The three greatest distinctions between plants and animals are that animals have a nervous system, mobility, and cholesterol.
In recent years, the pharmaceutical industry has painted cholesterol as the root of all evil, saying that if your cholesterol is anywhere higher than a certain level, then you’re in great danger and must take X number of precautions and Y number of drugs.
One class of drugs in particular that has risen to prominence over the past few decades is statins. Statins are a type of enzyme inhibitor, which means that they hinder biological processes in the body.
Statins block the HMG coenzyme A reductase from functioning normally, which is a critical step in a long chain of reactions that leads to the production of many essential fats and molecules inside the body, including cholesterol. Blocking the HMG coenzyme A is how statins reduce cholesterol levels….