An excerpt from Dr Ray D. Strand, M.D.'s report
Specialist In Nutritional Medicine
Recent medical research reveals that contrary to popular opinion, heart disease is not a disease of cholesterol but instead a result of low-grade chronic inflammation of the artery. In fact, over half of the patients who suffer a heart attack actually have normal cholesterol levels.
Major medical studies are now demonstrating that physicians should actually be checking for inflammation present in our arteries if they want to better determine which patients are at increased risk of developing coronary artery disease-especially in women. Dr. Daniel Steinberg has written extensively in the New England Journal of Medicine explaining that "native" LDL cholesterol is not bad. LDL cholesterol only becomes bad once it has been modified or oxidized by excessive free radicals. This means that if you have enough antioxidants on board to neutralize all of the free radicals, your LDL cholesterol is really not bad.
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Now, there have been many studies reported in the medical literature demonstrating a strong correlation between low LDL cholesterol and the decreased risk of having a heart attack. This is easily explained by the fact that the lower one's LDL cholesterol-the less LDL cholesterol there is to become oxidized. Also, several studies are now showing that the statin drugs like Lipitor or Zocor actually reduces inflammation. So taking statin drugs may lower your risk of heart disease because they are decreasing the amount of inflammation in your arteries and not because they are lowering your cholesterol. However, it is still a good idea to have your LDL cholesterol as low as possible. I do not agree with putting every patient who has an LDL cholesterol above 100 on "statin" or cholesterol-lowering drugs, which is the new recommendation being made by our government (much to pharmaceutical companies' delight). I would get a copy of Dr. Ladd McNamara's booklet called the Cholesterol Conspiracy if you would like more information on the subject.
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Now it is my personal feeling that taking statin drugs is still indicated in certain clinical situations like those who have elevated LDL cholesterol with known heart disease. The problem is the fact that the drug companies want to everyone to be taking their drugs. Now there is another precaution here. If you are taking a statin drug, it is critical that you are also supplementing with Coquinone 30 (2 to 4 daily). The reason is because statin drugs not only block the production of cholesterol but they also block the production of CoQ10. This leads to the major side effects of taking statin drugs--muscle weakness, muscle pain, and increased risk of a variety of diseases like cancer because of depleted levels of CoQ10. By supplementing with Coquinone you can blunt some of these potential side effects. 
Many of my patients are not comfortable taking medications for their elevated cholesterol and elevated triglyceride levels. Physicians seem to be more and more pessimistic about patients' ability to lower their cholesterol and triglyceride levels on their own. Most will agree that we should allow and even encourage our patients to lower their cholesterol on their own; however, more and more physicians are prescribing medication as they give lip service to lifestyle changes. I personally feel that everyone should be given a chance to lower their cholesterol on their own with aggressive lifestyle changes and supplementation first-before medications are prescribed. Medication should be always be our last option.
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