Dr Amir Khan

But use it sparingly because it is expensive.

Use it in your salads rather than for cooking.

You know, I'm not really against it.

I don't know a massive amount about it, I'll be honest with you.

But I could easily put a tablespoon of olive oil in a salad of mine and eat it like that and it would be good for me.

So it's a good oil.

It's full of those beautiful unsaturated fat.

I don't have a problem with that.

It's not bequast, no.

That's amazing.

So statins are a medication we offer people to lower their cholesterol and therefore their risk of having a heart attack and stroke.

I must say, Cherry, that statins are probably the...

the most talked about in a controversial way, medication that I prescribe.

And even when I offer it to patients, they've got this idea in their head that statins are bad and they have loads of side effects and they shouldn't take them.

And they really resist going on statins.

Let me just explain how they work, first of all.

So there's lots of different types of statins, but the most common one we will prescribe now is something called atorvastatin.

As I said earlier, cholesterol is made in the liver.

What the statins do, they work in a number of ways.

So they block one of the enzymes that's involved in the liver production of cholesterol.