My PCP was pushing me to go on statins about the time they announced that they found statins were causing heart attacks in women, back in November, IIRC.
But that announcement died pretty quickly. It just never seemed to get much traction.
I changed my diet, lost weight as a result and my cholesterol dropped like a rock. It’s now to the point where I don’t have to listen to them rag on me about it and if they push the issue, my numbers are close enough to what they want that I can legitimately argue with them to get them to back off.
Good for you!!!
I’ve found a number of herbs that help lower cholesterol, and don’t even taste bad - hawthorne and hibiscus are two. I actually make a formula I call Natural C Plus with those two herbs plus rosehips, amalaki, and orange and lemon peel. Tastes good even. Helps with high BP, anemia, has tons of natural Vit C, normalizes cholesterol, etc. But fine to take even if someone has okay chol. and BP.
I really like herbs.
Having good numbers is not enough, just had 5 stents put in, and my numbers were perfect. Doc called it the "Full Metal Jacket." If I had been exercising, on the tread mill like the doc wanted, I would probably have dropped dead.
I had several nuclear stress tests, which found nothing. Trust your feelings about your body. A 95% blockage of the left artery also known as the widow maker, is not good. Right coronary took the doc 2 hours to open, had to use a drill, and I didn't even know they could do that.