Statins have significantly greater side effects, including debilitating muscle aches and elevated liver function tests, compared to mTOR inhibitors like rapamycin.

“i mean statins have far far greater side effects i know i mean and it's not even close and you know i think statins are a very important type of drug but you know i mean to think that to think how ubiquitous they are and that we accept hey 10 of people i mean i think the literature says 5 but really clinically 10 of people have debilitating muscle aches from statins that you know render it impossible to take them people some people have elevated liver function tests that are otherwise unexplained”