Statins and Strokes: The medical event that scares me like no others

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The subject of strokes hits home for me as I have observed their impact on people who are close to me. In this video, I cover the relationship between taking statins and the probability of experiencing a stroke.
References:
[1] Statin Treatment and the Occurrence of Hemorrhagic Stroke in Patients With a History of Cerebrovascular Disease
www.ahajournals.org/doi/full/...
American Heart Association Journals - Stroke, Jan 2008
[2] Do statins have an effect on hemorrhagic stroke? New study raises the question, again
www.pharmacist.com/Publicatio...
Pharmacy Today, March 2023
[3] Fact or Fiction: Statins Increase the Risk of Hemorrhagic Stroke
www.acc.org/Latest-in-Cardiol...
American College of Cardiology, August 2021
[4] Statins may raise stroke risk in some - study
www.reuters.com/article/idUST...
Reuters - Healthcare & Pharmaceuticals
[5] Hemorrhagic stroke: Long-term statin use may significantly lower risk
www.medicalnewstoday.com/arti...
Medical News Today December 2022
[6] Risk factors impact on the long-term survival after hemorrhagic stroke
pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20088175
Kojic B, Burina A, Hodzic R, Pasic Z, Sinanovic O. Risk factors impact on the long-term survival after hemorrhagic stroke. Med Arh. 2009;63(4):203-6. PMID: 20088175.
[7] FIVE-YEAR SURVIVAL AFTER FIRST-EVER STROKE
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/arti...
Smajlović D, Kojić B, Sinanović O. Five-year survival-after first-ever stroke. Bosn J Basic Med Sci. 2006 Aug;6(3):17-22. doi: 10.17305/bjbms.2006.3138. PMID: 16995842; PMCID: PMC7193668.
Thumbnail photos by Anna Shvets and Ron Lach
Stroke diagram from CDC Website
"Unsure" photo by Ketut Subiyanto
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DISCLAIMER: The following presentation and all presentations in this series are for informational purposes only and should not be used to diagnose or treat any medical condition. Please consult with your personal physician when deciding whether to treat or not treat any condition with pharmaceuticals or by any other treatment or therapy. In particular, never change dosage, stop taking medications, or change a therapy because of something presented in this series without discussing your options with your primary care physician or other health professional.
The author is not a medical professional and is presenting his own story, research, and opinions as they apply to himself, and himself alone.
If you think you may be experiencing a medical emergency, immediately call your doctor or dial 911.
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@scotthamlin9718 5 месяцев назад

Statins don’t provide the level of protection most people think they do and they have way too many side affects. There seems to be a strong indication they may bring on type 2 diabetes and also possible connection to Altzhiemer’s. Also on a statin, many, as I did, have a severe impact on quality of life due to extreme muscle pain all the time. Real benefits seem to be for secondary prevention meaning if you have already had a heart attack. Even better, change your diet and guess what, it’s not saturated fat, problem is a diet full of highly processed carbs and factory made fats. It’s the standard American diet that’s killing us.

@mystatinfreelife 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching. I have addressed or will address many of these issues in past (and future) videos. I call the Standard American Diet the "Carbohydrate Rich All-Processed" (C.R.A.P.) diet. The onset of type 2 diabetes, in particular, seems to me to be underestimated.

@anthonybatulis6516 5 месяцев назад

So true and many are staking statins but not changing their lifestyle.

@jamesalles139 5 месяцев назад

yes./ ferret out and drop the industrial seed oils, as well. They can be found in soft-gel 'health' supplements, also.

@rumproast5159 4 месяца назад

Sugar and insulin are the big issues but the medical community still thinks it’s fat.

@user-el4xs2yb6d Месяц назад

"It's the Standard American Diet that's killing us" You are so right. But tell that to big food, big pharma, big agri and the US Government.

@KenJackson_US 5 месяцев назад

No statins for me. I once had a doctor who said if I didn't take a statin he wouldn't be my doctor. So I left him without another word and found another.

@mystatinfreelife 5 месяцев назад

If you haven't seen it yet, you may be interested in this video: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-DAoMiuxqVCA.html

@KenJackson_US 5 месяцев назад

@@mystatinfreelife Thanks. I wouldn't want to be under the care of a doctor who insisted I take an unneeded, possibly dangerous drug with undesirable side effects anyway.

@elainer8288 5 месяцев назад

Good for you! Escaped being in a wheelchair. See Dr.Duane Graveline's story and 4 books on the subject.

@dave1ahc 5 месяцев назад

Super well done. I had a goofy cardiologist that wanted to bring Mike cholesterol down because it was running around 269 and sure enough they got it down below 199 and I felt horrible all the time muscle weakness muscle strain no stamina lots of problems with it as soon as I went off of it, the problems left me one of the problems also was early dementia that was coming on me at the age of 68 years old and I’m not taking the statin have a mind that’s Crystal clear they should take the stupid stuff off the market honestly

@mystatinfreelife 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for sharing. Certainly they are overprescribed and there seems to be an industry-wide blind spot to the adverse effects, such as what you and I have experienced. I have to imagine it affected your piano playing also.

@KenJackson_US 5 месяцев назад

@@mystatinfreelife _"Blind spot"?_ Isn't it a profit-driven blind spot? Is LDL actually bad?

@mystatinfreelife 5 месяцев назад

@KenJackson_US well yes, you broke the code for what I meant to imply by "blind spot.". As far as LDL being bad, I think it depends on the nature of the LDL. Oxidized LDL and Pattern B LDL, or high Lp(a) are all bad. But high LDL by itself may not necessarily be bad if not oxidized, Pattern A, and low Lp(a). Many will disagree with me on that and I hold these positions provisionally, subject to change as I learn more.

@Corkfish1 5 месяцев назад

My dad has been on statins for 30 years. He's at the gym right now doing pushups. He's 90. 20mg Atorvastatin. Mom takes 10.

@mystatinfreelife 5 месяцев назад

Yes, many people have no issues with them. I walk with a person weekly who had a heart attack 25 years ago and none since. He credits statins for this. I did a back of the envelope calculation and figure there's a greater than 50% chance he's correct. I'm more than happy to acknowledge people like your father who do well with them. I think I will prepare a video on that exact subject. I'm concerned not for the 70-80% of people who have no issues, but for the rest. Thanks for commenting and reminding us all that everyone is different and this channel shouldn't be used to make decisions, but rather to have appropriate discussions with our doctors if we do have issues or concerns.

@elainer8288 5 месяцев назад

Which one? Which dose

@Corkfish1 5 месяцев назад

@@elainer8288 Atorvastatin. 20 mg

@CelineNoyce 2 месяца назад

You are doing great work. I have refused statins since I was 30 (and got fired by my doctor for refusing) and when I was 50 I got a CAC and it was zero. Now my doctor wants to test my cholesterol and I refuse (and she doesn't like that) I told her I am happy to get a CAC but the cholesterol number is meaningless.

@mystatinfreelife 2 месяца назад

Thanks for watching, and congrats on your perfect CAC score.

@carolyncouch4094 3 дня назад

Same thing happened to me. Thirty years of their high cholesterol and this year a CAC test was 0. Never took a statin.

@SET12DSP 5 месяцев назад

Nice video, I did learn something this morning from it. My brother 5 years ago suffered a triple brain bleed. Geez, after listening to your talk, he is lucky to be alive. I think he told me the cost of the VA care was a million dollars. He's 2 years younger than me. He's still smoking, and drinking has made attempts to cut back. And as he says only under stress, he smokes and drinks. I know my grandmother died of a brain aneurysm at age 50 before I was born. You're so right about quality of life. I think I'd rather deal with a heart attack. But one thing is for sure, no statin for me. I think I'll stick with high dose vitamin C not only for its ability to reverse heart disease but in its oxidized form it does get by the blood brain barrier.

@mystatinfreelife 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching. One of my brothers also smokes and recently I discovered he takes rosuvastatin (generic Crestor.) He's having all sorts of problems, though not necessarily all attributable to statins specifically - he seems to be a classic victim of polypharmacy, a topic I think I'll have to address.

@leonfuerst4790 5 месяцев назад

Russ, thanks for video.

@elainer8288 5 месяцев назад

Cholesterol is produced by the body as a material to build structures. The problem is oxidized cholestetol and not the one the body produces. See what happened to Dr. Duane Graveline (4 books on statins) and see the book covers of Dr. Hannah Yoseph's books. So many people ended up in a wheelchair after the nerve degeneration caused by them.

@mystatinfreelife 5 месяцев назад

Thanks for watching. Yes, I mention oxidized LDL in the next video (and a few others). I had an episode of Transient Global Amnesia about a year ago. I have a video on that and I mention Dr. Graveline's book in that one.

@elainer8288 5 месяцев назад

@@mystatinfreelife Thank you so much for your work on this topic. So many lives ruined by this poison. Many stories of people who could never walk again in peoplespharmacy site and Dr. Duane's. He wrote 4 books on statins. Dr. Hannah Yoseph wrote 7! Thank you so much for helping people find out the truth. 🙏

@barrykarey1469 24 дня назад

My elderly mother is in hospital at the moment after having a mild stroke. The doctor in the hospital feels the statins she was taking has contributed to the development of the stroke.

@mystatinfreelife 24 дня назад

Sorry to hear about your mother. It is very rare for a doctor to make the connection. Hopefully she will recover well and if the statins contributed to the cause, getting off them will help avoid it in the future.

@barrykarey1469 17 дней назад

@@mystatinfreelife I never got to personally talk to the doctor and talk to him about how he came to that conclusion. My mother, 91 is now in a rehab center to get some of her mobility back. They have stopped her statins at the rehab center currently and I will have to talk to the doctor there. My sister in law had a heart attack three years ago and she was put on statins. Last year she went to the hospital and they found that she had kidney failure. The doctor mentioned that they would have picked the changes in her kidney function earlier with regular blood tests. Basically the doctors mentioned that the statins that she was on had affected the kidney function over time.

@pmccord9 2 месяца назад

Do an episode on Rory Collins statin researcher conflicts of interest. He claims statins have low side effects, but in his commercial persona, he markets therapies to counter the debilitating side effects.

@mystatinfreelife 2 месяца назад

Yes, I avoid mentioning him by name, but quite often I'm thinking of him with some of my comments. That's a good topic - conflict of interest in statin research. I'll add it to the list.

@Dulcimertunes 5 месяцев назад

If the past 4 years have taught us anything, it’s FOLLOW THE MONEY! WHO benefits by pushing statins?🤔

@sofiamiliaressis5403 5 месяцев назад

I wonder about hypercholesterolaemia and whether people diagnosed with this may fit into the category of requiring the use of a statin.

@mystatinfreelife 5 месяцев назад

My feeling is that it's not total cholesterol as much as cholesterol quality that counts. Familial Hypercholesterolemia may be an exception where a statin, if tolerated, could be an option. According to standard definitions, I have Hypercholesterolemia, but I certainly don't require the use of a statin.

@user-pj5ff6xw4x Месяц назад

Take your statin 0:22 don't listen he's lying.

@dacisky 5 месяцев назад

I had a friend who had a mild hemorrhagic stroke while on statins. He never had anotgher one and continued to take statins.

@mystatinfreelife 5 месяцев назад

Yes, it's all statistical. Perfectly possible that this could be the case. It is good to hear he didn't have another. And of course, people in this situation who did not continue statins could also have a second stroke.

@vladimirandrianov5930 Месяц назад

Wow! So many hits of ASCVD around you! I'd be very concerned if I was in your shoes. Have you considered other types of medications that appeared recently to alleviate your risk? Maybe some supplements?

@mystatinfreelife Месяц назад

I am using diet and exercise and a few supplements. While I don't really put a lot of stock in online risk calculators, at least they say I have low risk, despite family history. My Lp(a) at one time was 7 mg/dL. It now is so low that all the lab can say is < 10 nmol/L. My trigs/HDL ratio is around 1.5. My HDL has more than doubled since I changed lifestyle and diet 4 years ago. These are all things family members have not done or didn't do. Also, several family members lived past 100 with no heart issues, so it's not all gloom and doom.

@vladimirandrianov5930 Месяц назад

@@mystatinfreelife Good to know that, thanks! My primary prevention is also diet and exercise although it happened by coinsidence, without even knowing my bad luck with LPA gene. Yours is obviously different (from your low Lp(a) readings) but there are at least 4 other genes for FH. All in all I don't and wouldn't rely on risk calculators, but only on direct measurements like CIMT or echocardiography. Lipid/trig/gluc levels are also helpful but the ultrasound tells us much more reliably where we actually are.

@pmccord9 2 месяца назад

Correlate historic statin Rx numbers curve with historic epidemic of Alzheimer's figuring in a ten year lag in otherwise identical curves.

@mystatinfreelife 2 месяца назад

That's interesting. I'll look for that data. Some are calling Alzheimer's "Type 3 Diabetes" (in an unofficial capacity, to drive home the point about Insulin Resistance, Metabolic imbalances, and Alzheimer's.) I wonder if the increase in Insulin Resistance apparently caused by Statins is part of that equation.

@pmccord9 2 месяца назад

@@mystatinfreelife Blazinga !

@Straycurrent 5 месяцев назад

Statins after a hemorrhagic stroke? A no-brainer😊.

@IceCream-and-HeadLice 2 месяца назад

What if your taking a statin with blood thinners?

@mystatinfreelife 2 месяца назад

According to reports I've read, there is a "minor" chance of increased bleeding. I will have to search deeper to see if it has any clinical relevance when it comes to strokes.

@IceCream-and-HeadLice 2 месяца назад

@@mystatinfreelife I’m 73 they switched me to Rosuvastin, and Eloquis. Had a cardioversion. Eloquis I can’t afford. I don’t want to feel bad all my short life left. My heart Dr retired. Now have an assembly line Dr. We all have an appointed day to die. If you step in front of a car, suicide, well that was your appointed time. Anyway I feel bad on this statin. I stopped once and I felt better. No pain. Rabdomyosis maybe?

@mystatinfreelife 2 месяца назад

@@IceCream-and-HeadLice This article may be of interest: www.aafp.org/pubs/afp/issues/2019/1215/p742.html Rhabdomyolysis is always a possibility, though general muscle pains (myalgia, myopathy, etc.) are more common.

@ericsonhazeltine5064 5 месяцев назад

I think this is a bit far fetched

@pb5640 4 месяца назад

Statins are safe and effective. Please Do not get your medical information from RU-vidrs. Trust your physicians.

@user-bc9uc2xi8d Месяц назад

a lot of physicians are production line Drs, owned by big pharma. Do you have any idea how much Roche was grossing while they held the patent for Lipitor?

@user-pj5ff6xw4x Месяц назад

If what you are saying is True about your family history yes you should be on a statin.

@mystatinfreelife Месяц назад

I was on them for 10 years and they ruined my health during that time. There is no way I will go on them again. I am addressing risks through diet and exercise, which those family members did not do.

@user-bc9uc2xi8d Месяц назад

@@mystatinfreelife, I absolutely agree with you. Statins ruined my life😢