The Weird History of Statins: Mold, Muscle Pain, and the Nocebo Effect
I knew statins worked. I did not know how strange the origin story was. How statins started with mold The first statin came from Akira Endo, a Japanese biochemist who grew up fascinated by fungi and was inspired by the discovery of penicillin. After spending time in New York in the 1960s, he was struck […]