Cardiovascular Health 2026

[Beth]

@A_User

If you do, give pitavastatin (Livalo) a try,

I have a box of Livalo here that expired in 2017.

Do you guess it might still have enough efficacy remaining to use as a trial to see if I still react poorly to statins?

[A_User]

I don’t think the expiry dates matters that much for meds:

The Myth of Drug Expiration Dates

Hospitals and pharmacies are required to toss expired drugs, no matter how expensive or vital. Meanwhile the FDA has long known that many remain safe and potent for years longer. The box of prescription drugs had been forgotten in a back closet of a retail pharmacy for so long that some of the pills predated the 1969 moon landing. Most were 30 to 40 years past their expiration dates — possibly toxic, probably worthless. But to Lee Cantrell, who helps run the California Poison Control System, the cache was an opportunity to answer an enduring question about the actual shelf life of drugs: Could these drugs from the bell-bottom era still be potent? Cantrell called Roy Gerona, a University of California, San Francisco, researcher who specializes in analyzing chemicals. Gerona had grown up in the Philippines and had seen people recover from sickness by taking expired drugs with no apparent ill effects. “This was very cool,” Gerona says. “Who gets the chance of analyzing drugs that hav…

You should do a blinded experiment to control for the placebo and nocebo effect which are powerful. Depending how long until you have the effect you’ll have to use one bottler longer until you check.

@A_User

Meaning you put rapamycin tab with a filler like creatine in non-transparent 00 capsules, and then just creatine in another one. Put the placebos in one bottle, and the others in an exact copy of the bottle. Mark the bottom of the bottles to say which contain rapa. Mix the bottles and randomly take one capsule. Look at the bottom of the bottle next day (or a few days afterwards) where you have marked if it is placebo or not. Then you fill up the bottles again so they have the same amount of capsules, or remove one from the one bottle you didn’t take.

[Kelman]

@LukeMV

my LDL went up to 57

If I were ever able to get mine to 70, you’ll never hear me complain about it, ever LOL. Moving to 4mg might work but that seems to be the upper limit and sides may creep in at that level, so If I were you, I’d change nothing (for a while) unless it keeps moving higher (on your next test) especially given the fact that your joints seem to be loving Pita at 2mg. Just MO.