I fought hard to stop our doctor from giving my wife statins. Anti and pro website MDs have conflicting evidence.
Doctor isn’t 100 years old but she gets stuck in some beliefs.
One technical and important point: The wonder drug features of statins were found in results of test studies on males only. Women had no studies shown to help them, but doctors said “people” were helped. Finally a rather recent one showed help for women, too. But now controversial.
Statins can cause brain fog, pains in legs, destruction of muscles and, yes, the heart is a muscle so it harms, not helps the heart in the long run.
Plus a lot of Drs don’t even tell their patients on statins to take CoQ10 to help prevent mitochondrial dysfunction affecting the muscles.
Are you positive about that???? Just started taking a blood pressure medication, Lisinopril, and a Cholesterol pill Astorvastatin that was prescribed to me a year ago but stopped taking them both due to that brain fog.
Tried them again two weeks ago and the same result...
Not sure which caused it but the only reason they were prescribed was due my life style being in a "high risk" category but no real high blood pressure or cholesterol.........