This is the first in a series of posts that will detail and give evidence for my position that we should all stop taking statin drugs. My first argument is going to be simple.
Think about the cost of going to McDonald’s for a $6 combo, and getting some 9.5 grams of trans fat.
Let’s take a look at the statin debate from a personal finance perspective. Just one of my statin pills costs $5.33. Statistically, swallowing a statin is a bit like buying a lottery ticket. There’s a slim-to-none chance it will do you any good. It will lower your cholesterol, but it won’t keep you from dying of a heart attack, make you thinner, give you more energy, lower your blood sugar, cure your diabetes, or lower your inflammation.
Instead of paying $5 for a pill, I could eat $5 worth of very high quality fruit like blueberries, raspberries, and I could have a statistically certain, credible gain to my health and as a side effect, I will have lower cholesterol to boot (if that even matters).