Why I Don’t Take Cholesterol Medication
These statins are not for me. A good number of them have been taken off the market for doing more harm than good. Those that remain, while lowering cholesterol, don’t actually reduce the incidence of heart fatalities. So I feel more vindicated when I read an article like this:
“Almost 75 percent of heart attack patients fell within recommended targets for LDL cholesterol, demonstrating that the current guidelines may not be low enough to cut heart attack risk in most who could benefit,” said Dr. Gregg C. Fonarow, Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine and Science at the David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA and the study’s principal investigator.
Or, duh, cholesterol might not be the key cause/indicator that doctors tell us it is. With doctors (and governments), it is important to maintain the impression that they have a solution for everything. Like chemotherapy, which causes a lot of memory and saves few cancer patients. Cholesterol is promoted because it can be fixed. Inflammation is rarely mentioned by doctors, but it seems to be the killer factor/symptom. And when they work out how to assess it, and how to fix it, statins will quietly disappear.