Podcast Episode 114 Statin Scam Part 6 Cancer

On this week’s podcast, we continue our discussion on the cholesterol lowering medication called statins. In part 1, we discussed the history of the low fat/low cholesterol dietary recommendations, how those recommendations were used to prop up the use of statins, and why that has been devastating to the health of the entire nation. In part 2, we discuss the literal mechanism of action of statin medication and why lowering LDL is a bad idea. In part 3, we discussed the dirty tricks used by the pharmaceutical industry that make statin medication appear more beneficial than they actually are. In part 4, we finally start to outline some of the major side effects caused by statins. These supposed cure all pills are riddled with numerous debilitating side effects and one of the most commonly seen is new onset diabetes. In part 5, we discussed how this medication that is supposed to treat heart disease, is actually giving people heart disease.

In part 6, we end our conversation on statins to discuss how these drugs cause cancer. There are two ways in which statins can increase your odds of getting cancer. The first way is through statins harmful effects on our mitochondria. Mitochondrial dysfunction is the genesis of all cancer so any drug that effects our mitochondria in a negative way greatly increases our odds of developing cancer. The second way that statins increase our odds of developing cancer is statin’s ability to raise our blood insulin levels. This is called hyperinsulinemia and it greatly increases the amount of IGF-1 in our blood. IGF-1 is a growth factor that cancer cells love. It allows them to grow in an uncontrollable fashion and avoid the normal cues to die called apoptosis. This results in a cell that grows too much and doesn’t die, aka a cancerous growth.

To learn more about the harmful effects of statins, listen to this week’s podcast.