For years, statins have by far been the most prescribed drugs in the world. And there seems to be no stop to it.

Some doctors even want every single person over the age of 50 to be forced to take statins, whether or not they actually have high cholesterol or blood pressure levels.

On the naturally-focused side, we know that the two most important things needed to manage cholesterol levels are to eat healthy and exercise. This raises good cholesterol and lowers bad.

However recently, studies have been showing side effects that may prevent you from using natural methods if you’re on statins; therefore, contradicting the whole purpose of them.

It’s been known for a long time that known side effects of statins include muscle aches and fatigue. But they differ in how badly they affect people.

To investigate this, researchers in Strasbourg, France, fed statin drugs to a group of rats. After two weeks, they compared the endurance and strength by comparing medicated and non-medicated rats on treadmills.

No big surprise was waiting for them. The medicated rats became exhausted much sooner and couldn’t run as far or as fast as the non-medicated group.

But the researchers didn’t stop there. They also discovered that the oxidative stress on skeletal muscles (way to measure potential cell damage) was 60% higher in the medicated rats than the non-medicated. That is for the rats that did NOT run.

It gets even worse. The medicated rats that were running had 226% more oxidative stress on the skeletal muscles than the rats that ran and were not medicated with statins.

The medicated running rats also had less capacity to store glycogen in the skeletal muscles, which is something necessary for anyone who wants to work out. Muscles’ inability to store glycogen can also lead to type 2 diabetes.

The conclusion is that working out while on statins is much more difficult and post- workout muscle recovery takes a much longer time.

For many people, it’s hard enough to pull yourself up from the couch and workout; medications getting in the way just add insult to injury.
Now the statin drugs are preventing patients from exercising, which is something that’s considered even more effective to balance cholesterol than statin drugs.

It’s like giving a lung cancer patient a drug in the form of a “healthy cigarette”!

Any drug that prevent, or make it more difficult for people with high cholesterol to eat healthy or workout automatically is in my mind more harmful than helpful, especially drugs that are taken for a long period of time like statins.

Sore muscles and lack of endurance and fatigue are only a few of many side effects statins produce. Recently they’ve been linked to memory loss, type 2 diabetes and more.

However, no big study has ever proven that using statins lowers the risk of dying from any condition except maybe for males who have already suffered one or more heart attacks.

And the debate on whether high cholesterol is, in fact, harmful in any way is still out there with no clear conclusion in sight. A few months back, I wrote a long article on the complicated issue of cholesterol listing all aspects. You can read this article here…

The main thing is to keep your cholesterol level at the base that is good for YOU. It may not be the same exact number as is good for your spouse or friends.

And you want to do everything in your power to improve your cardiovascular health. That includes managing your cholesterol level naturally, lower your blood pressure, and reduce oxidization of the arteries. Drugs that make it more damaging for you to workout are not going to help you to achieve this.

For step-by-step information on how to manage your cholesterol naturally, click here…

To learn simple, easy exercises to drop your blood pressure to normal, click here…

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