Dr. Mark Hyman, physician, advocate and educator, takes drugs to task for just treating symptoms and not the underlying causes. Here is an excerpt from that article about lowering cholesterol and the link to the full article on his website.
The More You Know
Unfortunately, these scientists seemed to have short-term memory loss. Just three short years ago in 2007, another new “wonder” drug from Pfizer (torcetrapib) which worked on the same mechanism that anacetrapib does, was found to dramatically lower LDL and raise HDL cholesterol, just like this new drug from Merck. There was only one small problem — in those taking the drug, deaths from heart attacks increased 25 percent, deaths from heart disease increased 40 percent and overall deaths increased 200 percent.(ii) After spending $800 million in development Pfizer had to walk away from the drug. Oops. How can a drug that does all the right things (dramatically lowering bad cholesterol and raise good cholesterol) actually cause more heart disease and deaths?
Metabolic syndrome is the leading cause of
heart disease, diabetes, and a variety of
other chronic illnesses in this country.
The answer is simple. Drugs don’t treat the underlying causes of chronic illness. It is not our genes which haven’t changed much in 20,000 years, although they may predispose us to environmental and lifestyle triggers of illness. The causes of chronic disease are rooted in what we eat, how much we move, how we face stress, how connected we are to our communities and toxic chemicals and metals in our environment.
Read the complete article at the following link:
http://drhyman.com/seven-tips-to-fix-your-cholesterol-without-medication-3997/
