Jack Frost: What statin are you taking and dosage? Thanks. A great question about
statins. I rarely use high-dose statins because I don't use statins for
decreasing LDL. Usually half the people that have a heart attack or stroke have
normal LDL. So that's plenty of evidence for me that LDL is rarely the issue. But
statins have what we call a pleiotropic effect.
"Pleio" meaning other; "tropic" meaning to go to. So pleiotropic effect means that
you know as most docs are looking at dropping that LDL, I'm looking at
something entirely different. I'm looking at decreasing cardiovascular
inflammation. And it has been demonstrated that, and there's plenty of
science out there showing that it does so. What I was taking for the longest
time? Well, first of all, I delayed taking statin for a couple of years even though
I was developing hypertension and some of those problems. I thought I had my
lifestyle totally tuned in. There are actually some things that I could do.
There are always things that you can do. You can always improve, for example, right
now I'm back up to about how 150s, and I'm gonna be looking at losing another
5 pounds. Again, I've been using that meal replacement just to get an
understanding of how it works. Bottom line: I've used Crestor 5
milligrams. That's what I tend to use now. Crestor has been... it's got a half-life
of 17 hours so you can often use Crestor or rosuvastatin (generic name). You can
often use that so every other day, 3 times a week or even more. There's been
research demonstrating you can get an improvement in cardiovascular
inflammation from rosuvastatin once a week. Now, I don't routinely go there.
But again, work very hard to accommodate the desires, concerns that a patient has.
And I don't have a top-down type of approach. I don't tell a patient, look,
this is what you're going to take. I don't spend 7 minutes with a patient,
write a script, and walk out the door. We talk a lot further. We have typical
discussions, will be between 1.5 and 2 hour...
excuse me... half an hour. Our goal is to get them to half an hour, but
we've never been able to do that. They're usually an hour to 2 hours. Jack, you've
asked me what time it is. I've told you how to make a watch. Let me go back and
repeat. I was on Crestor 5 milligrams a day, rosuvastatin 5 milligrams a
day. About 2 months ago, I switched to Pivasta. What is Pivasta? It's the generic
version of Livalo or pitavastatin, 1 milligram once a day.
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