Takeaways include:
You need to do your own deep dive research.
Doctors are trained in pharmacology – they are not deliberately misleading you – they themselves have been mislead.
You must ASK for the necessary blood tests ( and sometimes it is a step by step process) and be prepared to pay for them
Cardiologists will prescribe hypertension and cholesterol lowering medication after they do their test as default action.
LDL is not in itself bad cholesterol. sd LDL is what you have to be concerned about. Getting blood tests to identify the SD LDL you have is difficult. Claimed to be “research” level only but there are calculations that are good predictors.
Statins can cause a lot of health issues and no benefits for many people.
Insulin is a paramount marker. Blood sugar tests are not. You have to dive deeper than that.
Profit over Population Health – at the European Parliament ! Aseem Malhotra
2018
Dr. Ted Naiman on Blood Tests, Diabetes, Obesity, Carbohydrate and more
Calcium Score
Preventing Calcification and Heart Attacks: Ivor and Cardiologist Joel Kahn
Want to Reverse Your Calcification and Heart Disease? Here’s How! Podcast Ep21 with Biochemist Patrick Theut
Reversing Your CAC Score and Heart Disease with Patrick Theut (different interviewer – a few different gems.)
Patrick’s website which includes his story https://www.k-vitamins.com
Why your doctor thinks cholesterol is bad – big pharma deception.
Dr Paul Mason The truth about high cholesterol’ (Lecture 1 of 3)
Dr. Paul Mason – ‘The shady truth about statins’ (Lecture 2 of 3)
David M. Diamonda , Benjamin T. Bikmanb and Paul Masonc
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