Increasingly the latest findings are that PUFAs, especially the more rancid ones if consumed, lead to arachidonic acid production, which encourages inflammation. The science for years now has shown that chronic inflammation in the endothelium of the veins and arteries causes deposition of plaque and calcium. All statins do, and I am not prepared to say it isn't a salutary benefit for some...is to raise calcium levels in the blood, suppress LDL production, and help to calcify extant deposits, which renders them less likely to be dislodged and to travel. The problem is that the industry, itself, has fudge their own data, and we see time after time that statins do not save the numbers of lives, or increase the years lived, by anything meaningful, except for that one person who gets an extra 3 days or whatever it works out to.

Please take three minutes and listen to this considerably longer video by Dr. Rob Cywes (The Carb Addiction Doc). The first three minutes, only, will hopefully alert you to the fact that not all of the medical community is in love with statins, not by a long shot: (Lest you think he is biased and rigid in his anti-statin position, he's actually reversing his earlier position having learned something new last year. This takes integrity to do.)