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Originally published May 22
2008
Did Statin Drugs Cause Senator Ted Kennedy's Brain
Tumor?
by Byron Richards
(NaturalNews) Legions of well
wishers look on as Senator Ted Kennedy struggles for his life, fighting against
one of the most difficult types of brain tumors. Few men have had such an impact
on the laws made in the United States. As a powerful member of the Senate HELP
committee Kennedy has been a primary force shaping almost all health-related
legislation for decades. Ironically, it may be the drugs he has so adamantly
promoted that are the straw that broke the camel's back, leading to his brain
tumor.
Few Americans receive the preferential care given to an important
Senator like Kennedy. It is interesting to note what the "finest" care enables a
person to receive. He is being treated at Boston's Massachusetts General
Hospital, arguably one of the best hospitals in the world – the same place he
had surgery for a significantly blocked carotid artery in October of
2007.
Now that the public's attention will be diverted onto treating his
cancer problem, not too
many are going to explain that the care for his carotid artery problem could be
a primary reason for his brain tumor suddenly emerging. Indeed, in Kennedy's
situation the fox and the hen house are the same hospital – do you really
expect them to take a close look at his situation when such an evaluation is
self incriminating? And on the larger scale such an evaluation could lead to
millions of Americans dumping their statin drugs in the
trash.
Senator Kennedy's Health History
Kennedy is no poster child for health,
fitness, or a healthy lifestyle. He is overweight and out of shape and has been
for a long time. Eight months ago doctors found his left
carotid artery mostly blocked and performed surgery to clean out the plaque. It
took many years of abuse to create that problem. In all fairness to his doctors,
Kennedy is not a very healthy patient. On the other hand, that is what doctors
are for – treating patients who aren't healthy and getting them back to real
health.
We know from publicly disclosed information that Kennedy was
taking both blood
pressure medication and statin drugs to lower cholesterol.
We can assume that as part of the "finest medical care" his
treatment to lower cholesterol was quite aggressive following his carotid artery
surgery – now the "gold standard" of care being pushed on countless Americans.
This means lowering cholesterol to abnormally low physiological levels, based on
the idea that if a person can't make much cholesterol then it can't form plaque.
Virtually no attention is given to the potential risks of starving the
cholesterol synthesis system throughout the body – which is the core survival
system of any person.
Kennedy was also on blood pressure medication. Most doctors
think they have done their patients a real favor when they use enough drugs to
get their numbers looking better on paper. Unfortunately, blood pressure
medication typically reduces the flow of nutrition and oxygen to
your brain, resulting in acid pH and an environment readily suitable for cancer
growth. There is a huge difference between having normal blood pressure because
you are healthy (meaning blood gets to your head properly) and good blood
pressure numbers artificially produced with drugs (meaning blood doesn't get to
many areas of your body properly, including your brain). There is no short cut
to real health.
Statins and Cancer
Statins cause cancer for a variety of reasons, a
fact that is consistently covered up by the 20-billion-dollar-a-year statin
industry – with the help of Senators from both sides of the political aisle,
like Kennedy, who actively support the Big Pharma agenda. In
fact, Big Pharma tries to promote statins as a
cancer-protective drug based on the ability of statins to kill cancer cells in test
tubes. They do this in test tubes because they are so toxic. In your body a dose
required to kill cancer cells would kill you first.
Statins interfere
with normal immune function in multiple ways. They are so effective at
suppressing your immune system that they have been researched as
immune-suppressing options for organ transplant patients. That is not good news
for anyone having to fight the flu or combat cancer.
Statins interfere
with core survival systems that are "branches" in the normal production of LDL
cholesterol. Such interference in health is a major side effect of statins – and
widely ignored by prescribing physicians. For example, selenium-containing genes
are reduced/blocked by statins, including the production of cellular glutathione
– your cell's most important antioxidant that protects against cell mutations
that can lead to cancer.
Important anti-cancer nutrients such as vitamin
D and coenzyme Q10 are also reduced by statins. And a primary anti-cancer
cell-modulating substance known as isoprenoids are reduced by statins.
Isoprenoids in fruits, vegetables, and whole grains are the reason eating these
foods is associated with less cancer. Blocking your body's natural production of
them with statin drugs is not a good idea.
Brain cells are weakened by
statins, as every brain cell has a naturally higher level of cholesterol in its
cell membrane so it can live longer (brain cells do not split and divide like
other cells).
Thus, super high levels of statins are immune toxic,
cripple your body's natural cancer defense system, and weaken nerves. The longer
a person stays on these high doses the worse the problems become – as damage is
cumulative and insidiously progressive over time. When combined with blood
pressure medication this creates an environment within the nervous system ripe
for cancer growth, a fact that simply cannot be denied based on the timing of
Kennedy's problems.
When a person develops cancer while taking a statin
the statin is never blamed – even though it is an obvious causative agent that
cannot possibly be ruled out. The risk for cancer is especially true when
cholesterol levels are being suppressed to abnormally low levels that virtually
no person who is healthy possesses. The "finest" medical care money can buy
enables an individual to be poisoned by statins and the brightest medical minds
on earth don't seem to have a clue what they are actually doing to people such
as Senator Kennedy.
Kennedy and Health Freedom
Ironically, in the case of Kennedy his health care is a direct
result of the health policies he has forged. He is one of the most anti-vitamin
and anti-natural health senators. He has now slid down the health ladder to the
point he has no options but surgery, toxic drugs, or FDA-sanctioned experiments.
Can the cancer be killed before his body gives out? He has very aggressive
cancer and poor underlying health – not a good combination.
No place on
the internet will he find a credible explanation of what vitamins he should be taking
right now, which ones would support his medical options, and which ones would
help him recover from his treatments most effectively. You would think he would
like to know which nutrients would help turn off the inflammatory gene signals
in his brain that are driving the spreading of his cancer. He certainly won't
get that information from his doctors. At least he might like to know what to do
if his medical treatments are successful enough that he has some time to try to
fix himself.
I'd be happy to post such information on my website, but
the FDA won't allow
it. Indeed, it is Kennedy and mostly Democratic members of the Senate and
House (along with a large number of Republicans) that are
adamantly opposed to Americans understanding how to be healthy or how to use natural health options
to support medical care to increase their likelihood of a positive outcome –
even though the science behind such support and benefit could help millions of
Americans without any side
effects.
While Kennedy is being praised by friend and foe alike for
his health policies that provide care to the less fortunate – it is overlooked
that such plans carry with them the sacrifice of health freedom under
the false pretense of "safety" and strict governmental public health
enforcement.
Hillary Clinton has always seen eye to eye with Kennedy on
health freedom suppression
and a desire to excessively regulate vitamins. Dick Durbin, Obama's fellow
senator from Illinois and national co-chair of his campaign, is at the very top
of the list of vitamin-hating senators. The Democratic Party motivation behind
such health freedom suppression is to have an iron grip on "herd mentality" and
public health initiatives – and health freedom and access to natural health
options are not compatible with this unspoken objective.
Republican
politicians also favor this iron grip on public health, but for somewhat
different reasons – historically to forward the sales of Big Pharma at the
expense of any potential competitors. Although under the Bush administration a
similar political control agenda (forced vaccinations in a pandemic flu, etc.)
have blurred any differences between Republicans and Democrats on core health
freedom issues. There is no candidate in serious contention for president that
actively stands for and supports health freedom.
What we have is a Big
Pharma model of health that Kennedy is in no small part responsible for. His own
actions have drastically limited his access to solutions that actually work and
could help him. Does he care? Probably not, after all he has the "best" health
care that money can buy. However, there are millions of Americans who do care
and are being denied their right to helpful information and safe and effective
remedies. This issue should be central to a national debate on health
care.
For more information on the science and side effects of statins
read my article, The Statin Scam Marches On and Chapter 19 – Death by
Statin, in my book, Fight for Your Health: Exposing the FDA's Betrayal of
America:
http://www.wellnessresources.com/conten...
http://www.wellnessresources.com/Books/...
About the
author: Byron J. Richards, Board-Certified Clinical Nutritionist,
nationally-renowned nutrition expert, and founder of Wellness Resources is a
leader in advocating the value of dietary supplements as a vital tool to
maintain health. He is an outspoken critic of government and Big Pharma efforts
to deny access to natural health products and has written extensively on the
life-shortening and health-damaging failures of the sickness industry. www.wellnessresources.com askbyron@wellnessresources.com
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