The Truth Behind Statins: Helpful or Harmful? with Dr. Aseem Malhotra

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Mitopure. Heart disease is still the number one killer in the
world, yet most people don’t actually understand what markers put
them most at risk. It’s so much more than just LDL cholesterol.
Statins have become the panacea for anyone with LDL that’s just a
little off, yet most people (and even many doctors) aren’t fully
informed of the risks versus the benefits of this drug, let alone
aware of other treatment options for heart disease. Today, I talk
to Dr. Aseem Malhotra about the real data on statins, heart
disease, metabolic syndrome, and so much more.  Dr. Aseem
Malhotra is an NHS-trained consultant cardiologist and visiting
Professor of Evidence-Based Medicine at the Bahiana School of
Medicine and Public Health in Salvador, Brazil. He is a founding
member of Action on Sugar. In 2015, he became the youngest member
to be appointed to the board of trustees of UK health charity, The
King's Fund. He is a pioneer of the lifestyle medicine movement in
the UK and in 2018 was ranked by software company Onalytica as the
number one doctor in the world influencing obesity thinking. Dr.
Malhotra's first book The Pioppi Diet, co-authored with Donal
O'Neill, was an international bestseller and his next book, The
21-Day Immunity Plan, was also a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller.
His new book is A Statin-Free Life. This episode is brought to you
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DRHYMAN10 at checkout here. Here are more details from our
interview (audio version / Apple Subscriber version):  Statin
drugs and our overexaggerated fear of cholesterol’s role in heart
disease (9:14  / 6:00) Are heart-attack and heart-disease
death rates decreasing? (11:06 / 8:15) Statin benefits for people
who have already had a heart attack (16:21 / 13:00)  Statin
effectiveness for heart-attack and stroke prevention (20:29 /
17:04)  Why we’re typically looking at the wrong thing when we
measure cholesterol (21:45 / 21:05) Targeting insulin resistance as
a root cause of heart disease (32:39 / 27:33) Positive and negative
effects of statins (36:15 / 33:04) Prediabetes, diabetes, metabolic
syndrome, and heart health (45:37 / 40:08) Foods to avoid and eat
for heart health (51:41 / 46:33) Exercise and stress reduction for
heart health (56:35 / 51:32)  Get a copy of Dr. Malhotra’s
book, A Statin-Free Life: A Revolutionary Life Plan for Tackling
Heart Disease—Without The Use of Statins, here.