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zBrown

Ice climber
Apr 29, 2019 - 08:09pm PT
^

Well you can look them up and read them as well as I can

The whole heart disease cholesterol story is replete with reversals in thinking.

We are left with deciding whether to take statins or not!

The calculator says to.

So far I have said no.


This is not research, it is a review by a practioner, but worthy of being read.

It is a little dated, but then isn't all history.

https://www.docsopinion.com/2013/12/15/10-pitfalls-of-using-ldl-cholesterol-to-assess-risk/
jogill

climber
Colorado
Apr 29, 2019 - 09:32pm PT
20 mg Lovastatin/day for twenty years. And yes, I am weaker now.

Oh wait . . . I went from age 62 to 82. I am not as strong as I was at 62.

Must be the statin.


;>(


Darn
zBrown

Ice climber
Apr 29, 2019 - 09:42pm PT
^

And I thought it was
What doesn't kill ya
Makes you stronger

But jeez
Looking at what you used to do
Maybe better that you did not get stronger :)



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