“The medical profession is being bought by the pharmaceutical industry, not only in terms of the practice of medicine, but also in terms of teaching and research. The academic institutions of this country are allowing themselves to be the paid agents of the pharmaceutical industry. I think it’s disgraceful.” – (source)(source) Arnold Seymour Relman (1923-2014), Harvard Professor of Medicine and Former Editor-in-Chief of the New England Medical Journal.
How Pharmaceutical Companies Are Tricking You
“It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines. I take no pleasure in this conclusion, which I reached slowly and reluctantly over my two decades as an editor of the New England Journal of Medicine” Dr. Marcia Angell, a physician and long time Editor in Chief of the New England Medical Journal (NEMJ) (source)
People are being deceived by the statistics. For instance, when you take into consideration the absolute risk, these drugs do little to ensure prevention against heart attacks, with just one percent of the population — as in one in 100 people — protected from having one less heart attack. Rather than seeing the truth, as GreenMedInfo reports, “the change from a 2% to a 1% heart attack rate is billed a 50% reduction rather than a 1% improvement, which is what it actually is.” What we’re missing is that relative risk tells us nothing about the actual risk.
In the Open Journal of Endocrine and Metabolic Diseases, researchers stated, “It is beginning to dawn on some clinicians that contemporary treatments are not only failing to impact on our most prevalent diseases, but they may be causing more damage than good. A perfect example of such an issue is the statin saga.”
Drug companies deceive the population legally this way, providing you information on what the effectiveness is in terms of relative risk. As Dr. Mercola points out, this can be understood by examining a simple study. For instance, let’s say researchers observe 200 women in regards to the effect a drug can have on the risk of breast cancer, with only half actually taking the drug and the other taking a placebo. Over the course of five years, two women who took the drug develop the disease as do four women in the placebo. To compare these findings, headlines could either say that this new drug cuts breast cancer risk by 50 percent, or they could say that it results in a 2 percent drop in breast cancer risk. Legally, both would be allowed. We are being deceived, and many of us don’t even know it.
And it’s not just how little they’re doing for our health, it’s also how they’re harming it, too.
The Negative Effects Statin Drugs Have On The Body
What many of us need as reason enough to stop taking such toxic medications is proof that they are, indeed, bad for our health. Simply put, the modest benefits statin drugs provide doesn’t even come near how great the risks are.
There have been various studies associating the consumption of statin drugs with an increased risk of more than 300 serious and life-threatening side effects, including developing cancer, cataracts, diabetes, cognitive impairment, and musculoskeletal disorders. For instance, one study discovered that, over the course of 10 years of statin therapy, women’s risk of getting invasive ductal carcinoma increased by 83 percent, while their risk of getting invasive lobular carcinoma of the breast skyrocketed to 97 percent.
Furthermore, another study published in Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology revealed that, while statin drugs are marketed for their ability to decrease the artery disease called atherosclerosis, they may actually stimulate it and cause heart failure.
In 2012 the Food and Drug Administration even put a warning label on statins for their potential to raise blood glucose levels in people at high risk of Type 2 diabetes.
MIT science graduate, and chemist by training, Raymond Francis has much more to say about statins. He is an internationally recognized leader in the field of optimal health maintenance. To hear more of what he has to say, please watch the video below. Alternative sources have been provided that correlate with the claims made by Francis.
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