“I’ve often wondered about statins since the brain is full of cholesterol.”
Absolutely! It happened to me. I couldn’t put a sentence together, or get the words out of my mouth. A week after I stopped taking the statins I was back to normal.
The insulation covering the wiring in your brain is cholesterol. When the statins destroy that, the signals in your brain don’t get where they’re supposed to go.
Paradoxically, statins have also been shown to decrease the risk of dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and improve cognitive impairment in some cases.... Observational studies have provided substantial evidence supporting a protective effect against the onset of dementia but are subject to a number of potential biases, such as selection bias and information bias [8]. Randomized controlled trials evaluating the effects of statins on cognitive measures in patients with AD have generally failed to show positive benefits but may have limited ability to detect therapeutic benefit by excluding subjects with dementia or dyslipidemia.
The true situation is unclear, basically.
We have friends, in laws, relatives to inlaws and just people we know, who have Parkinson’s now. They live from the East Coast to the West Coast and in between.
They were non smokers, watched their diet/weight kept in good shape. They were not druggies or alcoholics. Most are men with a couple of women.
The one thing in common was being put on statins in their 50’s and developing Parkinson’s in their late 50’s or 60’s.
Some have died. Others are miserable as it is a terrible disease.