Erin Allman‑Updyke and Erin Welsh

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This Podcast Will Kill You · Ep 218 The Lowdown on Statins · 4 Aug 2026 podcast

And I didn't feel bad to begin with.

Right.

Exactly.

Why would I be on a medicine forever?

People didn't also understand how statins lowered cholesterol.

So it was just sort of like, well, I don't understand how they work.

So I don't know that they do work.

And many people also questioned the motives of doctors in prescribing the medication.

Like big pharma has a hand in this.

And they felt that overprescribing was an issue, especially with levels being revisited every so often and being like, now we recommend that you're, you know,

You didn't recommend this last year when my LDL was the same.

Exactly.

Now we need your LDL to be less than 70.

Now we need it to be less than 55.

Now, yeah, without a good explanation, they just updated the guidelines in March of this year.

So they're changed yet again.

Right.

So there's a sort of fear of like diagnostic creep.

Is that happening with cholesterol and statins or is there evidence to support this shifting of the levels and the recommendations?

Yeah.

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