Poisoned!: Recovery From Statin "Side Effects"

I almost died from taking statins. After stopping statins three years ago, I felt dramatic improvement in my condition. I felt euphoric the first week. I was alive again! Like many statin-injured victims though, my recovery leveled off. Three years into my recovery, I began to feel like my symptoms might be increasing again. Then I discovered the new books published by the Yosephs.By applying the science based diet recommended by the Yosephs, and avoidance of toxic drink and dead food, I have felt a new surge in my recovery. I feel energy and vigor I have not felt in years. I still have damage on a cellular/nuclear level, but now I can take matters into my own hands, and give my cells all the nutrition, and avoidance of toxicity I possibly can.The Yoseph statin-injury recovery book, "Poisoned!", is unique among the statin "truth" books. It offers the most in-depth science on a cellular level, and the most practical help for recovery. It is written by people who have that extremely rare combination of intellect, genuine compassion, love for truth, and the gualities of love and courage. There is no better information out there for the statin-injured. Thank you James and Hannah!

Poisoned!: Recovery From Statin Side Effects is an interesting book for someone with the problem. Unfortunately, I was one of those severely allergic to ALL the statins. Yes, my MD had me try them all on the assumption that I might not be allergic to one of them. The book does an almost too in depth discussion of what the problem is. I had trouble following some of the terminology & discussion but based on other research I have done the explanations seem logical. The recovery solution, though, is beyond what I want to do in the way of eating. Although I follow a decent diabetic diet fairly well,what the authors suggest as the healing power goes far beyond the ADA recommendations - ultra "healthy" eating, if you will without much proof that it would repair the damaged muscles in my lower back and legs. So basically, the book explains the cause of the problem & then leads you through an extremely rigid diet to hopefully eliminate the statin damage.If you have statin damage, & want to examine a possible cause, & might be interested in a drastic change of diet, I recommend it. Otherwise save your money.

Dr. Hannah Yoseph is second to none as a doctor. She has made the effort as a professional to truly understand human health and nutrition to such an extent that she is able to explain things so well that they make the reader be and feel so much smarter as a result.You can only do worse than Dr. Hannah.

Heard many problems with taking statins. This explains a lot of what’s going on. Most regular MDs don’t know or care about these side effects.

Although there is no doubt in my mind that statins are indeed poision, I have to question some of what the authors say. Like that chlorine in our drinking water takes the vitamin C out of our body. When I looked it up online, I saw just the opposite. Vitamin C removes chlorine. Who to believe?There is also no way I could follow their diet. I am intolerant to all fish, shellfish, chicken, eggs and dairy. So what would that leave me for protein? According to the authors, pretty much nothing.

Information that everyone including Doctors needs to know. Sad to read that Dr. Graveline has passed away. He worked hard to let people know the dangers of Statins.

Very informative since I was one of the people who took statins and got sick from them .Now trying the information to get my body back to normal.

Take out the rants in the first three chapters and it a well researched book. The rants against doctors make it a little embarrassing to give to one's doctor who you hope will read it.

I have always been a sceptic when it comes to the suggestion that all fats and cholesterol were bad for us, after all the trillions of body cells are made from cholesterol, our steroid hormones including Vitamin D converted from sunlight, the mass of brain tissue is cholesterol and its functions are essential to life, why then would we need to prevent our body from producing it? This makes no sense; why aren't Drs doing anything about this?I watched my whole family and their heart disease progression. Despite being quite a strong personality and a having some health knowledge, I was bullied into accepting a prescription for Statins. The very first statin tablet robbed me of my strength. Sceptics will say wow that it not possible; well it is because it did. I have a very physically demanding job whereby I have to lift heavy things. I work with a guy, who without the knowledge of me taking statins or indeed the possible effects of statins, also noticed that first morning, that I had suddenly lost my strength. At this point I didn't feel pain but eventually I felt sore joints and painful muscles and the weakness persisted. Worse than that, I experienced the most incredibly excruciating headaches; I have suffered migraines for more than 30yrs, so I am used to very painful headaches, but these were something very different. The headaches felt as though I had been hit across the head with a cricket bat with great force and these lasted for up to 3 days. They felt as though I was having a stroke and about to die. They were nothing like migraines and were not relieved by my normal migraine medication.I saw Drs including a neurologist, all said the headaches were nothing to do with the statin drugs, even though I had never experienced them before. Despite medical advise to continue the statins, I stopped taking them. The headaches stopped. Still the medics would not accept the headaches were caused by the statin drugs. I was persuaded to restart statins and immediately the headaches returned. This time I stopped taking them and have never taken them since. The headaches have never returned.I have a condition called Hypothyroidism, my whole family have this condition. They also suffer with rising cholesterol and heart disease. Drug companies advise Statins would not be prescribed to individuals suffering Hypothyroidism.Interestingly in the 1960's/70's, those thought to be suffering Hypothyroidism had serial cholesterol levels taken because rising cholesterol levels were diagnostic of Hypothyroidism. Since the 1980's the test for diagnosing hypothyroidism was changed to a very controversial test which many consider leaves around 50% of Hypothyroid sufferers undiagnosed.Almost every single cell in the body, every tissue, and organ require adequate levels of thyroid hormone in order to function properly. The symptoms suffered by hypothyroid suffers are varied as a consequence. The body suffers chronic inflammation, inflammation has long been considered the cause of heart disease, the fat/cholesterol theory is wrong. Cholesterol is found at the site of inflammatory trauma; the artery walls; because it is trying to heal the injury. To say that cholesterol causes heart disease is like saying a paramedic causes every car crash they attend. Further, in the case of hypothyroidism the Liver requires adequate thyroid hormone just as much as every other tissue and organ, those with hypothyroidism are suffering low levels of thyroid hormone. When the liver is deprived of adequate levels of thyroid hormone it cannot function properly, one consequence of this is serum cholesterol levels rise and blood Liver function tests are raised.Heart disease is a common cause of death in those suffering hypothyroidism. Historically, informed Drs have been aware that if you treat hypothyroidism early the rate of heart disease in the population will fall. Further, if you treat a sufferer with adequate thyroid hormone, levels of cholesterol will also fall and more importantly chronic inflammation will resolve.Statin drugs were the first ever billion $ profit drug. Its use has become ever more 'popular' since the late 1980's/90's although they have been in use for longer. Since this time the growth in demand for this drug has been massively profitable for drug company, their management, officials and many Drs, universities, researchers and Professors, etc.Statin drugs are contraindicated for those suffering hypothyroidism and yet I do not know anyone taking statins who has been tested for the disorder prior to starting statin drugs. My whole family have hypothyroidism and despite this they are prescribed statin drugs.Drug companies exist to make profits and in the case of statins this has been achieved beyond all expectations. In the process many millions of people have been damaged or have died directly as a result of taking this drug. My mum was one of those who lost her life as a consequence of statin drugs; they cause heart failure.I took statin drugs for less than 3 months, despite stopping the drug > 11years ago I am still suffering the side effects and they are getting worse. Stopping the drug doesn't reverse the damage, once you take a statin drug you have permanently damaged your body but worse than that the damage continues to be progressive and will disable me and then likely kill me and many others like me.This book is essential reading for those who have been poisoned by their Drs prescriptions with Statin drugs.

How long will it take for the dangers of statins to be properly accepted? Everyone who has been prescribed these awful drugs and has suffered from the side effects should read this book. It will help to put you on the path to recovery.

My son and sister-in-law have read this and were very interested in the whole book.