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I have always been anti statin. The arguments against them have been clear in my mind.
However, I recently chatted to a friend who said she had been breathless a while back and after investigations was told she had a partial blockage in one ventricle (?) to the heart. She was prescribed statins and now isn't breathless. Another friend confirmed this had happened with her husband too.
So how has this worked? I thought cholesterol was nothing to do with the plaque that furs up our veins/arteries.
I noticed that when I did a liver flush there were some greeny, metallic looking, hard stones being released and these are usually said to be cholesterol stones, not the usual gallstones. So does cholesterol actually block our arteries?
Confused now as my friend's anecdotal evidence doesn't seem to fit what I previously thought of as the truth.
Perhaps the breathlessness wasn’t due to arterial plaque?
Some practitioners are using statins as part of their protocols to treat long Covid, so there are clearly some other possible uses for them.
Personally I’d take a lot of convincing to take them for any reason but I’ve heard anecdotally that small doses have been helpful for some with long Covid,