Cholesterol, Statins, The Hidden Truth

If you have been following my blogs, I think you know and understand my compassion about the adverse effects of using antacid medications. I have discussed how they are actually a poison and can cause disease.

I am going to switch gears for a few weeks discussing a new topic. CHOLESTEROL. So strange, even when I read that word, I associate it with bad health, and heart disease.

Do You?

If you say yes, then you are another victim of skewed science and great marketing by the pharmaceutical industry. Get ready for a series of blogs that will help you understand the truth behind cholesterol, and learn about another health crippling medication that millions of Americans are already taking.

Nearly every person has been exposed to the random blood screen for “wellness” where they check your blood for possible problems. They always analyze your total cholesterol levels and then try to explain to you how bad your need to get the total level lower. They seldom analyze the ratio of HDL:LDL and they seldom explain to you why your cholesterol levels are high. The only purpose of this screen is to scare you into thinking that your cholesterol levels will lead to possible heart disease and the only way to keep this from happening is to figure out the proper dose of a Statin (a cholesterol lowering medication) that your body needs to keep this excess in cholesterol at bay. But is there any clinical study to back up that scare tactic?

The answer is NO.

The small print, no drug company wants to publish.

THERE HAS BEEN ZERO CLINICAL STUDIES THAT SHOW TAKING A STATIN MEDICATION WILL LOWER YOUR CHANCE OF HEART DISEASE. On the bright side, there has been some small evidence that if males have had a heart attack, taking a statin drug will reduce his risk of having a second heart attack. Do you know what I think is a more logical factor of what prevents males from having a second heart attack? Maybe its because they had a first heart attack, and then had to realize that they need to make some changes in their life, because a heart attack is pretty serious.

Here is what a Statin Drug does to inhibit production of cholesterol. 

As you can see, statin drugs inhibit the function of HMG-CoA Reductase to convert HMG-CoA to Mevalonate.

Did you just read that, I said "Inhibits the function of something...

Lets go back to the definition of poison, shall we?

poison [ˈpɔɪz^ən]

n

1. (Medicine) any substance that can impair function, cause structural damage, or otherwise injure the body

Do the statin medications fall under the classification as a poison????

I hope you are wondering, why is cholesterol demonized as the culprit behind heart disease and heart attacks???

Many years ago, autopsies were performed on a numerous amount of patients that met their maker in the hands of a heart attack. The blood analysis of these patients did show a high cholesterol level. This correlation is what spawned the idea of creating a medication that would decrease cholesterol levels. This concept does seem to make sense, but, I assume or hope, it was not fully understood why cholesterol is in the blood stream.

If you think that having high cholesterol levels is linked to eating a high fat diet, you are wrong. If you are worried about eating the yolk of an egg because of your cholesterol, sorry, that is ridiculous. Only 25% of the cholesterol that courses through your blood is a result of you eating fat. 75% of your total cholesterol levels in the blood are PRODUCED BY THE LIVER.

What is cholesterol?

Sorry, cholesterol is not just that fatty deposit that you find in your arteries when you have blockage.

Cholesterol is a HORMONE.

All hormones in the body are produced by the body, used by the body, and are absolutely necessary for health.

And CHOLESTEROL IS THE PRECURSOR TO almost EVERY MAJOR HORMONE!! Look at the chart to the right, progesterone, estrogen, and testosterone are formed from the break down of cholesterol.

Want to know some other functions that cholesterol has?

• Fat metabolism
• Yes, fat metabolism, eating saturated fats does not make you gain fat.
• Cell development
• Cell wall formation
• Blood vessel wall strengthening
• Yes, strengthening.
• Bile production
• This is how Cheerios lowers cholesterol. It requires bile to digest the fiber.
• Vitamin D production
• Nerve cell production
• Statins have showed links to increasing prevalance of Alzheimer's
• Production of lubrication fluids

I hope it is easy to understand why the liver produces cholesterol to support the health and life us each and every one of us, but I still need to answer the question.

Why, did all of the people that met their maker due to heart disease have high cholesterol levels???

Along with being a building block to many of the body's necessary hormones and being a major component in many of the body's natural function, cholesterol as one very important job to do, that without it, disease is inevitable.

Cholesterol is a natural anti inflammatory healing substance. It is required to decrease inflammation in the blood and other tissues. Without cholesterol, we absolutely cannot heal injured tissue.

If you have ever looked into your blood test or your cholesterol screening test, you will see a bunch of different levels that no one takes into consideration. HDL, LDL, VLDL, Triglycerides, ect. All of these have different meanings, but the big two that I am concerned with are HDL, and LDLs.

They always check your total cholesterol and if it is above 200, you are in trouble, Right?

Well what they never address is why that level is high. What causes your LDLs, or HDLs to be elevated in the blood stream. Well just so you know, the cause is often the solution. No statin drug will help with you real problem.

I will try to draw you a mental picture of what is going on with cholesterol in the blood.

1. Inflammation is like a fire
2. LDLs are like fire extinguishers
3. HDLs are like sweepers that clean up debris

There are a few inflammatory markers in the blood, but the most important factor that is related to heart disease, cholesterol, health, obesity, and our diet is insulin. Insulin is the most anabolic and inflammatory hormone that courses through our blood and it is solely there in response to our diet. When we eat sugar, our pancreas releases insulin to bind to the sugar and take it across the barrier to enter the muscle, or any other tissue.

So, here is the issue. When we eat too much sugar for too long, the insulin doesn't have anywhere to push the sugar to, as the muscles are completely saturated. And we can discuss how a lack of physical exercise will increase the need to muscles to use sugar, but that is for another blog.

So, we have an abundance of sugar, which is inflammatory, or a fire in the blood stream. We have an abundance of insulin, which is inflammatory, another fire, trying to get the sugar out. But neither can do their job because we do not need any more sugar in our tissues. The body has to get this fire out of the blood stream, so it signals the liver to produce a fire extinguisher, LDLs. The LDLs are release from the liver, into the blood and races to every inflammatory particle in the blood. The amount of LDLs is in direct relation to your level of inflammation, or how big of a fire you have created with your diet.

After these LDLs have extinguished the fire that you created by eating too much sugar, here comes the HDLs to the rescue. HDLs are like the sweepers, that collect all of the LDLs that have bound themselves to the inflammation, and transports it back to the liver to be excreted, or thrown away.

Needless to say, your total cholesterol level in your blood, or your HDL + LDL levels are in direct correlation to your body's inflammation level. And more importantly, cholesterol is absolutely VITAL in decreasing your systemic inflammation levels. So blocking your ability to produce a vital hormone to decrease you total cholesterol levels is absolutely absurd.

Stop eating an inflammatory diet, and your liver will not produce as much cholesterol to put out the fire. If you block the ability to make cholesterol with a statin, and you do not decrease your demand for cholesterol by eating better, your health will suffer.... Greatly.

So what happens when you take a Statin drug, that blocks your body's ability to produce cholesterol when your liver is in demand of it. Stay Tuned.

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The Gateway Drug. Causing Disease

I hope that you have enjoyed the blog series on The Gateway Drug so far.

I have recently discussed the definition of poison, and how I feel the effects of Antacid use is plausible to being a poisonous substance. I discussed the definition of disease, and I linked the poisonous properties of the Antacid medication to actually causing disease. As you can probably see, I am strongly against the use of any synthetic medication that will alter the normal function of the body, because they only mask the symptoms, and it is inevitable for many symptoms and conditions to be stimulated.

If you notice the first edition to The Gateway Drug Blog Series, I discussed how I feel that a gateway drug was a way for the world of pharmaceutical companies to provide a product that they know, due to the obvious biochemistry, will cause more harm than good.

Now I am going to spend a little time discussing another condition, and how the treacherous side effect of prolonged Antacid use.

Psychological Disorders- What is going wrong? We all know someone that has recently by diagnosed

Tired of feeling down?

with one of the new hot conditions. Manic Depressive, Bi-Polar, ADHD, ADD, Schizophrenic, etc. All of these conditions  have to do with proper synapses of the neurological system of the brain and nervous system. Some of the common symptoms experienced with psychological disorders include:

• morbid fears
• severe fatigue
• depression
• paranoia
• confusion
• anger
• suicidal tendencies

As most of you know, Xanax, and many other antidepressant medications are flooding the market because everyone is starting to feel symptoms of depression.

But what if I told you that all of these conditions are simply a B-Vitamin complex deficiency?

It's True!

Look at the symptoms that correspond to a deficiency in B-Vitamins, most important B1, or Thiamine.

Symptoms of Vitamin B Deficiency

• fears
• fatigue
• depression
• paranoia
• confusion
• hostility
• rage
• anxiety

I am pretty sure that anyone can see the similarities. 

Here is the fun part... If you have already read my other blogs on The Gateway Drug, you will already know how taking an Antacid Medication can inhibit your ability to digest and assimilate the necessary B-Vitamins from our food.

I guess you understand why it is not a coincidence that every single person that I have seen with a long history of Antacid use has symptoms of depression. The condition is treatable, but you have to stop ingesting the cause.

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The Gateway Drug... Is it poison?

poison [ˈpɔɪz^ən]

n

1. (Medicine) any substance that can impair function, cause structural damage, or otherwise injure the body

Seeing the title of this post, most people associate the term “poison” with a strange potion or concoction that is mixed up by witches with a large kettle or some venom that comes from the bite of a snake. But, the term poison can be used much more widely than the socially accepted idea.

Myself, and I am sure all of my readers, are not interested in ingesting something that is poisonous, right? We do not drink bleach, carpet cleaner, or gasoline, because we know that it will harm our health. We would never seek out a poisonous food and eat it, because all in all, we all want to be healthier today than we were yesterday.

It is pretty easy to understand that if you eat something poisonous, it will hurt your overall health, and no doctor would ever prescribe something that is poisonous, or something that will hurt your health, Right?

I wish it was true…

If you read the previous blog you will remember that we discussed the definition of disease. Disease is a result of an impairment of function. I discussed extensively how an antacid medication is the cause of disease because it impairs the stomachs ability to produce HCl.

After reading the blog myself, I realized that there is one point that I passed over. There is a definition for a substance that impairs a bodily function. As you can see above, the medicinal definition of POISON is any substance that can impair function.

What am I saying?

I think it is easy to make the connection that given the definitions of poison and disease, impairment of function is the major contributor to any bodily problem.

I kept trying to make a definitive correlation between antacid medication and the cause of disease, but now I think it is easy to understand how the proton pump inhibiting class of medications cause disease.
THEY ARE POISON.

By definition of poison, a substance that impairs function is a poison. If antacid medications impair the function of the stomach, they are, by definition, a poison. Right?

So lets be clear.

A poison is a substance that impairs bodily function. Disease is the expression of the body when it has an impaired function. So ingesting poison will cause disease. Antacids impair the body’s ability to produce HCl (a vital nutrient for digestion). Antacids are a poison, that cause disease.

I hope that after reading these three blogs on The Gateway Drug, you all are asking yourself, and everyone that you know if you are a victim of the gateway

drug, antacids. If you catch yourself suffering from heartburn, I want you to understand the decision you are making when you mask that pain with Tums, or Prilosec. You are absolutely putting a poisonous substance in your mouth, and further health problems are almost inevitable.

As you are probably finding out from my blogs, I have no problem with being blunt. I am only trying to educate each of you on the problems within our health care system. If you do not open your eyes to seek the truth, you and your family will fall down the treacherous path that our health care system wants you on. The only outcome of this path is simple… Poor health, and expensive health care costs.

Be informed, because after all,

Your Health is Your Responsibility. 

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The Gateway Drug, A Cause of Disease...

disease [dɪˈziːz]

n

1. (Medicine / Pathology) any impairment of normal physiological function affecting all or part of an organism, esp a specific pathological change caused by infection, stress, etc., producing characteristic symptoms; illness or sickness in general

A medical definition of disease states the following. Any impairment of normal physiological function affecting all or part of an organism producing characteristic symptoms, illness or sickness in general.

I continue to discuss what I have discovered to be a gateway drug into many other medical conditions or diseases as the definition states.

Yes, I am saying that the gateway drug, antacids or proton pump inhibitors, are causing disease.

Think about it this way. What does the drug do again. It inhibits the function of the stomach. It impairs the stomach to make a vital substance for digestion, Hydrochloric Acid (HCl). Let’s go right back to the definition of disease; any impairment of normal physiological function.

SO to be clear, people take this gateway drug to supposedly treat the stomach that is already in dysfunction, buy impairing it to be impaired. Have you ever tried to heal an open wound by cutting it with a knife? Have you ever tried to unboil an egg by boiling it? It absolutely makes zero sense to try to treat a dysfunctional organ by inhibiting its function.

So, the big question is… Why are about 30% of our fellow Americans taking this toxic gateway drug to treat heartburn?

Any market, any business, any salesman is interested in one thing. The UPSELL.. Give someone a cheap trial version of your product so they will buy more. That is precisely what is happening to the health of Americans. We are taking medications that shut functions of our body down to treat an already dysfunctional body. The only outcome of this is to further increase the prevalence of diseases.

Welcome to our climbing healthcare costs, and plummeting health.

Now let’s go to the second half of the definition of disease, this impairment of physiological function produces symptoms, illness, or sickness.

So, now you should be wondering, what symptoms or illness does taking the gateway drug cause in the body.

Let’s start with Fibromyalgia.

If you break the word Fibromyalgia down, it simply means pain in soft tissue. Fibromyalgia is a condition that is diagnosed by applying pressure to 18 pressure points in the belly of major muscle groups and the condition is diagnosed if you have pain in at least 11 of them.

There are an endless amount primary care physicians and neurologists that want you to believe that Fibromyalgia is a neurological condition that requires the use of Lyrica (upsell medication). Lyrica is designed to impair your nerve endings from firing so you no longer feel the pain from the condition.

THIS IS WRONG…

Have you ever worked out and had that dull muscle pain and soreness? That is pain in soft tissue, right? Well it’s true, the pain that is causing the post workout muscle soreness is a buildup of the byproduct of using a muscle, lactic acid. Lactic acid is then converted back into pyruvate to be used again and your muscle soreness goes away. I am not going to go into a deep discussion of biochemistry and how pyruvate is the building block in the Krebb’s cycle for energy production, but just understand that without this cycle, we have no energy for life.

Do you remember be saying that I have never seen a patient with Fibromyalgia that also didn’t have a history of antacid use? Well here is why.

The metabolic pathway that converts the built up lactic acid back to pyruvate requires a very specific set of B-vitamins. B-Vitamins are an extensive complex of nutrients that are water soluble. This means that they cannot be stored in the fat cells of the body, and we must intake an abundance of these vitamins each day to maintain a healthy level. The specific B-vitamins that are required for the lactic acid and pyruvate cycle are found primarily in green leafy vegetables and require something pretty specific to be properly digested and assimilated.

Guess what specific compound is needed to digest these B-vitamins.

HCl. That is right, HCl. Without an acidic stomach we have no ability to digest the vitamins that remove the lactic acid from our muscles and we cannot stop the feeling of soreness within them.

As I have already extensively discussed, the gateway drug that these articles are all about are designed to impair one specific process, the production of HCl. With inadequate HCl levels, you inhibit the ability to adequately digest B-Vitamins. With a deficiency in B-vitamins you cannot convert lactic acid back into pyruvate. Increased levels of lactic acid in the muscle leads to soreness. Chronic soreness of muscles is now called Fibromyalgia.

As you can probably deduce, treatment of this condition should never include the use of a neurological inhibitor like Lyrica, as you are treating the symptom of pain instead of the cause of the pain. Join the New-Start Solution, and learn how we accurately and effectively treat the condition of Fibromyalgia without any crazy, function inhibiting medications. Instead we use wholefood supplementation to restore function and cure disease.

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A True Gateway Drug

When you see the title of this post, you probably are thinking about the socially,and media accepted "gateway drug" marijuana. This is not about Marijuana, but a commonly prescribed, commonly taken class of
medication that is the gateway to stimulate the need for a plethora of medications.

I do not feel as if I am a conspiracy theorist, but I am someone who is forced to think outside the box to find the true answers. As a health care provider, I feel it is important to follow our Hippocratic Oath, "At Least, Do No Harm." Through clinical practice, I  have discovered one drug that I find is doing more harm than good.

And maybe that is the intentions of the pharmaceutical industry...

Anyone who studies biochemistry for an hour realizes that our digestive system is the most important function in the body. I know that everyone in the pharmaceutical industry that is responsible for designing and manufacturing medications have had a course in basic biochemistry. After a brief review of this science, you  will find that there an abundant amount of necessary nutrients that our bodies utilize to keep the body in a healthy, homeostatic state. The digestive system is responsible for digesting and assimilating all of these vital nutrients, and restoring our bodies health. Any holistic healthcare provider will discuss that the body is capable of healing itself, but without a proper function digestive tract, you cannot.

If digestion is the most necessary function, why do we keep taking a medication to shut it off?

Again, it is common knowledge for anyone that reads some information on biochemistry, and all, I repeat, all doctors that prescribe medicine should refresh their memories on the subject. I say this because if you have had your doctor prescribe this drug to you, or suggest you even try this class of medication, they DO NOT UNDERSTAND THE BODY, or YOUR HEALTH.

So what is the gateway drug I am talking about?

It is Antacids, or heartburn medication.

These proton pump inhibitors are designed to stop the production of HCl in the stomach.

Why are they prescribed?

Due to major marketing advertisements leading you to believe that heartburn or Acid Reflux, or GERD are caused by too much stomach acid in the stomach, THIS IS FALSE.

The truth is, all of the common stomach acid conditions that we have become familiar with are not caused by too much acid in the stomach, but too LITTLE stomach acid. When you do not have enough stomach acid and the pH of your stomach elevates above the optimal 1-2 to a basic level, you lose the ability to break down proteins and carbohydrates to a readily digestible form. As the food that you eat enters a stomach without the proper digestive properties, they will just sit in the stomach undigested and will start to break down and ferment. As we all know, when you eat food, there are two outcomes that the bulk of our meal has to exit the body. Digested food go down the intestinal tract to be assimilated and excreted as feces. Undigested food go the opposite direction, that means, it comes back up and is regurgitated. (This is Acid Reflux) And after time and time again of using antacid medication, the body will become depleted of nutrients and it will start to send undigested nutrients into the small intestine, this is what leads to food allergies. You can learn more about that in an upcoming blog.

Just to recap, I will explain the basics of biochemistry that all of your health care providers and pharmaceutical personnel know but are not acknowledging.

We need a very acidic stomach, pH of 1-2, to properly digest carbohydrates and proteins so they can be assimilated and utilized by the body. Stomach acid is produced by proton pumps in the form of HCl, or hydrochloric acid. Without proper levels of HCl, we have symptoms of heartburn and acid reflux due to inadequate breakdown of nutrients and the body is trying to get the undigested foods out of the body.

Now, the greatest question that cannot come up with an good answer is this...

If all practicing doctors and pharmaceutical technicians have studied biochemistry, and understand that heartburn and acid reflux are due to too LITTLE acid in the stomach, WHY ARE THEY PRESCRIBING AN ACID LOWERING MEDICATION TO TREAT THIS?????

This is the where the critical thinking mind of mine struggles to believe that an ulterior motive is not in place.

Would it be alarming to you to find out that I have never seen a patient with a diagnosis of Fibromyalgia, Depression, or Restless Leg Syndrome that did not have a history of antacid use?

This is true, every single patient that I treat for Fibromyalgia, Depression and RLS have had a long history of stomach issues where antacids were prescribed. I think we are far beyond coincidental, and it unfortunately even makes sense. Antacids are a gateway drug, or a way for pharmaceutical companies to upsell more products.

This blog is the first of a series to further explain my rationale on "The Gateway Drug" so get ready to learn how antacid medications are increasing the demand for medication for the following conditions:

• B12 deficiency
• Fibromyalgia
• Depression
• Food Allergy
• Irritable Bowel Syndrome
• Cancer
• Many More....

-Dr. Moz

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