Re: Re: book re:surviving statins and without statins

[Guest guest]

Ran across this in my email archives--wondered if anything ever came of

the book and the information???

Frustrating how much info like this is out there being ignored!

Linden

Re: book re:surviving statins and

without statins

EXCELLENT!!!!!

Ed

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> A New Book by a Heart Attack Victim Has Refueled the Decades Old

> Debate: Do the Cardiological Benefits of Statins Outweigh Their

> Negative Side Effects?

>   Recent medical studies are recommending lowering existing LDL

> cholesterol levels for post heart attack patients to levels

> significantly lower than the ceiling of 100 mg/dL that has been in

> effect until now. Many people taking statins to meet the existing

> goal of 100 already feel that the quality of their lives has

reached

> zero. In " Surviving a Successful Heart Attack " , the author, Mike

> Stone, describes the massive disruptions in his professional and

> personal life, and his own futile attempts to climb out of the

> mental/emotional abyss that he had somehow stumbled into. He

> ultimately draws his own conclusions (based on the work of Dr. Uffe

> Ravnskov, the Weston A Price Foundation and others) regarding the

> real cause of his heart attack– conclusions contradicting many of

> the accepted cardiological doctrines regarding the cause of heart

> disease.

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> (PRWEB) October 6, 2004 -- At age 51, the author, a veteran of 20

> years in the hi-tech/computer/internet field, experiences 3 heart

> attacks within a 12 hour period. After an angiogram, angioplasty,

> stent insertion and recuperation period he returns to his previous

> life routine as before. It is only 2 years later that he discovers

> the NIH Statin Study headed by Dr. Beatrice Golomb, and ultimately

> the root of his mental/emotional malfunctioning over the previous 2

> years.

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> Negative side effects caused by statins have been well documented

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> medical studies, however only a few people have actually detailed

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> a daily basis the many disruptions in profession and private life.

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> The author details his own 2 point plan for recovery- physical

> recovery, and mental/emotional recovery. What had started out as a

> tool for physical rehabilitation, bicycle riding, eventually became

> a daily obsession - initially to convince the doctors that the

> stringent 100 LDL ceiling should be waived because of his

ironically

> excellent physical stamina (120 km trail bike riding every week).

> Regarding mental/emotional recovery, the author describes his

> experience at a number of seminars that he participated in, and the

> crucial role that the seminars played in 'their' (the author and

his

> wife) recovery from 'his' heart attack.

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> Meticulously researched, the author quotes from dozens of medical

> studies, exposing major contradictions among doctors, and

ultimately

> puts his own life on the line by adapting the emerging medical view

> (and lifestyle) that cholesterol is NOT a cause of heart disease,

in

> direct contrast to accepted cardiological doctrine.

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> The book is available directly from the publisher at

> http://www.lulu.com/content/73226

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> CONTACT INFORMATION 

> Mike Stone

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> Email us Here 

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> Surviving a Successful Heart Attack

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> Book Excerpts

> Several sample pages from " Surviving a Successful Heart Attack "

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