A consensus article from 2017 claimed that LDL "causes" atherosclerosis. However, every single author of the paper had financial conflicts of interest with multiple pharmaceutical companies. The conflicts of interest section of the paper is longer than the abstract. (PMID:

Our bodies are not programmed to be sick, and they don't want to express disease. They are doing the best they can with the signals they are getting. If the majority of people in a society are suffering from illness and the advice they are getting to prevent that illness is not

This is the look I have given many physicians whose recommendations come from a place that clearly lacks a sound health philosophy. It's not their fault they were trained to think this way, but it is their fault for not learning how to question things and find answers for

It makes no sense to try and "treat" a whole disease process by taking a medication that lowers one aspect of what's in blood. If we want to understand and prevent a disease, we have to look into all aspects of the environment that the disease happens in. This gives a more

What if one of the main benchmarks used by medicine to predict heart disease (cholesterol) is not actually predictive of heart disease. Well, then lowering cholesterol would not result in reduced rates or deaths of heart disease. Though it's just an associational study, that's

The most common questions I get are how do I know I'm not gonna have another heart attack as well as many variations of questions about cholesterol. If you're asking yourself if cholesterol causes heart disease, or if it's ApoB, or Lpa, or oxidized LDL, then you're asking the

Disease is not a medication deficiency. It's clear that statins drugs aren't doing us much good. They don't address the underlying causes of heart disease, so why would expect them to be effective? If doctors and researchers spent half as much time investigating the true causes

This planet relies on sunlight and the flow of water to keep its ecosystems healthy. We are nature, so our bodies are no different. To stay healthy, we need to keep things moving. Stagnant fluid creates issues in the body like pain, toxicity, and clotting risk. Things that keep

Regardless of what blood cholesterol levels are, what a CAC score is, or if you've already had a heart attack, the answer to preventing a stroke, heart attack, and making existing plaque a non-factor is about preventing the blood from pathologically clotting. The factors in the

Some people claim that the slight decrease in heart disease deaths we have seen since the 1980s is from the use of cholesterol lowering medications. This is not true. The reason that deaths have decreased is because we have procedures now that prevent people from dying once they

Medications and procedures are the two main tools used by modern medicine to combat heart disease. But the research shows that cholesterol lowering drugs (statins) increase the risk for diabetes, which is the number one risk factor for heart disease (PMID: 37465091), and it

It is well known that higher HDL levels are associated with lower risk of heart disease (PMID:2642759). But why is this? It has been theorized that HDL is protective because it cleans up damaged lipids that are "harmful." But the real reason has nothing to do with the effects

Diseases are not medication deficiencies. The modern diseases we suffer from are new. They only started to show up when we distanced ourselves from nature and started living in civilizations. They only became an epidemic in the last 100 years or so due to drastic changes in diet,

What if diet and cholesterol have been a huge distraction from the actual causes of heart disease? What if trying to track and lower cholesterol is completely useless for preventing heart disease? What if this approach is actually harming people? These are questions we need to

An important aspect of education that is missing in medical education, and most formal education in general, is teaching students to question what they are learning and to be open-minded to new ways of thinking and doing things. If your education didn't teach you that it's okay

Due to the fact that cholesterol was blamed for heart disease and the fact that cholesterol can be found in food, the conversation about how to prevent heart disease has been dominated by diet. While diet is important, their are many more important things to consider when trying

One of the biggest issues with modern medicine is that it is fear based. They take tests and, based on the test, create fear in the person that if they don't take the medication or do the procedure that something bad will happen. A better approach would be to teach the patient

LDL in blood is not a disease, and it is one example of treating a number rather than treating a person. The medical world has been brainwashed into thinking that LDL causes disease, and so they treat LDL in the absence of disease. If you can convince the medical community and

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