Kids On Cholesterol Drugs? Are You Kidding?
If I were you I would be more worried about this than gas prices.
I have been studying health and wellness since 1995. I have conducted thousands of office visits and helped hundreds of people restore purity and sufficiency to their bodies, resulting in amazing health, but I am amazed at the number of sick people still walking around. It’s actually abnormal in today’s society to be healthy. How can everyone be so sick?
After years of studying, I have discovered some startling findings on my quest to determine why we keep getting sicker and sicker. It just did not make any sense to me. How can we be the wealthiest country in the world, have the most hospitals, drugs and technology and be one of the sickest countries? Something is seriously wrong with giving kids cholesterol drugs and we need to take action quickly before it’s too late.
The Medical Community has been pounding the need of cholesterol drugs into Americans for years (it runs in your family, it’s genetic, you need our drugs)… they have done a great job of convincing you that you need them and now there after your kids. Do you realize how much this expands there market and their profit? That’s what it’s about, Money.
It’s not about the health of your child. If it was then they would be teaching you and your children to be healthy so you would not need drugs. Instead they want to basically have your child on drugs for life.
If cholesterol drugs work so well…then why is Heart Disease still one of the leading killers in the US?
It’s not because people are not taking their drugs, there’re taking them, and still dying! Only with lower cholesterol!
Let’s review the facts about cholesterol:
We have been led to believe that cholesterol is some raging disease and that you can’t do anything about it. Why? Because like every other “dis-ease” in our country it’s blamed on genetics. You see, if they can convince you cholesterol is bad and genetics is the cause then you can’t do anything about it, except take a drug…and be on that drug for life.
Being on a drug for life will make some people very, very rich but probably not you. They’re actually recommending that KIDS take cholesterol medications now! What for? So we can have an even sicker generation than the one we have now. How much more money will “they” make from this?
Here’s the truth about cholesterol.
1. Cholesterol is only “bad” when it is oxidized…oxidation makes it sticky.
a. “Oxidation leads to inflammation and plaque formation within the arteries no matter what your cholesterol level is. In fact, the majority of people dying of heart disease have NORMAL LDL cholesterol levels! The reason: because their LDL cholesterol and arteries are oxidized.”
i. Dr. Ladd McNamara, M.D. The Cholesterol Conspiracy 2nd Edition
2. People with normal or low cholesterol are just as likely to die as those with high levels. (remember it’s about oxidation, not your total cholesterol)
a. Over 13 million Americans take drugs to control their cholesterol. However 50% of people with normal cholesterol still have heart attacks.
i. American Journal of Cardiology 2003, August 1; (92) 3)
3. High Cholesterol is genetic…genetic plays only a very, very small part…nowhere close to explaining the true number we’re seeing.
a. Familial hypercholesterol is 1/500 or 0.2%
i. Am J Epidemiol 2004 Sep 1; 160(5):408-420
The truth is you need cholesterol for many normal and required body functions, to make cell membranes, sex, stress hormones. What do you think happens if you or your child needs higher cholesterol to deal with excess stress (resulting in higher levels so you can produce the necessary stress hormones for an adequate stress response) and you artificially reduce it with a drug? Say hello to depression…but don’t worry there is a drug for that too.
What you may not know, or have been told is that cholesterol is mainly produced in the liver and is a direct component of your sex hormones (testosterone, estrogen, progesterone). The major roll of LDL, you know the “bad” cholesterol is to transport cholesterol from the liver to the gonads to make your sex hormones, which are necessary for development especially during puberty.
What do you think happens when you take a statin drug, like Lipitor, to block LDL production? Now you can’t transport cholesterol to the gonads to make sex hormones (estrogen, progesterone, testosterone). How will this affect the child development?
You need your cholesterol but you must keep your oxidative stress under control so your LDL does not become sticky. Oxidative stress comes from pore diet, environmental pollutants, drugs, radiation and other life style issues.
A poor diet, especially ones high in processed grains, breads, whole wheat, low fat foods and sugars will cause your cholesterol and oxidation to rise making your cholesterol dangerous.
Cholesterol production is mostly insulin driven so that must be addressed first. The number one intervention is always diet and exercise to control insulin levels and slow oxidation in your body. The only side effect of healthier diet and more exercise is a better looking body, lower cholesterol, lower oxidation, increases libido and the ability to do something about it…without a drug or the possibility of blindness.
High cholesterol is not a genetic problem for over 99% of Americans. It’s a lifestyle problem that need to be addressed at the cause…not with more drugs.
Eat Well, Think Well, Move Well
Dr. Aaron
P.S. The diet recommendations I’m talking about are not available in any fad diet books or programs. For more information on the diet recommendations or Functional Medicine Testing please feel free to email me at draaron@unitedwellness.net.
