
#27 - David Diamond, PhD
Diet Doctor Podcast
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The Importance of Adverse Statin Effects
If statins had no adverse effects, and you say 1% of the people from having heart attack, well, I'd be all for it. But again, it gets down to adverse effects. The most obvious is development of type 2 diabetes; this has really been minimized by the key opinion leaders. We've published a paper on cognitive effects of statins. And there's actually a beautiful paper that has shown that people diagnosed with dementia, which when they were taken off the statin, the dementia disappeared. Put them back on the statin,. the dementia returned. This is not something I think doctors are aware of, the extent of the adverse effects of the statins.
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