Clinical Trial Scams 101: Assess symptom severity: e.g. 1-12 points Batch scores into groups of 4, e.g. scores 1-4 = group 1 If person moves from severity of 9 to 8, they move from group 4 to group 3. Report as 25% reduction in arbitrary group score. But only 8% in severity.
At some point during the transition into large-scale education, medical school and licensing exams went from testing your knowledge to telling you what to know. Students and doctors mostly memorize correct answers. These people weren't bred to think for themselves.
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Modern mainstream medicine was not built "on the shoulders of giants." No. It killed the giants, harvested its organs, and sold it for profit. This is #fiat medicine.
Everybody and their grandmother is being prescribed statins to lower cholesterol because "LDL = bad" Ever wonder, just how much risk is being reduced by this highly mitochondrial poison we call statins? In a meta-analysis of 18 clinical trials (which typically look at the highest risk patients with pretty bad cardiovascular disease), all cause mortality was reduced by 0.8% That's it. New-onset diabetes with statin use has been observed in about 10% of people who have taken it for a few years.
I've had enough back'n'forths with people about cholesterol and statins, that I decided to write an article outlining some of my thoughts on the matter. Check it out:
Why is 'muscle pain' the most commonly reported and recognized side-effect? Because it is the only one you can really FEEL. I believe that most of the damage statins do to the body, you don't really 'feel.' Not acutely. Most of the damage is slow, low-grade, and insidious.
Exercising while taking statins can be dangerous. Increase energy needs of your body whilst simultaneously suppressing the energy-generating machinery? Unfortunately, this is the recommendation from most physicians to "reduce risk" Recipe for disaster.
Any doctor who blindly encouraged, pressured, or coerced you into getting the covid vaccine does not deserve your trust. Simply because this behavior reflects a lack of critical thinking and presence of mind. You don't want a doctor who practices from a place of fear.
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