Health Yeah! Your guide to cholesterol and statins

Heart disease. It’s the number one killer of Americans and a major contributing factor - your cholesterol. Nearly 94 million Americans over the age of 20 have cholesterol above 200 and nearly seven percent of children have high cholesterol. It’s a national epidemic. Today, we have everything you need to know about high cholesterol - from what really causes it to whether you can really do anything to prevent it. Plus, is 200 really the magic number that we need to stay below for good cholesterol? You might be surprised by what our expert says. Plus, statins have long been the gold standard for treating high cholesterol. But who should take them? How long? Can you really take them for life? And what about the folks who suffer some pretty severe side effects to statins - like body aches and muscle pain. There’s a new drug that is showing big promises. We’ll tell you all about it.