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Mass media hypes up statins, calling them wonder drugs while ignoring their dangerous side effects

Thursday, July 01, 2004
by Mike Adams, the Health Ranger
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The mass media hype about statins has reached stratospheric proportions. USA Today, in this article, calls statins a "wonder drug" and poses the ridiculous question, "Should statins be in every medicine cabinet?"

Statins are extremely potent prescription drugs with dangerous side effects that include sudden death from heart failure, a sharp drop in sex hormones, disruption of normal liver function, and complex hormonal imbalances that are only beginning to be identified.

Yet the hype surrounding statins continues, unabated, spurred on by a mainstream media that depends on drug industry advertisers for a generous portion of their revenues. Most doctors, too, have lost their minds when it comes to statins: they're prescribing them at every turn and seem to think that somehow everybody needs statins, whether their cholesterol is high or not. (Even then, garlic and red yeast rice work far better than statins to lower cholesterol, without all the toxic side effects!).

This current hype about statins is a perfect example of the madness of modern medicine. This isn't good science at work, folks, it's the unrelentless hype of a pharmaceutical marketing machine that has managed to convince practically the entire nation that it should be popping dangerous drugs on a daily basis. Brilliant marketing? Yes. Good medicine? Absolutely not.

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About the author: Mike Adams is a natural health author and award-winning journalist with a strong interest in personal health, the environment and the power of nature to help us all heal He has authored more than 1,800 articles and dozens of reports, guides and interviews on natural health topics, and he has published numerous courses on preparedness and survival, including financial preparedness, emergency food supplies, urban survival and tactical self-defense. Adams is a trusted, independent journalist who receives no money or promotional fees whatsoever to write about other companies' products. In 2010, Adams launched TV.NaturalNews.com, a natural health video site featuring videos on holistic health and green living. He also founded an environmentally-friendly online retailer called BetterLifeGoods.com that uses retail profits to help support consumer advocacy programs. He's also a veteran of the software technology industry, having founded a personalized mass email software product used to deliver email newsletters to subscribers. Adams also serves as the executive director of the Consumer Wellness Center, a non-profit consumer protection group, and enjoys outdoor activities, nature photography, Pilates and martial arts training. He's also author of numerous health books published by Truth Publishing and is the creator of several consumer-oriented grassroots campaigns, including the Spam. Don't Buy It! campaign, and the free downloadable Honest Food Guide. He also created the free reference sites HerbReference.com and HealingFoodReference.com. Adams believes in free speech, free access to nutritional supplements and the ending of corporate control over medicines, genes and seeds.

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