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#23 - Tom Dayspring, M.D., FACP, FNLA – Part IV of V: Statins, ezetimibe, PCSK9 inhibitors, niacin, cholesterol and the brain

The Peter Attia Drive

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Is There a Polluted Effect of Statons in Trials?

When you include them in trials, you are making it much harder for a new drug or compound that's being investigated to show its effect. You've effectively raised the bar much higher for what needs to be done. But those trials weren't designed to do that, but they were so polluted by staton use. And there's no cleaner way to ask it than to not have another drug involved.

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