Cholesterol Vaccine?

I saw this headline not long ago and it made my jaw drop. “Daily statin use to lower cholesterol may soon be a thing of the past.” I thought maybe — finally — the war on cholesterol was coming to an end. It wasn’t. Instead, it turns out Big Pharma is doubling down on cholesterol drugs. They’ve found a new multi-billion dollar scam. Let me explain… Statins have been blockbusters for the drug companies. Worldwide sales hit $34 billion in one year. But most of these drugs have come to the end of their patents. Profits are starting to dip. Big Pharma needs another patent to replace them. So instead of statin pills they’re developing vaccines to lower cholesterol. And a brand new mouse study shows that one of these new vaccines can drastically lower cholesterol. The study was published in the European Heart Journal.1 Researchers took mice that were bred to develop heart and vascular disease. They gave half of them shots of the experimental vaccine. The other half got a placebo. Then they fed them all a high-fat diet for 18 weeks.   At the end of the trial, the vaccinated mice had 53% lower total cholesterol compared to the controls. Here’s how it works… The vaccine targets an enzyme called PCSK9. It’s naturally produced in your liver. PCSK9 keeps cholesterol in the blood. By blocking the enzyme the vaccine allows cholesterol to be cleared from the blood. But here’s the thing… You NEED cholesterol. Your body uses it to build cell membranes and make...
Source: Al Sears, MD Natural Remedies - Category: Complementary Medicine Authors: Tags: Anti-Aging Source Type: news