They are working overtime to justify using statins - which cause more problems than they supposedly “solve”.
My cholesterol levels are perfect, but since I’m over 55, they wanted to put me on statins, “just because” - I told them where to put the statins...
No one should do statins, “just because.”
My primary “nurse practitioner” wanted to put me on statins after one cholesterol test showed higher, but I had just started Keto, too, and had told that to the nurse practitioner. I was told about the statins by her nurse, on the phonr.
I told her no doctor has credibility suggesting statins off of just one higher cholesterol test. Maybe off of two, over several months, but not one from a new dietary change. I said that every doctor should know that takes more than one test. She chuckled and said she understood and that she would pass that on to the nurse practitioner.
I never went back to her, but my wife later did, and the nurse practitioner was shocked she showed up, after what I had told the nurse.
Doctors and nurse practitioners mean well, but you have to constantly sanity check what they suggest. This is easier to do, for most people, by an expensive second opinion, but it’s cheaper when you go in knowing more about your likely condition and the wealth of options available.
Do note insurance companies limit some treatment options. I just wish doctors would tell patients why they settled on a bad, old practice, due to your insurance’s directives.
Cholesterol/CVD is the greatest medical fraud in human history.