Dr. Jack Wolfson - Should Women Take Statin Drugs?

Jude Sat May 19, 2018 6:44 am

Cardiologist Dr. Jack Wolfson explains why women should not take statin drugs and offers five natural alternatives to statins.

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Should women take statin drugs? That’s the question I get asked on almost a daily basis.

And I’m board-certified cardiologist Dr. Jack Wolfson and I’m here to tell you no. The answer is not statin drugs.

Yet, why are almost 15% of females ages 45 to 64 on statin drugs? Great question. Ask your cardiologist. But your cardiologist is going to tell you that basically everybody should be on statin drugs.
So, certainly so should you.

But there is definitely a better way.

In fact, statin drugs have very little evidence of benefit in the vast majority of women. Certainly, in healthy women there is no benefit whatsoever.

Women are very underrepresented in the studies on the benefits of statins, so we really don’t know how women react to statins.

But quite simply, women are not deficient in statin drugs. Women are deficient in certain things and they have excess of certain things, just like men are.

So, let me give you five strategies to improve your cholesterol profile immediately.

Number one, eat organic Paleo foods. Eating the foods of our ancestors is the best way to get the perfect cholesterol level for you.

Number two, get sunshine. The sun converts excess cholesterol into vitamin D, so cholesterol excess can sometimes be a vitamin D and sunshine deficiency.

Number three, get sleep. When you get sleep, your body recovers. Your liver regenerates. All processes happen to improve our body while we are sleeping. So, make sure you get that sleep and it definitely improves your cholesterol levels.

Number four, you want to get active. Physical activity. Walking. Hiking. Biking. Running. Yoga. All these things help to improve cholesterol and lipids in general, and certainly help to increase HDL function, which is really what the key is, to improve that HDL function.

And finally, number five, as far as ways to improve your cholesterol levels, evidence-based supplements. And there is a lot of them out there.

So, I like to start off with probiotics which are so important for good lipid control. Then you can also look at things like berberine, which is a tremendous supplement if you need additional support. Tons of evidence for berberine. Digestive enzymes, Omega – 3s, are beneficial in that parameter.

Also, getting something like organic india psyllium husk powder is another way to bind up lipids in the gut and they go out the other side.

So, lipids are in response to inflammation. And when you lower inflammation down in the body by leading the healthy lifestyle that I just said, you’re going to get your best results.

So, until next time, I’m Dr. Jack Wolfson, board-certified cardiologist, author of the Amazon best-seller, The Paleo Cardiologist, where I have all of these strategies in there and the short answers is that women do not need statin drugs.

Women need to read my book, get on the healthy plan and they’ll do well.

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