There are massive numbers of people trying lowering cholesterol drugs. Lowering cholesterol levels is big business, and the drug companies are cashing in, bigtime, with drugs that promise to lower your cholesterol levels.
But if you’ve got high cholesterol, should you be taking drugs to lower your cholesterol, or are there other more natural routes that you can take?
Because cholesterol lowering drugs aren’t necessarily the perfect answer to high cholesterol levels. There are some problems with some of the drugs, and not everyone is convinced that taking drugs is the answer.
One of the most popular drugs is statins. There are some doubts about the safety of statin drugs, and some have been removed from the market following health concerns. However statins are extremely profitable drugs, as patients need to take them for the rest of their lives, and many are still available.
Reported concerns from the use of statin drugs include pain and muscle weakness, cognitive impairment and memory loss, impotence and birth defects and increased risk of heart failure. There’s more, but I’m sure you get the message.
And according to many reports they don’t help that much lowering cholesterol either. But they make lots of money for the drug companies. Read more...