Search "statin" on our website. I have many many links in many places, that address this dilemma.

IMO Mayo is just about the worst place to get an unbiased opinion about anything involving preventive medicine.

Would you believe that REAL research into cholesterol has not been done until recently? Stephanie Seneff PhD at MIT is doing it now. She is on YouTube with several interviews explaining.
http://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/w...ally_work.html

Dr. Kendricks and the WHO MONICA study on cholesterol/heart disease link (which they report does not exist):
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i8SSCNaaDcE

Hannah Yoseph and her husband on the chemistry of how statins are so toxic:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=19uxXqWF8h4

There is a book that started the whole statin critique, called The Cholesterol Myths.
http://www.amazon.com/Cholesterol-My...+uffe+ravnskov
In it the author explains how Dr. Keys who started the whole cholesterol studies for the drug companies, threw out data that didn't fit his assumptions. It is a real eye opener, if you can find it.

I think one of the most useful information sources is Dr. Graveline. He lost his memory on Lipitor. He has a website, and a book called Lipitor, Thief of memory.

Mayo clinic uses the criteria of "level of care" throughout its website. In some cases, this is useful, but in others, they do not pay attention to ANYTHING useful if it is not in the medical level of care list. Unfortunately the drug companies in this country have just about saturated doctors' minds that statins are safe, safe enough to add to our water supply and dose our little children too! I recall one summer, both TIME and NEWSWEEK had pro-statin articles, suggesting just that...to put statins in our WATER. How vile is that? We will see statins become an historical oddity, once the new non-statin cholesterol drugs are more common. One is almost available now.

Statins were initially offered for people with the genetic errors in lipoproteins. Then the greed began, as drug execs decided that they could make tons of $$$$ creating a need for them for everyone! They brainwashed doctors, so that most doctors don't even suggest COQ-10 to patients taking statins! Some don't even know it is necessary.