The Dangers Of Statins & The Side Effects

Statin drugs side-effects what are they and what are the other things that you

should be equally concerned about concerning a statin drug? Coming right up

Hey I'm Dr. Ekberg with Wellness For Life and if you'd like to truly master

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gonna talk about statin drugs side effects and this is a request from

Walter the Musician so I recently did a long video on cholesterol and we covered

a little bit if I wanted to expand on some of the mechanisms of the side

effects and talk about why we really need to understand how all this works so

here are some of the most commonly recognized side effects things like

liver damage and muscle damage and of course your primary muscle is the heart

there is problems with memory concentration and depression cholesterol

is very important for the brain there is pain and peripheral neuropathy there are

sleep problems sexual dysfunction and fatigue and these are just the main

reported one but the mechanism behind that is that there's a guaranteed thing

that happens and that is that it's going to reduce the amount of Co Q 10 it's a

very important enzyme that's vital for the energy production in mitochondria

and where do you need it the most you need it in the organs that use the

most energy which is your liver your heart and your brain pretty important

organs this is all based on something called a Mevalonate Pathway and you

don't have to understand these words but I just kind of put them in there so that

you know that there's something going on. So HMG-CoA Reductase that's an enzyme

that's involved with producing mevalonic acid and then there's a couple of

intermediaries that are not important at all that leads up to something called

farnesyl PP and this in turn becomes squalene which is a greasy

substance that the body uses to make cholesterol and then the same substance

is also used to make Co Q 10 so these two things compete for resources but

when you take a statin drug now the statin acts on this enzyme and it

inhibits it so a chemical substance that interferes with something in the body is

called a poison and that's essentially what these things are

so by blocking the this enzyme you're stopping this entire pathway and

therefore your body is no longer able to make the same amount of precursor for

the cholesterol and the Co Q 10 and if you watch that bigger Longer video that

I made on on cholesterol you understand that cholesterol is not a stupid mistake

the body doesn't go through all this trouble to make something that's harmful

it makes the exact right proportions and amounts of LDL and HDL cholesterol of

all the different sizes depending on what's going on in the body depending on

what the needs are to repair inflammation and provide precursors to

hormones and all these different things it's a very fine-tuned mechanism if you

eat less cholesterol your body makes more because it's an essential nutrient

your brain is 60 to 70 percent fat and 25% of that is cholesterol again that's

not a mistake it's an essential nutrient so when we interfere with the production

of this enzyme we're not just interfering with one essential nutrient

called cholesterol we're also shutting down energy production by interfering

with the production of Co Q 10 so now if we just go back to this list and we look

at liver damage muscle damage heart memory concentration depression most of

those is because the brain needs both cholesterol and coq10 it needs

cholesterol as building products and precursors and it

needs coq10 to make energy 95% of the energy in your body comes from the

oxidation of fuel with the help of oxygen and if you don't have the Co Q 10

you're going to reduce that amount of energy production and again your brain

your heart and your liver uses the most energy because they're the most

metabolically active organs that you have so when you interfere with the

building materials and the energy production now you get damaged in all

these vital organs these essential organs that provide essential functions

but here's the thing to think about even if you don't have a side effect even if

you don't notice some symptom are you better or worse off if your body has to

have something and you interfere with the production of it are you better or

worse off it worse off of course so what that means and in terms of every

medication versus virtually because the mechanism is to interfere with a pathway

in the body with the metabolic function and if the body is trying to do

something it's not by mistake it's doing it on purpose and by interfering with a

mechanism we are interfering with something the body feels is essential to

do and in every case you're worse off whether you get a noticeable symptom or

side effect or not when you interfere with the body when you reduce something

that the body has to have then you're worse off so that's something to keep in

mind and of course there is always a time and place for medication but it's

for life saving not from metabolic and lifestyle imbalances the way to correct

this we talked about in length in the other video but the main things to do is

to get some exercise to reduce sugar and carbohydrates and

things that create inflammation and insulin if you enjoy this sort of

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and please share this information with as many people as you can because there

are tens of millions of people on these drugs that are developing liver and

heart and brain problems as we speak and if they can understand that they just

need to shift their lifestyle just a tiny little bit in some cases and not

really suffer it's not about deprivation it's just knowing the sound the innate