We must give patients the evidence on complementary therapies

I wish the real evidence was available to be given to patients about
official and complementary medicine. As I have written previously, the
lack of real biological information on the reason for statin side effects
which nearly led to my demise forced me to look elsewhere. The so-called
complementary medicine which I discovered was more scientific than the
industry boosted, statistic based statin treatment.

The fundamental nature of the damage done to vital body substances is
only mentioned as unimportant side effect symptoms, whereas in reality it
is often of a serous and permanent nature. The microbiological
implications have been studied academically in many places, but not funded
or publicised by Big Pharma, and remain little known to conventional
medical practice.

By all means let the patient know the abilities of both conventional
and so-called complementary treatments, but speak from detailed scientific
knowledge of the real modus operandi of both sides.

I read daily of the miseries inflicted by statins on very many
victims and of the help obtained from supplements not yet in the
Formulary.

PS Is not cholesterol lowering the modern, less messy, equivalent
version of blood letting and the barber's pole?

Competing interests:
Statin damaged patient now totally reliant on scientifically based, but so-called complementary medicine.