Lipid hypothesis

Okay, so I don't need to belabor on that.

So, we've been living with the lipid hypothesis that cholesterol causes atherosclerosis.

Everybody agree? That's what you heard, right? yes okay and it causes coronary artery disease cerebral vascular disease and peripheral vascular disease no good and this data i need to tell you about that in 1957 this doctor stated that in order for patients to lose weight they must be on a high protein high fat and low cholesterol diet All the way back in 1957, he was already saying that.

And in 1961, multiple studies already showed that if you eat a high carbohydrate diet, you get lipemia within one hour.

What has to happen before a hypothesis ever becomes a theory, much less a law, is that multiple research studies, good quality control research studies need to support that hypothesis in order for it to move up the ranks and become a theory.

But that hasn't happened with the lipid hypothesis of heart disease, as I'm gonna tell you in just a second.

So there are literally scores of randomized control trials in human beings about medications that lower your cholesterol level and they never show a decrease in mortality.

That's your risk of dying.

What you truly care about at the end of the day is, hey, I don't want to die prematurely.

I want to live a long damn time.

Well, all of these controlled trials, which were supposed to support the lipid hypothesis of heart disease, didn't support it.

The vast majority don't support it at all.