I’ve read numerous books, the latest one Blind Spots, that actually lay out the whole statin myth. EVERYONE is automatically put on statins. Sometimes a high Cholesterol number means NOTHING. Sometimes it does mean something, but you have to go way beyond the numbers. My dad had heart disease and died of a heart attack at age 82. I am 77. I do a lot more for heart health than he did. I think I have the gene, I’m guessing, i haven’t been tested. I eat heart healthy fresh organic foods, do yoga, get between 8,000-12,000 steps a day, monitor my sleeping using meditation, and I’m content. If I drop dead at 82 living my best life I am ok with that. I sure don’t want to live to 90 bed ridden and in chronic pain from cholesterol drugs. I am not advocating either way, just go beyond the numbers.