Merck kills off new cholesterol-lowering drug I have just come across a very interesting item entitled: “Check the Obits: Lipid Research Died Last Week” (1). It is published by a mainstream medical magazine “Medpage Today”. The article was in response to the decision by Merck, one of the major pharmaceutical companies that it would not …
Readers of this blog will be aware of many reasons why cholesterol is not a reliable marker for the risks of developing heart disease or anything else for that matter. There are very thorough studies, which demonstrate that those who comply with the cholesterol guidelines actually have the highest all-cause mortality rates (1). For women, …
I have lost count of the number of people I have met who are convinced that they should be concerned about the cholesterol level in their blood. If it is considered to be “too high” then they are at serious risk of suffering from heart disease. Hence action has to be taken that will lower …
This is the title of a book just published, which describes and explains the science that justifies the conclusion (1). Equally important, it tells the story of why and how health professionals have been actively promoting a false premise that has caused ill-health and suffering on a unprecedented scale. The book consists of a series …
234. Fat and Cholesterol Don’t Cause Heart Attacks: And Statins Are Not The Solution Read More »
The “Lipid Hypothesis” Are you worried about your blood cholesterol (TC) level? For many it is a fact of life (and death) that if you have a high TC level this means an increased risk of dying from heart disease. Hence it follows that steps should be taken to lower it in order to reduce …
It is becoming increasingly obvious to anyone who examines the scientific literature with an open mind that the justification for cholesterol-lowering simply does not exist. So I have been digging into the background to try to find out how it all originated. Although the work of Ancel Keys stimuated interest in cholesterol, it was a …
222. More about the History of the “Cholesterol” Issue. Read More »
I have now been blogging for 3 years and this is Number 200! Although it has been hard work it has been an amazing experience. In particular, through the medium Twitter I have made contact with many different people from all over the planet. I greatly appreciate the interaction with so many individuals, who are …
200. Never Mind the Cholesterol it’s the Insulin Read More »
A comprehensive review on the role of cholesterol in health and a critique of the use of statins has recently been published by a team of Japanese researchers (1). This pulls together information from a range of different sources. The focus is on all-cause mortality because fundamentally that is the key parameter most people understand …
This is a re-post of the article by Francois Lubbe of The Cholesterol Truth. I am most grateful to him for permission to post here. The original is available at http://www.thecholesteroltruth.com/praluent-cholesterol-drugs-side-effects-hypercholesterolemia/ Big Pharma seems intent in sticking to its backward way of thinking when it comes to cholesterol. So far their efforts, to create a …
151. Praluent: New Cholesterol Drugs Get Riskier By The Day Read More »
The cholesterol lowering campaign really took off in 1985 with the recommendations of a Consensus Conference sponsored by the National Institutes of Health in the USA (1). I have just come across a commentary written at the time by Gerald Reaven which is absolutely fascinating (2). It is certainly highly relevant to recall the key …
130. A Little Bit of History about LDL Cholesterol Read More »