Cheers, Shrek.
I'd never heard of this stuff.
(Although I'm not the OP) I have very high cholesterol levels, caused by drinking too much alcohol. I neither want to give up drinking, nor take statin, what with the side effects including "muscle soreness", and (depending on who you ask or what you read) "muscle weakness". All of us here already have enough of the former, and wouldn't want the latter!
Do you take policosanol yourself? Does it work? Are there side effects?
One of the things that I've found when I googled it just now is that it apparently lowers LDL specifically, and even raises HDL - something which I don't think the statins claim to do.