Fifteen percent of those taking statin drugs develop some cognitive side effects.

Dr. Ladd McNamara is concerned that the pharmaceutical industry denies that statin drugs can cause amnesia; yet in many of their own studies, memory loss was reported.

Over 5 years, of the approximately 250 women taking Lipitor®, there were 12 new cases of breast cancers, compared to one new case among the placebo group. Certainly not proof that statin drugs cause breast cancer, but a 1500% increase risk of breast cancer is enough"smoke" to be worried about a fire.

Because Co-Q10 levels are decreased by statin drugs, it is easy for Dr. Ladd McNamara to predict that we will see an increased risk of prostate and breast cancer as a result.

Since all organs and all cells rely on the ubiquitous Co-Q10, Dr. Ladd McNamara suggests that the depletion of it by statin drugs causes problems everywhere in the body.

Additionally, Co-Q10 was shown to increase blood levels of vitamin E and significantly increase the levels of protective HDL. As low HDL is a major risk factor for heart disease, Dr. Ladd McNamara believes increasing it is a definite benefit. From reviewing the medical studies, Dr. Ladd McNamara discovered that statin drugs were shown not to provide any benefit beyond supplementing with Co-Q10.

Co-Q10 depletion will become more and more of a problem as the pharmaceutical industry encourages doctors to lower cholesterol levels in their patients even more than ever. Dr. Ladd McNamara asks, Is it possible that we are going to see an epidemic of congestive heart disease and cardiomyopathy, as well as cancer, among those taking cholesterol-lowering statin drugs?

So much denial exists within the cholesterol conspiracy that many doctors will not associate common side-effect symptoms and resultant diseases with the use of a statin drug… physicians and patients need to be educated regarding the symptoms of a statin drug are.