The information in parts II and III of this series is what I have researched and collected since I discovered—through the Statin Effects Study I was in, based on the review of my records, brain biopsy, muscle biopsy, MRI scans, lumbar punctures, hundreds of lab tests, etc—that the holes (apoptosis) in my brain, the mitochondrial DNA mutations seen under electron microscopy of my brain biopsy, as well as the muscle biopsy, were all a direct result of my taking Lipitor. I was a critical care RN for 12 years when Lipitor ended life as I knew it, causing my 17+ years of total disability since Oct 10, 2002. —Chris Wunsch
Statins in Elderly Patients (science casts doubt on lowering cholesterol in elderly population) https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0140673601055532?fbclid=IwAR2ZIEyWxgT1vQW_4fvT-o7g7NVWDBU47bHowsRelNb5yuBqIeGkHz8JQVE
Pleiotropic effects of statins (relationship between cholesterol and Alzheimers)
http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/alzheimers_statins.html
Health benefits of high cholesterol are currently being misrepresented, paradoxically, as benefits of statin drugs
http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/statins_pregnancy_sepsis_cancer_heart_failure.html
Dr. Thomas D Meade MD on Seniors, Statins and Side Effects (Diabetes, Neuropathy, Spinal Stenosis, Congestive Heart Failure
http://www.spacedoc.com/articles/seniors-statins-and-side-effects
Statins and Muscle Injury: Mechanism of Injury
Why Doctors are not familiar with the new research disproving the Cholesterol Etiology
http://www.prohealth.com/library/showarticle.cfm?libid=12717
Many Doctors Discount patient complaints of Statin Side Effects
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17696579
Very interesting factual interpretations of several statin studies, patients testimonies
http://www.westonaprice.org/modern-diseases/cardiovascular-disease/581-dangers-of-statin-drugs (Dangers of Statin Drugs)
http://www.westonaprice.org/cardiovascular-disease/dangers-of-statin-drugs
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/jacob-teitelbaum-md/statins-cholesterol_b_910841.html
http://www.jpands.org/vol10no3/colpo.pdf (LDL Cholesterol, Bad Cholesterol or Bad Science)
Dr. Aseem Malhotra on the ineffectiveness and risks of Statin Drugs
http://foodmed.net/2016/04/26/malhotra-sounds-statins-death-knell-here-hoping-cholesterol/
Cardiologists Dr. Aseem Malhotra. Dr. Rita Redberg and Dr. Pascal Meier on Dietary Saturated Fats are NOT factors driving heart disease, but rather > Inflammation and our dietary choices. http://bjsm.bmj.com/content/51/15/1111?hootPostID=20076ba466155cbd236078d951086097
Lipid researcher, 98, reports on the Dietary Causes of Heart Disease
http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/02/130227151254.htm
Statin Studies
Association between statin-associated myopathy and skeletal muscle damage http://www.cmaj.ca/cgi/content/full/181/1-2/E11
Big Pharma lies about statin drugs finally exposed in British Medical Journal http://www.naturalnews.com/028988_statin_drugs_side_effects.html
http://thepeopleschemist.com/cholesterol-lowering-drugs-show-no-benefit-drug-trials-prove-it/
FDA Drug info never reaches clinicians
http://content.nejm.org/cgi/content/full/361/18/1717
Drug Companies inventing Disease
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/4898488.stm
Drug Trials and Conflicts of Interest…are we being misled by "Clinical Trials?"
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/06/12/beatrice-golomb-interview.aspx
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-drug-company-money-undermining-science/
Pfizer Pleads Guilty again of False Marketing
http://thepeopleschemist.com/pfizer-guilty-again-for-false-marketing-can-we-trust-fda-standards/
Neuronal Apoptosis (Programmed Brain cell death).
Simvastatin induced cell death or Apoptosis—know that ALL statins work the same way
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1080/00016480802163358Statins activate mitochondrial pathway of apoptosis
http://carcin.oxfordjournals.org/content/26/5/883.fullAtorvastatin or Lipitor Induced Apoptosis
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2324535/
Direct neuronal effects of statins
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16028081?dopt=Abstract
Statin Injury: Patient Testimony
http://www.statins-side-effects.org/STATIN_STATEMENTS_BY_PATIENTS.pdf
Crippled by Statins: Cholesterol Busting Drug Left David In a Wheelchair: But his doctors insisted he keep taking them:
http://dailym.ai/1KVhPnu
Statins and Immune-Mediated Necrotizing Myopathy
http://www.thelancet.com/journals/lancet/article/PIIS0140-6736(15)60068-X/abstract
Statin Induced Neuropathy
Statins and Tendon/Ligament Problems
Statin Induced Myopathy (a very real and highly prevalent direct effet of statins on muscles (the heart IS a muscle)
https://www.science.gov/topicpages/s/severe+statin+myopathy
Effects of Statins on Skeletal Muscle: A perspective for Physical Therapists
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2949584/#!po=17.7419
Suspected Statin-Induced Respiratory Muscle Myopathy During Long-Term Inspiratory Muscle Training in a Patient With Diaphragmatic Paralysis
http://m.ptjournal.apta.org/content/89/3/257.full
Statins causing Type II Diabetes
http://content.onlinejacc.org/cgi/content/abstract/57/14/1535
http://www.proteinpower.com/drmike/statins/statins-and-diabetes/#more-4789
Statin Induced ALS (Lou Gehrigs Disease, also known as motor neuron disease)
Study: Cholesterol-Lowering Statin Drugs More than Double Breast Cancer Risk - See more at:
http://healthimpactnews.com/2014/cholesterol-lowering-statin-drugs-more-than-double-breast-cancer-risk/
What increases the risk of heart disease and Diabetes? Statins and Vegetable oils
https://www.karger.com/Article/FullText/446704
Expert calls for Ban on Statins Over Risk of Side Effects
http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/health/news/article4385007.ece
FDA Statin Risks advising Statin manufacturers to update warning labels
http://www.fda.gov/ForConsumers/ConsumerUpdates/ucm293330.htm
Diet Heart Myths
http://www.dietheartpublishing.com/faq
Statins and problems in the elderly population
http://www.informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1517/14740338.4.3.389
Statins My Stories
http://www.spacedoc.com/benefits_cholesterol
Credible Evidence Dr. Gravelines Story
http://pi-bill-articles.blogspot.com/2008/09/dr-duane-gravelines-statin-story-read.html
Dr. Aseem Malhotra (Cardiologist)
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/feb/01/nhs-drugs-companies-wasting-money-trials-nice
Dr. Malhotra: How too much medicine can kill you
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2015/nov/01/drugs-pharma-doctors-patients?CMP=share_btn_tw
http://www.huffingtonpost.co.uk/dr-aseem-malhotra/great-statin-con_b_9607316.html
Cardiologist Dr Jack Wolfson: The truth about heart disease
Article Written by Dr Kelly Brogan, "Cracking the Cholesterol Myth: How Statins Harm the Brain
http://kellybroganmd.com/cracking-cholesterol-myth-statins-harm-body-mind/
DR. Peter Langsjoen (Cardiologist) on Statin Effects: Well Documented Information
http://www.healthy-eating-politics.com/statins.html
Dr. Russell Blaylock on Statins and their Plethora of Ill effects
Dr. Chris Nagy Cholesterol and statins: The good, the bad, the truth
http://www.salisburypost.com/article/20120224/SP0503/302249947/0/SEARCH&slId=5
Dr. Duane Graveline Critical Review of Statins
http://www.spacedoc.com/statins_a_critical_review.htm
Dr. Duane Graveline compilation of Lipitor Adverse Events as reported to the FDA
http://www.spacedoc.com/medwatch_Lipitor_1997_2012
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick, one of the biggest critics of statins, and the cholesterol theory of coronary artery disease, discusses the BENEFITS of "Elevated Cholesterol"
Dr. Barbara Roberts MD (Cardiologist) discusses the Truth about Statins
http://convergenceri.com/stories/RI-cardiologist-calls-new-guidelines-for-statins-a-disgrace,199
Dr. Haroun Gajraj MD, Vascular Surgeon STOPS STATINS based on his own research into the data
http://www.telegraph.co.uk/health/10717431/Why-Ive-ditched-statins-for-good.html?fb
Dr. Steven Sinatra Cholesterol Choir Boy to NON-BELIEVER
http://www.spacedoc.com/stephen_sinatra_1
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick MD on why cholesterol-lowering has no effect on heart disease
https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/2020/08/05/cholesterol-lowering-has-no-impact/
Dr. Stephanie Seneff Senior Research Scientist at MIT explains Statins Effects on Muscles (REMEMBER THE HEART IS A MUSCLE. Very informative and fairly easy to read/understand
http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/statins_muscle_damage_heart_failure.html
Raymond Francis MIT Chemist on the dangers of Statins
Dr. Dwight Lundell Heart Surgeon
Dr. Dwight Lundell heart surgeon on what really causes heart attacks,
https://www.facebook.com/groups/127447157284192/permalink/1935487826480107/
Dr. Sherif Sultan, a Vascular Surgeon, issued a gag order from the Health Service Executive (Irelands FDA)
http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/hse-gags-surgeon-after-cholesterol-drug-claims-29636095.html
Dr. Ernest N Curtis MD Cardiologist/Internal Medicine
http://www.spacedoc.com/evidence-against-cholesterol-causing-atherosclerosis
Dr. David H Newman MD discusses statistical data in the ues of Statin Drugs
http://www.thennt.com/nnt/statins-for-heart-disease-prevention-without-prior-heart-disease/
Dr. Frank Lipman Discusses 7 things you need to know when your doctor says your cholesterol is too high
http://www.drfranklipman.com/7-things-you-need-to-know-when-your-doc-says-your-cholesterol-is-too-high/
Dr. Ladd McNamara Discusses the Truth about Statins
http://whenitallfallsdown.iamamiripublishing.com/cholesterol-conspiracy-truth-statins-nutritional-supplementation/
Dr. John Briffa discusses Fibrates, another cholesterol drug which is quite useless at preventing heart disease
http://www.drbriffa.com/2012/12/07/fibrates-another-quite-useless-type-of-lipid-modifying-drug/
Dr. John Briffa Discusses the Meteor Trial and how it is not as "stellar as we were led to believe"
http://www.drbriffa.com/2007/03/30/hailed-meteor-trial-results-not-as-stellar-as-we-are-led-to-believe/
Dr. Aseen Malhotra (Cardiologist) “Doctors have an ethical duty to give full information about the benefits and risks of this treatment which I do not believe is always happening.”
http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/554503/Warn-patients-dangers-statins-experts
Dr. Aseem Malhotra (Cardiologist) asks: Is the Failure of Health Regulation damaging our Well-Being?
http://www.theguardian.com/profile/aseem-malhotra
Dr. Aseem Malhotra (Cardiologist) Discusses "Too much intervention making people sicker?"
http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/jul/19/patients-hospital-care-over-intervention
Björn Hammarskjöld MD, PhD Lack of or Inverse Association between LDL and Mortality in Elderly. (Conclusion: High LDL-C is inversely associated with mortality in most people over 60 years.)
https://bmjopen.bmj.com/content/6/6/e010401
Chris Kresser: The Truth About Statin Drugs
http://chriskresser.com/the-truth-about-statin-drugs
Dr. Johnny Bowden (Ph.D. Nutrition) on Cholesterol and Statins
Dr. Stephanie Seneff presentation on Lowering Cholesterol and Statins
http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/Indianapolis/Drugs.pdf
Dr. David Diamond PhD, published in the Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology, entitled "How statistical deception created the appearance that statins are safe and effective in primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease" The second video with Prof Diamond discusses the statistical deception which created the Cholesterol Theory of Heart disease and the falsehood, that statins will save your lives…
Dr. Eric Berg DC Why your arteries are calcifying and turning into bone
"Don't let anyone pretend there are two kinds of cholesterol. It's all about sugar damage to lipids"…says Glyn Wainwright MSc. He discusses the relationship between sugar and how it damages "LDL" Cholesterol molecules, NOT FAT. In this article, he also discusses the importance of cholesterol in our body. I met Mr. Wainwright online, he is a member of the Statin Effects Group, as well as a growing number of physicians, researchers, and statin affected people.
Most of the body's cholesterol resides in the brain in the form of myelin, which contains almost 80% of the cholesterol found in the adult brain. Therefore, it is a key constituent of myelin in CNS and PNS which is synthesized by oligodendrocytes and Schwan cells respectively.
https://lipidworld.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.1186/s12944-019-0965-z?
The following is an article Authored by Glyn Wainwright, a well-published researcher from England, the information is well researched, documented, referenced, and published as to the
http://www.lizscript.co.uk/glyn/paradox.pdf
A bit of info on Recovery from Statin Damage
http://www.drmicozzi.com/the-science-of-statin-recovery
Mitochondrial mechanism of statin adverse effects
http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/19159124
ABC Australia: investigating the cholesterol hypothesis, and the use of statins to "treat" cholesterol
in case the above links do not work, as there have been threats of lawsuits. you can find it here:
There are MANY physician testimonials as to their very real patient accounts with statins, and the actual research which was done..
Dr. Barbara Roberts MD Cardiologist of 30+ years discusses the truth of Statins
http://bottomlinepersonal.com/the-ugly-truth-about-statins/
MIT scientist Raymond Francis discusses the ineffectiveness of Statin drugs.
David Evans: Independent Health Researcher "My Statin Book"
http://healthydietsandscience.blogspot.co.uk/p/my-statin-book.html
Statins and the Congestive Heart Failure Epidemic
http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/statins_pregnancy_sepsis_cancer_heart_failure.html
Very interesting factual interpretations of several statin studies, patients testimonies
http://www.westonaprice.org/modern-diseases/cardiovascular-disease/581-dangers-of-statin-drugs
Statins Effect on CoQ10
Taking Statins? Beware! By Pharmacist Suzy Cohen RPh
http://suzycohen.com/articles/statins_cramps/
Statin Reviews by a former Medicinal Chemist
http://www.thepeopleschemist.com/cholesterol.pdf
Some information that may help you to discern whether or not your doctor has your best interest at heart or the best interest of his own wallet
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2012/12/06/drug-company-money.aspx?e_cid=20121206_DNL_art_2
Scientific American article to which Dr. Mercola is referring to….
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-drug-company-money-undermining-science
How much money was your doctor paid by a drug company? For example "In all, the data cover some $257.8 million dollars in pharma payments to doctors made since the beginning of 2009."
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=how-drug-company-money-undermining-science
Partial Disclosure: What do drug companies pay doctors for?
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article.cfm?id=partial-disclosure-what-d
How drug companies obtain and publish "peer-reviewed studies" which sell drugs
http://thepeopleschemist.com/how-big-pharma-lies-to-doctors-about-the-medicine-you-are-taking/
http://www.theguardian.com/society/2003/dec/07/health.businessofresearch
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/articles/archive/2010/06/12/beatrice-golomb-interview.aspx
http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/how-drug-company-money-undermining-science/
Statins Ineffective Even For Those At High-Risk
http://www.thecholesteroltruth.com/statins-ineffective-even-for-those-at-high-ri/
Stress, Atherosclerosis, and Coronary Heart Disease
Is Sugar Damaged Cholesterol the Cause of Heart Disease
http://www.lizscript.co.uk/glyn/paradox.pdf
Statins actually stimulate atherosclerosis and congestive heart failure
http://informahealthcare.com/doi/abs/10.1586/17512433.2015.1011125#/doi/full/10.1586/17512433.2015.1011125
Statins Saga Shows Some of the Perils of Modern Medicine
http://theconversation.com/statins-saga-shows-some-of-the-perils-of-modern-medicine-30096
Dollars for Docs
http://projects.propublica.org/docdollars/
Medical experts furious that doctors will be paid to dole out risky statins
http://www.express.co.uk/life-style/health/555471/Medical-experts-furious-that-doctors-will-be-paid-to-dole-out-risky-statins
See how much $$ your doctor is bilking Medicare for prescription drugs
http://projects.propublica.org/checkup/
If you want to take a bit of time, go to www.scientificamerican.com and type "drug company money" in the search bar….and prepare for a plethora of eye-opening articles.
I wanted to share an article, written by Milwaukee cardiologist, Dr. William Davis MD, who is an outspoken critic of statins, the cholesterol theory of heart disease, and part of a growing number of clinicians who are coming forth in sharing the truths of statins, and now the "latest and greatest" weapons against cholesterol, PCSK9 inhibitors Repatha and Praluent. These are also statistically epic failures in preventing heart attack, stroke and death, in spite of their ability to reduce cholesterol. It seems we've heard this tune countless times in the past several decades. And they're STILL WRONG.
https://drdavisinfinitehealth.com/2023/03/the-cholesterol-house-of-cards-crumbles-further/
If you have any questions, please do not hesitate to ask. My Facebook group www.facebook.com/groups/statins has approx 5700 members from around the globe who have and currently are suffering from the adverse effects of these drugs. In this group there are also 2 well published and highly respected cardiologists Dr Barbara Roberts MD, a cardiologist of 30+ years at Brown University, and Dr Aseem Malhotra MD, a Cardiologist in London, who are acutely aware of the very real dangers of these drugs, as well as the minimal benefit these drugs offer…by minimal, NO WOMAN will have any benefit from statins, only middle aged men with established heart disease might benefit (to the tune of one out of 300) or an Absolute Risk Reduction of 0.34%…a far cry from the often touted 30-40% benefit doctors and nurses are taught and we all hear on the never ending television, magazine and newspaper advertisements.
Thank you and God bless!!!
Chris Wunsch