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Hey, I'm back with another video. Today, we're going to talk about statins. Okay, it is very, very essential for you to understand this information.
Now, statins work by blocking a certain enzyme that blocks your production of cholesterol. Your liver cells make a good amount of cholesterol in your body. So, the cholesterol in your body is not just coming from the diet; it's coming from your own cells, and it has some very important purposes.
Number one, it's a precursor for making bile salts, which is involved in digesting fats, absorbing fat-soluble vitamins like vitamin A, E, D, K, omega-3 fatty acids, etc., etc. Cholesterol is also necessary in making bile salts. So, if you don't have enough bile salts, your risks for gallstones go up. Your risk for pancreatitis increases because if you have bile sludge, that's going to block the pancreatic ducts and cause a backup into the pancreas.
So, there are so many side effects of statins, but the big one is myopathy. Now, that's a gentle term for muscle disease because statins have a direct effect on the muscle. They can create necrosis of the muscle, which basically kills the muscle. They can cause muscle cell apoptosis, which is another term for the muscle cells dying. You can get all sorts of inflammatory muscle problems, weakness of the muscle, pain in the muscle, stiffness in the muscle, and even an autoimmune condition of the muscle as well.
Another side effect is high levels of something called creatinine kinase, which indicates muscle wasting, and that can increase by 10x. Now, there's also the topic of why your cholesterol is high in the first place, and let's say it even goes up, is there any problem with having high cholesterol? I'm going to leave that for another video.
But in this video, I want to talk to the person who's on statins and what you can do to reduce the symptoms of myopathy. Now, there's something else that a statin will deplete, and that is something called CoQ10. It's an enzyme involved in giving your muscles energy, and you may have seen it at the healthy store, mainly for heart problems. If you're deficient in CoQ10, you get muscle wasting, muscle weakness, low back pain, again, a problem in the muscle, um, heart failure, and the list goes on and on and on.
So, the more statin you take, the more deficient in CoQ10 you're going to be. And it just happens that if you take CoQ10, you can greatly diminish the symptoms of myopathy when someone's on a statin drug. So, this video is mainly about those people that are taking statins that apparently for some reason have to take it, they're getting side effects, and they might not know how simple it is to relieve the complications from this medication.
So, start taking coenzyme Q10. And if I were you, I would double or triple the dosage if you're taking the statin. And as you're coping with statins, I would highly recommend you also learn more about cholesterol, how to keep it in check, and what diet you need to be on.
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