If you are of Scots-Irish decent, watch out for that “rare but serious side effect.”
Yea, liver and muscle toxicity don’t sound like fun.
I don’t claim to be a doctor, but after being told my Cholestorol was high, I started doing research on the topic. My Conclusion thusfar is basically my diet is lacking in fiber..
Dietary intake can be reduced, but liver produces cholestorol and from saturated fats etc.. and your body absorbs it through the gut... the less fiber you have in your diet the more of it and longer amount of time it hangs out there to be absorbed. This is why things like oatmeal and oats (soluable fiber) tend to lower cholestorol when eaten regularly.
Certain folks just livers just produce more than others due to genetics, I’m very skeptical to put a drug into my body known to possibly harm my liver when it seems to me that diet is the main culprit.