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I am your host, Michael Covel.

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That's my passion.

I still remember my early 30s went for a physical.

The doctor.

Did the blood work.

He came back and he said, Mike, you have high cholesterol, the bad kind.

I recommend that you go on statins immediately.

This is kind of a shock because I don't know what the hell a statin is at the time. And I'm in my early 30s. And I thought to myself,

you know what? I'm going to go the other direction. And I asked him, I said, what if I go the health

route, lose a little weight, stay in shape, all that kind of fun stuff.

He's like, oh, no, no, you got to take the statins.

You got to take the statins.

I went back, I did a little bit of reading.

I decided not to take the statins.

There were definitely side effects, definitely potential problems.

Frankly, the biggest issue that I didn't like was the sexual performance issue.

I was like, I really don't want to take these damn drugs if this is going to happen to me.

I decided against it.

Now, a lot of time has passed.

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