{"id":1414,"date":"2013-07-11T11:35:41","date_gmt":"2013-07-11T11:35:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/icaro.med.br\/?p=1414"},"modified":"2025-06-30T03:10:42","modified_gmt":"2025-06-30T06:10:42","slug":"cholesterol-more-evidence-that-it-is-being-mistreated","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/cholesterol-more-evidence-that-it-is-being-mistreated\/","title":{"rendered":"CHOLESTEROL - More evidence that it's being abused..."},"content":{"rendered":"

Recent and even older studies around the world have shown what seems obvious: cholesterol is not our \u201cenemy\u201d, as has been widely believed. If you want proof, read this: https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/colesterol-e-hormonios-qual-e-a-relacao\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To put it simply, the problem lies in \u201cdamaged\u201d, oxidized cholesterol, which is harmful.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Furthermore, the idea that HDL is the \u201cgood cholesterol\u201d and LDL is the \u201cbad cholesterol\u201d is not so simple.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

To learn more about this, read here: https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/mito-colesterol\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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How did the pharmaceutical industry and its associates manage to convince the majority of the world that \u201chigh cholesterol is always bad\u201d (a great untruth, as demonstrated in the texts and links mentioned above, which I strongly recommend you read for the sake of your health and to form an informed opinion)?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This resulted in the popularization of a class of drugs that is among the five best-selling in the world: statins (examples: simvastatin, rosuvastatin, atorvastatin, Lipitor, Zocor, Vytorin).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The problem lies in the flagrant abuse of these drugs. Many people are being kept with insufficiently low cholesterol levels (too low for the body to function properly) due to the excessive and often unnecessary use of statins, which leads to the various \u201cside effects\u201d already mentioned in the links above.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Dr. Brownstein makes it clear (and explains the reasons) why statins such as simvastatin, rosuvastatin, atorvastatin, Lipitor, Zocor, Mevacor, Crestor, Pravachol and Vytorin should be withdrawn from the market. According to him, they are dangerous to health and offer very few benefits, as demonstrated by numerous recent studies: https:\/\/healthimpactnews.com\/2013\/statin-use-for-10-years-increase-your-risk-of-breast-cancer-by-over-200\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Cardiologist and researcher Michel de Lorgeril also claimed that cholesterol-lowering drugs are not effective and suggested that there are lobbies in favor of their use: http:\/\/www.infarctcombat.org\/polemica-45\/icem.html<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In view of all this, I strongly suggest that you review your own opinions. In today's world, there's a good chance that you, or someone close to you, already use or will use a statin. It's crucial to be aware not only of the \u201csupposed benefits\u201d, but above all of the associated risks. That way, the conscious decision to use them or not will be yours.<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Estudos recentes e at\u00e9 mais antigos, ao redor do mundo, t\u00eam demonstrado o que parece \u00f3bvio: o colesterol n\u00e3o \u00e9 nosso \u201cinimigo\u201d, como tem sido difundido. Se deseja provas, leia isto: https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/colesterol-e-hormonios-qual-e-a-relacao\/. Simplificando, o problema est\u00e1 no colesterol \u201cagredido\u201d, oxidado, que \u00e9 prejudicial. Al\u00e9m disso, a ideia de que o HDL \u00e9 o \u201ccolesterol bom\u201d […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":24211,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-saude-geral"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1414"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":24993,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1414\/revisions\/24993"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/24211"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/icaro.med.br\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}