So maybe statins aren't that bad. But it doesn't say what dose is needed, so get your doctor to find that out. Yes, this is in rats but your stroke medical professionals should have found out that answer for humans. At least if they were competent. 17 years to become competent in that, that should be enough time for even the slowest.
Statins induce angiogenesis, neurogenesis, and synaptogenesis after stroke
Abstract
We demonstrate that the 3‐hydroxy‐3‐methyl‐glutaryl‐coenzyme
A (HMG‐CoA) reductase inhibitors atorvastatin and simvastatin enhance
functional outcome and induce brain plasticity when administered after
stroke to rats. With atorvastatin treatment initiated 1 day after
stroke, animals exhibited significant increases in vascular endothelial
growth factor, cyclic guanosine monophosphate, angiogenesis, endogenous
cell proliferation and neurogenesis, and an increase in the synaptic
protein, synaptophysin. Atorvastatin‐induced angiogenesis in a tube
formation assay was reduced by an antibody against the vascular
endothelial growth factor receptor 2 (FIK‐1) and by the nitric oxide
synthase inhibitor, N‐mono‐methyl‐L‐arginine
(L‐NAME). Atorvastatin also induced phosphorylation of Akt and Erk in
cultured primary cortical neurons. These data indicate that atorvastatin
induced brain plasticity and has neurorestorative activity after
experimental stroke. Ann Neurol 2003
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