How do Statins Work? (+ Pharmacology)
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- Опубликовано: 16 июл 2024
- Statin medications (Also known as Hmg-CoA Reducatase Inhibitors) are a class of drugs that are used to treat hyperlipidemia. Anti-hyperlipidemia therapy seeks to prevent the complications heart attack, stroke and other ASCVD risks.
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This pharmacology lecture covers topics such as Statins, pathophysiology of dyslipidemia, regulation of LDL, HDL, Triglycerides and other complications of bad cholesterol buildup. Mechanism of action of statin drugs and their side effects. Drugs mentioned include; Lovastatin, Pravastatin, Simvastatin, Rosuvastatin, Atorvastatin and their brand names.
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Great video! Like the quiz at the end, only suggestion is put the answers on the end slide 😄
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Statin will kill your liver.
It is normal for your Liver to manufacture cholesterol.
Statin force and stop your liver from producing this cholesterol that is very important to the body.
Especially the Brain.
The best way is to control and change your diet not to take Statin.
Statin will weaken your body over time.
Many people have the impression that statin neutralize your cholesterol.
But, it job is to stop your liver from producing the important Cholesterol for your body.
Without Cholesterol you will die faster.
Your body need Cholesterol to survive.
Thank you and correct
I agree; but, if your cholesterol is excessively high, then you may have to do both simultaneously (diet & drug), with the intent to get off drugs within months.
One commenter stated he was on a statin for 40 years. This is too long; perhaps, dietary changes should have occurred 39 years ago. Maybe lack of helpful nutrition data was absent back then.
Well said.
@@thomashilson4158if your triglycerides and hdl are optimal your LDL shouldn’t be an issue. That is if you’re otherwise fairly healthy. There is a place for statins but not for everyday use by millions. It’s being shown that there is a sweet spot for ldl which is around 200-240 ish where it’s been shown that people lived longer. Makes sense when you understand how much cholesterol is needed for proper functioning of the body
What you don't seem to realize is that some people's liver just produces too much cholesterol due to genetics. I have over 400 total Cholesterol since my 20s, as did my father. And we both were quite skinny.
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Excellent insights.
Thank you for this easy to understand explanation. I've been on rosuvastatin for a while following a subarachnoid haemorrhage and high LDL cholesterol. It's good to understand how it actually works. Well done.
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Lab results came Friday
My LDL is 260
Was unexpected as im not fat and relatively fit
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@@g_1673 that wasn't mentioned. Is calcium intended to stabilize plaques? Trading atherosclerosis for hardened arteries?? It seems like everyone should be taking one of these? What us the actual reduction in disease? If 3% have heart attacks without statins and 2% have heart attacks with statins, is that fair to claim a 50% reduction?
@@JohnWest4 good eye! everyone in this country needs a statistic class - simplified in jr high and then full on in high school. companies will lobby against it as well as our greedy politicians - especially the ones like DeSantis.
@@ehayes7849 We all exchange service for money, or product for money, but am on the fence if medical service should be a profit industry, like other things. Maximizing cost has not done us well. .. Something is worth what someone will pay for it? or should it be tempered by cost of manufacturing, certification and delivery? Pharma wants a blockbuster drug to fill its coffers, but its at the expense of the society. Insulin costs for example. should cost $35 a month? SHould Sugar industry help pay some of that?
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Very informative and really interesting to listen 😊
Thank you for your video! There is some great information here and it helped me understand the cholesterol/statin process. I also liked the comment that said, please put the quiz answers at the end of the slide. It stimulates my brain's reward center when I get them all correct. ;)
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A great explanation thank you a lot
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One deca-liter or 1 daL is pronounced ˈdekəˌlēdər and is equal to 10L or ten liters.
One deci-litter or 1 dL is pronounced ˈdesəˌlēdər and is equal to 0.1L or one tenth of a liter.
Btw, awesome video. Thumbs up!😊👍👍
is it a decker liter or a decker litre ?
@@thethinkingman- Both, British or American.
Excellently explained very well understood statins thanks
Thank you for watching!
Awesome! Thank you
Thank you very much for the clear explanation. Very knowledgeable
Thank you drug chug for doing this video
DO STATINS REDUCE (CoQ10) IN THE HUMAN BODY? & SHOULD A PERSON TAKE A CoQ10 SUPPLEMENT WHEN TAKING A STATIN DRUG?
Brilliant thank you.
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Awesome! An excellent discussion for non- medical people.
very good.Thanks.
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👍🏽Great video and well presented.
Superb explanation 👌
Thank you for a valuable information
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very useful video ...thanks
Realy nice explanation
Great lecture 👍
Glad it was helpful!
Thank u for information
Thank you
This is amazing
I'm glad it helps!!
Great video! Thank you for this breakdown. Please consider doing the top 200 😁😉 Question, due to the statins work in our livers and can cause a certain amount levels of toxins in the liver.. would this medication be considered an NTI? If no, why not? Thanks in advance.
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Best explanation of this
I like this explanation. I have been using the avortastatin for lowering my LDL. Very clear,informative and understandable.
hence he explained the the muscle pain you have been having right...
Hi Drug Chug, I love love love your videos. You explain MOAs and give clear indicated dosing guides so perfectly clear on all your videos. Do you mind to share the source of this Statins dosing guideline shared at 11:20 onwards? It'd be so helpful. Again many thanks for the wonderful contents. I truly love your videos.
Can you do one on Jardiance (empagliflozin) how it works, your videos are really good.
I've tried two different stations. The last one made my muscles ache. Then the bones in my hands started hurting. I would rather die of high cholesterol than the side effects of statins.
Thanks
Thanks man, my Pcol teacher doesn’t use power point only taking notes from what he says. You are a life saver
Thanks for the support! Glad it helped. And there are way too many horrible professors out there
Very good explanation sir
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You can do it! Never too late!
I take atorvastatin (Lipitor) for 2 years, yes it lowers, but it lowers HDL too
Please explain what mechanism the statins use to attack muscle fibres and can they attack cardiac muscle also?
Can you also explain the high risk and mechanism of developing type 2 diabetes? Surly that would be counter productive
They stop production of co-enzyme q10 and our mitochondria in muscles and braincells get out energy ehat they need.LDL has 8 different types and statines lower useful too but we need to lower only really harmful oxidysed ldl or small LDL who really is bad.
At age you are losing muscle mass. Is it accelerated?? Stuck during covid waiting for surgery muscles got weak hard too bring back
Very Nice and informative Presentation
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Thanks for your useful video. One thing you didn’t cover is what happens if we stop using statins? Are we going to have a ordinary cholesterol level after few years or as soon as we stop using the cholesterol goes back to high level like before? Appreciate if you answer. Thanks again.
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From my understanding, statin are a lifelong treatment. Stopping them would result in your levels going back to what they were pretreatment. Also, they're used in combination with lifestyle modification.
@@misumobo gotta watch dopesick movie before we take pharma fav blockbuster. More for profit than health? why should we take a drug forever? Why not look at causes for dysregulation?
@@misumobo so diet and exercise count for something (reduce medication) if not hereditary problem.
Hi, I've heard that simvastatin is bad and that makes me a little worried, Im taking simvastatin 10mg because of high scholesterol, in conclusion it is 100% safe to take it?
Nice job
Very good
You were very informative so I subscribed.
Your not mentioning all the awful side effects, muscle detriation fatigue, headaches and more you need to let people know what vitiams to take that will help if your taking stations to lower the size effects. Why always pills when you could help by cutting some food and help with what we should be doing to reduce high LDL
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Can you do one on PCSK9 inhibitors?
The body needs cholesterol. Some types of cholesterol are essential for good health. Our body needs cholesterol to perform important jobs, such as making hormones and building cells. Cholesterol travels through the blood on proteins called lipoproteins. The liver produces cholesterol.
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Thank you for this and your other videos! You've answered questions that I've had, but as is always the case, raise new ones in their place.
I'm wondering about the inputs to the cholesterol synthesis process when HMG-CoA is blocked. I gather from your other videos there are processes that convert free fatty acids to triglycerides, triglycerides to vldl, vldl to ldl; do we know more specifically where in the whole chain Hmg-CoA is involved? I'm under the impression that statins reduce not just ldl, but also triglycerides, so my guess would be it's similar to fish oils blocking the conversion of free fatty acids into triglycerides.
If that's the case, I wonder what happens to the free fatty acids that would have otherwise been converted? Does the body have a harmless outlet for them? Or do they or other resultant products (adipose?) accumulate? Inquiring minds want to know!
PS your pronounciation of decilitre had me very confused for a moment; it sounded to me like you were saying daL (10L) instead of dL (100mL).
As a Canadian growing up with metric units, I've always known deci to be pronounced as "dessi", so as not to be confused with deca (dekka).
I had a question if you could help me solve.
I've been on Crestor 10 mg since 4 months, My LDL cholesterol reduced from 165 mg/dL to 78 mg/dL in a month.
My question :
What I wondered is when a statin stops the cholesterol production, how does the LDL reduce so quickly ?
Does the body use it up for energy and begin the depletion of cholesterol since it no longer produces as it once did?
Or
The statins begin pushing LDL out of the body and eliminate it ?
Or
That Vitamin D and testosterone begin consuming the remainder of whatever cholesterol that the body has now that statin has stopped it's production ?
I'd appreciate a response. Thanks for the best video on statins on YT.
Thats awesome to hear! Yes statins work very quick, and they do the job of lowering LDL the best (First line treatment).
When statins stop the liver from making LDL, our liver naturally responds by making more LDL receptors to uptake the excess LDL in out bloodstream. Once it takes the LDL from the bloodstream, it will use it for other processes like you mentioned. So the cholesterol will now be used for Vitamin D and hormone synthases!.
Hope this clears some things up!
@@DrugChug not realy
Why do you lower your LDL COLESTEROL TO 74?, DO YOU HAVE A BAD TYPE OF LDL COLESTEROL? colesterol is extremely important for the body!
@@Kjuken69 well, I have a gene Lp(a), and my family history (both sides) have cardiac illnesses !
I've changed immensely since then with all my lifestyle and diet and herbs, so much more than just that.
Statins make it impossible to lower weight and been causing me nervousness .
Once i stopped weight went down and nervousness went away.
I noticed that the pharmacist still recommends atorvastatin and rosuvastatin be taken before bed. Is there actually a benefit to this, or would the blood level be about the same if it were taken anytime within 24 hours?
When they before bed time . That means by the time the drug start to take effect on the lever you are sleeping
Great video! Thanks for making such informative video. The video was very well made. Does anyone know what software is used to make this presentation? Thanks
Kindly advice which Statin causes minimal muscle pains Fatigue and Brain fog I'm taking Rosvastatin despite taking 10mg on night after Dinner Thanks
Thank you for explaining this so clearly.
why the asterisk at any time : crestor? is it better than Lipitor or vice versa?
Wow. Excellent presentation. Simple explanations, repetition, engaging visuals and rhetoric along with the quiz. Fantastic. You have my subscription 🤘
Rhondie Badcock
Well explain now l know what was causing my severe pains. Its the side effects of the Rovastatin.stop two weeks ago l feel much better. I had stent put in 2o13.Poor me experience this pain.Thank you so much. Blessings
So all statins do is create/ add more “receptors” in our liver to remove the cholesterol from our bloodstream. But what about the glycated cholesterol damaged by sugar which is not recognized by these receptors and so just continue to float around the bloodstream causing most of the problems.
As for the buildup of LDL in your bloodstream. That’s because there’s already damage from other things. The LDL which is not cholesterol but Carry’s cholesterol is a unit of repair and so if there’s buildup it’s because there’s already some sort of stress in your arteries. Sugar is the culprit. Cholesterol is like an ambulance trying to fix damage. Is cholesterol the fireman or the arsonist???
Statins also promote diabetes
Ascvd- eliminate sugar/ reduce carbs
Get your hdl higher and triglycerides as low as possible much lower than 150. Love that we give diabetics statins.
The underlying issue with any of this as any nurse or doctor will tell you, is getting people to comply. Compliance is an issue due to flat out laziness or massive confusion because there’s a pill for a pill for a pill and people don’t want that. They don’t understand why they have to keep taking another pill and another. Lastly, food is so addictive now that why do I want to stop eating all this good stuff? It’s so good! But it’s also slowly killing you.
Why are you basing statins on ldl base of 70? Key words” based on clinical judgement” are there studies (double blind) to support that judgement.
Most of this video is wasted on the average person because of the language.
Another nonsense post. It’s not. Read a research
@@frankgyetuah-boadi601 explain nonsense please
Read an actual RCT and all the studies on statins mate. You won’t spew such uneducated takes
I must be in category 3. I have LDL of 174, and recently went on Simvastatin. I was wondering why I had to take it at night! I wish doctors explained everything in detail like this.
more of a pharmacist job and I'm sure your local pharmacy would be glad to explain any of your needs
@@stefanserroul3572 .
@@stefanserroul3572 not really doctors get commissioning pushing these-kind of drugs so they owe it you to take one extra minute and explain it . But they don’t
@@stefanserroul3572 Astoundingly NAIVE statement. You see the SAME doctor; the person "handling" your filled prescription could be any 1 of 6 people. The doctor MUST explain; not 6 people giving you six interpretations.
Why do you use statins? Because of and LDL of 174? Why are afraid of Colesterol?
So does the reducing of production of LDL in the liver just stop all LDL , including the small LDL. I read it stops all LDL both the fluffy ones (good LDL) and smaller bullet type LDL.
Great Video. But What is the Music you play at the end called ?.
Been taking atorvastatin last week. And i have a muscle pain wc u mentioned myopathy.
In that case what stops you from outsourcing HDL from healthy person and inject it into the person with heart disease
So great: understandable and memorable.....many thanks from Germany...I also improve my english
Pretty good but while these drugs may lower LDL cholesterol, you didn’t say what effect, if any, they have on HDL cholesterol. Also even if you have no muscle pain, how does the body feed itself when on a low carb diet and it burns ketone bodies when exercising?
Why is the LDL sticking to the walls of the artery? What is the route cause as to why this "sticks" ?