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The Marketing of Statins
I understand that back in the 1970s, doctors weren’t routinely screening for high cholesterol, and levels up to around 300 mg/dL were often still considered within a normal range.
Then in 1984, the National Institutes of Health launched the National Cholesterol Education Program, around the same time pharmaceutical companies were developing the first statin drugs, like Lovastatin in 1987.
From there, guidelines from organisations like the American Heart Association and the American College of Cardiology gradually lowered the threshold for what’s considered “high” cholesterol.
And coincidentally …the new guidelines happened when big pharma became involved in research, education, and guideline development.
The outcome?
👉 Millions more people suddenly became candidates for cholesterol-lowering medication. And as Dr. Marik says in his latest substack (link in comments) despite decades of aggressive cholesterol lowering, coronary artery disease remains the leading cause of death worldwide.
Dr. Marik goes on to ask:
What if coronary artery disease is not primarily a cholesterol disease at all?
What if it is, instead, a disorder of metabolism—driven by insulin resistance, chronic inflammation, and energy dysregulation at the cellular level?
If that is true—and the evidence increasingly suggests that it is—then our entire framework for prevention and treatment needs to change.
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Dr. Marik’s substack https://paulmarik.substack.com/p/the-cholesterol-myth-is-crumblingand
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Another post that leads to a paywall. Very disappointing.
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Not a paywall, just a short post with a button to become a paid subscriber if you wish, I believe 🙂
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It helps to include the old history of the soybean and corn oil lobbies hiring a statistician to fabricate (literally) this story about cholesterol causing heart disease. All of this was done to dissuade people from eating butter and instead choosing margarine (an anti-medical idea). Today coronary artery plaque is investigated via CAT scans of the chest which show the plaque VERY clearly–if there is any. If there is any, plaque seen, the paleo diet removes it nicely.
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Is there any evidence of the paleo diet actually removing hardend plaque from the arteries? That would be fantastic!
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Not paleo diet, but IV infusion of phosphatidyl Choline, (PC) I believe the starting dose is 500 mg very effectively regresses arterial plaques , don’t expect your regular MD who is trained in the Rockefeller system to have ever heard of PC. ask your naturopath! There is a commercial IV preparation on the market for this purpose !
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OK great idea, I will do a dive into both these topics … seed oils and paleo for plaque.
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