Re: Statins
Originally Posted by
Aerolor
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For Ted Hutchinson
Good morning Ted. I have been watching this thread with interest for a little while now and I wonder if you could let folks know what your scientific background and professional qualifications are and/or what your profession is/was. Are you a clinician?
The reason I post links to the scientific evidence is because that is what is important.
Who anyone is or who they claim to be is totally irrelevant. I post in my own name so people can recognise (and avoid if they want to) my posts.
If you have a reading age above 12 you should be able to understand, or have a reasonable grasp of my posts and by repeatedly reading the science and blog items that explain that science in layman's language everyone of us here can become as knowledgeable as health professionals.
We have got to try to make the effort to understand how consensus medical opinion has become separated from EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE.
I don't want anyone to believe what I say, I want you to follow the links I present, make the effort needed to understand those links yourself, and UNDERSTAND, how modern medical research is showing there are better ways to lose weight than those that have failed for the last 30years. There are better ways to prevent Diabetes than the failed policies and practices we currently use and more importantly we can and should be taking action now to reduce/prevent cancer and dementia incidence.
The science is there to help us make rational and evidence based decisions.
It was 60 years ago they first understood low vitamin D status was associated with MS incidence.
Because there is so much money to be made from treating MS with medication there is no incentive to take any action that may reduce the incidence of MS.
We have all got to take responsibility for our own health and try to make the effort to understand how best to avoid those factors that drive the most common chronic conditions. When we do that we will be in a better position to understand how the medications offered to us by our doctors may help treat the symptoms and how they may fail to treat the cause of the condition. Only when we treat the cause of our problems will we be able reduce our reliance on medication.
I had polio as a child and 30+ years later experienced premature ageing, constant pain, mental health problems and increased levels of disability. I exhausted the range of prescription pain, mental health, medications and became resistant to all antibiotics so was faced with the uncomfortable and depressing prospect of spending the rest of my life in a wheelchair being cared for by others. This drove my determination to understand the basis of chronic pain, the way ageing affects mental health and the way immune function can be improved. So I now no longer take any prescription medications although of course if they were required I would do so. I'm not against modern medicine but I think it's best if we rely on it only as a last resort.
We now have the internet and access to much of the modern science is free and online, and MOST RESEARCHERS will, if you ask them nicely, forward full text papers to those who contact them, and some will answer questions if you are unable to understand what the paper is trying to explain.
So over time you can build your understanding of your own condition and by keeping up to date with the science you may be in a position to make informed judgements of what may be your best bet way of heading off further deterioration and maybe restoring some of your former strength and mobility, and immune function.
We all know that as we age human ability to create melatonin and vitamin D3 naturally declines. We can choose to lose the neuroprotection melatonin and vitamin D offer or we can cheaply and easily replace those missing natural neuroprotective hormones.
We can also all follow the example of
TEDxIowaCity - Dr. Terry Wahls - Minding Your Mitochondria