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Ian MacKenzie's avatar

Nowhere in this discussion, as interesting as it is, are genetics brought up. In my family there have been no cardiac events of any kind going back to at least my grandfather and including all my uncles, yet we all have or had high cholesterol. My poor father was talked into statins in his 80s and he would tell you that the discussion of side effects was very dismissive--he had terrible muscle cramps until he stopped taking the statins. And, oh, he died recently at 92. I think I'll take my chances and skip the statins my GP keeps trying to sell me.

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Kip Cleaver's avatar

Nowhere here is the substantial lowering of coenzymeq10 mentioned. Many call it the most important enzyme in your body. It helps the mitochondria in every cell make energy. So your heart needs it more than any muscle. The first statin maker knew this was bad and put it in their formula and then took it out when none of the competitors did. Many say that with it lowered your heart just suffers a slow steady decline that no one attributes to anything. The author just needs to mention NNT too - number needed to treat - with all the horrible side effects the NNT needs to be WAY WAY lower that it is in the studies. Any my last VERY telling question is - uh duh, I guess you could say that Big Pharma likes to use media to push their drugs? At least one out of every three ads now. Where are the screaming headlines and posts everywhere about all the HEART EVENTS BEING AVOIDED? WHERE? They lie in their studies and I am amazed they havent lied in their headlines and stories.

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