Dr. Maryanne Demasi - 'Statin Wars: Have we been misled by the evidence?'

My mother was on Statins, her dose was increased. She's elderly. Her memory got progressively worse. "Dementia is normal" "Memory loss is normal" etc etc. She was about to be put in an assisted living facility. She couldn't remember the basics. I read about Statins and memory, and the fact that cholestrol is an essential building block in memory. I stopped her Statin medication. Her memory returned comletely in 8 days. It was a miracle. NO STATINS

I received exactly the “how dare you?“ Objection from my doctor. It is clear that many doctors have become incurious, unconcerned prescriptionists. They have seven minutes with you and are anxious to get you out of the office so they can get the next patient in. Many of them don’t seem to have read anything or tried to research anything after they got out of medical school, which for many is decades. This means they have no new information other than what their drug representative is pushing to them. Medicine has changed drastically since I was younger. It is horrifying to me. Doctors have become an extension of the drug companies, not healers.

I just love people that invest their precious time for public benefit. Thank you.

I was a board certified Internal Medicine specialist in the USA. I had to retire early when I realized that allopathic medical doctors had become to a great degree simply pawns to push pharmaceuticals to end users for the benefit of pharmaceutical companies. About half of the disease burden in the USA is due to lifestyle choices and can be ameliorated by lifestyle changes. Pharmaceuticals like statins are inferior to diet changes but your family doctor does not know this because he or she is not taught this in medical school and this approach is suppressed in the medical literature.

I am 67 years and I have been taking statin for five years. My cholesterol levels are very low but my doctor still insisted that I should take statin. But just by common sense I stopped taking statin and I feel better; I could exercise much better and spend over 2 to 3 hours every day exercising / physical work in the fields. I stopped going to my doctor. Thanks for your video.

Was on Lipitor, changed to Crestor. Horrid pains. Stopped statins and sharply reduced my sucrose/fructose intake and next checkup everything was good. Sugar is the problem not fats, as far as I am concerned.

Thank you for exposing those pharma-criminals. Through a fairly strict low carb diet, but not keto, I reversed my T2 diabetes in 5 months. I lost 10kg all up. But here is the kicker: when I started the diet my triglycerides were 7 mmol/L and total cholesterol 9.8 mmol/L! In 5 months triglycerides normalised to 1.2 mmol/L and total cholesterol dropped to 6.2 mmol/L. And if my doctor saw just how much saturated fat I ate during the process he would have been apoplectic. And he was telling me at the beginning how I can't do it without medications through diet alone. He was speechless when he saw the blood test results after 5 months.

Thank you Gorgeous :) I've been taking statins for 30 days with tons of side effects. I have high cholesterol but my good cholesterol is higher than my bad cholesterol. Not sure why my doctor would prescribe statins? I exercise, eat a good diet. I'm going to stop statins now. Your awesome.

My dad was a scientist working in a lab, working on the connection between high cholesterol & heart disease, about 40 years ago... he said that there was never a connection & every time he reported it, it was swept under the rug by his superiors. He retired as Head of mens health department at Pfizer 10 years ago

Used to be a London Cab driver and 15 years ago I took a heart surgeon to Harley St. His short but sweet advice was. Never eat anything that was made in a factory and do not let the B*****ds put you on statins!

Four years ago my wife suffered a heart attack. Rushed to the hospital, a stent was inserted and the prognosis was for full recovery. Three or so months later she began to have a very minor, almost imperceptible stutter in her speech. It worsened gradually, her care marginalized by the Covid pandemic caused condensing and reducing the availability of all but essential medical services. Thus at the beginning of 2022, she was nearly mute: she knew what she wanted to say but was simply unable to speak. A neurological exam revealed no evidence of stroke and the overarching diagnosis was "sometimes these things happen to older people". My wife, the highly educated and once extraordinarily articulate 78 year old woman was without the ability to verbally communicate. In addition, the affliction impacted some of her ability to write. She and I had a lenghty session together, trying to piece together what had happened. When the stent was inserted, the doctor prescribed two medications one of which was a statin. Neither her personal car nor her current cardiologist expressed any particular concern with the statin, but I spend a couple of hours on the Internet and easily found a relatively large Japanese study that directly established that sometimes when prescribed statin, women over 65 years of age could develop aphasia. I gave this information to my wife's cardiologist who reviewed her most recent normal blood panel and immediately ordered she cease taking the statin. This was three years following her heart episode. Two days later my wife could read a simple sentence that I wrote for her. Following that she began speech therapy although the speech therapists had never encountered this sort of issue previously. Today, my wife is beginning to speak again, although it is not a linear improvement. There are better days than others and it is very much like teaching a three or four year old to speak. Subsequently I have received additional information from others who have experienced this totally unpublished (to my knowledge) side effect of statins. Shortly after stopping the statin, my wife's cardiologist emailed me that he had recently read some information linking statin to aphasia.

God Bless you Dr Demasi. You are doing the work of the Light!

My doctor is a pill pushing quack. Every time I go in for an appointment she tries to get me on the meds. Never once told me to lose weigh and eat healthy. Ive been on keto for 8 months now. Lost 50 lbs feeling great. She said keto is bad, eventually I wiil starve to death. I am looking for a new docter.

This lady is a true crusader for the truth. I have resisted these statins as after being on them for a while I suffered chronic fatigue, muscle pains and developed cataracts. This should go viral.

I'm a physician and have told many colleagues my concerns with cholesterol medications over the years. A radiology tech I worked with for years heard me but never took it seriously and I didn't even know he was on cholesterol meds until after he retired. He could barely walk and though it was due to his back or hips but orthopedic surgeons repeatedly told him his hips were fine. One day he ran in to a radiologist he had worked with who told him how he almost had to quit golfing due to his pain and difficulty walking but then stopped his cholesterol meds and all those symptoms reversed. So my friend told his primary care physician he wanted to stop his cholesterol meds. His PCP then said no, wait, instead of that lets try a different cholesterol med. So he agreed and all of his symptoms got even worse but at his next appointment his cholesterol numbers were even better! So my friend on his own decided to just stop the medication without telling his doctor. And all of the pain and walking problems he had suffered with for over 5 years disappeared. No many how many people I warn, they still listen to their PCPs. Do people even realize that these doctors are penalized if they don't prescribe these cholesterol medications AND if the patient's don't fill the prescriptions?

This video is one of the biggest reasons I stopped taking statins 3 days ago and I'm starting to few better already. God Bless you Dr. Demasi !!!

"The more a society drifts from the truth, the more they will hate those who speak it"....... George Orwell

I have had many doctors insist on my taking statins. Before I knew better, I took Lipitor on one doctor's insistence. It crippled me--I could barely walk. Never again. I later went on keto.

Great information. I refuse to take statins after reading a book on cholesterol. This video made me think about doctors who have tried to convince me to take a statin but when I refused not one of them offered an alternative.

4 years has past and I am still not taking statins. I never felt so great in my life. Thank you for producing that video that allowed me to take a decision that suited me.