28 year old 6 ft 4 in 200 pound male. cholesterol approaching 30...
Did your doctor warn you of possible side effects? Yeah rite! Still trust doctors? It's the pits ok and what about all the very old people that they say your problems are "old age" who are going to their graves with the last 10 - 15 years in absolute misery. I'm an accute victim and hate everyone involved. Hope you recover quick.
Muscles and Statins
A University of Alabama at Birmingham physiology professor, Dr. Thalacker-Mercer, has found that simvastatin (Zocor) inhibit muscle repair and regeneration. The title of her work is ““Simvastatin Reduces Human Primary Satellite Cell Proliferation in Culture” and was publish at the September 2008 meeting of the American Physiological Society.
A synopsis of her work can be found here http://www.the-aps.org/press/journal/08/32.htm
The Brain and Statins
In addition, Yeon-Kyun Shin, a biophysics professor at Iowa State University, has found that statins that inhibit the liver from making cholesterol may also keep the brain from making cholesterol, which is vital to efficient brain function.
Professor Shin said, "If you try to lower the cholesterol by taking medicine that is attacking the machinery of cholesterol synthesis in the liver, that medicine goes to the brain too. And then it reduces the synthesis of cholesterol which is necessary in the brain,"
Source -- http://www.public.iastate.edu/~nscentral/news/2009/feb/shin.shtml
Kind Regards,
Farside
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