Earlier this week, the American Heart Association issued new cholesterol guides that just expanded the definition of who should be taking statins to lower cholesterol, beyond the 36 million Americans that already do. That seems like a big benefit to pharmaceutical companies, but what about everybody else?
I’m concerned that several years down the road the medical
community is going to discover that statins are really bad and that the damage
they’ve caused are far worse than the cholesterol they try and lower. I’m not a
doctor or a scientist by any stretch of the imagination, but has anyone looked
at the correlation between statins and the increase in Alzheimer’s? Think about
it – our brains are made up of 80% fat. Statins work to get rid of fat in our
arteries. I’m making a leap here, but could statins be slowly eating holes in
our brains as they try and eradicate fat in our systems? Who’s to say that
statins are only attacking the fat south of our heads? My family has a history
of high cholesterol and I’m going to rely on diet as much as possible to keep my
arteries free and clear. I won’t be going near statins. Give me a quick swift
death from a heart attack or stroke versus the slow, excruciating demise from dementia.
