On 10/14/2016 06:48 PM, Ed Pawlowski wrote:
On 10/14/2016 5:20 PM, philo wrote:


My mother's side of the family has extremely high cholesterol but they
have all lived into the 90 - 95 age range. On doctor's advice they
briefly took statins and had horrible reactions.


If I do need something for cholesterol though I'd probably take your
recommendation over statins though

Tried statins and won't touch them again. I eat 10 to 12 pistachios at
lunch every day and that helped bring it down. I still eat butter and
eggs too.



Yep ...no way will I take a statin.