Heart Disease Roars Back – Even as More Americans Prescribed Cholesterol-Lowering Drugs

Yesterday (1.15.20) a front-page article in the Wall Street Journal was titled, “Heart Disease Roars Back, Even in Healthy Places.” The article reports, “Americans are dying of heart disease and stroke at a risking rate in middle age, normally considered the prime years of life.” How can that be? We have spent untold trillions of dollars fighting this scourge. Americans spend more on health care than any other people on the planet, yet these are the headlines we are faced with. Big Pharma would like you to believe that the lower your cholesterol level, the healthier you will be. Additionally, the Powers-That-Be (which includes conventional medicine) have been pushing the idea that everyone needs to be treated with cholesterol-lowering medications in order to lower the rate of heart disease. And, guess what? Over this time period, our cholesterol levels have been falling. If statins were so great at preventing heart disease, you would think that studies would show a declining heart disease rate over the last 25 years. That has not happened. You would think cardiologists would finally get the idea that the cholesterol=heart diseases hypothesis should be scrapped. But alas, statins are the most profitable medications in the history of Big Pharma. Over one-third of adult Americans are currently prescribed a statin medication. That number has been steadily increasing over the last 25 years.