Part II of a conversation of a statin lover

This advocate of the low-fat diet and use of statins says,"In the review I cited Dr. Morrison's study and Dr. Esselstyn's study where all-cause mortality was greatly reduced. Meta-analyses of various statin studies also show a significant decrease in all-cause mortality."

Yes, there are those studies that show that people with CHD can obtain a decrease in all-cause mortality when tracked for a limited time-span. There are even studies that show apparently healthy middle-aged people with high cholesterol values receiving a very limited absolute decrease in overall mortality over a limited time span. But I wonder if there would be any advantage if the study were carried out over a time span of 15-20 years. The use of statins markedly decrease more than one substance that is needed to maintain life processes. This should be no surprise since these statins are no more than subtle rearrangements of the particular statin found in red-rice yeast, which maintains a symbiotic relationship with red rice. The statin substance in the yeast tends to protect the red rice from the predations of animals that would like to feed on red rice. In effect, people that use statins are using a substance that evolved as a poison.

Long-time users of statins would have to contend with increasing incidence of muscle weakness, depression, foggy memory, increased rate of traffic accidents and awareness that one could irreversibly damage one's liver. 

The Framingham results showed that for people over fifty, high cholesterol was not a risk factor. 

A workshop hosted by the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute reviewed 19 studies in 1990 and found that for women, if anything, the higher the cholesterol, the longer they lived.