Statin drugs side-effects what are they and what are the other things that you
should be equally concerned about concerning a statin drug? Coming right up
Hey I'm Dr. Ekberg with Wellness For Life and if you'd like to truly master
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gonna talk about statin drugs side effects and this is a request from
Walter the Musician so I recently did a long video on cholesterol and we covered
a little bit if I wanted to expand on some of the mechanisms of the side
effects and talk about why we really need to understand how all this works so
here are some of the most commonly recognized side effects things like
liver damage and muscle damage and of course your primary muscle is the heart
there is problems with memory concentration and depression cholesterol
is very important for the brain there is pain and peripheral neuropathy there are
sleep problems sexual dysfunction and fatigue and these are just the main
reported one but the mechanism behind that is that there's a guaranteed thing
that happens and that is that it's going to reduce the amount of Co Q 10 it's a
very important enzyme that's vital for the energy production in mitochondria
and where do you need it the most you need it in the organs that use the
most energy which is your liver your heart and your brain pretty important
organs this is all based on something called a Mevalonate Pathway and you
don't have to understand these words but I just kind of put them in there so that
you know that there's something going on. So HMG-CoA Reductase that's an enzyme
that's involved with producing mevalonic acid and then there's a couple of
intermediaries that are not important at all that leads up to something called
farnesyl PP and this in turn becomes squalene which is a greasy
substance that the body uses to make cholesterol and then the same substance
is also used to make Co Q 10 so these two things compete for resources but
when you take a statin drug now the statin acts on this enzyme and it
inhibits it so a chemical substance that interferes with something in the body is
called a poison and that's essentially what these things are
so by blocking the this enzyme you're stopping this entire pathway and
therefore your body is no longer able to make the same amount of precursor for
the cholesterol and the Co Q 10 and if you watch that bigger Longer video that
I made on on cholesterol you understand that cholesterol is not a stupid mistake
the body doesn't go through all this trouble to make something that's harmful
it makes the exact right proportions and amounts of LDL and HDL cholesterol of
all the different sizes depending on what's going on in the body depending on
what the needs are to repair inflammation and provide precursors to
hormones and all these different things it's a very fine-tuned mechanism if you
eat less cholesterol your body makes more because it's an essential nutrient
your brain is 60 to 70 percent fat and 25% of that is cholesterol again that's
not a mistake it's an essential nutrient so when we interfere with the production
of this enzyme we're not just interfering with one essential nutrient
called cholesterol we're also shutting down energy production by interfering
with the production of Co Q 10 so now if we just go back to this list and we look
at liver damage muscle damage heart memory concentration depression most of
those is because the brain needs both cholesterol and coq10 it needs
cholesterol as building products and precursors and it
needs coq10 to make energy 95% of the energy in your body comes from the
oxidation of fuel with the help of oxygen and if you don't have the Co Q 10
you're going to reduce that amount of energy production and again your brain
your heart and your liver uses the most energy because they're the most
metabolically active organs that you have so when you interfere with the
building materials and the energy production now you get damaged in all
these vital organs these essential organs that provide essential functions
but here's the thing to think about even if you don't have a side effect even if
you don't notice some symptom are you better or worse off if your body has to
have something and you interfere with the production of it are you better or
worse off it worse off of course so what that means and in terms of every
medication versus virtually because the mechanism is to interfere with a pathway
in the body with the metabolic function and if the body is trying to do
something it's not by mistake it's doing it on purpose and by interfering with a
mechanism we are interfering with something the body feels is essential to
do and in every case you're worse off whether you get a noticeable symptom or
side effect or not when you interfere with the body when you reduce something
that the body has to have then you're worse off so that's something to keep in
mind and of course there is always a time and place for medication but it's
for life saving not from metabolic and lifestyle imbalances the way to correct
this we talked about in length in the other video but the main things to do is
to get some exercise to reduce sugar and carbohydrates and
things that create inflammation and insulin if you enjoy this sort of
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are tens of millions of people on these drugs that are developing liver and
heart and brain problems as we speak and if they can understand that they just
need to shift their lifestyle just a tiny little bit in some cases and not
really suffer it's not about deprivation it's just knowing the sound the innate