My doctor bullied me onto Statins, and I suffered three negative side effects, two of which required surgery! Not seeing the upside here, guys. I came to the conclusion that my doctor was, and is untrustworthy, I fired him and discontinued all of his prescription drugs. If he'll prescribe one poison pill can you be sure he won't prescribe another? I have not had a doctor for over a year now. I don't have a doctor micromanaging anymore. Who knows where my cardiovascular health is setting. Good job guys! How many other people have you driven away?
LDL are the body cells with two weeks lifespan. Doctors forgot it and treat LDL as just the fat in the blood that would clogg the arteries (but why not veins). Missing the sense of LDL is the problem
It’s more than that…. LDL rises when you do intense exercise and/or fast for any length of time. If you follow a low carb diet your LDL will rise as you burn fat/ketones to fuel your cells…. So intense exercise on a low carb diet with fasting and you will drive up your LDL…. Depending on your circumstances by quite a lot. The big underlying problem is that there is a pill for LDL but there is no pill for triglycerides, which really are the problem…. And you lower triglycerides with a low/zero carb diet…
Well thought out, concise and clear presentation. I am going to print out some of your slides to take to my doctors. (If you are ok with that). I attend a clinic where new residents are trained, so my refusal to take statins is often challenged.
I'm pretty sure you'll get a lot of push back, but go for it. If they challenge the numbers (which were averaged from well-known trials), ask them what risk factor and relative risk reduction they are using, and where they get those numbers. If it's not the 2018 PCE or PREVENT calculators for risk factors, then challenge them to use those, and challenge them to find a non-Pharma sponsored trial for relative risk reduction.
@@waynetrenton2310 maybe, maybe not. My latest resident was pretty impressed by my results from eating a Carnivore diet and reducing my type 2 diabetes A1C from 7.9 to 6.5 (so far) which goes against standard medical paradigms.
Great stuff. Can you do a video on those terrible diagrams that make the arteries look like household plumbing - there is simply no mechanism for ldl (or anything else) to just form lumps on the wall of an artery and the fact that they have to lie in pictures shows that they know it too - but kerching, kerching
I have a 10 percent risk of having a heart attack. I had a CAC score of 436.My overall cholestrol is 200. My LDL is 130. I changed my lifestyle and lost 39 pounds. My cardiologist says my life depends on taking statins. I still refuse to take then.
Interesting topic. mTOR (mechanistic Target of Rapamycin for viewers who may not have heard the term) is involved with muscle development. I'll look around and see if there are known connections. A quick search turned up this statement: "The AKT/mTOR signaling pathway is important in statin-induced myotoxicity, which may be a potential drug target for treating patients with statin-associated myopathies." Basically let's treat adverse effects with more drugs. I'll add it to my video list. Thanks for the suggestion.
Another great informative video. Thanks for the work you put into these.
Clearest summary I've seen, thanks.
My doctor bullied me onto Statins, and I suffered three negative side effects, two of which required surgery! Not seeing the upside here, guys. I came to the conclusion that my doctor was, and is untrustworthy, I fired him and discontinued all of his prescription drugs. If he'll prescribe one poison pill can you be sure he won't prescribe another? I have not had a doctor for over a year now. I don't have a doctor micromanaging anymore. Who knows where my cardiovascular health is setting. Good job guys! How many other people have you driven away?
Thanks good to learn what the real risks are.
LDL are the body cells with two weeks lifespan. Doctors forgot it and treat LDL as just the fat in the blood that would clogg the arteries (but why not veins). Missing the sense of LDL is the problem
It’s more than that…. LDL rises when you do intense exercise and/or fast for any length of time. If you follow a low carb diet your LDL will rise as you burn fat/ketones to fuel your cells….
So intense exercise on a low carb diet with fasting and you will drive up your LDL…. Depending on your circumstances by quite a lot.
The big underlying problem is that there is a pill for LDL but there is no pill for triglycerides, which really are the problem…. And you lower triglycerides with a low/zero carb diet…
Well thought out, concise and clear presentation. I am going to print out some of your slides to take to my doctors. (If you are ok with that). I attend a clinic where new residents are trained, so my refusal to take statins is often challenged.
I'm pretty sure you'll get a lot of push back, but go for it. If they challenge the numbers (which were averaged from well-known trials), ask them what risk factor and relative risk reduction they are using, and where they get those numbers. If it's not the 2018 PCE or PREVENT calculators for risk factors, then challenge them to use those, and challenge them to find a non-Pharma sponsored trial for relative risk reduction.
You are wasting your time and effort.
@@waynetrenton2310 maybe, maybe not. My latest resident was pretty impressed by my results from eating a Carnivore diet and reducing my type 2 diabetes A1C from 7.9 to 6.5 (so far) which goes against standard medical paradigms.
Thank you!
Great stuff. Can you do a video on those terrible diagrams that make the arteries look like household plumbing - there is simply no mechanism for ldl (or anything else) to just form lumps on the wall of an artery and the fact that they have to lie in pictures shows that they know it too - but kerching, kerching
I'll have to think about how I might add something new to the conversation. I believe others have tackled this. I've added it to my backlog of topics.
I have a 10 percent risk of having a heart attack. I had a CAC score of 436.My overall cholestrol is 200. My LDL is 130. I changed my lifestyle and lost 39 pounds. My cardiologist says my life depends on taking statins. I still refuse to take then.
Russ thanks for the video. Have you seen any test of Statins effect on mTOR?
Interesting topic. mTOR (mechanistic Target of Rapamycin for viewers who may not have heard the term) is involved with muscle development. I'll look around and see if there are known connections. A quick search turned up this statement: "The AKT/mTOR signaling pathway is important in statin-induced myotoxicity, which may be a potential drug target for treating patients with statin-associated myopathies." Basically let's treat adverse effects with more drugs. I'll add it to my video list. Thanks for the suggestion.
I've been on statins for 23 years. I died last week.
Russ, would you agree that if a person is in good "metabolic health" (i.e. NO insulin resistance, normal HgbA1c, normal BP, hsCRP
Yeah, pretty much have to agree.
Heart disease is not a statin deficiency.