All good and fine, but will they get to REAL CAUSE of Alzheimer’s, which is suppressed cholesterol levels due to the mass use of Statins?
I disagree.
But not only am I NOT going down that bunny hole this morning, we will have to wait and see how many decades it takes for the corruption of medical research to subside (that’s sarcasm; it never will).
Simply: If you don’t want to be susceptible to such disease, simply follow advice for reducing inflammation, and that includes withdrawing from much of the activities the establishment promotes to impose impaired health and make you dependent upon them.
Source please?
Mom has Alzheimer's and has never been on Statins.
That's not exactly proven either. One point of data: My grandmother never received statins, and yet spent 7 years in a nursing home with what they were calling senile dementia at the time. She passed in 1996, at age 83. She use to eat an onion dipped in honey every day. The dementia seems to have started when she stopped eating those onions with honey. I believe that is a significant datum, but have no real way to test it. Though I try to consume a bunch of vitamin C every day. Onions have more C than oranges. And they're cheaper, too. Even with today's elevated prices.
Dementia has been around a lot longer than statins have (remember Rita Hayworth?), but I sure believe statins have been the cause of a huge number of misdiagnoses. I know from first-hand experience when I couldn’t utter words, couldn’t write them down. I was fortunate to connect the timing of my problems to when the doctor put me on statins. I stopped taking them and was back to normal in a week. What happens is the myelin sheath...the insulation around the brain’s wiring...is made up of cholesterol which the statins destroy in some people. Brain signals get screwed up. I have often wondered if the misdiagnosis is a true mistake, or done on purpose to insure an on-going income for the doctor and/or the drug companies.
The preventative and the remedy are to take supplements of Vitamin D and amino acid chelated magnesium, especially magnesium L-threonate, and likely also Urolithin-A. These can improve cardiovascular function. They also help viable brain cells to clear out damaged mitochondria and replace them with new healthy mitochondria. In addition, magnesium is essential to over six hundred enzymatic reactions, including many that produce proteins vital to normal cell function.
Statins may reduce dementia risk: A 2018 meta-analysis of 31 studies involving over 3.3 million participants found that statin use was associated with a 15% reduced risk of dementia, including Alzheimer's disease and non-Alzheimer's dementia. The risk reduction was greater with higher statin doses and longer duration of use. Similarly, a 2023 study on over 15,000 patients with Alzheimer's or mixed dementia found that statin use, especially simvastatin, was associated with slower cognitive decline over time compared to non-users.