TMJ 'dysfunction' - Health implications

EXPOSED: If You or Someone You Love is Taking a Statin Drug, These Hushed-up Secrets Could Be Deadly

The medico/pharmaceutical establishment would like you to think that statin drugs are the answer to high cholesterol. Not true. In fact, for a large number of patients with high cholesterol, these drugs can actually trigger diabetes.

Recent findings: People taking high doses of cholesterol-lowering drugs had a 12% higher risk for diabetes than those taking moderate statin doses. And users of high doses had a 20% higher risk for diabetes than people who do not take statins at all.

Did your doctor or drug company tell you about this? PROBABLY NOT!

Now, you would think that a discovery of this magnitude might make headlines nationwide... but it didn't. Why? Because a discovery like this could put the drug companies out of business almost overnight! So the story was given "polite" coverage—buried in the middle of the newspapers. And that was that.

http://blinepubs.com/bottomlinesecrets/ ... uqs6fZ&DHN

Dr. Mercola says:

Tens of millions of Americans are taking cholesterol-lowering drugs—mostly statins—and some "experts" claim that many millions more should be taking them. I couldn't disagree more.

Statins are HMG-CoA reductase inhibitors, that is, they act by blocking the enzyme in your liver that is responsible for making cholesterol (HMG-CoA reductase).

The fact that statin drugs cause side effects is well established—there are now 900 studies proving their adverse effects, which run the gamut from muscle problems to increased cancer risk. For starters, reported side effects include:
Muscle problems
Polyneuropathy (nerve damage in the hands and feet)
Rhabdomyolysis (a serious degenerative muscle tissue condition)
Anemia
Acidosis
Sexual dysfunction
Immune depression
Cataracts
Pancreas or liver dysfunction, including a potential increase in liver enzymes
Memory loss

Muscle problems are the best known of statin drugs' adverse side effects, but cognitive problems and memory loss are also widely reported. A spectrum of other problems, ranging from blood glucose elevations to tendon problems, can also occur. There is evidence that taking statins may even increase your risk for Lou Gehrig's disease, diabetes and even cancer.
Please read the full article:
http://articles.mercola.com/sites/artic ... ealed.aspx