Quantum Effect in the Brain Challenges Conventional Wisdom

Medicine is complicated. I looked again at the conclusions of the study as covered in the article, and it turns out I had missed the primary underlying factor - although high LDL and total cholesterol unquestionably cause increased arterial plaque and corresponding coronary heart disease (and higher death rate due to those causes), this high LDL and TC according to the statistics also cause considerably lower cancer death rates. So the result is that overall net mortality rate due to all causes goes down as  LDL and TC levels increase. So the obvious conclusion is that it is useless and even doing harm to artificially try to keep LDL and TC low in the hope that the lower CHD achieves a lower probability of death. 

Well, assuming this interpretation is valid, I'd much rather die of a heart attack than suffer a long lingering death on chemotherapy or whatever.

However this isn't the only evidence that cholesterol isn't really the cause of heart disease. Dr. Kendrick has a model for what is going on. You see damage to the arterial wall (the epithelium) goes on all the time mainly due to high blood pressure (some reason sugar in the blood can also create such damage) his theory is that the cholesterol forms a 'scab' over the damage. However, unlike an ordinary scab, this cannot be shed otherwise it would immediately block a blood vessel - generally in the carotid arteries that supply nutrients to the heart. Instead, the scab is drawn into the blood vessel wall and is dissolved out of harm's way.

One interesting fact is that damage rarely happens inside veins unless these are used to patch arteries. After such an operation is performed the transplanted vessel is susceptible to plaque.

I am not a medic and the only reason I became interested was that statins produced some horrible cramps in my polio leg.

Here is a very valuable and cheap book, and note that it contains copious links to the medical literature.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/Doctoring-Data-...1907797467

You can also find him on Youtube.

The book also explores the various large studies that supposedly demonstrated the power of statins to prevent heart disease. There are two ways of presenting the results of studies of this sort, using relative or absolute statistics. It is vital to look at the absolute statistics or an equivalent such as the NNT.

https://thennt.com/nnt/statins-persons-l...r-disease/

BTW, In connection with your quote, I AM an older person, I'll be 75 later this month, and there is no suggestion that I don't need my statin - I just refuse it.

David