397: The Problem With Statins
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.4K Ratings
🗓️ 12 December 2022
⏱️ 38 minutes
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Summary
Side effects of statins include brain fog, joint pain, kidney injury, impaired liver function, heart failure, and even dementia. We have been told that statins improve heart health by lowering cholesterol. But it turns out that most of the information we've been given has been based on deceptive statistics.
David Diamond, a neuroscientist with a PhD in biology, has done a deep dive on the subject, since he himself was prescribed statins many years ago. He came to realize that there is a false narrative surrounding cholesterol and heart health. And that the data for studies showing the "efficacy of statins" has been manipulated to show favorable outcomes. Today he reviews the data and uncovers the truth about the problem with statins. He also offers a number of ideas for what to do instead of taking these increasingly popular prescription medications.
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| 0:00.0 | The brain makes its own cholesterol, it has its own machinery. |
| 0:03.6 | When you take a statin, like lipitor, which can get into the brain, it goes into the brain, |
| 0:08.5 | it stops the brain from making cholesterol, it interferes with the ability to brain, not |
| 0:12.3 | only to make new brain cells, it interferes with the ability to brain to make new memories. |
| 0:22.6 | From the Weston A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions Podcast for Wise Traditions |
| 0:27.8 | in Food, Farming and the Healing Arts. |
| 0:30.5 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve |
| 0:34.6 | optimal health. |
| 0:38.7 | And now here is our host and producer, Hilda Labrata-Gor. |
| 0:43.1 | Hey, Hilda here! |
| 0:46.4 | More than 200 million people around the world, including children, take statin drugs for |
| 0:52.5 | heart health. |
| 0:54.0 | Unfortunately, evidence indicates that statins lead to a host of health issues and don't |
| 0:59.7 | actually help with a heart after all. |
| 1:02.3 | If cholesterol-lowering medications are not the answer for a healthy heart, what is? |
| 1:07.9 | This is episode 397 and our guest today is David Diamond, a neuroscientist who was |
| 1:13.6 | prescribed statins and decided to do a little research for himself on cholesterol and heart |
| 1:19.2 | disease. |
| 1:20.3 | He found flawed studies using deceptive statistics that convinced him to run in the opposite |
| 1:26.6 | direction away from pharmaceuticals. |
| 1:29.6 | Today, he discusses with us his findings, why he is convinced that we need to question |
| 1:35.5 | the narrative around cholesterol and he offers concrete ideas for what to do to keep the |
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