7 thoughts on “Cholesterol”

1. Yes. It’s been known for a few years that statins are great at reducing cholesterol levels but have no significant impact on the supposed harmful effects of cholesterol. Thereby pretty much proving that the whole cholesterol thing was complete nonsense.

   Most of medicine has really progressed little beyond the leeches and blood-letting stage.

   1. Spock spoke so disparagingly of McCoy’s “beads and rattles,” but apparently he wasn’t far off.

      1. And yet they didn’t have a cure for Spock’s dyslexia.

         1. What Star Trek Discovery says is unimportant, and I do not heed it as canon.

      2. Star Trek?

         How about Woody Allen’s Sleeper?

         “What, not deep fat, steak, or cream pies?

         1. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3iG6Hrh4v08

            Pretty remarkably prescient.

2. Statins have other uses besides cholesterol reduction. They are also very effective at reducing muscle mass and tone, reducing glycemic control in people such as diabetics and prediabetics (in some cases converting the latter to the former) and for some people, reducing mental function.

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