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I'm sure your doctor would agree that high cholesterol is your body defending itself against the effects of your lifestyle. It is a symptom, not a root cause. If you just take steps to "get the number down" all you are doing is managing symptoms instead of fixing the problem.
(feel free to ignore this too)
Cholesterol is an essential fat manufactured by the liver. It is a basic building block of every cell – especially for hormones and the nervous system. Our brains are 70% cholesterol and cholesterol can be found in every cell membrane.
Our body views cholesterol as so vital to our health, that when we avoid foods containing cholesterol, our body will compensate by making more cholesterol on its own. So, that begs the question: If cholesterol is so bad for us, why does our body make it and why does every cell in our body require it ....
or keep eating the plastic ....
Why is everyone freaking out about statins ? Peer-reviewed independent double-blind test data please.... citing a scare story in a tabloid doesn't count !
Offset "(Emp) - a little heavy on the hyperbole."
The truth is that statins can benefit a large percentage of people. But large percentage does not mean everyone! If your job is to improve the health of millions, that's great. If you are not one of the large percentage then it is not great.
It is the fundamental flaw in conducting health management by statistics. Most population benefit at least-cost sounds good. But If you are an individual in the minority percentage for whom the protocol doesn't work, tough.
Anecdote: I was plodding along with managed pre-Type 2 diabetes, for quite a few years, and I was stable. Dr's quota meant they more or less forced me on to a statins programme - result - full blown diabetes immediately (and I had crippling muscle pain side effects - that are apparently common too).
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my anecdote of my postman mate , he ate all the shit drank all the pop and sweets , he was not short of exercise as he walks 10 /14 miles a day carrying heavy bag ... becomes type 2 put on metformin ,the usual . so i helped him pointed him in the right direction got him keto lost 3 stone in 3/4 months off the metformin , all good doc happy .. a year later he couldnt hack being long term low carb reverts to type puts all the weight back on, back on metformin ... heart attack stent ... and know the stent is failing as they often do ...
If you don't have heart disease and haven't had a stroke before then it's a risk/benefit thing. There's probably no mortality benefit (though that's a little controversial), for every 60 people on the statin you'll prevent 1 non-fatal heart attack, and for every 250 or so you'll prevent one stroke. On the converse of this for every 10 people, one will stop taking the drug because of muscle aches, between 1 in 50 and 1 in 200 will develop type 2 diabetes, and one in 2000 will have a haemorrhagic stroke.
If you're very low risk for heart disease then the benefits are even smaller than that.
If you have heart disease or previous stroke/TIA the benefits hugely outweigh the risks, and within 1 year of starting treatment there is a mortality benefit (ie you're less likely to die if you're on the statin), and similarly if you are at high risk of heart disease (there are various validated scores that your doctor can work out) then you're more likely to benefit
In Scotland the guidance is that if you have a greater than 20% chance of heart disease in the next 10 years (which is most Scottish people over the age of 60) you should be on a statin.