My father had a heart attack at 62, and the cardiologist recommended a stent plus a lifelong statin prescription. He agreed, but I can't shake the feeling that we jumped straight to high-tech intervention without genuinely trying lifestyle changes first — even though he'd been eating bacon sandwiches daily for decades. Yes, statins save lives and have solid evidence, but do we rely on them as a convenient excuse to avoid the hard work of diet and exercise? Should preventive medication be the default answer when we know environmental factors play such a massive role in heart disease?