They’re over prescribed, and will lead to alzheimers and a rise in blood sugar, and while they lower cholesterol they actually lower the type of large molecule cholesterol that isn’t bad for you. You can control liver disease via diet, stop abusing alcohol, get your blood sugar under control and quit ALL seed oils.
If you have more iron than you need, you can donate blood and that is good for you.
My wife died from Alzheimer’s (heart failure) while taking Simvastatin.
Causal? Don’t know.
When it breaks through the brain-blood barrier, statins can cause dementia like symptoms. I have a friend who’s losing his memory from the stuff but he won’t quit because the doctor has him all scared he’ll have a heart attack the week he quits it. Big Pharma has these doctors brainwashed.