Comment by dreamcompiler
1 year ago
Any cardiologist will tell you statins have saved millions of lives. And that they also have side effects that make them not an option for a significant chunk of the population.
Statins are not evil and they're not a scam, but we definitely need to replace them with something better.
Sure statins may have saved lives, but the question is how. Is it by controlling LDL, or by reducing inflammation? This story says it is the latter: https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2008-04-15/heart-dis...
Most of this is reputation is based on early generation statins. The side effect profile is incredibly slimmed down on statins like rosuvastatin.