If your doctor is concerned about your cholesterol levels sooner or later he will recommend you start taking statins. Unfortunately statins are not a safe medication. As many as 40% of people experience side effects with statins (including memory loss) and they have been shown to be mostly ineffective in preventing heart attacks in people who have not already had heart attacks. So why do doctors prescribe so many statins? I don't know and I am not going to dwell on that.
