Do I have to take statins?

Hello, I would like to have your opinion on the statins that doctors want to prescribe to their patients to lower their blood cholesterol. But first, here is my "health portrait" so you can get to know me better. I am a 61 year old man from Montreal who has been retired for 10 years and has been in perfect health all my life, who has never had surgery, who does not take any prescription drugs or natural medicines. I do have a mild case of low blood pressure which has always existed but does not require any medication for this condition. I never get the flu because I get vaccinated every year. I also rarely get winter colds. I have a healthy weight (5'9" and 142 lbs currently) and I sleep 8 to 9 hours a night. No known food or drug allergies. I am an adopted son (so I don't know my family heredity). I have always been physically active outside the home (gardening in the summer, mowing lawns and shrubs, shoveling snow, etc... at my house and even at several of my neighbors' houses), in addition to walking 30-40 km per week. All this with the ultimate goal of maintaining good health for as long as possible. I do not own a motor vehicle, nor do I take the bus (all my trips are on foot). I have very good eating habits (i.e. lots of fruits and vegetables, very rarely red meat). No alcohol but I have been smoking 2 to 3 cigarettes/day outside the house for a long time. I have no major stresses in my life. In February 2003, a family doctor that I consulted for a general health check-up did not report anything abnormal in my blood work. He only noted a slight hypotension, but I had known that for a long time. In May 2016, I found another family doctor to replace the 2003 doctor who closed his practice within months of my consultation. My physical exam also revealed mild low blood pressure, which didn't worry him at all. On the other hand, my "total blood cholesterol" level was 4.3 g/l (the norm is 2.0 to 4.0 g/l according to the test results sheet done at the Sacré-Coeur Hospital laboratory in Montreal). My blood triglyceride level was slightly higher than normal, probably due to my body weight which was 156 lbs at the time, instead of the 142 lbs that is my normal weight. Having been much less physically active during the previous months, that is during the winter of 2016 because of the danger of the hyper-icy sidewalks of Montreal following the many episodes of ice storms that there were. After discussion with my family doctor's nutritionist, she suggested a few dietary corrections, namely to eat fish regularly and to season my salads with olive oil. To reduce pastries and desserts. This is what I have been doing daily since May 2016 until now. At my second visit to this same family doctor, last September, my "total blood cholesterol" level is almost identical to the first result while my bad cholesterol level has slightly decreased, by 0.1 g/l. My body weight had dropped to 151 lbs, that is to say 5 lbs less and it is currently stable at 142 lbs since last October. This is my normal weight for several years. My family doctor would like to prescribe me a medication from the statin class to lower my blood cholesterol level. On this occasion, he told me about a brand new medication in this class of drugs that has recently been on the market, although I felt a little hesitation in him to prescribe it to me. At 4.3 g/l, my cholesterol level cannot really be considered as familial (or hereditary) hypercholesterolemia, which gives levels of about 12g/l, so why prescribe statins in my case? Furthermore, a retired nurse that I know well informed me that the norms for biochemical analyses, notably for blood cholesterol levels, vary according to hospital laboratories in Quebec. Also, pharmaceutical companies have lowered the norms for blood cholesterol from 2-4 g/l to 3 g/l, then to 2 g/l, and then to 1.5 g/l in France according to Dr Michel De Lorgeril. What about in Quebec? In the meantime, I did some research on the internet and I discovered some disturbing facts that convinced me not to take statins because of their dangerousness. It says that statins have dreadful side effects, notably that they can cause Alzheimer's disease, type 2 diabetes, cancer (because this drug causes a decrease in cellular immunity), also causes muscle and tendon tears, affects the synthesis of bile salts (thus affecting digestion) and affects the synthesis of hormones including testosterone. Since I did not want to be prescribed statins because of the dangerous side effects, I did not go back to my family doctor and I do not plan to do so in the future. I have therefore come to the conclusion that it would be harmful for my health to consume this type of "anti-cholesterol" medication, which has been described as useless, ineffective and even toxic by medical whistleblowers in Quebec and in France. These warnings have been published in books by these whistleblowers in order to warn the population of the danger that statins represent. It is true that these drugs are used to prevent cardiovascular accidents, i.e. heart attacks and strokes, but considering that my blood pressure has been qualified several times in my life as mildly hypotensive, I am not at risk of dying of a heart attack according to a doctor I consulted in February 2003. These serious side effects that I mentioned above were mentioned by 4 whistleblowers precisely from the medical world in the context of television reports here in Quebec and especially in France. These whistleblowers are two doctors, including Dr. Marc Zaffran from Quebec, a cardiologist by the name of Dr. Michel De Lorgeril in France and a biochemist doctor also in France. Their goal is to warn the population of the potential danger of the serious side effects of statins. As for me, I became aware of this danger by watching television programs and documentaries in which these 4 whistleblowers participated and which were recorded and then published on Youtube. According to these whistleblowers, statins are prescribed unnecessarily to millions of people in the world, including in Quebec, contributing to huge and unnecessary public expenses for the province's drug insurance. As you know, these drugs are marketed under various names, including Lipitor, Crestor, and many others. These whistleblowers describe statins as real poisons for the human organism and a scam cleverly organized by pharmaceutical companies with the sole aim of making a profit on the backs of naive patients, misinformed doctors, and public health. It is, according to them, a real "crime against life". I submit to you the links of these videos that I watched on Youtube and that convinced me that it was that it was better for my health to avoid taking anti-cholesterol drugs. Le grand mythe du cholestérol (interview of Dr Marc Zaffran by Denis Lévesque on LCN): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mwQELG9xKVQ Anti-cholesterol drugs: the great manipulation: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-z1P8OTiX4I Cholesterol, the big bluff (documentary broadcast on ARTE channel in France https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-J7eFA-FH-A Dr Michel De Lorgeril: the scam of cholesterol and statins. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pt64YzmHlqg Cholesterol, molecule of life! Statins, the devil's molecule: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUVovkW3dP8 Health survey: The danger of cholesterol, myth or reality: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqdxOZa6df0 Cholesterol, a business that makes you sick: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mspIotHLGvo

Hello Mr. Chagon,

Hello Mr. Chagon.

Hello Mr. Chagon,Yes, I am interested in the risk calculators you are talking about . I didn't know of any Do you need my mailing address or is my email address enough for this? Thank you