Statin use not justified for healthy people with high cholesterol, researcher claims

Medical Xpress / University of South Florida / Current Opinion in Endocrinology, Diabetes & Obesity ^ | Sept. 20, 2022 | David M. Diamond et al

[ConservativeMind]

Please look into Arterosil.

https://arterosil.com/

Research studies for Arterosil:

https://f.hubspotusercontent20.net/hubfs/7072026/Arterosil%20Research%20Study%20Summary.pdf

You can get it on Amazon with a subscription for $90 a month, and in two months, and within three months, you should have a sizable decrease in plaque, if you are like the study participants.

[GaltMeister]

From upstream: “I remember reading a link to statin overprescription and the explosion of kidney failure and dialysis clinics not sure if there is anything to that but bears some looking into.”

Scary...hadn’t heard that, but wouldn’t surprise me as taking any artificial drug for a long time probably is not very healthy.

An article from 2004 -

https://www.westonaprice.org/health-topics/modern-diseases/dangers-of-statin-drugs-what-you-havent-been-told-about-popular-cholesterol-lowering-medicines/#gsc.tab=0

[griffin]

I totally agree.

[ifinnegan]

Very interesting.

Is there any explanation for how the statin did this? (I’m not challenging it, I’m looking for information on how statins can cause problems).

[arthurus]

My doc finally got me to take a statin. . Within 24 hours I began to have lassitude and physical weakness. I hung with it for a weak but got so I could not push the gates at my job and quit the statins. I was back to normal in a week. If not taking it really does increase my chance of a heart attack then on balance I would rather take that chance than the surety that I will be a physical weakling and always tired.

[SgtHooper]

Statins have also been “alleged” to cause diabetes.

[NCLaw441]

I don’t know if they know why. There is a Dr. Mammen at Johns Hopkins who saw me, as he is/was developing a test that folks can take to determine if they are susceptible to my condition before starting statin drugs. When I was diagnosed some ten years ago I asked Dr, Mammen how many people had what I have, and he said he was aware of about 200 cases in the US at the time. So, it is pretty rare.

[Reddy]

Chiming in late- been a busy week-

So, at my last recent physical I talked to my PCP and brought up increased cholesterol levels (I forget the #’s) but long story short, he was like... would I recommend statins for you? Then said, “Take 600mg of red rice yeast daily, it’s basically the same thing.” I researched it and am taking it along with COQ10 with no side effects. I will see how it goes at the next physical.