The memory-stealing drug disguised as a Big Pharma bestseller

You may have heard that high cholesterol causes dementia and Alzheimer’s.

This is one of the biggest dietary myths of our time. In fact, the exact opposite is true. Your brain actually needs cholesterol to work properly.

So if you take a statin drug, I need you to heed this warning: Forcing your cholesterol levels down to dangerously low levels can have a very negative effect on your cognitive health.

And as you’ll see in a moment, after years of use, many statin users report feeling as though this drug completely cut off their access to treasured memories and clear thinking.

A terrifying, sudden, mind-erasing effect

One day in 1999, a former NASA astronaut and doctor named Duane Graveline suddenly lost his memory. He couldn’t recognize his own wife and was unable to find his way around their house.

When his memory began to return a few hours later, he suspected that this episode of transient global amnesia (TGA) had been triggered by a new drug he’d just started taking: Lipitor® — the first cholesterol-lowering statin drug and one of the best selling drugs in history.

At that time, Lipitor® was seen as a triumph of medicine — a miracle “cure” for high cholesterol. We had no idea how many serious adverse side effects would be caused by statin drugs. In fact, it would take researchers nearly two decades to uncover the full extent of their damage.

After his ordeal, Dr. Graveline stopped taking Lipitor®. But a year later, his doctor persuaded him to try it again. On the second try — at a lower dose than the year before — he suffered another frightening TGA episode that lasted 12 hours.

Dr. Graveline went on to write a groundbreaking book titled “Lipitor: Thief of Memory,” which described his statin experience in detail, offering as a warning to all statin users.

As you can imagine, Dr. Graveline’s book was dismissed by the medical establishment. Meanwhile, he began hearing from other statin users who were experiencing various levels of memory problems ranging from forgetfulness and disorientation to the same type of amnesia he had experienced.

These reports eventually added up to the tens of thousands. And as we now know, impaired memory is one of the foremost side effects of statin drugs.

Cutting off vital communication

So what is it about driving down cholesterol levels that has such an adverse effect on the brain?

In Dr. Marc Micozzi’s Complete Alzheimer’s Cure, he explains that cholesterol plays a key role in brain function by enabling signal transport across your brain synapses, the pathways that allow brain cells to communicate.

Take away that function, and your cognitive health will plummet.

And there’s more… “Longer term,” he says, “cholesterol encourages the growth of nerve cells. And it keeps the myelin sheath around nerve cells healthy. Without healthy myelin, the nerve cells in your brain can’t communicate with each other!”

Dr. Micozzi cites an interview with a prominent researcher who described another factor at work. He said, “When you deprive the brain of cholesterol, you directly affect the machinery that triggers the release of neurotransmitters. Neurotransmitters affect the data-processing and memory functions. In other words — how smart you are and how well you remember things.”

And to all this, Dr. Micozzi adds one more biological reason why statin drugs contribute to Alzheimer’s and dementia. “Statins cripple your liver’s ability to make cholesterol.”

Severe dementia…reversed!

Conventional doctors who are sold on statins tend to play down the cognitive side effects of the drugs, calling them “rare.” But they’re not rare at all. And in some cases, discontinuation of a statin drug has a profound effect.

For instance, Dr. Micozzi cites University of California, San Diego, research called the Statins Effects Study. Researchers gathered more than 5,000 reports from people who experienced one or more side effects from statin use. The second most-commonly reported side effect was memory loss and other cognitive problems.

And Dr. Micozzi describes one more remarkable outcome of the study: “In some instances, severe dementia was reversed by discontinuing statins, according to the study leader, Beatrice Golomb, MD, PhD.

“In one such case, a woman with ‘dementia’ was taken off statins by a doctor who read about the Statin Effects Study. Within a week, the woman left the nursing home where she had been living and resumed an independent life.”

This is why Dr. Micozzi warns you about statin drugs like Zocor® and Lipitor®. In fact, he calls them metabolic poisons and puts them at the top of the list of drugs to be avoided at all costs.

You can learn about other common medications that take a toll on cognitive health, along with many cutting-edge treatments for Alzheimer’s and complete brain recovery in Dr. Micozzi’s Complete Alzheimer’s Cure. Click here to find out more about this important online learning protocol, or to enroll today.

SOURCES

“My Statin Story” Spacedoc, 2017. (spacedoc.com/articles/my-statin-story)