Dear Friend,
The dream of all pharmaceutical company CEOs is the same as that of street-corner drug pushers: To get people hooked on an expensive drug that they will need to take all their lives in order to feel "well."
Well, the statin drugs — a class of drugs proved to lower blood cholesterol levels — are just such a mega-profit "dream drug."
In fact, they are the best-selling family of drugs of all time, with annual sales topping $20 billion.
The big pharmaceutical conglomerates have spent HUNDREDS OF MILLIONS of dollars advertising these drugs. Their reps bribe doctors all over the country with lavish dinners, gifts, and free samples, in an effort to get them to prescribe these drugs to their patients (and get them "hooked").
But the public has been denied one essential bit of information:
The benefits of statin cholesterol-lowering drugs are no better than taking a 1-cent aspirin a day! In fact, according to the pharmaceutical industry's own studies, the improvements in reducing heart attack and stroke risk are virtually the same as following an aspirin regimen. Yet statins cost between 200 and 400 times as much as aspirin!
What's worse, cholesterol may not even turn out to be the primary culprit in heart disease and strokes! Millions of Americans may be taking expensive drugs with potentially dangerous side effects for nothing!
The latest research shows that inflammation is an independent risk factor for heart disease and stroke that is much stronger than any measure of cholesterol.
In studies published in The New England Journal of Medicine, researchers reported that inflammation — as measured by a blood marker known as hsCRP — was correlated strongly with both heart attacks and strokes.
Patients with low hsCRP levels had fewer heart attacks no matter what their LDL-cholesterol levels were. Patients with high hsCRP levels had more heart attacks regardless of their LDL-cholesterol levels. In other words, between 75 percent and 80 percent of patients now taking statins may not even need them.
Plus, There Are Many Natural,
Drug-Free Ways to Lower
Inflammation in Your Body!
And here's the really chilling part of this story: There are many ways you can reduce inflammation in your body without taking expensive drugs with proven side effects like muscle and liver damage, memory impairment, even impotence.
For example, we now know that oxidized ("rusted") fats, particularly Omega 6 fats, act like shards of glass on your blood vessel walls. They irritate the cell walls causing inflammation, boil-like atherosclerotic lesions and blockages.
Merely by switching from Omega 6 oils (such as corn, safflower, sunflower, peanut, and soybean oils) to Omega 3 oils that do not oxidize (such as extra virgin olive and coconut oils) in cooking, you could greatly reduce inflammation in your blood vessels.
Another easy and powerful way to reduce the inflammation that can cause heart attacks and strokes is to use potent anti-inflammatory plant compounds in cooking and eating.
For example, the Indian spice curcumin dramatically reduces inflammation, immune over-activation, and smooth muscle overgrowth, all things responsible for the lesions causing heart attacks and strokes.
Another example is hesperidin, a potent anti-inflammatory compound found in oranges and grapefruit, that has been shown to play a major role in correcting insulin resistance. It strengthens blood vessels, reduces inflammation, and prevents blood clots, a major cause of sudden coronary artery blockage.
The bottom line is that there are powerful nutritional alternatives for preventing and treating disease, even such deadly killers as heart disease and stroke. Get Dr. Blaylock's FREE report — Go Here Now.
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