Eureka Moment.
Research by Wagner BK et al. ‘Large-scale chemical dissection of mitochondrial function’ Nature Biotech 2008 is a landmark research into the new disease of statin myopathy. These researchers tested over 2000 active molecules, of which about half were approved medicines, to see what affect they had on the ability of cells to make adenosine triphosphate (ATP) which is the energy we need to live. They found many of these including the most popular cholesterol-lowering statin drugs caused a lowering of ATP http://www.nature.com/nbt/journal/v26/n3/abs/nbt1387.html
Bridget K Wagner Nature Biotechnology 26, 343–351 (March 2008)
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