Statin drugs may be doing damage to your heart muscle

Statin drugs could be KILLING your heart!

If you’re diabetic and the mainstream has managed to strong-arm you into taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs by telling you that you’re “protecting your heart,” do me a favor.

Read this article sitting down.

Because I’ve got a game of connect-the-dots in store for you that may just give you a bit of a shock.

It turns out those very same “heart healthy” statin drugs could be terrorizing your ticker.

Using a brand new ultra-sensitive screening method, Johns Hopkins researchers have revealed that diabetics are SIX TIMES more likely to be handed a heart failure diagnosis than healthy non-diabetics.

And it’s all because they’re turning up with dangerous, chronic heart muscle damage.

That’s bad enough, right? But even more disturbing, researchers say they have no clue why diabetics are at such a high risk for devastating damage to their heart muscles.

They say it’s a mystery. I say the REAL problem is as plain as the nose on their face.

Let’s connect some dots for them, shall we?

It’s standard practice for conventional doctors to prescribe statin drugs to their type 2 diabetes patients, even if they DON’T have high cholesterol. In fact, the American College of Physicians has said, “All adults with type 2 diabetes … should be taking statins, regardless of their cholesterol levels.”

That’s not just bad advice — that could be a death sentence.

Because while it may be a mystery how diabetes could cause heart muscle damage, it’s certainly NOT a mystery with statins.

Your heart muscle uses more energy than any other part of your body. And the key to supplying that constant energy is the powerful antioxidant CoQ10. It’s essential for heart muscle function and when it dips too low your risk of heart failure skyrockets.

And what depletes CoQ10? If you guessed statin drugs you win a stuffed elephant!

But wait, there’s one more dot to connect here to solve this “mystery.”

Statin drugs have another well-known side effect… the muscle breakdown or damage known as rhabdomyolysis.

And while we can’t say for sure yet that statins cause the same kinds of damage to heart muscles as they do to other muscles in the body, generally where you find smoke you also find fire.

If you happen to know anyone at Johns Hopkins, you might want to give them a call and let them know we’ve solved their “mystery.” In fact, it looks like the only REAL mystery here is that otherwise intelligent mainstream doctors and researchers continue to cling to their stubborn denials about the dangers of statin drugs.

Without question, if you have type 2 diabetes you SHOULD be taking steps to protect your heart. Fortunately you can do that with the help of two key mineral supplements that will never stress your heart or threaten to damage that all-important muscle.

Dr. Wright: I tell my patients if they’ve never had a “low blood sugar” episode — weakness, increasing hunger, and anxiety that grows worse until food is eaten again — then eating whenever their body calls for it is just fine. And that’s the case for the two-thirds of us who don’t have unstable blood sugar.

If not eating in the morning has not yet created unstable blood sugar, then it’s not likely to do so in the future (unless you have weak adrenal function — technically called hypoadrenocorticism — that typically first shows up in your teen years or later).

If mom or dad ARE in that one third with the genetic predisposition to type 2 diabetes however, then telling the kids to eat first thing in the morning and consume regular, smaller meals is the right advice.

Sources:

Diabetics Face Much Greater Risk of Heart Damage, Study Says
(nlm.nih.gov)

Statin therapy decreases myocardial function as evaluated via strain imaging
(nlm.nih.gov)