Science shock: Statins DOUBLE the risk of diabetes!

Science shock: Statins DOUBLE the risk of diabetes!

A long-term study published in the Journal of General Internal Medicine has shown that statin users are more than twice as likely to develop diabeteshttp://www.truthwiki.org/natural_help_for_diabetes/ compared to those who didn't use statins. Additionally, they're a whopping 250 percent more likely to develop the disease in conjunction with complications – including nerve, kidney and eye damage – than non-statin users.(1)



The research, which tracked individuals through a database for nearly a decade, set out with the objective to "examine the association between statin use and new-onset diabetes, diabetic complications http://dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=106&t=34925, and overweight/obesity in a cohort of healthy adults." After assessing statin users and nonusers during this time, researchers concluded that, "Diabetes, diabetic complications, and overweight/obesity http://www.dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=119were more commonly diagnosed among statin-users than similar nonusers in a healthy cohort of adults."(2)

Heart expert: Side effects of statins are 'alarming'

Professor Ishak Mansi, a heart specialist at the University of Texas who led the study, called the findings "alarming," adding that such a correlation "was never shown before." It's even made him think twice when it comes to how he prescribes such drugs. Of people with heart disease, he says, "I am sceptical [sic] about the prescribing guidelines for people at lower risk ... I am concerned about the long term effects on the huge population of healthy people on these drugs who continue for many years."(1)

Interestingly, Mansi doesn't entirely advocate that people stop statin drug use since "... statin therapy is a cornerstone in treatment of cardiovascular diseases and have been clearly shown to lower mortality and disease progression." Hmmm. Sounds like somewhat of a PR sound-bite to us. At the same time though, he suggests that having an awareness about the risks that were turned up in the study may be motivating factors for some to stop smoking or lose weight http://dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=17&t=27562, which are known heart stressors.(1)

Of course, this isn't the first time evidence has been furnished proving statins' bad rap.

Time and again, it's been shown that statin drugs are harmful

Mike Adams, the Health Ranger, wrote about the problems associated with this cholesterol-lowering class of drugs not too long ago, honing in on a study in which scientists found that statin drugs http://dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=29&t=27197 "deactivate" the stem cells that are involved with the body's cellular repair. As a result, mental and physical decline is virtually inevitable, with side effects ranging from muscle pain and fatigue, to diabeteshttp://www.dreddyclinic.com/findinformation/dd/diabetes/diabetes_3.php and liver dysfunction.(3)

In that instance, the findings were published in the American Journal of Physiology - Cell Physiology. The journal's abstract mentions the "adverse clinical effects" of statin drugs, noting that they "impaired the expression of DNA repair." It was made clear that a slew of side effects are linked to statin drugs; in addition to the ones already mentioned, cataract formation and memory loss are health problems that individuals could develop.(4)

Why then, are people still being prescribed something known to destroy their health, rather than improve it?

Bad for our health, good for Big Pharma's wallets

Of course, we know why: profit.

With about 100 million people worldwide being prescribed statin drugs, it's easy to see why Big Pharma http://www.dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=65 wouldn't want the script pad to get dusty. So goes the all-too-familiar situation in which the medical community makes an enormous amount of money by turning patients into profit, despite that fact that these drugs wreak havoc on their body. Diabetes http://www.dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=10&sid=92&sid=0a3cc67eb44e43efb4fc827deb45da22, weight gain, cataracts, loss of mental capacity and some muscle pain to boot? Sure, why not? After all, it's "helping" to lower that darn cholesterol, so it's worth it, right?(3)

Nope.

Our health is going from bad to worse, all while most medical professionals tell us to keep giving prescription drugs a whirl. If we question any ill effects, we're typically told to "just give it time," or simply prescribed another brand and told to "hang in there" and see how that one pans out.

We deserve better than this.

Sources for this article include:

(1) http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-3425192/Heart-drug-statins-DOUBLES-risk-diabetes-according-alarming-10-year-study.html

(2) http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs11606-015-3335-1

(3) http://www.dreddyclinic.com/forum/viewtopic.php?f=65&t=33414

(4) http://ajpcell.physiology.org/content/early/2015/07/23/ajpcell.00406.2014

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Impotence is influenced by Diabetes

Impotence is influenced by Diabetes

A person suffering from one serious condition can be handled. But there are various conditions interlinked which lead from one problem to another. And one of them is diabetes that can ultimately lead a person to male impotency. Also if this condition is not cured on time, it may lead to other serious problems. A diabetic person suffering from impotence is one of the most common male medical conditions.

Impotence (erectile dysfunction) is defined as the inability to achieve or maintain an erection sufficient for sexual intercourse, and includes the inability to get an erection as a result of sexual stimulation or to lose your erection prior to ejaculation.

When your body is unable to produce or process insulin properly it results in Diabetes. Insulin is a hormone and it is required to convert sugar and starches into energy. Insulin is required to make the body work efficiently.

Impotence is caused when the penis fails to get hard or stay hard enough for sex, all or most of the time. Impotence is NOT an occasional failure of erection, premature ejaculation, decrease in sexual desire or failure to ejaculate.

Long-term diabetes also causes nerve damage, which may be a contributing factor. 

"Impaired erections are associated with diabetes, but this complication is by no means inevitable; it only occurs among 50-60% of all men with diabetes over age 50," according to Joseph Fallon, MD, a board certified endocrinologist. "Good sugar control, especially with Viagra use, is important."
The two basic physical requirements for producing an erection are healthy blood vessels and healthy nerves in the penis. Diabetes affects both the blood supply and nerve endings. There are fewer chances of getting and sustaining an erection if you are diabetic.

 

The factors which contribute to diabetes are also responsible for Impotence .The various factors which are responsible for diabetes and impotence are: lack of exercise, smoking, alcohol and high blood pressure. A healthier lifestyle should be adopted by people in order to reduce the risk of developing diabetes and impotence. The key for not getting affected by all these things is the healthy lifestyle.
The good news is that there are now a number of very effective medications and treatments available for diabetic person suffering from impotence. 
• Now various drugs are available for impotence. They had brought revolutionized effects in the life of men. Earlier they were facing this problem and there was no solution for it. Since the introduction of impotence drugs like Viagra, 003200 and Levitra, the treatment of erectile dysfunction has become easier and curable. These drugs should be taken after consulting doctor. The condition of impotence differs from person to person so a drug prescribed also differs. These drugs work as relaxant. They help in stimulating blood flow. 

• Other than ED drugs, there are few more treatments also available. These include impotence vacuum pumps, impotence injections, and penile implants.
Impotence and Diabetes are correlated. 

Impotence is caused when the penis fails to get hard or stay hard enough for sex all or most of the time. Impotence is NOT an occasional failure of erection, premature ejaculation, decrease in sexual desire or failure to ejaculate. 

In Diabetes body is unable to produce or process insulin properly. Insulin is a hormone required to convert sugar and starches into energy, which is needed to make the body work efficiently. Read more

Time to take on time

Time to take on time

To significantly reduce disease, we must slow the aging process, according to a team of experts who published their conclusion online in the British Medical Journal on July 8. In an article entitled, “New model of health promotion and disease prevention for the 21st century,” Professor S. Jay Olshansky of the University of Illinois at Chicago and his associates suggest that the current focus on preventing and curing individual diseases will become outmoded as people in developed countries live longer and develop the multiple chronic illnesses that come with aging.
“The change in strategy we are calling for requires a systematic attack on aging itself,” they write. “Evidence in models ranging from invertebrates to mammals suggests that all living things, including humans, possess biochemical mechanisms that influence how quickly we age and that they are adjustable.” Due to a greater life expectancy in developed countries, the increased incidence of diseases related to aging has resulted in a dramatic rise in health care costs. Dr Olshansky and colleagues note that if an extended life span is combined with health, it could result in a number of economic, social, and other benefits, which they call “the longevity dividend.” They propose increased funding for studies that will increase our knowledge concerning the relationship of aging to such diseases as type 2 diabetes, Parkinson's disease, and most cancers, in addition to research into the processes that control aging itself. Continue Reading

Cocoa flavanols improve blood vessel function in diabetics

Cocoa flavanols improve blood vessel function in diabetics

The June 3, 2008 issue of the Journal of the American College of Cardiology published the results of a first-of-its kind study which showed that consuming cocoa flavanols improved vascular function in patients being treated for type 2 diabetes.

Vascular dysfunction occurs early in the development of cardiovascular disease, which is a common killer of diabetic individuals. Even when diabetes is medically treated and “controlled,“ vascular dysfunction often persists. In an initial study, Malte Kelm, MD, and colleagues at University Hospital RWTH Aachen in Germany gave 10 diabetic adults a drink containing 75, 371 or 963 milligrams cocoa flavanols.

Plasma flavanol metabolite levels and flow mediated dilation of the brachial artery (which assesses vascular health by evaluating the ability of the artery to relax) were monitored for several hours following flavanol administration.The researchers determined that improvements in flow mediated dilation correlated with increased flavanol dose.

A double-blinded trial was then conducted in which 41 patients undergoing medical treatment for type 2 diabetes were given a beverage containing 25 milligrams or 321 milligrams cocoa flavanols three times daily for thirty days. The beverages were matched for calories and other cocoa compounds such as caffeine. Flow-mediated dilation and flavanol metabolite levels were measured before treatment, 2 hours after the initial treatment, at 8 days, and at 30 days. Continue Reading

Top Vitamin D Research of 2014

Top Vitamin D Research of 2014

by William B. Grant, PhD

(OMNS Feb 3, 2015) Higher vitamin D blood levels may reduce the risk of many types of disease including autoimmune diseases, cancers, cardiovascular disease, dementia, diabetes mellitus and falls and fractures.

Research into the health effects associated with vitamin D continued to be strong in 2014. The number of publications with vitamin D in the title or abstract listed at pubmed.gov increased from 3,119 in 2011 to 3,919 in 2014. Seven vitamin D researchers (listed after this report) worked together to pick the 20 papers in 2014 that made the most contribution to understanding the health effects of vitamin D in 2014.

Papers are not in priority order, but instead grouped by type of study. For the purpose of this article "vitamin D" in the blood is a measurement of 25-hydroxyvitamin D or 25(OH)D.

Do randomized controlled trials work for vitamin D?

No one refutes the fact that vitamin D is beneficial to the skeletal system. There are many studies (randomized controlled trials [RCT] and also epidemiological) that support this hypothesis. What is at odds is whether or not vitamin D is beneficial to the non-skeletal system. There are many observational (epidemiological, or association) studies that show vitamin D is beneficial, and many RCTs that show it isn't. Does that mean that vitamin D does not aid in disease prevention? Or does it mean that the RCT model does not work for nutrients?

Randomized Control Trials in 2014

Vitamin D3 supplementation in patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease [Martineau, 2014]

A vitamin D trial in the UK in which patients with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease (COPD) were given 120,000 IU vitamin D3 every two months for a year found that vitamin D3 supplementation was protective against moderate or severe exacerbation in those with baseline 25(OH)D concentrations < 50 nmol/L (20 ng/mL) but not for those with concentrations > 50 nmol/L. Vitamin D3 supplementation had no effect on upper respiratory infections. This is consistent with previous RCTs that used high doses at infrequent intervals, every 2 months in this case; however other trials that used an adequate dose given daily have shown reduction in upper respiratory tract infections.

Vitamin D promotes vascular regeneration [Wong, 2014]

This study demonstrated that vitamin D improved cardiovascular disease. The German team investigated this effect several ways. They showed that supplementation with 4000 IU/day of vitamin D3 increased the number of circulating angiogenic myeloid cells, which promote growth and vascular regeneration necessary for a healthy cardiovascular system. A similar result was found in a mouse model, which also demonstrated restoration of impaired angiogenesis (new vessel formation) function. They also examined the mechanisms by which vitamin D acted.

Vitamin D and depression: a systematic review and meta-analysis comparing studies with and without biological flaws. [Spedding, 2014]

This paper reported on a statistical average of many studies of vitamin D RCTs without methodological flaws and found that vitamin D supplementation resulted in a statistically significant improvement in clinical depression. However, the same analysis of vitamin D RCTs with methodological flaws found a statistically significant worsening of depression. The major flaws identified included not increasing 25(OH)D concentrations and not measuring baseline or final 25(OH)D concentrations. Vitamin D supplementation of > 800 IU/d was somewhat favorable in the management of depression. Read more