Are Prescription Drugs Causing Irreversible Muscle Damage?
Besides an inactive lifestyle I want to draw your attention to one of the most common causes of severe muscle wasting, statin drugs. Statins are a type of drug prescribed by doctors to lower cholesterol, and are one of the most prescribed medicines in the world. These drugs have quite a few side effects that are hazardous to your health, one being: rhabdomyolysis a serious condition that deteriorates muscle tissue, which can often be fatal because your heart being a muscle is affected by this degenerative condition. They way statins like Zocor, Lipitor, Mevacor, and Pavacol lower cholesterol is by preventing production of HMG-CoA reductase, an enzyme needed in the synthesis of cholesterol. Unfortunately statins also activate atrogin-1, a gene that plays a major role in muscle tissue atrophy. Researchers have shown that even low amounts of these statin drugs can lead to atrogin-1 induced muscle deterioration. They also saw a correlation to the higher the dose the greater the muscle dama
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