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Do statins permanently reduce LDL levels in blood?
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[QUOTE="Laroxe, post: 6355101, member: 555853"] Generally when a person is prescribed statins it is expected that this would be for life, their effect on blood fats takes a few weeks to get going and if the statins are stopped they tend to return to baseline in a few weeks. The effect of the statins on blood fats tends to be more powerful and more predictable than changes to the diet. There is still some debate whether the benefits of statins are just down to the effects on blood fats, there may be other effects that are also clinically useful. There are lots of issues when it comes to the effects of lifestyle changes, at a population level the effects are clearly of benefit, though there are large differences between individuals, as the overall effects can be small the research is all over the place. The fact is that fats like cholesterol are essential and are involved in a lot of our body processes, if you don't eat what your body thinks it needs it simply produces it. Its now considered carbohydrate intake may be more important than fat intake in controlling blood lipid levels. There is an increasing move towards diets containing "functional" foods like soluble fibre, soya proteins, Q10, fish oils, resveratrol etc. all of which can have a small but cumulative effect. If you can tolerate the statins without side effects they do have lots of advantages, the healthy diet will add to this, these interventions used aggressively have been shown to not only reduce cardiovascular risk but to reverse some of the arterial damage. There is masses of information about statins but make sure what you read is from a good source, even then the answers are not clear cut. This might be interesting [URL]https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s13668-012-0017-z[/URL] [/QUOTE]
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