Originally Posted by
budwom
Ha, I have just finished the tenth round (cordial but spirited) of my bout with my doc about statins. Don't get me started. I did manage to discover (and educate her) something rather surprising about the official Cardiology Calculator...for a guy my age, no matter what level of cholesterol you put in the tool (the lowest it will take for LDL for example) it says you need to take statins. By all other measures, my cholesterol is really really good (e.g. HDL of 73). The Statin Industrial Complex is huge!
Like you, I exercise a whole lot, eat lots of olive oil, and seemingly also have good genetics...