Are Your Medications Making You Sick?

Subgroup analysis found in the patients in the trials that had normal triglycerides and hdl. No benefit at all from statins. Think about that. Even people who've had a heart attack, there was no benefit from the statin at all. At least 50% of patients prescribed statins, even in high risk groups, will stop taking it within a couple of years. And when you do surveys, most of them say they felt they got side effects. Muscle fatigue, muscle pain, brain fog, erectile dysfunction. Well, how prevalent is that? And you look at the data and it's mixed. But in my experience, anything from 20 to 50% of patients at some point. I've had patients who took statins for 20 years and didn't get side effects for 20 years, and then they got side effects. And it gets better when you stop the statin. So the question I ask the patient always does this interfere with your quality of life? If it does, we need to do something about it, because, listen, we're all going to die at some point. What? We want to live our lives in the best health we can for as long as possible.