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John Burns
Posted 3/14/2020 16:03 (#8104449 - in reply to #8103272)
Subject: I personally would never take a statin drug



Pittsburg, Kansas

Dr Benjamin Bikman has a good presentation. He specializes in insulin but is a researcher that has a wide breadth of knowledge about diet and how it affects the body.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=891f4NhEYCc

I suggest you watch some of these videos by Ivor Cummins. He is an engineer, not a doctor. But he has studied the associated research papers on the subject and knows it well and also conveys it well into layman's terms.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=ivor+cummins+cholesterol

Dave Feldman has also done lots of research on cholesterol.

https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=dave+feldman+cholesterol

Here is one with Dr Malcom Kendrick where he talks about how the drug companies twist statistics to make you think drugs have a more positive effect when they actually have to treat hundreds of patients to average one patient helped. Relative risk vs absolute risk. Listen to the video, but using the drug companies own statistics it took something like treating 300 patients for 5 years to get a better all cause mortality improvement by one patient. Treat 300 to help one. And the life expectancy improvement for treatment was like 3/4 of a day for each year treatment. So statistically take a statin drug for 10 years  and live about 8 days longer for the effort. Watch the video because I am probably quoting some of that wrong. But they twist the statistics to make it seem like the drug does a lot more than it actually does.

Edit: this is the one I was looking for.   https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rIPn4CLNMa4

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8wkxp-l2c68

For me personally, knowing what I have learned in the last year, I would never take a statin drug. But I am not you nor a doctor and that is not my advice for anyone else, only what I would do with my own health. I also personally would not worry about LDL, no matter what the test number (it is actually not measured anyway unless you get a particle count test, it is a calculated number).

The numbers that are important to me are HDL (higher is generally considered better) and triglycerides (generally lower is better). After 6 months on keto my HDL was up significantly, LDL stayed about the same, and triglycerides were significantly down (lower is better generally). My HbA1c went from about 7.0 to 5.7 from the year earlier test. All my blood markers were either the same or better with many of them better. Nothing got worse.

John



Edited by John Burns 3/14/2020 19:00
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