knew it. Everyone repeated it.

In the nick of time, a new drug hit the market: statins—designed to lower cholesterol. Exactly what everyone needed to fight the new disease sweeping America: “high cholesterol.”

Overnight, medical guidelines shifted, labeling millions as “at risk.” The lower your cholesterol, the better! No matter the cost!

And that’s how statins became a lifetime prescription.

@MidwesternDoc Don’t miss the forgotten history of how one false study reshaped modern medicine, and how statins became untouchable from @MidwesternDoc:
midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-are-stat…

The problem is actually pretty simple. Cholesterol is not the villain.

It turns out cholesterol is actually essential for hormone production, brain function, and cellular repair. Your body makes it for a reason!

But the drug industry doesn’t care about biology—they care about numbers and money. So statins became the tool to fix a number, not a patient.

And once the profit machine started, there was no going back.

Statin use exploded. How many people in your life are taking them right now? Are you?

In 2008, just 12% of Americans over 40 were on statins. By 2019, it was 35%—over 90 million people. Wow.

Just look at these numbers from Denmark.

And yet independent research shows the shocking truth: Taking a statin every day for 5 years only extends life by 3 to 4 days on average. Only in men.

Women, meanwhile, get zero benefit.

Unbelievable.

So how do drug companies sell us a useless pill so well?

By controlling the data.

All major statin trial data is locked inside a private, industry-funded organization that refuses to release it to independent scientists. That’s suspicious.

They publish glowing reviews, attack critics, and declare the drugs “safe and effective.” No one outside the system can check the numbers.

Sound familiar? It should.

@MidwesternDoc The same data suppression playbook used during COVID was used for statins years earlier. @MidwesternDoc has all the details.
midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-are-stat…

Even the medical guidelines were rigged.

The National Cholesterol Education Program, which sets the treatment rules, was stacked with members paid by statin manufacturers. Talk about a conflict of interest…

One independent review of the same data even came to the opposite conclusion: Statins “have not been shown to provide an overall health benefit.”

But the machine was already built. Doctors were taught that everyone with high cholesterol needs a statin.

Patients who refused were scolded—or even dropped by their doctors.

Then insurance companies joined in and actually penalized patients who didn’t take them! Some employers even started requiring “healthy cholesterol levels” as part of their wellness programs.

Soon, the entire medical system was enforcing a lie.

Even worse, the calculator doctors use to determine your “heart risk” was later found to overestimate heart attacks and strokes by 600%!!

And yet, the guidelines never changed.

Here’s the kicker. Doctors are financially rewarded for prescribing statins.

Those who question the drug are financially penalized.

Just like with COVID shots, a “cancel culture” formed around dissent. Critics were labeled “statin deniers” and accused of killing their patients.

How absurd is that?

The pattern is the same: They invent the threat, create the cure, silence any opposition, and profit forever and ever.

And here’s where it gets really serious. It’s just not just about taking a useless drug.

What happens when tens of millions of people take a drug that blocks one of their body’s essential enzymes?

It causes a tidal wave of side effects—and a medical establishment is blind to it because they’re in denial.

Statins block the enzyme that produces cholesterol… but that same enzyme also creates Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), vital for energy, heart function, and muscle health.

Without it, the body begins to fall apart.

Patients on statins experience a big list of side effects.

Things like:
• Muscle pain and weakness
• Chronic fatigue
• Brain fog, confusion, and memory loss
• Depression and irritability
• Sleep issues and nerve damage
• Diabetes, liver failure, and even cancer

Up to 30% of users experience serious side effects—yet most are told it’s “just in their head” or it’s chalked up to aging.

Still sound familiar?

And all of this for an extra couple of days of life? Is that worth it?

When patients complain, doctors are told to blame the “nocebo effect”—the idea that side effects happen only because patients expect them to happen.

But many of these people had no idea statins caused these problems until it happened. They’re not making it up. And why would they?

It’s the very same gaslighting we saw during COVID, when vaccine injuries were dismissed as “anxiety” and people just buying into the “fear-mongering.”

@MidwesternDoc There are thousands of ignored statin injury reports—buried in FDA databases.

@MidwesternDoc is exposing the nightmare.
midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-are-stat…

Independent cardiologists like @DrAseemMalhotra have spoken out, revealing how this mirrors the pandemic. Big Pharma controls the data, the narrative, and the money.

Malhotra was branded a heretic for warning that statins and COVID vaccines followed the same profit-driven model: suppress side effects, inflate benefits, silence critics.

But it’s the truth.

Despite spending $25 billion a year on statins in the U.S. alone, heart disease remains the leading cause of death.

If the “miracle drugs” worked, wouldn’t we see a drop?

Instead, heart disease continues to rise. Why? Because we never addressed the real causes!

Things like sugar, seed oils, and stress as well as inflammation and nutrient depletion.

But taking control of your health and eliminating these things isn’t profitable, is it? Statins are.

It gets worse.

Merck actually patented a Statin + CoQ10 combination decades ago. So they must have known blocking CoQ10 was dangerous, right?

Unfortunately, they never released it.

Why? Acknowledging the need for CoQ10 would mean admitting statins were harming millions. So they decided to ignore it and bury the truth instead.

This is exactly how medicine becomes marketing.

They sell disease to healthy people. They invent “risk factors” to justify lifelong treatment. And they weaponize science to silence anyone who calls it out.

Statins are a warning of how medicine can be hijacked when profit outweighs truth.

Do no harm has gone completely out the window.

@MidwesternDoc @DrAseemMalhotra So the next time your doctor says your cholesterol is “too high,” ask one simple question: Too high for who?

Because statins don’t save lives—they sell fear.

They don’t cure heart disease—they distract from its real causes.

@MidwesternDoc @DrAseemMalhotra 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.
midwesterndoctor.com/p/why-are-stat…

@MidwesternDoc @DrAseemMalhotra For a deeper dive into what modern medicine has overlooked—or intentionally buried—check out these other eye-opening reports by @MidwesternDoc:

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