[Mercat]

Wow. After my doc telling me for two years to start, I just this week started on very low dose of statin. Female. sixties. confused.

[aruanan]

Also, higher, rather than lower, levels of cholesterol in people over 80 is beneficial, not harmful, probably because they have a greater need of it to maintain cellular membrane structure since cell turnover and repair is decreased in the elderly.

[libertarian27]

Everybody sing:
~~Killing me softly with statins~~killing me softly~~with statins~~killing me softly~~

(I won’t touch the stuff)

[bmwcyle]

ping

[LS]

I strongly recommend Gary Taubes’ incredible book, “Good Calories, Bad Calories,” which contains more actual scientific references than most papers in a medical journal. It is dense, no doubt. But he has said this for years. His newer book, “Why We Get Fat-—and What to Do About It,” is more accessible, but has far less meat (pardon the pun).

[Silentgypsy]

Ping

[Conservativegreatgrandma]

What about men, or do we just not care about evil white men?

[TalonDJ]

This kind of turnabout shows the problem with one-off studies that conclude things like “too much X increase the risk of you dying by Y.” They are too narrow. Biology is not that simple. Yeah, something like cholesterol might make you more likely to have a heart issue but int probably make you LESS likely to have a host of other issues. It is not a 1 dimensional trade-off.

[little jeremiah]

What about men with higher cholesterol? It would seem as though what’s sauce for the goose would be sauce for the gander.