Ok so I am going to answer both statins and Drudge so we can stop discussing them.
statins. Mileage varies. Some people don’t tolerate it well and it is bad for them. Some people tolerate well and cholesterol goes down. Whether cholesterol causes heart disease is a correlation vs causation question and it is correlated but not definitively causative. Asked and answered.
Drudge. Drudge’s dad sold his company Refdesk to google. In that sale DR got hooked up with google and google people. Drudge cashed out and DR is now a google thing. Asked and answered.
“Whether cholesterol causes heart disease is a correlation vs causation question and it is correlated but not definitively causative.”
Um, no. LDL is a physiological response to vascular damage. Vascular plaque is the result of persistent inflammation which is not permitted to heal. Think of a cut which is repeatedly-opened and the resultant scar and corresponding callus.
Statins reduce plaque and reduce deaths from cardiovascular disease but the inflammation triggers other symptoms...not any one disease, but a diseased state. Take your pick: The expressed symptoms are all common knowledge and labeled by an ignorant medical community as separate ‘diseases’.
Statin drugs are the biochemical equivalent to paint over dry rot: Looks great, but I wouldn’t buy it.
Statins nearly killed me before I woke up; others are merely rationalizing the pills’ effects...just like I did at first. The difference being that I was ‘lucky’, so-to-speak: None of the common statins affected my blood cholesterol so I took one which ended up with rather distinct side effects within 6 months.
I later learned that I now know more than most so-called ‘doctors’...