Yet another statin report.

Daibell said:

. . . . he said before long we wouldn't have any fat left in our bodies!

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Weird, statins prevent cholesterol from being made by the body, not fat. Fat and cholesterol are essential for the body to work properly. Even the fittest athlete will need to have some fat. Eating cholesterol in eggs or prawns does not affect cholesterol in the blood, even Ancel Keys knew that.

lizdeluz said:

Can someone remind me why statins are prescribed?

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Reduce cholesterol in the blood.

JohnEGreen said:

People who take statins have a slightly higher chance of surviving a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm that is the only reason I take them.

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And leg amputation will prevent you from breaking it. I suppose the other thing is that we should all have a scan just to see how messed up our arteries are in the first place. I'm lucky because while a bunch of US doctors were milking my travel insurance after a false heart attack warning, my heart and arteries are good to go.

JohnEGreen said:

People who take statins have a slightly higher chance of surviving a ruptured abdominal aortic aneurysm that is the only reason I take them.

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And leg amputation will prevent you from breaking it. I suppose the other thing is that we should all have a scan just to see how messed up our arteries are in the first place. It's not so much the cholesterol but the arteriosclerosis that does the damage. The cholesterol goes there to repair the damage.

I more worried about the suggestion by matey boy that few people have side effects when that is, in my humble opinion, not the case.

Merck Pharmaceutical made it quite clear in their 1990 patent that they wanted to add CoQ10 to prevent impending muscular myopathy. If you don't have side effects, I'm delighted. There has not been any studies of the long term effects and don't forget, the heart is a muscle.

Not feeling side effects doesn't mean there aren't any.

Mep said:

So is it you're supposed to take CoQ10 daily while on statins?

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Depends on where you live. Some countries will prescribe it automatically along with the statin although the UK doesn't and in fact the GP can't prescribe CoQ10 even if they wanted to, it's "not on their list".

It is quite often recommended, again depending on where you live, to help the heart (Japan seems to be very keen on it's use).

There are also suggestions and some research to suggest that it helps with BG levels. There is a German University who have found it improves the performance of athletes.

I've read articles which a very pro CoQ10 and other articles which are very anti, the problem for me, a non scientist, is working out what's good info and what's bad.

I think the effect of statins on CoQ10 levels is well known, well documented (especially if Merck wanted to add the stuff) and is worth trying. I know that I still have low levels of CoQ10 because I had it measured along with lots of other things, at the advice of my Nutritional Therapist.

What is difficult is measuring the difference in pain levels and other things like heart condition. In June I had a series of heart tests while a US doctor milked my travel insurance after a false heart attack troponin test. That doctor said I need a triple bypass, my GP says I don't. As I dug foundations 16ft X 10ft X 1ft and filled it with 111 x 25 kgs of pea stones which I collected and took to the end of my garden on my own, I think my heart's OK.