The theory behind "high cholesterol" led to decades of rising heart disease rates. Dr Ancel Keys has been thoroughly discredited. Heart attack survival rates are better through better emergency medicine; but it's not like people are getting fewer heart attacks even though they are usually taking statins.

It's worth asking yourself why that might be so.

Why should I risk my health with a discredited theory when the side effects of statins are so horrendous... even irreversible?

Can't think of a single reason

Ancel Keys might be discredited, but if taking a statin can save you from having a heart attack then it's worth taking.

There's still a lot unknown about high cholesterol, but it is a known fact that it is a risk factor for heart attacks.

For the few people whose LDL goes way up on low carb, it's way different than for those who have good results with cholesterol and low carb eating. Way different.

All the research in the world to discredit taking a statin won't help you if you are the one having a heart attack.

Actually, that's not true. Plenty of people with low cholesterol have heart attacks.

Middle-aged men who have already had a heart attack are the only cohort who shows some benefit: there's a slightly lowered risk with statins. And statin use increases the incidence of congestive heart failure, by blocking CoQ10.

Do you have the genetic profile that could lead to ALS if you take statins? Because such a thing exists.

If statins were a miracle drug: there would be miracles. But there isn't. They don't have nearly the track record they have been pumped up to be; and the side effects are extremely serious.

Just to be CLEAR.. I never said people that have low cholesterol don't get heart attacks. People on statins also get heart attacks. I only said that a high LDL is A RISK FACTOR. So my statement is true. I never said it was a miracle drug either.