Back to my favorite topic. The statin class of drugs to lower cholesterol and prevent heart attacks. Regular readers of the Rantings will know how I feel about this class of drugs. To sum it up, they suck at preventing a first heart attack. Without going into detail here, you can read an overview by […]
Withdrawal of Statins Increases Event Rates This study finds that when patients go off of their cholesterol lowering meds, the serum cholesterol bounces right back to pre treatment levels. In other words, in no way, shape, or form did the statin drugs change whatever was biochemically wrong with the patient. On the other hand, lifestyle […]
As I’m sure you’re well aware, drugs to lower cholesterol are among the most successful in history. But the list of side effects is quite long, and it just got longer. I have covered many of the common cholesterol lowering drug side effects in a previous article that can be read by clicking here. Many […]
Selenoprotein synthesis and side-effects of statins I must admit that this biochemical pathway much have been covered while I was sleeping in biochemisty… I have always felt that the side effects from statin drugs was related to their inhibition of CoQ10 synthesis via the inhibition of the the enzyme HMG-CoA reductase. This enzyme produces mevalonate, […]
Lovastatin exacerbates atypical absence seizures with only minimal effects on brain sterols I was not aware that one of the side effects of the statin drugs was a certain type of seizure in humans. But, considering that the statins lower the production of CoQ10 along with the cholesterol it was supposed to lower, this really […]
