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statins
A class of cholesterol-lowering medications that inhibit HMG-CoA reductase to reduce LDL cholesterol production.
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"Why care about nutrition if you can just control this with statins?"
Attribution: Peter Attia mentions statins in the context of asking whether pharmacological control of LDL makes dietary considerations less important.
"Statins are mitochondrial toxins and kind of counterproductive from a mitochondrial energy production standpoint. Statins actually inhibit your CoQ10 synthesis."
Attribution: Chris Masterjohn criticizes statins as mitochondrial toxins that inhibit CoQ10 synthesis and decrease mitochondrial function.