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By Jonny Bowden, PhD, CNS
There’s the question of statin drugs and overmedication in general.
The wonderful John Abramson of Harvard Medical School has been speaking out for the better part of a decade on the overuse of ineffective medications, and has been particularly critical of statin drugs. ¹
Statin drugs have multiple serious side effects from memory loss to fatigue to loss of energy and libido, to serious muscle pain. Yet they are prescribed randomly to anyone with an “elevated” cholesterol level, even though study after study shows little benefit to lowering cholesterol. (Interestingly, in the Framingham study, those with the highest cholesterol actually lived the longest!)
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