Monologues | 4. Heart Disease & Cholesterol

Medical orthodoxy and cardiology cannot seem to let go of the notion that LDL cholesterol is the sole initiating cause of atherosclerosis and heart disease.

Unfortunately for them, neither nature nor thorough scrutiny of the scientific literature agrees with their framework.

Here I discuss their framework, their assumptions, and where they go wrong.

Further Reading:

The Response-to-Retention Hypothesis of Early Atherogenesis

Early Human Atherosclerosis

Myth of Vulnerable Plaque