Three dirty little secrets about statins your doctor won’t tell you about:
1. Increases your chance of Type II Diabetes by 1/3.
2. Interferes with the production of CoQ10, a substance utilized by the heart muscle more than any other part of the body.
3. Possible benefits of statins are not the result of lowering cholesterol, but from their anti-inflammatory properties. Non-statin cholesterol-lowering drugs taken without statins, such as cholestramine and ezetimibe (Zetia) will lower cholesterol but do NOT improve overall mortality and morbidity, therefore it is well known that simply lowering cholesterol does not prolong life.
“1. Increases your chance of Type II Diabetes by 1/3.”
Yea, but diabetics are GREAT for the medical profession - they spend a ton of money trying to manage their disease.
Anyway, I had a friend go on statins in his 30s, 10 years later, yep, Type 2...with no family history at all. Hard to blame it on anything else - and now, they are just starting to admit to this ‘minor’ side effect.
Also, a cousin of mine when on Statins in his late 30s and got cataracts in both eyes within a decade. At least that’s treatable...but people in their 40s don’t just get cataracts - something caused it. And yes, they’re also starting to admit that cataracts is a side effect.
...a VERY NASTY line of drugs.