Health Doesn't Come in a Pill Bottle: Obesity, Diabetes and Statin Drugs

What Are You Putting in Your Mouth?

The medical profession has been held in, well, awe since the beginning of time. We are trained to believe that whatever emanates from them is gospel truth, whether it’s a doctor, a study or a drug company. They know, you don’t. Listen to your doctor. I believe it’s high time to start challenging and questioning, particularly since money now rules the roost.

Obesity and its accompanying effects are running rampant, so now of course drug companies have come up with a pill to fix it. Right. The fix doesn’t come in drug form. The fix is a lifestyle change that is entirely doable, and has been done countless times.

Obesity is a result of a diet that is largely sugar and carbs. A lack of exercise obviously plays in as well. Weight gain is accompanied by diabetes because all that sugar and flour have to be neutralized by insulin. And after a lifetime of eating like this, the pancreas finally exhausts itself and the insulin shots begin. (Good to note- you can be diagnosed with type 2 diabetes and still not be overweight.)

All this sugar and insulin in the bloodstream have been shown to trigger heart disease that’s very likely with diabetes, as well as a loss of memory, kidney damage, and neuropathy that can result in blindness and amputations. The chronically high levels of sugar and insulin in your bloodstream eat at your innards, and a lifetime of assaulting your guts with this stuff takes a horrible toll. And it’s all so very preventable and reversible.

Go into any grocery store, and what you’ll find are aisles and aisles of carbs- pasta, breakfast cereal, crackers, cookies, chips, baking goods, and let’s not forget that wonderful smelling bakery in the corner. Then there’s the sugar- the soda aisle and the candy. All of that feeds obesity, diabetes and heart disease. It’s a trap- we are accosted with “food” that will kill us. And on the other hand, the medical profession wants to push drugs rather than reversing what got us into this position in the first place.

Your Typical Scenario

Here’s how it’s apt to go:

Step one- We are raised on carbs and sugar- breakfast cereal, sandwiches, chips, potatoes with every meal, desserts, soda or sweet tea.

Step two- We start to gain weight, especially in middle age. These days, this is when the weight loss drugs get pushed. I’d hate to guess what the side effects of those are.

Step three- We are diagnosed as pre-diabetic. Here come the next drugs- Metformin specifically. Standard medical advice- eat better, exercise. Well, in their world, eating better does not mean cutting carbs. They just want you to switch to so-called "healthy whole grain" carbs. The only difference- they are digested more slowly. It's still basically sugar.

Step four- Still eating as we always have, the pancreas is exhausted. Now it’s insulin shots.

Step five- Heart disease is diagnosed. Enter the pharmaceutical industry cash cow. Statins (cholesterol-lowering meds) are pushed as absolute life-savers. And now, statins are prescribed whether you have been diagnosed with heart trouble or not. This monstrous statin drug debacle is crammed down our throats in just about every doctor's office on the planet now.

Step six- statin side effects, and all the nasty fall-out from long-term diabetes that has only had drugs shoved at it.

Why Statins are So Dangerous

Drug protocol is based on old, faulty thinking- that cholesterol and dietary fat are bad. So they tell you to cut the red meat, butter, whole fat dairy, etc., not realizing that none of that causes heart disease. Heart disease comes from the 3 alarm fire set off in your system by the constant assault of carbs, sugar and insulin in your bloodstream, as well as the "healthy" processed seed oils that are anything but healthy. The cholesterol is sent by your body to put out that fire, not make it worse.

The cholesterol-lowering meds that are inevitably prescribed are first, completely unnecessary, and second, actually cause more damage than they will ever fix. They contribute to the memory loss that diabetes can cause in the first place because 25% of your cholesterol is in your brain.

They cause muscle pain and weakness to the point of crippling you up. Statins interfere with the production of CoQ10, vital to muscle health. Now consider- your heart is a muscle. Statins can and do destroy your heart, the one thing they are supposed to protect.

If you don’t already have diabetes, statins can gift you with that as well. The list of side effects is mind-boggling. And another tragedy of this whole scenario- the memory and muscle side effects are frequently dismissed as aging.

Cholesterol is made by your body for a reason- you need it. Just say NO.

The Fix

All this is very preventable early on, but very reversible as well, assuming the worst damage hasn’t been done yet. A low carb diet, if not full-on keto isn’t easy at first, but is absolutely life-changing. Once new, better eating habits are established, the changes will amaze you. Weight and brain fog lift. Even if you don’t go full keto, just backing off the sugar and carbs makes quite a difference. And yes, you can do it. Just re-read the end results of a lifelong carb-heavy diet for motivation. You really don’t want to go there.

We desperately need to start thinking for ourselves and do our own research. The medical industry is run on greed and they will continue to push drug “fixes” for all the money they can make off them. Your health is not the industry's priority. The medical industry doesn’t care about your health. They want your money. Maybe your doctor truly cares, but the industry they work for doesn’t.

You can take charge of your own health, and it starts with how you shop at the grocery store. Educate yourself. Do your own research. The books listed below are a great start and I’m sure there are plenty more now; these are the ones I ordered quite a few years ago. Some of these authors may have YouTube channels and/or blogs. Keto is a huge thing now. Finding help isn’t difficult.

Knowledge Is Power

Recommended Reading

Statins

The Truth About Statins: Risks and Alternatives to Cholesterol Lowering Drugs by Barbara H. Roberts, M.D.

Ignore the Awkward: How Cholesterol Myths Are Kept Alive by Uffe Ravnskov, M.D., Ph.D.

Statin Drugs Side Effects and the Misguided War on Cholesterol by Duane Graveline M.D.

How Statin Drugs Really Lower Cholesterol and Kill You One Cell at a Time by James B. Yoseph and Hannah Yoseph, M.D.

This is a link to their simplified version; both have all but disappeared. This book exposes the truth about these drugs, their fungus origins and how the FDA knew what they would do, but approved them anyway. You can request to be notified if copies resurface at any number of book sites like Thriftbooks, Alibris and Abebooks.