New guidelines aim to dope everyone over 55

By WC Douglass M.D.

Happy birthday... now take your meds! 

It doesn't matter if your blood pressure is fine and your cholesterol levels are perfect -- once you hit 55, you should be taking BP pills and cholesterol meds, regardless. 

At least, that's what the researchers of a daffy new study would have you believe. 

Wait 'til you hear the details of this one -- it'll make your head spin. 

These researchers claim to have compared disease detection in a population of 500,000 people by using mainstream standards -- testing cholesterol and blood pressure levels -- and by using age alone... specifically, 55. 

They claim that both techniques showed that 84 percent of all patients face heart risk -- which is why the researchers wrote in PLoS One that it would be easier and cheaper to just drug everyone who hits 55 than to screen everyone and figure out who might be at risk. 

In other words... Drug 'em all – and let God sort 'em out! 

That's not even the head-spinning part. Ready for it? Here it is: The 500,000 people used in the study weren't even real. These were theoretical people -- the study was actually a computer model. 

There should be a disclaimer at the bottom of the page: 

*no actual humans were saved in the making of this study.

But if REAL people are given meds willy-nilly based on age or astrological signs, millions will be harmed by REAL drug side effects. Statins alone come with a risk of muscle pain, cataracts, liver and kidney damage, sex problems and even diabetes. 

Now, let me get to the news behind the news -- the little detail you won't read anywhere in the mainstream coverage of this dangerous proposal: The man behind this study, Dr. Nicholas Wald, is a patent holder of the "polypill." 

That's the all-in-one drug that combines -- you guessed it -- statins and BP meds, with some aspirin thrown in for good measure. 

More people on statins and BP pills means more polypill customers... and more polypill customers means more dough for Dr. Wald and friends. 

And that's real money -- not theoretical money. 

Meanwhile, even the most basic statin argument is falling apart in the mainstream -- because a new study shows that LDL cholesterol isn't so bad for you after all. 

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