ExRx.net

Not that I told you so, or anything...

http://well.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/03/1 ... -exercise/



In other words, if you are under 65, or if you are over 65 but have never had a heart attack, or you are a woman, don`t take statins. Get exercising and eat real food.

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Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food.~Hippocrates
Strength is the adaptation that leads to all other adaptations that you really care about - Charles Staley
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Thanks TimD

I hate this. My dad's on statins and I've tried to tell him about this, but he won't listen to me. Why should he? I'm not a doctor.

If he's not in the group that statins may help, there's a probability that the statins limit his exercising and are therefore causing harm to him. I think getting this message across is like pushing a rope. The drug companies have too much power over doctors, and therefore patients, and there is far too much money at stake for them to ever give up this power.

Statins are over the news this week.
http://www.newsday.co.zw/article/2012-0 ... own-longt/

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Let thy food be thy medicine, and thy medicine be thy food.~Hippocrates
Strength is the adaptation that leads to all other adaptations that you really care about - Charles Staley
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Thanks TimD

he doesn't really exercise. Plays a good game of golf but that's it. I'm not sure if that counts really.

It's his diet I'd like to fix, but like I said before, he'd never listen to me.

I'm skeptical of statins, and of the lipid hypothesis in general, but I'm not a doctor so I keep my mouth shut.

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Considering I had a heart attack at 34 and have lived to be 51 so far, I think I'll keep taking mine. Had a lot of problems with while lifting but I have adopted. Started seeing a new cardiologist and he's giving me a few things to that help ease the effect and now I don't feel any abnormal pain. I agree if you don't have to be on them, then don't but in my case I'd rather take them then have them split open my chest.

I wonder if your "other words" really convey the gist of the article. The same article says and For me, the end of this sentence is a price I am more than willing to pay. I prefer to die as the oldest man on earth than as the strongest one (but that might be an age related look at life).