Originally Posted by Carbonfiberboy

I hear you and appreciate your voice, but your words would be much more powerful were you to add links to the studies to which you refer. Search words are tricky and not everyone had the permissions, inclinations, and ability to do a thorough search of the literature. Google always returns the most used links, which as you say are probably pharma-linked studies.

The research I've done shows unequivocal decreases in all-cause mortality for those on statins. Statins obviously do a lot more than simply reduce cholesterol, some of it seemingly good, some of it seemingly bad. However, and it's a big However on these forums, the general population getting longer life from statins is not us. We are not the general population. I'm personally probably in the top .1% in terms of fitness for my age. I do notice that in so many things I throw off little damages or illnesses that cripple or take half a year to get over for other people my age. Fitness, IMO, does make a huge difference in our general health. And thus I rather doubt the effectiveness of statins in treating those of us who maintain a high state of fitness. AFAIK there are no statin studies of folks like us.