Thu, Aug-19-21, 08:30
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Senior Member
Posts: 4,036
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Plan: Very LC, Higher Protein
Stats: 227/186/185
BF:
Progress: 98%
Location: Herndon, VA
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“Lowering cholesterol needs to be relegated to division four of the league of tackling heart disease, because for 99 per cent of the population total levels of cholesterol, and so-called ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol, has almost no value at all in predicting whether or not someone is going to have a heart attack – therefore we should stop obsessing about lowering it,” he said.
“I understand why they became so popular: of all the drugs out there for managing patients with heart disease or those who have already had a heart attack, statins had the highest benefit compared to aspirin or anything else.
Dr Malhotra counters: “We’ve now got real-world data from the last three decades that show statins have not reduced death rates from heart disease at all. For those with heart disease, taking a statin every day for five years results in a 1 in 39 chance of preventing a non-fatal heart attack and a 1 in 83 chance of delaying death.
“If you look at groups of people taking statins from all the trials, the overall extension of life span in people with heart disease if someone religiously took a statin every day for five years, without getting side effects, is just over four days. Sounds ridiculous, doesn’t it?"
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Now we're getting somewhere. The impact of statins must be truthfully reported without relying on the terribly inaccurate relative risk numbers calculated during the drug trials.
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"Dr Malhotra, 43, argues this has introduced an “illusion of protection” for the public who think they can carry on eating junk food as long as their cholesterol levels remain low and they take statins – as well as for a medical profession that largely ignored the benefits of an improved lifestyle on heart health."
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What patients must understand is that our physicians are not thoroughly trained on the benefits/ impacts of lifestyle on health. Even with minimal training, most would not know how to advise their patients on how to practice a healthy lifestyle that is successful. Today, they are trained on the benefits of pharmaceuticals and there's typically a solution for every symptom of Metabolic Syndrome. We end up treating side effects without knowing the root cause.
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