1: A high-fat diet, saturated or otherwise, has no impact on blood cholesterol levels.
2: Fact one is not unimportant, it is you gen inheritage.
3: High cholesterol levels don't cause heart disease anyway (the second part of the cholesterol hypothesis is wrong).
4: Statlns do not protect against heart disease by lowering cholesterol levels - they work In another way.
5: The protection provided by statins is so small as to be not worth bothering about for most people (and all women). The reality is that the benefits have been hyped beyond belief.
6: Statins have many more unpleasant side effects than has been admitted. Side-effects up to, and Including, death and the creation of horribly deformed babies.
7: 'Experts' in this area should not be listened to, because they are all paid ridiculous sums of money by statln manufacturers to sing loudly from a prepared hymn sheet. Every single one of them - apart from me, obviously. There are many hundreds of doctors and researchers who agree that the cholesterol hypothesis is bunk. Many keep their counsel, others have been stomped into silence, but a few have had the guts to speak out. However, their voices, unlike those of the implacable medical 'statinators; are not supported by multibillion-dollar pharmaceutical budgets.
At first, doctors weren't that keen on statins. Many of them didn't believe in the cholesterol hypothesis, and were far from certain that lowering cholesterol levels would do much good. However, the. statin companies embarked on a series of massive clinical studies to 'prove' that lowering cholesterol with statins would work.
