Doctors often prescribe statins based only on total LDL cholesterol without looking at the whole picture. Cholesterol actually helps heal inflammation, and reducing someone to a single number ignores their personal history and what's really causing the problem.
They're not looking at patterns. They're just looking at total LDL and they're prescribing statins, no questions asked. So like, that's not a good— that's, you know, it's very sad to me with everything that goes on in health that we can look at one number on somebody and discard this person in front of us, their story, their history, their background, um, the context to what's happening with them and just say, hey, if it's this number, here's the medicine, we'll send you on your way. You're not taking into account what's going on with that person, right? There's a lot of reasons too why cholesterol can increase. And remember, cholesterol— and I won't go into this too much— it, it's not bad. Cholesterol is there to help heal the site of inflammation.
