I agree - it IS disappointing to see him promoting a dangerous med. He figured out the vax dangers early on; why can't he see this?
Have to remember something tho. He IS a doctor and has therefore spent many years in the hallowed halls of brainwashing (med school). That's bound to come out somewhere.
Why take a Statin when many other natural substances work as well or better:
"What impact does niacin have on cholesterol?
Niacin can lower triglycerides by 25% and raise HDL cholesterol by more than 30%."
Apples & onions contain the flavonoid quercetin, as do many other fruits & vegetables. Apples also contain millions of beneficial bacterial, and pectin, both good for gut health. Thus, an apple a day can keep the doctor away, much to the chagrin of Big Pharma:
"Quercetin is one of the most common flavonoids. More and more studies have found that quercetin has great potential utilization value in cardiovascular diseases (CVD), such as antioxidant, antiplatelet aggregation, antibacterial, cholesterol lowering, endothelial cell protection, etc. However, the medicinal value of quercetin is mostly limited to animal models and preclinical studies.
"Test tube studies show that quercetin prevents damage from LDL cholesterol, and population studies show that people who eat diets high in flavonoids have lower cholesterol. One study found that people who took quercetin and an alcohol-free red wine extract (which contains quercetin) had less damage from LDL cholesterol. Another study found that quercetin reduced LDL concentrations in overweight subjects who were at high risk of heart disease."
Perhaps if 1% of the efforts poured into pushing Statins (or profits) were applied to studying quercetin and other natural flavonoids, we would know exactly how beneficial they are. A few studies on quercetin and cholesterol that I read were gamed by too low of a dose to be effective.
Firemen wear heat and flame proof clothing to protect themselves. Police military wear body armor. Cells also have protective sacrificial armor in the form of the antioxidant glutathione that prevents natural beneficial and excess oxidation from harming the cells. Once glutathione is depleted, cells are easily damaged and harmed, just as a naked firefighter would be quickly burned. It is nearly impossible for fully depleted glutathione to be restored with a normal diet, especially if a chronic cause of depletion is not eliminated. This leads to a chronic disease state, and a damaged cardiovascular system, which in turn leads to plaque building up like rust scale inside iron pipes. Our food supply is loaded with glyphosphates, which cause oxidative stress and damage to cells 24/7 as they flow through our vessels. The supplements NAC and methylfolate will both replete glutathione, and protect against glyphosphates. NAC ameliorates the toxic effects of glyphosphates. So why not take NAC instead of statins, and cholesterol levels will be of little or no consequence?
Because there's no profit for doctors or Big Pharma in NAC. Or quercetin or niacin. They do not cause side effects that require more prescription drugs in perpetuity to treat.
Dr. McCullough is a pill pushing allopathic doctor and defender of the same, yet he also sells supplements and knows full well their benefits. If there was an Olympic competition for the mind, he'd be a gold medalist. That he depends Statin drugs is indefensible, IMO
MAybe he needs to slow down once in a while, take some time off, and maybe he'd see things from a different perspective. The allegory of the tortoise and the hare applies to the practice of medicine as well as anything else.
He could, as you say, be trying to appeal to mainstream. But I'm not so sure.
I've always found it very strange that Peter McCullough seems to be able to freely criticise the Covid shots, while others - equally as highly-qualified like Mike Yeadon - are tightly muzzled still.
Yet McCullough appears to have been given free reign, and is everywhere.
For this "people's champion" to suddenly be promoting one of the most dangerous drugs in the world leads my now-deeply skeptical and cynical mind to wonder if his behaviour to date has not been simply a trust-cultivating exercise, and that having now gained that trust, he is morphing back to perhaps a stance that was always pro-Pharma, but carefully concealed.
I guess we'll find out.
If he starts promoting studies of Pfizer's new stable of cancer drugs, I will be highly suspicious that he was a Big Pharma gatekeeper all along.
CoQ10 needed for mitochondria and ATP? ATP mostly in brain? Statins block CoQ10? I’ve read these claims elsewhere but don’t have the time to chase down. Perhaps a reader could chase this down?
Hi DenverDad, yes, CoQ10 is required by every cell in your body, not just your brain, and yes, it is involved in energy production. Bodily levels decline in a linear fashion as we age (which is why CoQ10 is one of my supplement staples).
At age 40, CoQ10 levels in the average person's heart are 25% lower than at age 21; by age 80, CoQ10 levels have typically declined by 57%.
Statins were known to lower bodily levels of CoQ10 before they even hit the market. In 1989, Merck & Co., Inc. filed two patents for the use of CoQ10 with statins in order to prevent CoQ10 depletion and attendant side effects. They never acted upon the patents, possibly because they didn't want to draw attention to the fact that statins depleted levels of such an important enzyme. It might have got inquiring minds wondering as to what else they might deplete.
Italian researchers found that while C0Q10 levels dropped in patients taking 20 mg of simvastatin per day, they actually increased in patients who took 100 mgs of CoQ10 along with their simvastatin.
In 2005, Texas cardiologist and researcher Peter Langsjoen and colleagues published a report on fifty patients who had discontinued statins and commenced taking CoQ10. All 50 patients had presented with one or more statin-related adverse effects as their chief complaint, so statin drug therapy was discontinued.
Langsjoen instructed all the patients to begin taking CoQ10 daily, at an average dose of 240 mg per day.
After an average follow-up of twenty-two months, the prevalence of fatigue dropped from 84% to 16%, myalgia from 64% to 6%, dyspnea from 58% to 12%, memory loss from 8% to 4% and peripheral neuropathy from 10% to 2%.
There were two deaths from lung cancer and one death from aortic stenosis but no strokes or myocardial infarctions. Measurements of heart function either improved or remained stable in the majority of patients. Langsjoen and his co-authors concluded: “... statin-related side effects, including statin cardiomyopathy, are far more common than previously published and are reversible with the combination of statin discontinuation and supplemental CoQ10. We saw no adverse consequences from statin discontinuation.”
Thank you! Excellent digest version. I think myself pretty smart on supplements then learn something as huge as this and realize how little I know. I knew CoQ10 was important and had it in my daily regimen for brain fog, but not knowing the science behind it. My wife suffers from fibromyalgia and our diet is low in the foods that contain it. I will console myself with the old saying, better late than never. Supplements are such a big industry it’s hard to cut through the junk science and now we have people that are doing limited hangouts to gain credibility and then they give unhealthy advice?! Caveat emptor. Thank you again for the great information.
I agree - it IS disappointing to see him promoting a dangerous med. He figured out the vax dangers early on; why can't he see this?
Have to remember something tho. He IS a doctor and has therefore spent many years in the hallowed halls of brainwashing (med school). That's bound to come out somewhere.
I believe Duane Graveline, instead! No statins ever.
Why take a Statin when many other natural substances work as well or better:
"What impact does niacin have on cholesterol?
Niacin can lower triglycerides by 25% and raise HDL cholesterol by more than 30%."
Apples & onions contain the flavonoid quercetin, as do many other fruits & vegetables. Apples also contain millions of beneficial bacterial, and pectin, both good for gut health. Thus, an apple a day can keep the doctor away, much to the chagrin of Big Pharma:
"Quercetin is one of the most common flavonoids. More and more studies have found that quercetin has great potential utilization value in cardiovascular diseases (CVD), such as antioxidant, antiplatelet aggregation, antibacterial, cholesterol lowering, endothelial cell protection, etc. However, the medicinal value of quercetin is mostly limited to animal models and preclinical studies.
"Test tube studies show that quercetin prevents damage from LDL cholesterol, and population studies show that people who eat diets high in flavonoids have lower cholesterol. One study found that people who took quercetin and an alcohol-free red wine extract (which contains quercetin) had less damage from LDL cholesterol. Another study found that quercetin reduced LDL concentrations in overweight subjects who were at high risk of heart disease."
Perhaps if 1% of the efforts poured into pushing Statins (or profits) were applied to studying quercetin and other natural flavonoids, we would know exactly how beneficial they are. A few studies on quercetin and cholesterol that I read were gamed by too low of a dose to be effective.
Firemen wear heat and flame proof clothing to protect themselves. Police military wear body armor. Cells also have protective sacrificial armor in the form of the antioxidant glutathione that prevents natural beneficial and excess oxidation from harming the cells. Once glutathione is depleted, cells are easily damaged and harmed, just as a naked firefighter would be quickly burned. It is nearly impossible for fully depleted glutathione to be restored with a normal diet, especially if a chronic cause of depletion is not eliminated. This leads to a chronic disease state, and a damaged cardiovascular system, which in turn leads to plaque building up like rust scale inside iron pipes. Our food supply is loaded with glyphosphates, which cause oxidative stress and damage to cells 24/7 as they flow through our vessels. The supplements NAC and methylfolate will both replete glutathione, and protect against glyphosphates. NAC ameliorates the toxic effects of glyphosphates. So why not take NAC instead of statins, and cholesterol levels will be of little or no consequence?
Because there's no profit for doctors or Big Pharma in NAC. Or quercetin or niacin. They do not cause side effects that require more prescription drugs in perpetuity to treat.
Dr. McCullough is a pill pushing allopathic doctor and defender of the same, yet he also sells supplements and knows full well their benefits. If there was an Olympic competition for the mind, he'd be a gold medalist. That he depends Statin drugs is indefensible, IMO
MAybe he needs to slow down once in a while, take some time off, and maybe he'd see things from a different perspective. The allegory of the tortoise and the hare applies to the practice of medicine as well as anything else.
He could, as you say, be trying to appeal to mainstream. But I'm not so sure.
I've always found it very strange that Peter McCullough seems to be able to freely criticise the Covid shots, while others - equally as highly-qualified like Mike Yeadon - are tightly muzzled still.
Yet McCullough appears to have been given free reign, and is everywhere.
For this "people's champion" to suddenly be promoting one of the most dangerous drugs in the world leads my now-deeply skeptical and cynical mind to wonder if his behaviour to date has not been simply a trust-cultivating exercise, and that having now gained that trust, he is morphing back to perhaps a stance that was always pro-Pharma, but carefully concealed.
I guess we'll find out.
If he starts promoting studies of Pfizer's new stable of cancer drugs, I will be highly suspicious that he was a Big Pharma gatekeeper all along.
Time will tell.
But my gut instincts tell me something's up.
Very good point
CoQ10 needed for mitochondria and ATP? ATP mostly in brain? Statins block CoQ10? I’ve read these claims elsewhere but don’t have the time to chase down. Perhaps a reader could chase this down?
Hi DenverDad, yes, CoQ10 is required by every cell in your body, not just your brain, and yes, it is involved in energy production. Bodily levels decline in a linear fashion as we age (which is why CoQ10 is one of my supplement staples).
At age 40, CoQ10 levels in the average person's heart are 25% lower than at age 21; by age 80, CoQ10 levels have typically declined by 57%.
https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF02535072 (this one's paywalled; if you can't find a copy elsewhere, DM me and I'll see what I can do)
Statins were known to lower bodily levels of CoQ10 before they even hit the market. In 1989, Merck & Co., Inc. filed two patents for the use of CoQ10 with statins in order to prevent CoQ10 depletion and attendant side effects. They never acted upon the patents, possibly because they didn't want to draw attention to the fact that statins depleted levels of such an important enzyme. It might have got inquiring minds wondering as to what else they might deplete.
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4933165A/en?oq=4933165
https://patents.google.com/patent/US4929437A/en?oq=4929437
Italian researchers found that while C0Q10 levels dropped in patients taking 20 mg of simvastatin per day, they actually increased in patients who took 100 mgs of CoQ10 along with their simvastatin.
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7752830/
In 2005, Texas cardiologist and researcher Peter Langsjoen and colleagues published a report on fifty patients who had discontinued statins and commenced taking CoQ10. All 50 patients had presented with one or more statin-related adverse effects as their chief complaint, so statin drug therapy was discontinued.
Langsjoen instructed all the patients to begin taking CoQ10 daily, at an average dose of 240 mg per day.
After an average follow-up of twenty-two months, the prevalence of fatigue dropped from 84% to 16%, myalgia from 64% to 6%, dyspnea from 58% to 12%, memory loss from 8% to 4% and peripheral neuropathy from 10% to 2%.
There were two deaths from lung cancer and one death from aortic stenosis but no strokes or myocardial infarctions. Measurements of heart function either improved or remained stable in the majority of patients. Langsjoen and his co-authors concluded: “... statin-related side effects, including statin cardiomyopathy, are far more common than previously published and are reversible with the combination of statin discontinuation and supplemental CoQ10. We saw no adverse consequences from statin discontinuation.”
https://iubmb.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1002/biof.5520250116
Hope that helps,
Anthony.
Thank you! Excellent digest version. I think myself pretty smart on supplements then learn something as huge as this and realize how little I know. I knew CoQ10 was important and had it in my daily regimen for brain fog, but not knowing the science behind it. My wife suffers from fibromyalgia and our diet is low in the foods that contain it. I will console myself with the old saying, better late than never. Supplements are such a big industry it’s hard to cut through the junk science and now we have people that are doing limited hangouts to gain credibility and then they give unhealthy advice?! Caveat emptor. Thank you again for the great information.