Statins for lowering cholesterol: are you being misled about the evidence?
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What is new?
There is a war over statins. The pharma industry and their affiliated doctors want to push statins on almost everybody, the independent experts are furiously opposed to that idea.
Why is this important?
Because you will sooner or later face a doctor who wants you to take statins to lower your cholesterol. But what nobody tells you, is that cholesterol is more or less an opportunistic bystander in the context of heart attacks and strokes
Where to go from here?
From my own experience and clinical research, I’ll show you an alternative, that isn’t drug-based and is surprisingly simple.
Public health experts want to dump statins free of charge on everyone old enough to buy a cheeseburger.
That should convince you that cholesterol-lowering will be a safe national sport, right? Well, Amanda M. (LIZ EMERALD, pen name) has her doubts.
In her response to one of my articles, she expressed unease with a doctor prescribing statins for the slightly elevated cholesterol levels of her husband:
