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I was diagnosed homozygous C282Y in 2001 and have managed my HH successfully since with therapeutic venesection as a regular blood donation. I have to take statins after a recent heart attack and I'm concerned about their detrimental affect on my liver. Does anyone have experience and advice on this issue, please?
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sonya10 HazzaMcBazza23
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The liver is one of the first places statins effect and not in a good way, every patient taking statins should have regular blood tests to check liver and I'd say you should perhaps have them on an even more regular basis.
after just 2 weeks on statins I noticed skin yellowing and eye colour changing so please be vigilant.
i don't mean to scare you but just wanted to ensure you are aware
HazzaMcBazza23 sonya10
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brian03294 HazzaMcBazza23
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Statins and All-Cause Mortality in High-Risk Primary Prevention. A Meta-analysis of 11 Randomized Controlled Trials Involving 65,229 Participants.
Conclusion:- This literature-based meta-analysis did not find evidence for the benefit of statin therapy on all-cause mortality in a high-risk primary prevention set-up.
http://archinte.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=416105
Liver is the target organ for statins.
By blocking reductase, liver cells receive a false message that mevalonate levels are "low" and reflexively produces MORE reductase. The elevated reductase stimulates the liver cells to make more LDL receptors that attract (cholesterol containing) LDL from the dense blood tributaries in the liver. Satins also block full production of isoprenoids and CoQ10. Without isoprenoids DNA can not replicate and will inevitably die (i.e. muscle wasting [your heart is a muscle, funny how heart failure is a known "side effect" of statin use]). Without any CoQ10 you would die as each cells mitochondria NEED it for conversion of food to energy and so is essential for cellular respiration.(funny how tiredness is a known "side effect" of statin use).
Cholesterol is to CVD what a para medic is to an RTA or a fireman is to a house fire. They are not to blame but are only there to help and so are "highly associated" with them.
We are now in an age of eminence based medicine (as opposed to evidence based). The university professors with there multi million pound research grants (paid for by giant pharmaceuticals from the BILLIONS in profits that are helping bankrupt our health [sickness management] services) are lining up to use "statinstics" to "prove" how safe an effective their paymasters goods are. Shame on them (how do they sleep at night).
What almost circainly caused your heart attack was free radical damage due to high ferritin levels (a known effect of HH) and not cholesterol that was trying to fix the damage (like a scab on a grazed knee).
With elevated serum ferritin levels, it may by possible not to have to perform therapeutic phlebotomies. A simple extract from rice bran called phytic acid, or IP6, can serve as a very effective form of iron chelation that is non-toxic, inexpensive and can be done without a prescription (you can here the tuting and sharp intake of breath from the medics, after all only they should be managing you sickness...sorry health [with drugs of cause]).
Tsuno Food & Rice Company of Wakayama, Japan is the only manufacturer of IP6 in the world; any brand you purchase would come from this company.