An important new cancer risk has been discovered, and it’s easy to increase this risk accidentally

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Researchers have discovered a new cancer risk. And it’s easy to increase this risk accidentally.

But don’t bother asking your doctor about it. There’s a very good chance he hasn’t even heard of it.

What’s worse, research on this risk has been sparse. And mainstream media reporting has been virtually absent.

Gee…it’s almost as if nobody wants to come right out and say it: Low LDL cholesterol may increase cancer risk.

Uh oh – not too loud! After years of telling us that we need to drive LDL down as low as it can possibly go, you can be sure that an LDL/cancer link is the LAST thing the medical mainstream wants to admit.

But there it is. Hiding in plain sight.

Heads planted firmly in the sand

Here’s an astonishing comment from a recent Science Daily article…

“Previous studies of cholesterol-lowering drugs have suggested a strong association between low levels of LDL-C and cancer risk.”

Stunning! And yet…

NBC? CBS? Fox News? New York Times? Hello! Anybody out there care to share this information with the world? No? Okay. It seems we’ll have to follow this one under the mainstream radar.

The Science Daily article covered a study that looked at low LDL and cancer risk among patients who never took cholesterol-lowering statin drugs.

Here’s a comment from one of the researchers: “The evidence so far tells us that the drugs themselves do not increase the risk of cancer.”

Okay. Let me see if I’ve got this straight. Low LDL increases cancer risk. Statins lower LDL. But statins don’t increase cancer risk.

See how that works? The statins can’t be to blame. Heavens no! It’s the low LDL. THERE’S your culprit!

A few years ago, I told you about a Canadian Medical Association Journal study that caught the low LDL link to cancer. And before that, in 2007, a Journal of the American College of Cardiology study also recognized the link.

But each time this association emerges, researchers go out of their way to parrot the mainstream medicine party line about statins. They almost act like they HAVE to remind everyone that statins are indispensible.

These guys will never let go.

I’ll be on the lookout for further research about cancer and LDL – and, of course, any additional warnings about statins.

Sources:
“Low LDL Cholesterol Is Related to Cancer Risk” Science Daily, 3/26/12, sciencedaily.com

“Independent Associations Between Low-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Cancer Among Patients With Type 2 Diabetes Mellitus” Canadian Medical Association Journal, Vol. 179, No. 5, 8/26/08, cmaj.ca

“Low Cholesterol Levels Associated With Cancer, Study Finds” Science Daily, 7/25/07, sciencedaily.com