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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]what's wrong with statins.  In my experience anyone who is ranting about statins is an uninformed dotard or some "big pharma" conspiracy theorist.[/quote]

I’m the PP who mentioned statins. There is nothing wrong with them if you really need them. It seems like a lot of people need them though. So, I wonder if there is a way to not need them.[/quote]

I had near-optimal LDL, terrific lab results in general, and I exercise regularly, eat well, etc… but I take a statin because doctors discovered I have very common heart defect that’s been there since childhood — basically a bit of extra tissue that causes no harm…unless an ordinary clot happens to hide beneath it, in which case the heart’s usual filtering process won’t clear it.

If someone just looked only at my lab tests, they’d be like, “this person doesn’t need a statin! That’s absurd!” And yet I do. (I also take a daily aspirin).

Point is, doctors are managing all kinds of risks that we can’t see. It’s easy to be cynical, but bodies are complicated, and early death and debilitation used to be the norm. [/quote]

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