Ep. 29: Cholesterol Part 1: Statin Dangers and Whether Cholesterol Causes Heart Disease

In this episode we discuss:
-Where the mainstream view that high cholesterol levels cause heart disease went wrong
-Why we may want to reconsider statin use for the vast majority of cases
-Why we don’t need to avoid high-cholesterol foods, even if we have high cholesterol levels
-The protective, beneficial effects of cholesterol
-What actually increases cholesterol levels and why statins don’t effectively address these factors
-Why the cholesterol-lowering drugs are often more harmful than helpful

0:00 – intro
2:55 – the conventional, mainstream view of cholesterol
13:40 – the problems with the conventional view of cholesterol and the cholesterol hypothesis
29:20 – what causes elevated cholesterol levels
42:15 – why we don’t need to avoid dietary cholesterol and high-cholesterol foods

[denisehawkins]

What about naturally low cholesterol in an older person?