Comments on: Lipitor For Kids

By: Gabrielle

Gabrielle — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 22:01:15 +0000

I am so depressed after reading this article. I’m pregnant with my first child and i am so worried about the world i am bringing him/her into. It’s going to be hard enough explaining to the kid why they can’t eat all the same things their friends are eating, but now i’ll have to fight off the doctors, too?

By the way, (and sorry to digress a bit), i just started reading your posts because i am one of those noobs who saw your video on Netflix. It’s probably the best thing i’ve watched on Netflix so far. Now all i need is some reading materials for REAL nutrution during pregnancy. Who knows… maybe soon they’ll start pushing these statins and other stupid drugs on pregnant women. It’s sure working with carbs.

Your child will be fine. You control the diet, not the doctors. You may find this Jimmy Moore podcast interesting. He interviewed Dr. Michael Fox, a fertility doc and ob/gyn:

http://tinyurl.com/6xevvtt

By: Levi

Levi — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 05:49:32 +0000

Feed them a high-carb diet so they go crazy and are overweight. Then feed them Ritalin and Lipitor to counter the affects of a high-carb diet. Crazy, you say? Crazy like a fox!

It does keep business coming in.

By: Jenna

Jenna — Sun, 18 Jul 2010 15:14:13 +0000

As I keep telling people I work with, why would your body make a substance that is incredibly harmful to your health? Perhaps, because cholesterol has a FUNCTION? Like being a portion of the membranes in all your cells? Being involved in brain function? Immune system function? And that maybe children have higher levels of cholesterol because they are making more cells than adults, and are still forming new connections in their brains? And that maybe stopping that is a REALLY STINKING BAD IDEA? I am a scientist, I work with other scientists, we are all skeptics, we conduct research, we know how we do it, we consider ourselves ethical and still know how to make the data come out the way it ‘should’. This terrified me when I saw the article.

It terrified me as well. Those kids will end up with muscle damage, depression, cognitive disfunction, cancer … it’s just a question of which side effect shows up first.

By: JCohn

JCohn — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:57:54 +0000

I hate to suggest the morbid view, but perhaps when thousands of children take statins and start hurting, the harmful nature of the drug will be too much for the media to ignore?

Then it would be a scandal, and they’d be all over it.

By: PHK

PHK — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 21:28:52 +0000

do you think they’d add to the water next?

Crazy as that sounds, there was a doctor in the UK who suggested exactly that — we must make sure everyone takes statins, so let’s put them in the water.

By: Trish

Trish — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:52:35 +0000

I don’t like this Planet Earth ride. Can I get off now?

You sound depressed. We have a drug for that …

By: Kate

Kate — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 21:41:26 +0000

Last I heard, there were no good numbers on what “normal” cholesterol for kids is. Oh wait, Pfizer says it’s exactly the same for adults, so it MUST be true.

Well, clearly the health of the children is their only concern.

By: Leta

Leta — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:51:21 +0000

Oh, fuck me running. Sorry for going R rated here but my God.

It is shit like this that makes me defend trial lawyers, despite the slippery slope that puts me on.

(For the record, as a Michigander, the only time I voted Republican for governor was when the Democrats ran Jeffery Feiger, the most bizzaro, Sideshow Bob-ian trial lawyer of them all.)

I am not a litigious person, but in this case, the sooner somebody sues, the better.

Just saw Feiger on the Stossel show this week. He explained that he’s actually a warrior, fighting for the people. Of course, most warriors don’t make tens of millions of dollars in the course of their campaigns.

By: Dan

Dan — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:50:18 +0000

“For blockbuster drugs, those extensions can easily bring hundreds of millions of dollars in additional revenue.”

Anything to make a buck. That crap is bad enough for adults and who knows what it will do to children. There is no scientific evidence on high cholesterol in children and later heart disease, but when did that ever stop the medical-pharmaceutical establishment????

What’s worse, it could come to the point where parents are charged with child neglect for refusing to give them statins, when giving them statins is the real child abuse.

I may have to join one of those no-doctors religions so I can legally refuse medical advice for my kids.

By: Jamie

Jamie — Mon, 12 Jul 2010 20:03:02 +0000

As Jan mentioned above, looks like the idea of testing all kids in the U.S. is making the rounds: http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/38203670/ns/health/ Apparently even when prescribing statins to kids with first-degree relatives who have high cholesterol, they are still missing a potential group of kids who also would test with high cholesterol. When will the madness end?! I think they even suggest that this tactic will save money in the long-run due to reduced incidences of heart disease?

Good lord. Anyone who tries to give one of my daughters a statin had better be armed.