Debunking Statins with Professor Aseem Malhotra

[@countrylady914]

Thank you for your most enlightening video Graham and Aseem.The problem is not just with overprescribing statins,but also antibiotics (for both humans and farm animals),antidepressants ,painkillers etc.To quote Charles Simmons : " Sickness is the vengeance of nature for the violation of her laws".

[@grahamXphillips]

Pleasure. We’re on a mission and I think we’re winning !

[@mzreid6386]

The BHF site is very pro statin and uses scary statistics around stopping them. If doctors are being financially rewarded for prescribing them I am immediately wary of their efficacy.

[@patriciabarbosa1240]

I'm a very healthy 56 y.o my cholesterol has been playing since I was diagnosed with Hypothyroid for more than 30 years. I take Levothyroxine 75mg every morning and do a blood test once a year as a routine and it looks all ok. For the past 3 years, I went into a deep detox, cut off sugar, and carbs, and dairy-free, no red/ white meat. Eating all kinds of organic veggies, fruits, seeds, chia, and flaxseed, drinking only filtered water(glass bottle), eliminating all fluoride on toothpaste, makeup, soap, and shampoo, and using only natural products. Every night I do core exercises and during work weeks I use stairs(climb 10 floors), I used to run mini/marathons due to back issues and I do only core exercises and intense walks. Since all this, I feel so much more energetic, with no fog brain, and I'm finishing my first year of degree in Law school⚖. The last blood test was very impressive, my cholesterol had a low result of 5.0 compared with 7 or something like that. My GP was pushing statin all the time. I refused and said I would sort it out in my way with a proper detox. Done it, and on my last visit, she was surprised and trying to find words or something else to push another drug. 😁🙂🙏

[@sareenachinnery7271]

Well done 🤗

[@rameshb9525]

When someone has a heart attack or intervention surgery, they do one of two things. They continue their lifestyle, eg smoking, bad food, sedentary lifestyle etc, or they change. Do the statistics change accordinly?

[@yolandapritamharikaur7258]

all gratitude for fabulous education and solid men!

[@rosek5927]

From previous Dr Malhotra videos, I had the impression he didn’t think there was a place for statins, given risks vs. benefits, even if after a heart attack ! This video leaves us wondering…

[@grahamphillips945]

No I don't agree. I cant speak for @Aseem obviously but I've always understood his perspective (which I share) that statins ARE appropriate for certain people. Our objection is the way health systems want virtually everyone to take them with no real regard to net benefit/net harm

[@chassegallerie]

Hi, my doctor prescribes statins rosuvastatin (Crestor) for cholesterol control.After a year I developed what could be similar to Alzheimer's symptoms. I had difficulty remembering things ( 15 minutes of memory ).I had been tested with the Montreal test and they said that I could have the beginning of Alzheimer's. After that I went to the internet google and KZbin and from there some KZbin doctors told in a video that statins were affecting cholesterol and that the brain made up with a lot of it. Guest what, I stopped taking those statins and 2 weeks after I didn't have any symptoms. A real miracle, I could have continue taking that medicine and have bad symptoms for the reste of my life. KZbin had made me realize what could have been the source of my problem. No thanks to my doctor and his staff. . LESSON : STATINE ARE NOT WITHOUT RISK!

[@ProLongevity]

Indeed. We’re not saying that no one should ever take a statin. More so that they should be used judiciously and appropriately not handed out like sweets. Of course not all statins cross the blood brain barrier. It’s very much horses for courses.

[@timsmith894]

When l get cholesterol tests, the results are just two numbers, for instance my last test result was 3.2 which means nothing to me, and this is the only results l receive no further information like HDL, its been like that for me for the last 5yrs.

[@davidwilkie9551]

When an informed decision is made without complete data, how effective is it? A Surgeon relies on colleagues for the Science and biochemistry is already about as complicated and individualistic as it gets. So the decision made by the user has a major component based in trust in empirical data, mostly Placebo, not so much objective medicine. I'm willing to defend my Doctors decisions with my life. The side effects of Statins is apparently only affecting 20% of Patients, so run your own Trial and argue with, not against, the medical system, unless you have already received the drugs.., I'm regretting not trialing the Nocebo effect of the strategy of Fasting I was eventually compelled to do sooner. Fabulous video thank you.

[@ProLongevity]

We’re basing all our arguments on published data. Evidence. Not conjecture or ideology. Hope that reassures. Thanks. Graham

[@byculla6]

So what shall I do!?? I've got 3 statins put in my body after getting a strong pain in my chest once.. Been taking statins since..Very strange. Money is EVERYTHING in the US of A.. I live in NYC but was born in the UK .. (Within the 'Sound of Bow-bells.. ! ) My medications are covered by my insurance ... etc. However are statins not good for me?

[@ProLongevity]

Feel free to book a free of charge, not obligation exploratory call. We can discuss

[@PS_testing321...]

I studied pre-med in college, but never went to med school because I got married and then became a mother. I always thought that made me a good researcher, knowing good primary sources. But now I don't even trust the CDC or the NIH. I am on Prastatin (10mg) and refused to take more, then they added the Ezetimbe. What are the dangers of Etetimbe? Also 10 mg. I only agreed to take the minimum of the drugs. My body was destroyed by geriatric natural pregnancies, but it was all with it!

[@ProLongevity]

This isnt medical advice but if you haven't had an event you are likely at very low risk and loweing your cholesterol migh do more harm than good. Get a CAC test and go from there

[@richard01983]

Statins change a number but do they maintain or improve health? I took them for 22 years until I saw there was no benefit for anyone who has not had a heart attach. My place for statins is the rubbish bin.

[@grahamXphillips]

Well. There’s a small net benefit for people who have already had a stroke or heart attack. For primary prevention lifestyle changes bring much greater benefits and none of the side effects

[@dianacartner-jx2oj]

Is that VNNT , couldn’t quite get it?

[@grahamXphillips]

The NNT

[@PS_testing321...]

How do I quit my statin? I was Rxed all of them and rejected them due to side effects.l. ( I am a skier and tennis player.). I finally agreed to 10 of the old pravastatin, but don't want that either. I have family history of heart disease and HBP due to a preeclampsia pregnancy 23 years ago that never went away. The doctor insisted. I am 5'2" and 140 pounds and strength train. Not horrible for a 58 year old American woman who was fed wonder bread and Mac and cheese as a child. Can you quit it cold turkey? I am on the lowest dose possible, as I rejected Crestor, etc. I am on an original and at the lowest dose. My tennis pro told me to question it, as all of us who were becoming older were put on the drugs, he saw it with a large group of active people. I was researching, but I think everything out there is funded by pharmaceutical companies. Can I just stop taking it?

[@ProLongevity]

Get a CAC test and go from there

[@Chris-um5ls]

Can anyone understand the website address prof aseem notes at about 16:30?

[@grahamXphillips]

Its a website that shows how many people need to be treated for one person to get a benefit plus how many of those people are harmed in some way. In another words risk/benefit analysis

[@LarryBusse]

@@grahamXphillips what is the website address. URL. I'd like to see for myself.

[@Star5dg]

what if you have FH

[@grahamphillips945]

FH alone isn't a risk factor. There are people with massively high cholesterol with whistle-clean arteries. HOWEVER in some people FH is associated with enhanced clotting (they are on the same gene) and those people are are MUCH greater risk. So its all about clotting factors. If you have FH its vitally important to check for enhanced clotting factors

[@drsiu77]

Who cares about the NNT for 5 years unless you're, like, 75 years old? What's the NNT for 30 years?

[@rosek5927]

Dr Malhotra, you contradict yourself when you first say here that there is a place for statins for who suffered a heart attack, then you say it doesn't really help, on the contrary. This probably because your interviewer almost forced you to say there is a place for statins. He clearly wants you to say what he wants, and insists,repeating the same questions.

[@ProLongevity]

To the contrary its clear that there is,no net benefit in taking statins if you have never had a stroke or a heart attack but they do have a small net benefit if you have. Its all explained here. www.prolongevity.co.uk/statins-do-the-harms-outweigh-the-benefits/

[@MrsPin1954]

10.54

[@robertmcmahon1807]

Interesting...seems the arguments rebuked here are very familiar...nee "..ccines"!!!

[@docwells7]

And climate change...

[@TopVelocity]

Just like they say the towers fell down because the aircraft hit them, heart diseases will go down with the help of statins..