Statins – Friend or Foe?

[suramo]

docsopinion.com/2013/01/10/...

Controversial statements in the article concerning us.

"Not giving statins to patients with documented atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease is bad clinical practice and goes against evidence based medicine....it has not been proven that statin drugs reduce mortality among healthy people with increased risk of heart disease, except for individuals with diabetes and those with the relatively rare disorder of familial hypercholesterolemia."

Now comes the controversy.

"Impaired glucose tolerance found in simvastatin treated patients is in agreement with earlier findings of impaired insulin sensitivity with statin treatment. "

A good article though.

I know many of us including myself on lchf don't take statins.

[gangadharan_nair]

All medications have side effects, and numerous studies have shown that cholesterol-lowering statin drugs are linked to a small increase in the risk of Type 2 diabetes, even as they reduce the risk of heart attacks.

The higher the dose of a statin, the greater the diabetes risk, said Dr. Eric Topol, director of the Scripps Translational Science Institute and chief academic officer at Scripps Health.

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[suramo Star in reply to gangadharan_nair]

gangadharan_nair

Yes sir. But with lchf diet we can keep lipid profile under control. So can avoid statins. Also cholesterol theory has been busted by american health department. Main culprit is carbs causing inflammation in the body and cholesterol is a fireman wrongly incriminated for atherosclerosis. Cholesterol is also important for meny vital organs like brain and many hormones. It's covering of cells and nerve fibres. Lowering it can cause more harm than benefit.

So take as less carbs as possible and enjoy statin free life.

[suramo Star]

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It's a myth spread by ada aha ama that statins stabilize plaque. Can you explain how?

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I am not sure but there are two types of plaques. Soft and hard. Soft in the initial stage which gets organized to become hard if the inflammatory process continues. Soft plaques can be get rid of if inflamation is checked. Can't once plaque gets organized can't be dissolved. Ask your doctor how statins stabilize the clot 🐒💭

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The question is how statins can stabilize clots. It's a rumor mispropaganda spread to sell statins. The fact of the matter is no medication can stabilize an atheroma. Only ongoing inflammation brings fibroblasts, platelets and ultimately calcium to seal the inflammation site. That will fix the atheromatous plaque and not any medication. But we don't want an atheroma to form and get fixed because that will narrow the arteries permanently. Vessel blockade.

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Ask him how statins stabilise plaques if 80% fats. Statins according to them reduce cholesterol - fats. So less fat will destabilize the plaques. Organised plaques mainly fibrous and muscle tissues plus intimal - endothelual debris. Fats also. % i'm not sure but i'd love to know about the statin claim.

"The accumulation (swelling) is always in the tunica intima, between the endothelium lining and the smooth muscle middle layer of the artery wall. While the early stages, based on gross appearance, have traditionally been termed fatty streaks by pathologists, they are not composed of fat cells but of accumulations of white blood cells, especially macrophages, that have taken up oxidized low-density lipoprotein (LDL). After they accumulate large amounts of cytoplasmic membranes (with associated high cholesterol content) they are called foam cells. When foam cells die, their contents are released, which attracts more macrophages and creates an extracellular lipid core near the center to inner surface of each atherosclerotic plaque. Conversely, the outer, older portions of the plaque become more calcified, less metabolically active and more physically stiff over time."

[dwarakanath]

Is there any effect taking statin for choloestrol?

[suramo Star in reply to dwarakanath]

dwarakanath

Aha has removed cholesterol from the list of notorious substance.

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What's your a1c?

[Type2]

I've just started low carb regimen, though I'm on statin I choose to take it not every day. you reckon it's ok to lay off that?

[suramo Star]

Type2

1) I have been on a grain-free diet for the last 15 months and I'm not taking statins.

2) A high carb diet is responsible for bad lipid profile. As such also cholesterol theory has been busted and the American Government has removed cholesterol from the list of notorious substances.

3) Take as low carb as possible. And if you are taking statin let it be water soluble life rosuvaastatin. Alternate day taking statin is a waste of money. You will get no benefit.

Good luck.