Anu SimhBoard-Certified Functional Health Coach | Founder of 9 Arms of Wellness | Gut & Weight Loss Expert

Do Statins Raise Blood Sugar? Here’s What You Need to Know Before Taking One! 📈

Name: Do Statins Raise Blood Sugar? Here’s What You Need to Know Before Taking One! 📈
Uploaded: 2025-02-04T19:00:29+00:00
Duration: 30 s
Channel: Anu Simh
Description: Clip from a YouTube video where a clinician (Speaker A) asserts that statins can raise blood sugar and emphasizes the importance of follow-up blood sugar…

4 Feb 2025 · 1 min

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Clip from a YouTube video where a clinician (Speaker A) asserts that statins can raise blood sugar and emphasizes the importance of follow-up blood sugar assessments. The speaker reports observing creeping hemoglobin A1C in patients and anecdotal continuous glucose monitor (CGM) feedback linking a 5 mg statin start to higher glucose readings.

I think all the side effects you mentioned are real. I think it's bad medicine not to get follow up blood sugar assessments after a few months. I think you see a lot of people, their hemoglobin A1C will be creeping up. A lot of people now are wearing continuous glucose monitors and they're so sophisticated nowadays they'll tell me, doc, since you put me on that 5 milligram of a statin, which is my usual starting point, low as you can go. I've noticed my sugars are higher than they were before I started.