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Thanks @bluesdoc. That sounds to me as though statins would be most helpful to young people whose cholesterol is not yet blocking crucial arteries. I'm curious mainly because so many people with calcium problems report that their cardiologist just routinely added a statin. I'm also resisting it, because there is some good research showing that advanced-age seniors lose some memory thanks to statins. Again, glad you're on board. Martin

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Well, everyone's different. Taking high dose CoQ10 with statins is important. For a study of n=1, in the three+ years I've been on it, it's had no impact on my cerebral function. I work in a highly challenging environment and have to make scores to hundreds of critical decisions a day. So far, so good. (Of course, it might be because of my music sideline, or working out a lot.... or genes? who knows.....) Thanks again for the kind greeting Martin.

There's something clearly amiss about our cohort - the way we're categorized by the cardiology community. I think they project risk in some sort of linear fashion from the levels clearly associated with those risks, ie, the low/mid hundreds. You'd think that if this were the case, we'd all be cardiac cripples with our high levels. But clearly, many of us are not. So, I suspect that very high CC scores could represent, in some cohort, a different pathophysiology than plain old calcifying intimal atheroma. This begs the question, what are we in store for, if not an early cardiac demise? I can't believe it's benign to have our vessels turn to stone, but how does that play out clinically? I don't know.