Examining the Cholesterol Myth: The Statin Statistic Game

You have to be
under a rock (or calming your sympathetic nervous system through a media break)
if you missed the blow-back from the 2015 Dietary Guideline
suggestions advising to take cholesterol off the diet “hit list.” Along with this blow to low-fat dieters and amongst the cheers of the bacon connoisseurs’, controversy brewed between statin lovers and
haters. This was made evident by a new release of a study that
questioned the efficacy of statins and the concern of under-reporting this medications’ harms.

Can lowering
cholesterol really cause harm?

Recently, Sayer Jj and Dr.
Brogan reviewed studies of …read more