Dear Friend,

You can package anything into a capsule, slap a health claim on it, and
label it as healthy. It doesn't matter if it's a nutritionally-void berry,
a synthetic copy-cat of Mother Nature, or even a poison. It's just too damn
easy to sell pills and make a "killing."

Red yeast rice and other cholesterol lowering drugs prove that I'm not
exaggerating.

Beginning in the 1970's, red yeast rice was the focus of study for drug
giant Merck. With funding from your tax dollars, they researched its unique
ability to survive in nature by producing a lethal, chemical defense
against its predators.

Scientists found that the poisonous components were a family of compounds
that deplete cholesterol and an energizing molecule known as Co-Q10
(obtained from leafy greens). Once
removed, death via heart failure ensues.

Shortsighted, Merck thought that lowering cholesterol with the active
ingredients from the yeast would make a blockbuster drug, so they isolated
the active ingredients and made one; it's name is lovastatin. Supplement
hucksters smelled the money too, and encapsulated the active yeast extracts
to sell as a natural alternative.

While they differ in name, red yeast rice actives and the popular
cholesterol-lowering drugs like lovastatin (known technically as statins)
are molecular twins, and therefore share the same potential risks. And
they're surfacing more often than a celebrity sex tape, and being ignored
by their makers just the same.

Statins - red yeast rice - attack muscle fibers. In their infancy, it became clear that
cholesterol lowering drugs caused a painful disorder called rhabdomyolysis,
which is a fancy term for muscle breakdown.

Scientists at Emory University school of Medicine recently published that,
“statin-induced myopathy is a significant clinical problem that contributes
considerably to statin therapy discontinuation.”

As muscle fibers get twisted and tangled by statins, the insulin receptor
on muscle cells gets jarred too. This prevents the "sugar taxi" hormone
from doing its job, causing blood sugar and insulin levels to rise
dangerously. This same destruction is showing to cause Type II diabetes.

The New York Times reported a “20 percent overall increased risk of
diabetes for high-dose statin users, compared to those who don't take the
drugs.”

Muscle fibers aren't the only thing that get twisted and tangled, so do
proteins within your brain known as Tau proteins. Once tangled, they can no
longer pass electrical messages through the body, resulting in a loss of
voluntary muscle control. As time passes, muscle wasting (a science nerd
would call it atrophy) results and victims suffer from Lou Gehrig's
Disease, ALS.

The national average of those who suffer from ALS is a mere .0005 percent.
But – sit down for this one – among those who reported suffering from
“drug induced ALS,” nearly a third were using cholesterol lowering
drugs.

Heart disease is not caused by cholesterol, and high cholesterol will never
be a risk as outlined in my book, Over-The-Counter Natural Cures Expanded.

That means red yeast rice and statins are 100% more risk than they are benefit.
Stop messing around, and learn how to protect your cardiovascular system
at www.getcardiofx.com.

Dare to Live Young,

The People's chemist