Peter Attia· MD
This is because think about when people are getting on statins, right? Usually it's and so I say this as somebody again my bias should be that I hope that LDL cholesterol is not bad because my whole mother's side of the family runs high LDL even with low saturated fat diet even with high dietary fiber intake I run about 150. I started taking a statin when I was 40 years old. But my endthelium, my my blood vessels have already had 40 years of LDL exposure at that level. And so even if I get on a statin at age 40, every single day to the day I die, there is still some LDL cholesterol that has penetrated that endothelium and has contributed to some degree of uh atheroscerosis.