The Indigo Dyer


(David) #1

A colleague just posted on Facebook about being put on Statins.

I posted the following comment.

“The Japanese researcher Dr. Akira Endo is credited with finding the first statin. When asked why he wouldn’t take it for his own high cholesterol, he answered with an inscrutable Japanese proverb, “The indigo dyer wears white trousers.” To make sense of that you need to know indigo dye is toxic.”