#sugar-damage

There are now countless thousands of statin victims organising self-help groups on the social media sites. They are often frustrated by not finding a formal voice or champion for their concerns within the medical profession.  Fortunately many of them, myself included, are able to research bio-sciences, health and medical matters. The deafening silence of general practice was momentarily broken by Fiona Godley, editor of the BMJ (British Medical Journal) in 2015 and now the story is out there.. Many statin victims find themselves caught up in a triad of life-style damage: Sugar, Low-Fat  and Statin Damage

Elevated blood sugar is damaging organ lipid receptors which capture fatty nutrient parcels called LDL. LDL lipids are no longer able to be absorbed from our blood, leading to a drop in fatty nutrient supply to all the organs and tissues of the body.  The heart, brain, muscles and nervous system are made vulnerable by this shortage of fatty nutrition. The greatest damage is done by fructose reacting with the LDL lipid receptors.

Low-Fat,  or fat restriction, in the diet adds yet more stress to the organs and tissues. They become more deprived of fats and other fat-soluble nutrition. Our cell walls and membranes are a double layer of fats and cholesterol (lipids). The shape, the workings and protection of cell contents rely on this lipid-cholesterol wrapper.  The whole body needs a constant supply of fatty nutrition to maintain the health of all our organs and tissues.

 Statins are defined by their ability to shut down an important biochemical assembly line in our bodies (mevalonate). This blocks vital supplies of cholesterol, hormones, Co-Enzyme Q10 and other signalling molecules in the body. One fifth of all the molecules in cell membranes (walls and dividing) must be cholesterol, and the loss of cholesterol due to statin drugs will eventually cause our cells to leak and fail. Statin victims notice it most in the most used and largest of organs. Muscles begin to leak affecting kidneys. Sufferers talk about “Cola Coloured Urine” which comes from muscle myoglobin (the red stuff out of meat). Eventually the kidneys are blocked by break down products. Cholesterol is required for the formation and function of our memories, thoughts and behaviours! Violence, Dementias and suicides are well documented statin side-effects. The loss of CoQ10 is also debilitating to energy levels and the failure of beta-cells makes statins a significant cause of diabetes.

A normal brain requires reliable supplies of fatty nutrients supplied by the liver as LDL. LDLs are fatty packets of nutrients travelling in the blood to feed the brain and other organs.  LDL receptors on the organs recognise the LDL packets and absorb them. The 'empty packets' (HDL), carrying waste for recycling, return to the liver via the blood stream.

Over time sugars damage the LDL labels, and thus stop the nutrients from being recognised by the brain's LDL receptors. Consequently LDL stays in the blood and less HDL packets are produced.  This raised LDL. and lower HDL. is associated with poor health. The cause is sugar-damage.

Sugar damage causes the brain to be starved of vital fat and cholesterol.

Treatments which lower 'LDL cholesterol' do not help. They further deprive the brain of LDL, The brain and other organs become starved of fatty nutrients. Meanwhile, any excess dietary sugars (fructose & glucose) become the cause many 'diabetes associated' illnesses.

Fructose, which is increasingly being added to food products, is the new problem sugar. It is more reactive and 10 times more damaging than glucose.

The vital fatty nutrients in LDL are falsely called 'Bad Cholesterol'.

Raised blood lipids (LDL) are a symptom, and again the cause is sugar-damage.

Is it any wonder that years of the dogmatic policy of 'Cholesterol Reduction' have failed to deliver health benefits, and is fraught with problems such as muscle wastage, diabetes and dementia?

The above is a very simplified overview of our paper. If you click on this link you can read our full paper, as published in the Archives of Medical Science.

Click here for our Dementia Paper

How did our health authorities miss the role of sugars as the primary cause of age related illness in modern civilization.   There are many reasons why authorities under pressure to debate, judge and decide are confused about the difference between association with causation.   Almost every day we are subject to statistics which are misunderstood.  Although more than 80% of heart attack victims in America are English speaking it is clearly not a cause.  Statistics  can be used to show that  patients travelling to hospital in ambulances have higher morbidities than those travelling by public transport.

The causes of modern diseases have erroneously been attributed to dietary fat and cholesterol.  This erroneous dogma conflicts with the causative evidence that Carbohydrate (Sugar generating foods) are the real issue in modern diets.