What Happens to Your Body After Years of Taking Statins?
In a Nutshell
Statins block cholesterol production but also deplete coenzyme Q10, a critical mitochondrial energy compound for heart and muscle function. Research shows 99 out of 100 people taking statins for 5 years get no cardiovascular benefit, while experiencing muscle pain, fatigue, and increased diabetes risk. High cholesterol stems primarily from refined carbs and sugars, not dietary cholesterol, and addressing this root cause through low-carb diets and intermittent fasting is more effective than long-term statin use.
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If you're taking a statin right now, this video is going to be one of the most important videos you've ever watched on the topic. The number one most prescribed drug class in the United States, yet almost none of these 93 million people have ever been told what I'm about to share with you.
You go to the doctor and your cholesterol is a little bit high, they might just hand you a prescription for something called statin. Okay, this is a prescription to lower your cholesterol. When you take a statin, you are blocking the production of cholesterol, but you're also at the same time blocking the production of something your heart and your muscles depend on. And that is called coenzyme Q10. Coenzyme Q10 is a compound that the mitochondria needs to produce energy, especially in your heart and your muscles.
What's really wild is Merck filed a patent on the statin, and they actually had it coexist with coenzyme Q10, but they never added this back into that formula.
The entire assumption that the statin industry has, and most people have, is this: if you lower your cholesterol, you're going to reduce heart problems. And if that actually was true and it was significant, maybe I would start taking a statin.
If cholesterol is so bad, if it's so poisonous, why does your body make 75% of it? Well, it just so happens that the body makes cholesterol for cell membranes. Also, cholesterol is needed to make hormones, testosterone, estrogen, cortisol, which is a stress hormone. Bile, that's in your gallbladder, is made from cholesterol. And vitamin D is made from cholesterol.
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