Statin Drugs and Their Effect on Your Testosterone Levels

As you already know, statin drugs such as Lipitor reduce total and LDL cholesterol and supposedly reduce the risk of heart attack and stroke. Here’s the kicker though. As the use of statin drugs continues to increase everyday (and people have been taking statins for a prolonged period that is significantly longer than the time period required for testing drugs), the serious side effects of statins is affecting more and more people, than ever before.

Since the drug companies that manufacture these statins have become aware of the incidence of serious side effects, they added a WARNING to statin advertising that was NOT present in the earliest advertising for these drugs.
This warning states, “Unexplained muscle pain and weakness could be a sign of a rare, but serious side effect and should be reported to your doctor right away.”
People who take statin drugs need to heed this warning immediately because in extreme cases, the side effects of statins --- ‘can be fatal’.

Muscle pain and muscle weakness are two of the main side effects of statin drugs.
Italian researchers, in a study of more than 3,400 men treated for erectile dysfunction (ED), found that those taking statins had lower levels of total and FREE testosterone than men NOT taking the drugs.

Statins were linked to a “reduced testicular volume” and a higher incidence of symptoms linked to “LOW testosterone levels”. Women can have low testosterone levels too.

And here’s something most people don’t realize. Decreased strength is a common side effect of continued statin use. This might be linked to reduced testosterone levels.

One problem with this study was that statin users had double the rate of high blood pressure, diabetes, and cardiovascular disease, which are also linked to low testosterone levels and ED. (Journal Sexual Medicine, 7: 154701556, 2010)

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