Advice needed

(Sue Johnson) #1

I am on a statin and I’m just not sure whether to keep taking it or cut back or just stop altogether.
I have high LDL of 200 plus without it.
I’ve been eating Keto for three weeks now. I do think the dose is too high because I have deliberately skipped it a few days before a fasting lab and my numbers were still good. I want to lose weight to get off the statin, my whole point of starting this.I love this way of eating though, and want to keep it up long term.I feel worried about my cholesterol though. Any thoughts?

(Andrew) #2

Of the people who could tollerate statins, they lived 4.5 days longer. This study was sponsored by the drug co.

AHA found low LDL more dangerous. High didn’t correlate with CVD risk.

(Rob) #3

It seems that this forum is pretty anti-Statin under pretty much any circumstance.

@Richard has analyzed in detail, his own experience on them and the analysis of their efficacy suggests that they are worthless (Except to the manufacturer who makes $Bns off them). If you’ve had a heart issue already, they are almost worthless. If you haven’t they are completely worthless. They also have significant side effects that vary by person. They are a ‘hack’ to reduce LDL by hacking the liver but not actually improving your health in any way.

The fundamental issue is cholesterol is the messenger for the body, not the attacker. Even LDL is only potentially bad if it is the small dense kind and Keto (in almost all the examples in this community) may increase or decrease LDL but (almost) never creates the dangerous kind but the big fluffy LDL. Keto raises your HDL and slashes your triglycerides which is much more important than LDL levels. Dr Phinney tells us that it is typical for your LDL to go up for the first year of keto but it doesn’t present a risk. It will then go down. All the other lipid measures should get better pretty quickly.

(Richard Morris) #4

all good points … I would still (and I did) take statins if my Doctor on the balance of all evidence thought them beneficial. I changed his mind about whether I needed statins by making such a radical reversal in my type 2 diabetes that he had to reconsider.

(Sue Johnson) #5

Thanks for the input. I will probably stop simply because I feel I’m eating so much more healthy now and the statin is a bandaid that just allows me to eat whatever crap I want to and still have my numbers come out good. I just can’t help second guessing myself!
Thanks