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Note that "cholesterol getting to the point of needing medication" is not a thing.

The statin pushers tried for decades to demonstrate that statins do any good for people not in imminent danger of (another) heart attack. They have failed. So, instead, they hector physicians to prescribe statins when they find a slightly "elevated" level of LDLs. Your body needs cholesterol, and makes exactly as much as it needs. If your level is "elevated", you are doing something that makes you need to make more. Suppressing it means you don't have enough.

If you worry about an elevated LDL level, the best response is to cut sugar intake.



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