Here is some science for you:
(From JAMA Cardiology Jan 2017)
The conclusion: Maximally tolerated doses of high-intensity statins may confer a survival advantage to patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, including older adults.
it’s not so much science, it’s just a study with an agenda that was reached.
Study funders won’t keep funding studies if they don’t get the results they want. I was in five Rx studies (where I was to be paid) and they made it clear up front they would drop you from the study if they wanted to. They did tell me in a few studies that if my test numbers continued to go in a direction not favorable to what they wanted they would drop me and they did from one study. I finally decided I didn’t want to be part of such a scam.
“The conclusion: Maximally tolerated doses of high-intensity statins may confer a survival advantage to patients with atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease, including older adults.”
MAY is the operative word here. Not WILL confer survival advantage but MAY. I’m not taking them and don’t plan on taking any in the near future.
May? I saw a study that 50% taking statins benefit from them....that leaves 50% who don’t. My pharmacist concurred.