Don’t take statins without knowing risks—or alternatives

How do you feel about washing down some heart health protecting medications with a nice, fresh glass of water? The fact is, statins are being pushed on around half of all adults over the age of 40 in the USA. But not only are the drugs less effective than claimed by their makers, their long-term use yields a long list of common and serious side effects that are insufficiently communicated to users. Find out more in our main story this week.

The other fly in the ointment is the quality of our drinking water supplies, the subject of our second piece this week. Let’s face it, for all those statin users, if the water being used to wash down the meds was a little cleaner and less contaminated than it is, it wouldn’t be quite the double whammy it is.

For many people, the self-care nirvana in which we consume unadulterated, uncontaminated, wholesome unprocessed foods and fresh spring or mineral water, while managing our health using a diverse range of natural products, is a long way off. For others among us, albeit a small minority today, it is a state of living we are passionate to protect.

Please help support us in our work at the Alliance for Natural Health International so that we can both promote and protect our right to manage our health through natural and sustainable means.

In health, naturally

Rob Verkerk, PhD

Founder, executive & scientific director