Statins on the Joe Rogan Experience

“we would expect our nutrition is changing, the quality of foods that we eat, and the fact that we have since 1986 statin drugs, which are $36 billion a year, w…”

Mark Gordon claims statin drugs have existed since 1986 and generate $36 billion a year in sales.

“his department had taken over 200 million pounds at Oxford for doing research into statins from the drug industry. And they also kept the data commercially con…”

Malhotra claims Professor Rory Collins's Oxford research unit received over 200 million pounds from the drug industry for statin research and kept underlying trial data commercially confidential.

“if you're low risk of heart disease, you haven't had a heart attack, your benefit of statin is 1%, right? And when you tell people that, most people, Joe, don'…”

Malhotra claims statins provide only a 1% absolute benefit for people at low risk of heart disease who have not had a heart attack.

“we're prescribing 221 million prescriptions for statins per year and heart disease is continuing to be the leading cause of death in the United States.”

The guest claims the US prescribes 221 million statin prescriptions per year while heart disease remains the leading cause of death.