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Do you like Alzheimer’s disease?  To test Alzheimer’s drugs, pharmaceutical companies give rats high doses of statins, to shrink the brains grey matter in a similar manner that the disease does to humans.  
-The most profitable drug in pharmaceutical history
-People with high cholesterol tend to live longer
-People with heart disease tend to have low levels of cholesterol
-Cholesterol-lowering of a population does not reduce the rate of heart disease

https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/

https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/statin-nation-the-documentary