Natural Health & Wellness Center "Beyond Holistic"

Natural Health & Wellness Center "Beyond Holistic"
NH&WC "Beyond Holistic" LLC

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Tuesday, April 27, 2010

Niacin (vit B3) vs. Ezetimibe (Zetia) and Vytorin


Antoaneta Sawyer, Ph.D.

We can see without help of magnifying glass that conventional medicine is on the road to a slow but relatively steady and complete breakdown to the so called "integrative model." Without doubt the above model will represent the Medicine of the Future. There is a sharp edge down the middle of the conventional (orthodox) medicine. One half, is strongly represented by the modern high leveled technology, with significant results in coping with acute cases and emergencies, while the other half, dealing with chronic degenerative conditions, as cancer, morbid obesity, metabolic syndrome, type 2 diabetes, Parkinson and Alzheimer disease, autoimmune diseases, etc. is just offering the " quick fix" symptomatic improvement but not the real cure. It will be a serious mistake to consider the conventional "early diagnosis" as a synonyme of "prevention."
Vitamin B3 (Niacin) is well recognized as essential in the breakdown of fats and proteins. It also plays role in maintaining the health of the circulatory tract, multiple tissues and organs (liver, eyes, skin, hair and muscles), and the health of our central nervous system. In the human body,Vit B3 participates in more than 50 metabolic reactions. Niacin reduces bad cholesterol (LDL) in the blood, increases good cholesterol (HDL) and normalizes the number of abnormally elevated triglycerides what improves blood circulation. Multiple endocrine hormones are Vitamin B3 dependant also. Good sources of Niacin are: meat, fish, milk, cereals, eggs, green vegetables, and cereal grains.
In a new study, published on Internet by the New England J of Medicine (2009), Zetia failed to shrink buildups in artery walls while its rival drug-Niaspan (slow release form of vit B3) did it. The study proved that adding extended-release niacin (Niaspan, Abbott) to statin therapy results in a significant regression of atherosclerosis as measured by carotid intimae-media thickness (IMT), whereas the addition of Ezetimibe (Zetia, Merck/Schering-Plough) to statin therapy did not do a thing. Vytorin is a pill that combines Zetia with a statin. At the same time the slow-release version of niacin also raised the levels of HDL (good cholesterol) while Zetia did not. Of course, the study authors concluded that Zetia users also suffered more heart attacks and other problems although the numbers of these events were too small to draw firm final conclusions. The trial raised serious concerns on the use of Zetia and Vytorin — drugs still taken by millions of Americans to lower LDL (bad) cholesterol. One may remember well that just a year ago the company was bragging on how well the two cousins drugs are working in reducing bad cholesterol. The heart association “conventionally” advises consumers against using over-the-counter vitamin versions (vit B3) in place of prescriptions, because they may have purity and potency issues and other risks.
If you think that alternative medicine is the one who is fighting successfully with the conventional (allopathic) medicine, you will make mistake again. It's a fight between two big pharmaceutical giants- Merck/Shering–Plough vs. Abbott. The medical doctors are seriously discouraged of the negative results offered by their conventional Alma Mather and turn to alternative medicine without any shame or necessity of a holistic degree. Above all they were the ones who bashed holistic medicine as “Unproven,” “Cut-poison,” “Funny,” “Joke,” and simply "Empiric" and did witch hunt on anyone who even dared to declare “statistically unproven” benefits of vitamins, minerals or botanicals.
I can bet that you could never hear about the benefits of B3 (Niacin) without the deep pockets of the Big Pharma, ever. But, I do not have any doubt, that sooner than ever you will hear on the benefits of other "unconventional" formulas that have been rejected before- botanicals, vitamins and minerals if pattented by the pharmaceutical companies. Just give it sometime and you will see proven significant benefits of the alternative medicine they laughed at, years ago. The only thing that will stay the same will be-the increasing profit and money revenue in the hands of some selected corporations and people who change their mind as soon as they can see financial profit. In the meantime a lot of people will die of heart attacks and cancer due to overradiation and saturation with dangerous chemicals pharmaceutical therapy.
“ Physicians have been pouring drugs, about which they know little, for diseases, about which they know less, into human beings about whom they know nothing “-- Voltaire.
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