Nutritionist Mihaela Bilic, in the viewfinder of the College of Physicians after a controversial post. “The statements have no scientific proof”
A post of nutritionist Mihaela Bilic on cholesterol and statin therapy has sparked a wave of criticism in the medical world. The College of Physicians in Bucharest reacted firmly, saying that its statements “have no scientific evidence” and are “simply wrong”.
Mihaela Bilic, controversial statements about statin therapy. Photo: Shuttersc/Facebook collage
Nutritionist Mihaela Bilic came to the attention of the College of Physicians in Bucharest, after publishing on Facebook a series of controversial statements about cholesterol and statin therapy, recommended drugs to lower its level. Its post has triggered numerous critical reactions in the online space, including from some doctors, who have reproached the lack of scientific evidence.
In the post published on September 12, Mihaela Bilic claimed that statins “dramatically reduce cholesterol production” and described these drugs as a strategy of the pharmaceutical industry.
“If we were to take us according to the new values set by Americans, a billion people from the globe should take statins. began his post, not before warning that “without fat, The brain is raised ”.
Major hazards for health
In his post, Mihaela Bilic details the devastating effects that cholesterol reduction on health would have, especially on the brain.
“In addition to muscle weakness/ pain (myalgia) and liver toxicity, these drugs dramatically decrease cholesterol production- or without cholesterol, nothing works properly!
From the secretion of hormones to the transmission of nerve impulse between neurons, from substance exchanges to cells to hydration of the skin, fats are essential. Without fat we cannot live, we cannot defend ourselves from diseases, we cannot grow and we cannot «repair» used cells.
The saddest is that the chronic cholesterol lack at the brain level irreversibly affects the integrity and functioning of the nervous system, the brain is «raisins»
and it dries- and we are surprised by the explosion of the last years of neurovegetative diseases and of alarming frequency of Alzheimer's cases. For the fear of cholesterol we indulge in medicines and lose our minds. On your own!
Interestingly, these statins have no protective effect in women and, at the peak, in women the side effects are the most serious. As for men, the increased cholesterol level is not a risk factor, except in combination with other aggravating elements: the presence of atheroma (blood vessels), obesity, diabetes, hypertension, congenital dyslipidemia, ie all factors that make up metabolic X syndrome“, says Mihaela Bilic.
The comments of the Internet users
The statements were immediately challenged by many users, some of them professionals in the medical field. In the comments at the post, most asked for concrete evidence.
* “There is any study to show that statins lead to the total elimination of cholesterol to harmful levels for the brain? I have not found this. If there are serious data that statins destroy the brain or” do not help women “, please quote them, so that we can make better informed decisions.”
* “Have you read the Dislipidemia Guide to the European Cardiology Society? (…) In the country with the greatest mortality through cardiovascular disease, come with such posts?”
* “Are you able to argue with a clinical study, for the last 30 years, what do you say? (…) At a medical congress you could support these ideas in front of cardiologists and neurologists?”are some of the questions that Mihaelei Bilic left those who commented on the post.
What the College of Physicians says
In addition to the reactions in the public space, the College of Physicians in Bucharest has transmitted a firm point of view, stating that Mihaela Bilic has transmitted “simply erroneous” data, for which there is no scientific evidence.
“Taking note by the recent information launched in the public space by Dr. Mihaela Bilic, on statin therapy for patients with cardio and cerebrovascular diseases, as well as about the role of cholesterol in the body, the College of Physicians in Bucharest makes it that they have no scientific evidence, and the data presented are simply. What happened ”, said Prof. Dr. Bogdan Ovidiu Popescu, CMMB vice-president and coordinator of the professional-scientific department.
