The cause of sore muscles in people why take Statins
(www.theatlantic.com)
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Don’t fucking take statins. They will wreck your muscles and joints and the one organ that needs lots of cholesterol, your brain.
If your cholesterol is high, that’s because your body is inflamed (auto inflammatory diseases going through the roof) and it’s trying to repair itself. If you reduce your cholesterol, you are reducing the number of “trucks” that carry what repairs your body.
Western medicine is 100% a sham at this point.
Scientists accidentally stumbled upon an answer? What kind of garbage is this?
Stinky
I had those symptoms plus cramping and restless leg...quit them and all went away...and my heart doctor fired me
Why should be who.
article is from the Atlantic. It allows a certain number of free articles.
they keep lowering the number ensuring more on statins every year. YOUR HEART IS ALSO A MUSCLE...but not discussed when it's muscles that you can feel outright
Been on 10 mg for 15 years. Cholesterol has never been over 150. Told my Dr I quit taking them right after he gave me a script for 40 mg / day.
He had no response as to why they keep lowering the threshold. My dad had his first heart attack at 46 and his cholesterol was 240+. Diet and exercise got him on a much healthier track.
Any source on when and by how much they changed the numbers?
I tried taking them. I was in so much pain I couldn't sleep at night. My knees became so weak that I have trouble getting up and down. I quit them and the pain went away but my knees are still very weak despite working out to try to improve it.
Paywall.
article is from the Atlantic. It allows a certain number of free articles. I can post the article as a comment or give you a quick summary. let me know if your interested.
I read part of it, and it told me I had to sign up to continue reading. Tell me the main point at least. You don't need to write to much.
But why should an anticholesterol drug weaken muscles in the arms and legs? Recently, two groups of scientists stumbled upon an answer. They didn’t set out to study statins. They weren’t studying cholesterol at all. They were hunting for genes behind a rare disease called limb girdle muscle dystrophy. both teams tracked the disease through a handful of families in the U.S. and a Bedouin family in Israel, their suspicions separately landed on mutations in a gene encoding a particularly intriguing enzyme. The enzyme is known as HMG-CoA reductase, and to doctors, it is not obscure. It is, in fact, the very enzyme that statins block in the process of halting cholesterol production. And so, the answers to two mysteries suddenly became clear at once: Dysfunction in this enzyme causes muscle weakness from both limb girdle muscular dystrophy and statins. This connection between a rare disease and a common drug stunned the researchers. thats the basic Idea.
Glad I don't take it. Looks like it solves one problem and causes another.
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huh ? I had no problem. I'll check
My cholesterol has been high since I was young and my doctor finally wrote a script for statins saying "there's high cholesterol and there's you". I filled the first script and started my own research and what I learned about the brain needing cholesterol made me decide to stop. My doc is on the "big pharma healthcare system bandwagon" I'm afraid. Plandemic taught me they can't be trusted and I should think for myself.