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:


There's insufficient evidence to say it's safe, or that it confers any
"hard" benefits.


I disagree.


 BTW, do you concur that pantethine is a statin?

No, though it's mechanisms of action haven't been worked out very well. 

What has led you to conclude that it's not a statin?


That's my point, you need to do studies that vary each candidate cause
independently. With LDL, that's been very hard because the only way to drive
it into the lower ranges has been with statins, and using statins may be
bringing non-LDL factors in in a dependent way.


Okay.

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

Well, that was patronizing enough.


Thanks. ;-) 

LOL.


Add in the alternative/herbal industry and their fruitcakes. 

I do.  I don't take their word for anything, either.


>But yerah. It 
need a lot of cleaning up. But you'll never eliminate the need for
discriminative reading of reports.

That's so true. So many folks just seem to read the title and the bottom line. I was shocked, when I first began researching diet and IR, and CVD, how often the study did not at all support either of those.

OTOH, with manipulation of data, it's still not good enough.  :-/


"Their?" No, not entirely and not in a vacuum, and not without imposing
adjustments for bias.

I understand that you look upon them with an educated and analytical eye, but quantifying bias and omissions is very tricky bidness, thinks moi.

Susan
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