Author and blogger, Jimmy Moore, together with Duke University physician, Dr. Eric Westman, analyzed the research literature on the relationship between cholesterol levels and health in their bestselling 2013 ebook, “Cholesterol Clarity: What the HDL is Wrong with My Numbers?”
Moore and Westman discuss a January 2009 study published in the American Heart Journal, which took a look at the cholesterol levels of nearly 140,000 patients who were admitted to a hospital after a heart attack or heart event. The study found that 70% of them had “healthy” levels of LDL – the so-called “bad cholesterol” (which we now know is not actually cholesterol but rather a lipoprotein transport vehicle). Meanwhile, half of the heart patients had “optimal” cholesterol levels – below 100 mg/dL.
Moore and Westman interviewed many of the world’s foremost authorities on the topic of cholesterol and health, and many doctors did not mince words about the statin industry.
Dr. Malcom Kendrick, author of The Great Cholesterol Con, told Moore: “taking a statin drug is easy … it does lower something, and people like seeing things they can measure go down. And when it does drop, you could be congratulated for a job well done. There are some days I think ‘if humanity has decided to be this stupid, then I give up.'”
Dr. William Davis, author of the bestselling book, Wheat Belly, told Moore: “the financial success of the statin drugs to reduce cholesterol deeply embedded this notion of lowering cholesterol levels as a primary means of treating heart disease… we are talking about a $29 billion annual industry, so this has fueled a very successful campaign to treat cholesterol. Also, it took us down this dead end or just made us stupid about heart disease’s cause.”
Dr. Philip Blair told Moore: “There are some negative study results about statin drugs that are not being reported to the public. So you now have a bias in the medical literature that touts all the positive results of taking statin medications. The interpretation of this by medical doctors is that prescribing these drugs is okay. It’s the wrong answer. Based on the side effects we have seen and the fundamental metabolic pathways that are interrupted by these statin drugs, probably 100 percent of people taking them experience side effects; they just might not be aware of them yet. We know that statins are disrupting their metabolism and negative things are going on. It’s just that the these things could take years to manifest.”
Dr. Westman also notes: “because we [doctors] have taught this cholesterol hypothesis for years, as if it were the correct explanation for cardiovascular disease, most health professionals are going to believe that it is true.”
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