Know of someone with a heart attack risk?

Do you know of friends or family with unhealthy cholesterol levels?

Do you know if they are on prescription statin drugs?

Do you know if they’re aware of the many side effects of statin drugs?

If you know of a “clinically-proven, patented, safe and natural alternative to statin drugs for cholesterol reduction”, wouldn’t you share this information with them?

I would. I am.

Please consider the following facts:

The Problem - an epidemic

Heart disease is by far the single biggest cause of deaths in the world.

According to World Health Organization’s latest statistics, cardiovascular disease claims 17 million lives in a year, accounting for 30% of all deaths worldwide.

In comparison, All Cancers account for 10%, Injuries 9% and HIV/Aids 5%. Other communicable diseases account for 27%, while other non-communicable diseases account for another 19%.

The US is no exception. Cardiovascular disease is the No 1 cause of deaths there, accounting for 1.3m deaths every year. That means heart disease claims 3,500 lives every day in the US.

Heart disease is a silent killer with little or no advanced warning. Often, the first sign is death by heart attack or stroke.

Unhealthy cholesterol is the leading risk indicator, causing around a third of all cardiovascular disease worldwide.

The Solution

Prescription statin drugs is the most common treatment for unhealthy cholesterol.

The 2 top prescription drugs sold worldwide are cholesterol drugs, namely, Lipitor (estimated to exceed US$13b in 2006, and growing by more than 20% p.a.) and Zocor (US$6.2b). Other brands include Zetia, Vytorin and Crestor.

The market size for cholesterol drugs continues to skyrocket, from US$25b in 2007 to a projected US$30b in 2007.

The Problems with the Solution

Owing to the epidemic proportions of heart disease, and thanks to a hefty multi-billion-dollar advertising and marketing budget, statin drugs sell well despite dangerous side effects such as these:

Ø May change, weaken, damage or destroy muscle
Ø May induce sudden total memory loss
Ø May increase eye cataract risk
Ø May suppress immune function
Ø Have been linked to cancer
Ø Have been linked to liver and kidney damage
Ø Are linked to muscle pain
Ø Deplete CoQ10 levels in the body
Ø May cause sleep disorders
Ø May cause erectile dysfunction

According to the Statin Effects Study of University of California, San Diego: “Muscle symptoms are common with statin drugs. “Myopathy”, involving actual damage to muscle tissue, can be very serious.”

A class action lawsuit is brewing over Pfizer’s LIPITOR®, the Kahn Gauthier Law Group is investigating possible legal actions against Pfizer, Inc., the manufacturer of the cholesterol-lowering drug Lipitor, to recover for liver or kidney damage suffered by patients prescribed Lipitor.

AstraZeneca studied its Lipitor® look-alike, Crestor®, for cholesterol reduction in 24,000 patients, hoping to prove superiority. But the only dose of Crestor that clearly beat Lipitor turned out to cause kidney problems and never won FDA approval,” according to a Forbes report, May 8, 2006. Yet, Crestor’s ad slogan claims: “When Crestor performed in a head-to-head test, its lowering effect was clearly the best.”

For all the risks that they entail, do prescription drugs work?

In 2002, 100 million cholesterol prescriptions were issued in 2002! With this kind of coverage, why are we seeing an ever-increasing incidence of cardiovascular disease - more strokes and heart attacks every year?

“Our drugs do not work on most patients,” said the chief of Glaxosmithkline.

A senior executive said fewer than half of the patients prescribed some of the most expensive drugs actually derived any benefit from them, reported The Independent, London on December 8, 2003.

A Better Solution – safe, no side effects

Is there a better solution for Cardiovascular Disease than Statin Drugs and their negative side effects?

Yes, Bios Life - “the ONLY clinically-proven, patented, safe and natural alternative to statin drugs for cholesterol reduction”.

While statin drugs address high cholesterols with only one mechanism, i.e. by inhibiting the production of cholesterol by liver, Bios Life lowers cholesterol via 4 mechanisms:

Blocks re-absorption of cholesterol in gastrointestinal tract
Blocks absorption of cholesterol from digested food
Reduces cholesterol produced by the liver
Enhances enzymatic breakdown and removal of bad cholesterol

Clinical studies show Bios Life can, within 8 weeks:

Reduce LDL by as much as 31%
Increase HDL by as much as 29%

Used in conjunction with statin drugs, Bios Life can also help break through the “statin floor” – or the lowest LDL level that statin drugs can achieve - and provide an additional decrease in LDL of an average of 20%.

So, What Next?

Talk to me. Introduce me to friends and family who are on prescription drugs for cholesterol, are nervous about their side effects, and are open to at least check out “the only clinically-proven, patented, safe and natural alternative to statin drugs for cholesterol reduction”.

By the way, what are your numbers?

Here are some benchmarks on healthy cholesterol levels:

Healthy Total Cholesterol: 200 mg/dL or lower (consider 100 or lower)
Healthy LDL Cholesterol: 129 mg/dL or less
Normal HDL Cholesterol: 40 mg/dL or higher (consider 60 or more)
Acceptable Triglyceride Level: 150 mg/dL or lower

Yours in Wellness,

Eng Hai