Why Your Doctor Wants You Taking a Statin (Most People Don’t Need One)
6 days ago
- A high cholesterol result is the end of a story, not the start of one. Fake food, chronic stress, poor sleep, toxins and too little sunlight or movement drive the inflammation that damages arteries. A statin lowers the number and leaves all of that in place.
- Two people can have identical LDL and face completely different heart risk. Cholesterol is essential to your brain, your hormones and every cell membrane. What matters is how many ApoB particles are circulating, whether they lodge in the arterial wall, and what inflammation does to them there.
- When you hear that a statin cuts risk by 50%, ask what that means in real terms. A 50% relative reduction can mean two events in a hundred people became one. Ask your doctor for the absolute risk reduction, the number needed to treat, and which outcome the trial actually measured.
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