There's lots talk about the efficacy of statins. Yeah yeah well it's a very controversial area and has been for many years your cholesterol or you've got basically 200 is very simply two types of cost or good and bad and with the bad cholesterol when it when it's raised we treat that with drugs called statins to bring the bad cholesterol down now. The the latest evidence shows that reducing bad cholesterol fails to reduce heart disease deaths in the over-60s now the experts are questioning whether statins there are really as effective as they claimed and they're saying the researchers fundamentally flawed. Now this has gone on for quite a while only a couple of weeks ago he had the British Medical Journal and the other eminent English journal. The Lancet giving two different views on the use of statins in controlling cholesterol. A lot of patients actually stopped taking the statins because you don't feel any physical or mental benefit from taking them. They're there to keep your castor oil down and some patients get muscle pains and can affect the memory now having said all that. I want to start in because I had a high cholesterol and I'll take a statin as lower dose as possible that controls the colostomy. Sorry other stuff and you know. Do not stop taking. It discuss it with your doctor the the the well. That's the trouble you see. You ain't see a headline like that and then you and then you think well. I better not take them there. I mean that's why we're doing. We're getting behind the headlines because these headlines people see it and they think that's truth you've got to look into it look into the studies and the research people can't do this so if you're on the start and you take it but the interesting aspect that this now is the the health watchdog nice is actually recommend that all adults with a 10% risk of a heart attack of the next ten years should be on statins so we're talking about 17 million people who are healthy but at low risk of heart should be taken in anyhow.