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Stents are an extremely profitable business.

They are expected to be an $8 billion business just in the next couple of years.

That only counts the sale of the stents alone.

It doesn’t include the procedures necessary to install the stents — the follow-ups and so forth.

So it’s extremely lucrative to keep using stents in medical practice.

But is it really what’s best for the patients?

Stents can be harmful and may cause death.

It’s an old story.

A man is sick, and he’s alarmed.

His doctor sends them to a specialist, and before he knows it, the specialist has put in a stent.

It seems like a good idea to most people — you tell them you got one, and they nod like it’s an important step.

The idea of a stent is simple.

It’s supposed to keep an artery open.

Coronary artery stent placement is seen as a routine operation, even with the operative risks.

But stents have such a bad track record, that manufacturers have started to introduce medicated stents.

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So most stents now are medicated, but even these have a very poor track record.

In fact you want to think two or three times before you allow them to put in stents.

You want something that works, and stents, in general, don’t do what they’re intended to do.

Not to mention the risks of the stent operation itself.

Here is a study of stents used in keeping a carotid artery open.

The carotid artery is the major artery in your neck that feeds blood to your brain.

When men get atherosclerosis, one of the arteries that often gets lined with plaque is the carotid artery.

Atherosclerosis is the hardening of the arteries.

Needless to say, this can be life-threatening.

So various medical procedures have been developed to keep the carotid artery open, or to open it up if it’s clogged.

One way is surgically remove the section of the carotid artery that is clogged up.

Then the doctors replace it by splicing together the existing artery.

The process looks very similar to how they used to edit film by cutting out a scene and then combine the ends of the film.

Another process used to treat closed arteries is to install a stent.

But surgical procedures such as stents are rarely subject to good strong studies.

And when they are studied, the study is generally funded by a drug company out to promote stents.

With such a biased study, it’s impossible to be certain stents are safe or effective.

But now and then, an unbiased and good quality study is done.

In this case, researchers did a very good double-blind, randomized study at a major university hospital.

It was NOT funded by the drug companies.

And they found that men who had stents installed into their carotid artery instead of having surgery had a much higher rate of stroke and death.

Stents are done so routinely, that this is a truly frightening finding.

This is one of many studies showing how poor stents are, and what a bad choice they are.

In the carotid artery study, researchers found that 25% of the time, the carotid artery got clogged again even with the stent.

Also, many stent patients had a stroke which proved debilitating or deadly.

None of the patients with traditional “splicing surgery” had a stroke during this time.

These are striking results.

And yet, surgeons are STILL reaching for the stents to treat this condition.

Here’s another great study that gives a failing grade to stents, this time for kidney artery clogging:

When patients have impaired kidneys, it’s often the result of a combination of things.

These patients may have very poor metabolisms and low levels of vitamin D3.

The result is a buildup of plaque in the arteries, including the arteries feeding the kidneys.

In this case, researchers randomized patients into two groups.

One group got stents.

The other group simply got medication.

Serious complications occurred in the stent group, including 2 procedure-related deaths (3%), 1 death secondary to an infected hematoma, and 1 patient who required dialysis secondary to cholesterol embolism. 

In the medication group, there were ZERO such complications.

The study authors (who were funded partly by drug companies) were FORCED to conclude:

Renal stenting may cause more harm than benefit.

And yet, even with all of this evidence and proof, stents are still pushed.

If you show up in your specialist’s office with some kidney issues, chances are very good that the specialist is going to suggest stents.

This is one of many, many studies that show stents are actually very bad medicine.

They do not help and often they kill.

Think twice before you agree to a stent.

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