There’s one school of thought on statins (Crestor) holding that any reduction in lipid deposition/plaques in the brain can improve cerebrovascular blood flow and hence, cognition. These are prescribed routinely for dementia patients.
Another school of thought is the statins CAUSE dementia by reducing sterol-based lipid/myelin sheaths in cortical neurons which leads to malfunction.
Both those mechanisms could be in effect simultaneously.
I feel the second (atrophy or destruction of myelin sheaths), if it occurs, might occur in some individuals and not others due to genetic factors affecting robustness of the sheath.
Eat more Oreos :-)
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My Doctor had me on Crestor for about a month and a half. I would get the worst muscle cramps ever. 1 day i was just sitting in my chair and my outer quad muscle jerked straight up and i nearly passed out. That was it for me. Haven’t taken anything since and its been over 20 years.