Re: Good overview of pantethine, Europe and Japan's safe and effective alternative to statin drugs; Pantethine is considered "atoxic" due to its superior safety profile

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Jim Chinnis wrote:

Well, yeah. It would especially mean that a drug that hasn't been studied
much would not be one to take for primary prevention, where the reduction in
absolute disease risk is less. Pantethine comes to mind.

It has so many of the actions that statins claim. So much so that one poster keeps claiming it *is* a statin. That would make it the only completely safe statin. BTW, do you concur that pantethine is a statin?

There're lots of clinically effective meds for which we don't know the mechanisms of action.


It doesn't matter if it's good or bad. But you have to vary LDL over a wide
range in order to see for sure what difference it makes.

With so many additional effects and actions claimed for statins, how do you know that the LDL lowering is the reason for any reported benefits, not just a marker? Why measure LDL rather than LDL particle size to determine risk?

Yeah, the world would be a better place if everyone always told the truth.
Good luck.


Well, that was patronizing enough.

Some folks are in a position to create a lot more medical mayhem and harm than others with their lies. Those same folks have powerful incentives to lie, and an industry wide tradition of doing so, with regulators complicit.

I think the pharmaceutical industry has by its actions greatly increased the
level of suspicion that is appropriate in interpreting their data and
reports. We agree on that.


Yet you keep relying on their reports.

Susan
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