@izkrov Fair, but actually the study compares all-cause and cardiovascular:

@Nabokov *links pravastatin to a lowered rate of cvd

Ray wrote about the false link between cholesterol and heart disease, but I just came across this study which conclusively links pravastatin to a lowered cardiovascular rate and the data and design look sound. https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/26864092/

There are many studies on the apparent efficacy of statins, this one isn't particularly special, but it does seem to prove that they work, which Ray disputed. Does anyone have a better understanding of cholesterol, CVD, and statins?

@peatyourmeat wdym by not reaching the threshold to talk to anyone you would like to?

@TexugoDoMel Thank you

@Sophocles Thank you

@Donovan Interesting, I'll try and find a decent supplement

@KettleBelCanto Haidut is too good for Chaz, he'd be more suited as Trump's personal physician

@brad very interesting to know about acetobacter action on glyphosate, but I thought lactobacillus was considered harmful/net-negative by Peat because of the lactic acid produced? Maybe sufficient acetobacter could negate this.. I'm only thinking back to him being quoted on rpf so I could be wrong but apparently he preferred s. boulardii? However I have no info regarding this claim

I've had acne for the past 3 years. Each time I've gone on a course of lymecycline, it has gone away but upon completion of the course, it slowly returns. I am now getting a prescription for doxycycline, to try and eliminate this once and for all. I plan on eating bamboo, mushrooms and carrots everyday, alongside vinegar and occasional charcoal, in the hopes of nuking whatever pernicious and malicious microbes are stubbornly residing in my gut. Is there anything I could do in addition, to enhance the gut genocide? I am sick and tired of acne and it's almost certainly my gut which is responsible.

What probiotics are safe to take after I complete the antibiotics, to fill the vacuum left, and prevent any other problematic things from proliferating?