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Healing foods beat statin drugs for lowering high cholesterol

 

 

A recent study published in the " American Journal of Clinical

Nutrition " shows that eating certain foods can lower your

cholesterol levels just as well as taking statin drugs. This is the

second study we've seen revealing that certain foods are as

effective, or even more effective, than prescription drugs in

regulating biochemical markers such as cholesterol levels or in

treating conditions such as chronic depression. In this particular

study, researchers found that foods such as soy protein, tofu,

various other soy products, plus almonds and cereal fiber, as well

as plant sterols, can lower total cholesterol and especially LDL

cholesterol, better than statin drugs.

Once again, this is no surprise at all to nutritionists. We have

known for a long time that if you want to have healthy biochemistry

and healthy cholesterol levels, you have to turn to natural foods

and adopt the strategies of natural health. We've also known that

drugs are all but worthless compared to the healing power of foods.

If you want to be healthy, you have to give up the standard foods

available in America, such as processed and manufactured foods, and

replace them with natural whole foods such as nuts and whole grains,

fruits and vegetables, and then supplement your diet with

nutritional supplements and superfoods. If you do that, you're going

to have greatly enhanced cardiovascular health, and you're going to

have normal cholesterol levels. It's basic cause and effect. This

follows the laws of biochemistry: if you eat the right foods, you

can't help but to have healthy cholesterol levels.

As you probably know, I've put my own statistics out there as an

example for quite some time. Using nothing but healing foods and

nutritional supplements combined with regular exercise and frequent

doses of natural sunlight, I've been able to achieve a total

cholesterol level of 129, with an LDL level of 67 and an HDL level

of 62. If you ask any cardiologist, he or she will tell you that

these are phenomenal numbers - that a person who shows this ratio of

HDL to LDL cholesterol has a near-zero chance of having a heart

attack or suffering from cardiovascular disease. The point is, I got

there by eating natural and super foods, relying on nutrition (see

related ebook on nutrition) and physical exercise while avoiding all

drugs. I take no drugs whatsoever. No over-the-counter,

prescriptions nor recreational drugs, including alcohol and

caffeine. There are no drugs in my system -- only good nutrition.

Once you start doing that, your cholesterol will achieve very

similar numbers to what I'm showing. It's natural cause and effect.

It doesn't mean you'll have the exact same numbers, but they will

definitely improve. Pushing drugs for convenience

By now in our country, over half the population has total

cholesterol numbers over 200. That puts them at greatly increased

risk for heart attacks. When they go see doctors, however, they're

mostly told to take statin drugs. It's easier for a doctor to

prescribe a drug than it is to teach someone how to live a healthy

lifestyle. More often than not, the doctors themselves are ignorant

of the cholesterol lowering capabilities of these foods. If you ask

a typical doctor to name three foods in the grocery store that are

shown to directly lower cholesterol, most doctors would be unable to

name even one. But there are in fact many such foods available in

the grocery store.

I'll be covering this in an upcoming book called " Grocery Healing, "

which talks about using everyday foods to prevent and even reverse

chronic disease. In this book, I'll also be talking about

cholesterol. Some of the simple foods you can use to lower

cholesterol are blueberries, garlic and soy products. Blueberries

alone help lower cholesterol as effectively as statin drugs. If you

combine that with some soy products, such as tofu or soy milk, and

consume healthy nuts like almonds and macadamias in addition to

fiber, then you'll dramatically lower your cholesterol and you'll

most likely be able to get off statin drugs.

Statin drugs: poison for your brain

What’s really important for people to understand is that statin

drugs are very dangerous drugs to be taking, especially if you take

them for the long term. They can cause muscle-wasting diseases; they

can cause chronic muscle pain, which can be misdiagnosed as

fibromyalgia; they cause mental disorders including brain fog, loss

of memory, and signs of dementia or Alzheimer's. These drugs inhibit

the production of healthy cholesterol in your body, meaning they

interfere with sex hormones and the normal healthy functioning of

the endocrine system.

These are drugs that are only appropriate for short-term use if any

use at all. No patient in the world should be taking statin drugs

for longer than 30 days at a time in my opinion. These drugs do not

belong in the human body and they devastate the health of our

population. Currently they are over-prescribed, over-hyped,

over-advertised, and they are probably the next big drug crisis

we're going to see down the road. We already saw a huge scandal with

Vioxx and the Cox-2 inhibitors, and how drug companies have been

pushing those drugs onto the population even though they were fully

aware, as we now know, of the dangerous cardiovascular effects of

those drugs. I think drug companies are also fully aware of the

dangers of statin drugs. Down the road, this is going to go public,

and statin drugs are going to be pulled off the market or seriously

restricted in their use.Why drugs? Follow the money...

The truth is, as a nation, we don't even need statin drugs. If

people were told to just eat some soy products, blueberries, and

garlic, while getting extra fiber in their diets and so on, then not

a single person in this country would need statin drugs at all. So

if you ask, " Well, why are statin drugs being used so much? Why are

they so popular? " The answer has to be that they are very

profitable.

Statin drugs are sold because they generate profits. They are

marketed by drug companies and hyped up in the press precisely

because they create revenues for companies that own the patents on

these drugs. Frankly, it would be a much more effective public

service message to run some ads and tell people about the wonderful

cholesterol-lowering effects of blueberries, almonds, or any of the

other healing foods. But that's not what you hear in this country,

because that's a message that really doesn’t serve the financial

interests of any company. It only helps individuals, and it's

frankly not in the financial interests of large companies to make

individuals healthier.

Public health isn't the goal of the pharmaceutical industry - the

goal is to sell more drugs. And if that means hyping up drugs that

are potentially dangerous while being simultaneously quite

profitable, then that's exactly what they're going to do. Big Pharma

has proven that time and time again, that that's exactly what they

will do. The message that would be genuinely helpful -- the message

of using regular everyday foods for healing -- doesn't see the light

of day.

The bottom line is that it turns out we have 40 percent of the

population in the United States of America now taking prescription

drugs. Virtually all of those drugs are medically unjustified. There

is no need for anyone to be on any statin drug. There is no need for

anyone to be on antidepressant drugs. There is no need for people to

be on beta blockers and other drugs related to cardiovascular

health. You can go down a list and look at the thousands of drugs

that are available, and in nearly every case, there is a food, an

herb, a nutritional supplement, or a lifestyle change that will work

far better and eliminate the need for that drug entirely.

And yet we live in a nation that's focused on drugs, and not focused

on healing foods. If we would just turn to the healing foods, we

could solve this health problem and return to a national state of

outstanding health, with a shocking drop in health care costs to

boot.