There are those who would have us believe that if we take an over the counter medication that is made up from a mixture of statin drugs and blood thinning drugs, then our risk of heart related health problems will reduce, but there is a large body of health professionals who claim that the use of statin drugs not only puts us at risk from severe side effects from those drugs, but the use of such drugs has no proven statistical relevance in reducing the death rate from coronary related causes.