My husband was on kidney dialysis and therefore on a lot of necessary medication. The renal doctor wanted him to try out a new medication for cholesterol. I queried this and the Doctor assured me he had a problem. I had someone check his levels and they were normal. I phoned the Doctor and informed him of this, he slammed the phone down on me. I later discovered that the hospital was getting a large fee for every patient who was naive enough to fall for this.
Every time I see my dr, he tells me that he wants me to be on statins. Tried them once and they gave me horrendous leg cramps. Told my dr thank you, but no thanks! Sure it’s in my chart. Will NEVER take them again !
I was foolish enough to take statins once, and spent two hours of the following day in a semi conscious state. Gave them another go a few years later. Same result Never again.
When I told my doctor I wasn't taking the statins anymore, she made a point of putting that in my medical record. My health is my responsibility and I take care of myself with healthy diet, exercise, don't smoke, don't drink, don't take drugs. Why should I be berated by my doctor for not getting on the big pharma bandwagon?
Doctors of all types are getting upset ,they are feeling a lil jealous,a lil slighted that the Internet has educated their patients more then they have.
Older people have medicare that pays for it..then to counteract the side effects of the statins, they prescribe more ( co q10, Prilosec etc) they tell you liver damage is ok as liver enzymes are ok as the liver repairs itself.. if a med hurts that bad in your guts , legs, etc... if its hard on your body, it can't be good to take .. ( memory loss ? Oh yea, they ste building 1000s of these memory loss, alzheimers care centers .....etc Thanks to all who are sharing their experiences.
Your exactly right, the more people are using their drugs, the more money they are making, so I think that these drug companies have people working in the health services, all the way to doctors, and they must encourage them to get people on their drugs, and there must be some of them that benefit from it with money or whatever else they offer. Everyone is corruptable under the right circumstances.
I couldn’t believe that they put seed oils in almond milk and butter, oat milk, rice milk etc. stoppodrinking all those plant based beverages. Damn. No wonder I suffered from eczema.
@@drphilipbosanquet LOL… Who would have thought it is how long we have been doing something instead of that thing’s actual properties that matters? LMAO
@@Agapy8888 Now take a look at the labels for your 'health' supplements. Seed oils are often found in the soft-gel packaging. Rice bran oil is a favorite.
My great-grandfather had bacon and eggs every morning. He ate a lot of red meat. My great-grandmother used lard to fry *everything*. He didn't take any statins and lived to be 96 years old with his mind intact.
I'm 75 today. Ate the same drank and smoked for 60 years. Ate red meat. Cheese and I drink 2 pints full fat milk every day. Cholesterol BS. Fad started in California USA and grew from there. Total BS. Just like vitamin tablets. Another world con. Almost every scientist and dietitian say. Vitamin tabs do nothing but create very expensive piss. Eat the fruit, veg and whatever for natural vitamin intake.
At age 34 l was diagnosed to have high levels of bad cholesterol, prescribed statins. Decided not to take them .At age 77 I still have high levels of bad cholesterol and enjoy overall excellent health
@tpbtpb2602 the first one "Mevacor" was marketed in 1987. So, 37 years for first marketed ones, but other things were used to try. So, she's not too far off.
What does the brain consist if primarily? Yes, that's right, cells full of lipids, i.e. fats. Where does the lipids come from? Yes, from cholesterol in the bloodstream. Deplete the blood from lipids, and the brain is starved of its main building blocks, end result, amongst others, are Alzheimer's and Dementia.
@@grumpiebrown exactly the brain needs cholesterol to thrive. There seems to be so much of dementia compared to a few years ago when it was hardly heard of. Big pharma has everyone on these damn anti statins and I bet in a few years time we will be getting warnings not to take them as there is a link to dementia. Every person I know taking them has got some sort of memory problem. There needs to be a lot more research on this matter.
Philip - ever sceptical 66 year old retired Aussie orthopaedic surgeon here. GREAT presentation. I’ve been following the cholesterol and statin bulls$&t for years. Spot on. Looking forward to your next video. Good stuff 👍
It didn't seem logical to subject people to a drug that could wreak havoc with their liver in order to save them from cholesterol. So I thought it might be a scam.
I tried taking them for a couple of months and I got so bad that I couldn't remember well enough to do my job. I refused to take them AMA and got almost back to normal. My mother was prescribed them and was diagnosed with dementia three months later. I insisted she go off them and she improved dramatically.
@JoBrew One that I am familiar with incidentally discovered that patients with diagnosed dementia improved and had the diagnosis removed once they had stopped taking statins. Their dementia returned when they began taking the statins again during the experiment. This was a side effect noted during the experiment testing for lowering cholesterol levels of a big name statin. The mechanism is obvious, as the brain needs a vast amount of cholesterol, statins lower this, so the brain doesn't have enough to function properly.
@@JoBrewThere was a study done by the University of Iowa on seniors who were taking stations. Brain CT scans showed areas of loss in gray matter,some resembling Swiss cheese holes. The body needs cholesterol to maintain gray matter and a healthy brain. Study was buried.
Though I agree with him in principal we can’t deny /ignore the fact that life expectancy has markedly gone up since his generation primarily due to pharmaceuticals and improved living conditions ( for some of us ) . Can’t say for sure that quality of life has improved though but people seem to live longer with serious ailments that yrs ago would have seen them die younger . A hospital doctor said they now regard patients aged in their 70 s to be the new 50s yr old of years ago .
@@KAJAMAJA122 life expectancy means nothing when it’s not worthwhile they were only slaves back then. And the only reason people died younger was because they lacked in their diet it’s not like they didn’t have doctors close by and it has nothing to do with pharmaceuticals since nutrition is enough. Nobody in my generations died young. You actually have more problems today because of crowding and sure pharma may come up with a concoction for that too, but you’ll still only be rats in a cage.
My 2 biggest problems over the years was way too much sugar and extreme levels of anxiety. Quit the sugar as much as possible and have concentrated on not giving a damn on the craziness going on around the world. So much of my physical problems have disappeared, or lessened greatly. Inflammation was killing me.
Your friend is telling you the TRUTH. I stop going a few years ago, I started to feel much better, brain fog disappeared, and so much more😃. If I would have listened to the doctor, I would not be here now.👍
@@alph8654same . I am 61 and stay away from those nose picking freaks. Lots of energy, lots of farm work , vinyasa yoga , red meat, eggs , goat cheese , etc - no processed food.
@@nancybaumgartner6774 Actually the only animal products i eat is eggs. I eat them almost everyday. I eat a lot of vegetables and some fruit. Lots of white potatoes and sweet potatoes and some grains, nuts and seeds and beans. I do just fine. I have been growing most of my own veggies until this summer. But it is for reasons out of my control. Have good energy most of the time.
this needs to be shouted out to the roof tops. As a RN during 80s and 90s I saw the push for getting everyone on drugs and how they kept changing the numbers to get more on drugs.
I'm experimenting on myself. For years I accepted everything medicine has said, but now, I am trying to actually improve my health on my own. Still having trouble with exercise. It still hurts, but I am seeing some slight improvement. I've always had pain in my legs and the doctors always just shrugged when I told them how much pain I was in.. they didn't seem to even care - they just wanted me to get a mammogram, a blood test and take pills. I'm on a low carbohydrate diet, high fat, meat, no wheat and alcohol, some fruit, vegetables.... very typical. I know it's weird but I feel better, not perfect, after all, I'm 73, but the pain in my body ... arthritis, etc.. is lessened. I don't feel like I am 20, again, but I don't feel like I'm being tortured by the inquisition, either. I'm trying to stay as far away as I can from the medical community because I want to try to fix myself. I wasn't going anywhere listening to my nurse-doctor. .. I lost all faith in the medical community when my husband died of cancer. He kept his cholesterol low, he exercised he obeyed the doctors and all it got him was death at 66 of spreading pancreatic cancer. I'm still having stress problems, no doubt, but I was profoundly in love with my husband, and even 4 years afterwards, I am grieving. Medicine by the numbers isn't fixing anything. I want to garden again. Live a meaningful life until my last breath.
Hemp,Arnica and Comfrey Balm is great for arthritis. I can't post a link as they get deleted. I'll try and disguise the web page. Black. Sheep. Farm. Oils. In Australia I posted link below but sure it will get deleted
I was similar until I got rid of all veggies and fruit. The difference to my arthritis and skin was night and day. 5 years on and I do eat occasional veggies and seasonal fruit but only that I grow in my garden. The fruit and veggies from supermarkets are usually toxic, not just because of the plant toxins but because of the chemicals used to grow and extend their shelf life. I also use thermography, not mammograms. Drs mean well, but their training and the system they work in means they are not able to heal us.
Thank you for this video. I had the misfortune to have to a so called 'health check' by my GPs practice nurse after I had some bloods taken. The very first thing she said was about cholesterol. When I said that I disagreed with her she went ballistic and said that she had a degree in nursing and that she knew better. I immediately left the room. Needless to say I will not be taking advantage of this service again.
You did right by walking out of that arrogant nurse, like most Drs, pushing Big Pharmas' medication. Thanks be to GOD for all the brave Drs who discovered this biggest scam of the century.
It's in my medical records at the VA to most definitely NOT speak to me about my cholesterol levels, blood pressure, sugar or anything else that is regularly used as an excuse to get people to pop dangerous drugs like they're vitamins, yet I have to change my PCP every few years because they eventually just cannot resist any longer and start trying to berate me about one of the numbers, but cholesterol is their favorite one to chew me out over! Mine is in the 230-240 range.
If you want to find the reason for anything... just follow the money! Truth, reason, and fact will never be allowed to stand in the way of making money.
Last year I had a well man checkup which was basically a lifestyle questionnaire, at the end of the consultation I asked can I have a PSA blood test as I’m over 60 the “nurse practitioner” said why do you want that ? I replied because nearly every male and several female members of my family has died of some form of cancer ! She agreed and the blood test was done, a week later I get a call from the “doctor” saying he’d like me to come in and discuss my blood test, I asked “is there anything wrong ? “ He replied “no I’d just like to talk to you about your cholesterol levels,” I said are they high ?” he said “no but I’d like to discuss with you about going on statins”, my response was “no thank you !” I just knew from the start of that conversation where it was going, “Do no harm” no moral compass where drug money is concerned.
In the late 80's I worked in a doctors office and normal Cholesterol levels were 400. When I left normal was 275. So how did we get to 200? Big pharma raking it in again. So many people on statins with artificially lowered much needed cholesterol and people are getting more obese and unhealthy!
Wow, I never knew about this level 400. Now Drs are telling spouse and I they want it under 200… spouse is in statin and his total cholesterol is 160..
Yes. The Medical Lobbyists changed the number mutiple times. Each time they lobbied they lowered the number to increase their profit through pharmaceuticals. Does anybody remember the smear campaign on eggs in the 80's ? Bad medicine. It's been going on for a long time.
@@liviucristianionescu I was in my late teens when this happened for eggs - which lead to egg white products. The cholesterol levels are rather easy. Start with the New England Journal of Medicine publications in the 80's. I was just starting out in the medical field at that time. I was mainly Administrative, but I started taking medical billing classes in the mid 90's. It's shameful what they did to the whole industry - lobbyists convinced the government. This was the start of the destruction in the industry. ICD 9 code books, and PCP books list the billing / and documentation needed for Billing. It use to be 400 for high cholesterol, now 200 - purely profit for the PharmaceuticalThe industry - and Doctor's were receiving kickbacks at that time from big pharm - supposedly 🙄 that changed, when Medicare ( government ) became the biggest customer for providing Coverage. Apparently the government doesn't like to be f@@ked over, but it's ok for the citizens.
@@TR-nv3if That is too low. The body needs cholesterol. Watch Dr Bergs YT channel. Lots of good videos on Cholesterol. Also read about the benefits of Berberine to lower cholesterol naturally. It has many other positive benefits. I have been taking it for 2 years. Dr Berg has videos on this also. Doing Keto diet will also help.
My GP was left in despair after I refused taking interventions to reduce my cholesterol. I asked her what we have cholesterol for, what do statins do and in conclusion what would reducing my cholesterol level would do? Think about it!. I was then asked where I got my information from, which I replied ....medical books. There was no answer to that.
Are we still restricted to only 8-minute appts with them? It's not long enough to have any sort of meaningful discussion about one's health, which is how they like it, "You tell us what's wrong, we give you the solution (medication),..'Bye." They certainly don't like it if you question their diagnosis? By the way, I brought along to the appt a book by a GP criticising statins. To save time, I had marked relevant pages. Didn't want to know!
@@HammerbammersI remember reading a study about 25 years ago that theorised cholesterol, working as a repair system, rushed towards the heart in an attempt to repair a problem, and that that was why it was often observed in arteries after a heart attack.
About 15 years ago my blood results showed high LDL and I checked out three books from the library on the subject and read everything else I could find. I was already practicing a good diet and exercise. I decided the whole thing was rubbish. I'm nearly 58 now, feel great with no health problems. So glad I skipped the side effects from Staton drugs. Maybe I'll drop dead tomorrow, but something will get us all eventually. Trust in Jesus for salvation.
You almost got a thumbs up for your commitment to free will and self-determination, but for the closing line 😉 I find myself in the same boat, and you and I have read almost all the same books. Cheers, long life to you. 😊
God is LIFE ! Without HIM you would have never been born. CHRIST is the DOOR to Everlasting LIFE. His Blood has covered ALL my sins. I Praise the Lord for HIS Mercy.
There’s too much money at stake to believe pro-statin research! Even my gout went away after going back to a high saturated fat diet against medical advice. Great video!
@@drphilipbosanquet That’s certainly what I found and they’re shocked and curious when you tell them how it went away as they never expect it to do that - lifetime chronic condition like diabetes!
On that basis, beware every single money making money seeking You Tuber. Getting away with Snake Oil advice by carefully saying it is not medical advice etc.
Thank you Doctor Philip. I was prescribed Statins 4 years ago. Did not take them and I am in good health. My doctor wanted to scare me. I told her I am not afraid of dying, but she said: "You might have a stroke, sitting in your car and killing a bunch of pedestrians und you end up in a wheelchair." This made me think, she is desperate to sell me something. So I avoided it.
@@andrewhoughton-py1hqNo you don't. Fructose can cause fatty liver and insulin resistance. And you get everything you need from the fat. However, Vitamin D3, K2 are sometimes important to supplement unless you eat liver and get plenty of morning sun. And vegetables are full of pesticides, oxalates, and lectins.
@@andrewhoughton-py1hq After 5 years you telling me to eat veg and fruits? I don't even take any supplement. Stop listening to corporations. Some fruits are OK on carnivore, but not essential.
My anatomy professor in 1985 was saying the same thing: is not just as simple as the cholesterol number. He saw plenty of cases of people with "normal" cholesterol and heart attacks, and "high" cholesterol but healthy, just like these studies reported! WAKE UP, LEARN REAL SCIENCE, AND FOLLOW THE $$$!
After switching from a vegan diet to keto, my cholesterol spiked, and my doctor prescribed statins. When I told him that I refused to take them, he told me to find another doctor if my cholesterol levels didn't drop in 3 months. I referred him to the research I had been reading and had a follow-up appointment in 3 months. My cholesterol levels were still high, but he changed his mind about me finding another doctor and said it was my call. He still doesn't like my cholesterol levels, but after I told him I refuse to take any meds, and do not want to talk about it again, he relented.
My brother, sister and I had bad reactions to statins and now refuse to take them. I "fired" two doctors for pushing statins after I told them about the side effects I experienced. Just in case you're wondering, statins gave me extreme pain in my lower legs and feet. I was walking around like an old man. After I stopped taking them, the pain started going away. It took about 6 months to get back to normal. I was on Crestor, brother on Zocor and sister on Lipitor. We all had similar issues.
Add being physically active with family and friends that make you happy. Social support. Family. That was one result of a study of a small town with a very low heart attack rate. No statins.
These studies were confounded by the use of hydrogenated oils and spreads which were described as polyunsaturated oils and spreads. Unlike 50 years ago, we now know that tranfats are even worse than saturated fats for human health. You might find it useful to read Low-density lipoproteins cause atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. 1. Evidence from genetic, epidemiologic, and clinical studies. A consensus statement from the European Atherosclerosis Society Consensus Panel
@@mariiris1403 The sciedntific evidence shows that, while ditary saturated fats may be as bad as refined carbohydrates and processed foods generally, they are worse for us than unsaturated fats and healthy carbs. That evidence doesn't sell many sensational books though nor is it convenient for the meat, dairy and processed food industries.
Retired UK cardiac rehab nurse here. Happy to see your video today. I was fighting the narrative on cholesterol for the last few years of my employment. I retired a decade ago. It seemed utterly obvious to me but mostly it fell on deaf ears.. the old narrative and constant bombardment on tv etc was too much to enable people to question their doctor’s decision. As with so many things nowadays the “consensus” argument is so adhered to it is almost heresy to question it. But we must constantly question and reevaluate when necessary. According to the conventional idea , my decades old diet of fresh food, plus loads of traditional saturated fats and few carbs should have seen me off years ago and yet here I am, slim, healthy and zero medication at 75 yrs.
Many years ago I was told by my doctor that my cholesterol was a little high and would increase my risk of heart/stroke problems. I asked what were the chances of me dying in the next twelve months and he agreed it was very unlikely. I then pointed out that taking statins would therefore only change it from very unlikely to very very unlikely. Refused them and have survived a further ten years and am now healthier than I was then!
You took a great stance! That's their MO; fear. If you don't take this med or that you'll get a heart attack; stroke, blood clots; ailment dijour. They do the same with our pets; flea and tick chemicals, needless shots. We need more holistic Doctors and Veterinarians instead of drug pushers.
Very interesting. My LDL is about 190 and my HDL is 60 with my triglycerides being about 75. My Primary care provider has never put me on medication. She offered it to me if I wanted it, but I refused. My parents both had elevated levels but lived to be in their 90's, neither ever had any heart conditions.
What’s even crazier is the fact that your doctor can drop you as a patient for “non-compliance” if you refuse to take the meds they think you need. Heath are has become a criminal organization imo
Post-covid ,the medical industry is less interested in helping people become well or stay well and are more focused on more billable hours. It is truly a travesty. I miss the old time family doctors, the ones that really wanted to make a difference, the ones that made house calls, the ones that listened to you and saw you as a human being and not a number and billable number.
When pressed by a reporter about weather cancer will ever be cured, a Pharma executive was quoted as saying, “Sure we can cure cancer. But, that’s not a profitable business model “
My unbelievably, strong, active, 86 year old mother called me and said she felt terrible. When I went over to check on her she said her doctor gave her Zocor. I told her to stop taking it. She asked me if she could do that. I told her that the doctor works for you, not the other way around. She had only taken the statin for 6 days and it took two weeks for her to feel good again. She lived by herself in great health until she died at 94. Her cholesterol? 313 was standard. They would have killed her with that crap. Instead she was active and happy until the end. Do NOT worship this quack doctors that would have you take statins or the vaccine. If they suggest you take either one, run for your life.
Yeah several years ago some quack doc put me on lipitor for a cholesterol level of 180. I took it for one week and never felt so tired and crappy. Throw the pills in the trash and never went back to that idiot and I feel great
Wife's doctor put my wife on statin. She started to show early stage of Alzheimer's (note; my mother had Alzheimer's ). I asked she stop taking it, within a week she was back to normal. My doctor tried to push statin on me also, I answered " No Satin drugs, if my slightly high cholesterol kills me, so be it. " When the gene therapy shot(s) was being pushed hard, my instincts kicked in ' Danger, Danger '. At that point I had no evidence or info on the jab, but wise enough to listen to my instinct as it saved my life many times in the last 65 years.
@joedon...: I agree with you about statins (etc.), I agree with you about quaky doctors but I do believe that vaccines offer something far and above what drugs do (but in moderation).
Hi from South Africa, many yeara ago I was much younger my doctor ran tests and told me I had high cholesterol, what he said next shocked me... he said you're too young for statins as statins will kill your liver before the cholesterol kills YOU 😮 I really appreciated his candour and never took them as chronic medicine.
Brilliant doctor! Rare find. South african carnivore here, working in the medical industry. I share a lot of what I have learned on this incredible journey with my patients. When you know better, you do better!
Absolute truth. Goes against the medical model which is obsessed with continuity drugs. The older we get, the more cholesterol is crucial to our well being
@@drphilipbosanquet My doc was shocked how high my cholesterol is but would not prescribe a statin. He told me to change my diet. I stopped frying food, rather steam or boil it. Over 6 mo's I lost 30 lbs. I'm 71 this year.
My father in law, now passed, was on a statin for decades and he, in his last years did not know where he was most of the time. When I was in my 40’s a cardiologist wanted me on a statin and I couldn’t have run away faster. Statins are one of the drugs good for the stock price but deadly for the human.
From my perspective as a diabetic, my logic runs like this. Sugar damages blood vessel walls. The role of cholesterol is repair of blood vessels. The body is good at producing what's needed, so when blood vessels are damaged, cholesterol is appropriately dispatched. So naturally, where you find blood vessel damage, you find cholesterol - and of course where you find that cholesterol, you find blood vessel disease. A mistake of cause and effect. I observed something interesting in myself. As part of my restriction of carbs, I went to full fat dairy, heavy creme for coffee, Irish butter, full buttermilk, creme cheese, etc. as well as plenty of bacon. Those forms have little or no carbohydrate. The next month, my total cholesterol had dropped markedly. I believe that was simply because I had less circulating glucose and lower spikes, so less cholesterol was needed. But medical dogma dies hard and always has.
So apparently sugar is my real problem. All the crap meds I was put on were treating what the sugar caused. Why not just tell me to cut back on the sugar instead of pumping me full of meds that made me feel horrible? No money in doing that I guess.
@@retrotek0409 First of all, this is not scientific certainty. Most of medicine is informed guessing. Professional guessers are called physicians. And every field has its deeply embedded dogma, which is long-lived. Part of my suspicion is because the sugar industry years ago paid two professors to produce study results that demonized fat and absolved sugar of all blame. One of those professors went on to be head of a federal nutrition agency. And out of that grew the cholesterol notions and the very profitable statins. Physicians were just applying what they were taught and what studies seemed to confirm, especially when the statistical methods were biased. And they are very attracted to a therapy in a bottle. Once the idea takes hold, then other studies tend to confirm the findings. Yes, where there's obstruction, there also is cholesterol. Denying the dogma can be just like a priest who denies dogma - your faith is questioned, and you may get cast out, in science meaning that your papers don't get published. Now, this is not willful lying or an ongoing conspiracy. Everyone does believe in what they're doing. But I spent many years working with expert witnesses, and they all believed in their conclusions. If the conclusions were palpably absurd, it didn't mean they were being dishonest. They were simply letting bias rule. Busy physicians do not have the time to do deep critical reading in the specialized journals of every field. And they are not divine and are therefor limited by their own natural abilities, and they are not particularly more able to properly apply proper scientific practice. What do you call someone who finished med school with a D average? Doctor. (Actually some have a higher threshold, and many do only pass/fail. Pass/fail is safe. It doesn't leave numbers lying around for malpractice attorneys to harp on.) And as in most things, it likely not so simple. No matter whey the cholesterol was dispatched, there may be good reason to worry about how it's working at the site where it is used. Plus, offer someone options of permanent and dramatic lifestyle changes and all the effort that goes with it or a pill, and see what happens. It is indeed a debate. But today, at least there is debate. Just because high cholesterol is not necessarily an evil, trans fats may still be bad for you. There are reasons to worry about LDL's. But most olf the things that raise LDL levels are lifestyle and environmental issues. Here's what an expert who rejects the dogma says. www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4684135/ I like this line: "I told him in no uncertain terms that elevated cholesterol was not the problem. Rather, the problem was a measure of his unhealthy diet and lifestyle, which the drugs could not fix." The patient took the pills and was dead in less than ten years without reaching 60. You won't find any pat answers, but be careful not to create your own answers to suit your own biases. It's not simple.
@ 0:05 Good oils vs bad oils. BAD (any oil that's been overpriccessed, overheated), & margarine (faux butter). GOOD (oils that are first cold pressed).
New big fan! Should have seen look on face of Cardiologist, when I told him where to stick the Statins. Tiny Back-story. this was the 6 months checkup after heart attack @ 58, and 6 months of Dr. Berry advice. AND he just told me I was the biggest Turn-Around he has ever seen in 35 years. He was not interested in why. Not even a little...
I took these Statins in 2017 and was paralyzed in my legs with extreme pain, couldn't even get in a car. I stopped them and within a couple weeks, I could walk again.
@jerryross7135 God Bless 🙌 the powers that be know all the symptoms statins cause but they carry on selling them because its big money. They want to out me on statins they can run and jump. 👎👎
My mother knew this years and decades ago as a 1958 Qualified British trained registered nurse … they were taught to use their common sense alongside labour 🙏🏽
Nice to know that not all drs are controlled by non medically trained beurocrats and the pharma industry. Unfortunately there are very few like you in Australia. I'm guessing you have come across Nicholas Norwich, a medical student in the USA who's motto is to " stay curious". While drs stay curious then we can have some form of protection against the bone headed beurocrats. Another of your British compatriats Dr rasheed malhotra is also worthy of note for standing up against said beurocrats, who proposed lowering the cholesterol threshold for recommending statin prescription. Happily the beurocrat was overruled on this occasion.
I’ve had high cholesterol for years. No amount of exercise or change in diet seemed to make any difference. I just had a CAC scan to see if I had any plaque so I could make an informed decision about statins. My score was 0 so I’m not going to take statins. My parents are in their mid eighties and they both have high cholesterol so I guess it’s just normal for my family as all my siblings have high cholesterol too.
The health organization ( big pharma ) have changed the numbers on many tests. Blood pressure used to be normal at 140 but now it’s high and needing medication
I’m married to a Dr, her and her fellow Dr’s believe because they went to medical school they know everything. My personal biggest pet peeve, people who can never be wrong.
Dr.s only know what they are taught from books….they lose a lot of common sense in academia. Drug incentives from Pharmaceutical Companies should be cause for jail sentences.
My daughter moved to Australia almost a year ago. She is now 41 and a type 1 diabetic. Her drs there took her off 6 or more medications that Drs here in US put her on. They said they don't understand why the sea here put us on so many meds. My daughter feels and looks amazing now. We need to do better in the US.
From South Africa: As far as I am aware, USA doctors prescribe AND sell / dispense the medication they themselves prescribe - making double-profit from prescribing and selling medication. In other countries one has doctors that prescribe, while pharmacists / dispensaries / chemists will provide according to the doctor's prescription. Therein lies some "second thinking" and less motive for doctors to prescribe all kinds of drugs: Their focus is on giving quality advice (and making money from it) rather than giving profitable advice.
Forget all the "scores" of this and that. Exercise daily, eat good food, not too much (you know what that is), don't smoke or drink. Relax. And live your life.
And stay out of Dr's offices. At least most Dr's offices. There are some good ones out there and it seems that the Dr that did this video may be one of them.
Turns out that much of what doctors have been telling us to do is in fact bad for our health, but great for the doctors standard of living (trips, cars, flash homes).
I'm positive I lost 10 good years of my earlier life due to taking statins for cholesterol. Many years ago I stopped all drugs that were prescribed. I looked at improving my diet and I took more exercise! I returned to the heart specialist and she advised all was good! 'Are you still taking the statins' ? I said no , I stopped many months ago! The look I got was priceless! Still running strong at 73. Life your life correctly!
Why does cholesterol go down when these patients were on vegetable oil? Why does any resource go down? Thats not a tough question, and the answer is obvious. Resources go down WHEN THEY ARE USED. One of the most important jobs of cholesterol is healing. Damage control. When people intake vegetable oil, cholesterol goes down, as it repairs the damage caused by vegetable oil. Why would vegetable oils cause damage? One reason might be because they are not natural. They are man made. How do you get oil out of something? Squeeze it. Olive oil can be squeezed to give you olive oil. Avocado oil is gotten the same way as well as coconut oil. One might call these fruit oil (that term just came to me, I dont like it). But you cannot squeeze corn and get the oil out of it. You need to use chemical extraction. They use HEXANE to extract the oil. Hexane is a by product of petroleum distillation. Used to make gasoline, kerosene, propane, hexane. Those tall skinny smoke stacks at the oil refinery, that often has flaming vapors coming out the top. At different levels in this smoke stack are condensation points (my term, I dont know what they are really called) that collect each type of gas. The heavier stuff at the bottom and lighter stuff as you go up. But hexane is one of these. Hexane draws oil out of the corn. Any vegetable has oils or fats in it that can be drawn out. Simply flow the hexane over it, it draws out the oils, bottle it. Tada! You have corn oil, or safflower oil, or palm oil, or non-virgin olive oil. The stuff you can no longer squeeze out can be extracted using hexane. But here is the catch… these oils need to be heated to a certain temperature to remove the hexane from the oil. So besides being a plant based oil, if thats not damaging enough, and it is damaging, you need to deal with the petroleum by products. Sorry about all of that, but its good to know where vegetable oil comes from, as well as seed oils, these are made the same way. Hexane extraction. So back to cholesterol… the patients getting vegetable oil are getting damaged. The cholesterol goes down as a result of being used. When the damage is repaired, it goes right back up to where it was before. You can see this take place in the “Oreos vs Statins” experiment. I forget his name. Smart guy, figures shit out. He ate a sleeve of Oreos a day, and his cholesterol went down A LOT. He did this for several weeks. He then let levels rise back up to normal, and did the test again, this time taking statins. It went down, but no where near the amount of drop from the cookies. Again, drop can come from healing damage. Any carbohydrate will probably cause this. Sugar damages the body. Cholesterol heals it. This always gets overlooked in these “studies”. Which are epidemiological studies. Which can not inform on risk. The guy in the video kept saying risk of death, but instead he should have been saying “the incidence” of death. Because when you use epidemiology, you can not asses risk. The data just isn’t there.
Dr. RobertJohnson- thank you. Your info / advice made great sense to me. I am now relieved and happy that I turned down statin 40mg, strongly urged by my GP at Kaiser just because my total cholesterol was 376 (LDL 160, HDL 108, trig 108}. It's been at this level for the last 20+ years and in good health otherwise. Calcium test scored 0. She stlll tells me I may "drop dead" at any time.
Thanks for that. Very interesting information, and I think you're probably right about the cholesterol level dropping because it's being used. An overlooked explanation for its rise in old age is the natural drop in DHEA, which is the precursor for sex hormones. Reduced manufacture of sex hormones would mean higher levels of cholesterol.
@@CriticalLinker I agree. Cholesterol level is set by our genes. Everyone’s level will be different. That is base level. Some people may have base level of 150, others may be 300.
I am nurse in cardiology since 25 years. ALL patients on statin therapy become heart infarctions, we never had even one who was not on statin. The conclusion is simple: statins don’t prevent heart attacks.
My brother and my mum were both on statins. My brother died of a heart attack and my mother died from heart failure. I have high cholesterol and have for many many years. I have refused statins. I know if I improve my liver health my cholesterol levels will go down accordingly. The body produces the cholesterol it needs to function. Interfering with that process using statins is what causes issues.
I'd heard about some of these findings several years ago when my doctors started hounding me about having what the textbooks considered to be "High Cholesterol" levels. I was just at a routine doctor's appointment yesterday to go over my latest blood tests focusing on my cholesterol levels. Virtually every doctor I've ever seen who had ordered cholesterol testing on me all rattled off almost verbatim, the big-pharma warnings of not getting my cholesterol levels down. My latest blood tests showed that my cholesterol levels had "Improved" by a few points compared to the previous tests. I had already researched the information presented in this video so, I didn't really care what my latest blood testing indicated. The sad irony here is that at least three of the doctors from my past that warned me adamantly about lowering my cholesterol levels are now no longer among the living. They're dead, and I'm still alive. Go figure. I'm going to have to forward this video to my doctor, even though I know that she'll most likely side with big pharma.
My dr told me when i was 32 i needed to get my tot cholesterol down ( I weighed 135 lbs..5'3"... he said he didn't want to put me on statins as i was a bit too young.. he said stats showed id be dead at 40 if i didn't get it lowered ( it was 25) im 66 now, feel like a 36 yr old
Preach it Bro! 69 years old with Lipids off the charts and a mild TIA 5 years ago. I do not care where my blood markers are these days. I care about my diet & lifestyle. Three years of Ketovore + OMAD & walking + weights and No Statins.
I do I really are and I've tried statins but id rather not feel disabled or in pain in my legs... id rather have quality of life.. ill keep watching my diet and exercise.. eventually ill get a lab test to check levels
Half of the GPs I have seen did so, when I presented them with evidence from their colleagues working in research or epidemiology. A burn-out rate of 30-40% is surely an indicator that GPs don't have the time to keep up-to-date.
Also of note, vegetable oil by itself is extremely unhealthy & should not be eaten by humans but rather only used as a machine lubricant. I'm a big believer in (and consumer of) saturated fats, but I'd like to see if this study could be done with something other than vegetable or seed oils.
As a child in the 1940s,we never had vegetable oils,not even olive oil,everything was cooked in lard or dripping ,and heart problems and cancer rates were lower than now,and there were less fat people.
The only time I ever had any problem with my cholesterol was when I was eating at restaurants almost every day two times a day and I was drinking lots of beer. I cut way down on eating out and drinking beer never had any issues after that.
The problem (for me) is that if you see a doctor and they send you for a blood test and the LDL comes back even slightly high, they instantly bang on about statins, even when told that you won't take them, and if you go against their advice and don't take them, what's the point of going to to the doctor? How do you get an honest and, more importantly, up-to-date opinion without going to the doctor?
Outstanding video. Clear, concise and evidence based. Subbed. I’ve been on keto for two years and and my recent blood tests sent my GP into panic mode over LDL levels. This led to me being invited to an appointment to discuss taking statins. I was never going to take them, but what was most amusing was being spoken to about cholesterol and general health by a woman who was twice the size she should be. Irony really doesn’t cover it.
A a nurse I was told years ago that the original study was likely flawed and that we really don’t know if elevated cholesterol levels lead to heart disease or are the body’s natural response to a damaged heart. After hearing this and seeing how many physicians are quick to put patients on cholesterol, I determined never to take statins. In my mid sixties, and for the first time in my life I had an abnormal HDL during a recent checkup. It was low as was my LDL. My physician immediately sent a script to my pharmacy for a statin which I did not fill. Subsequent tests have not shown any abnormal results. I wish that the general public could understand that every medication we take is also a poison and we should not be so quick to consume them.
A number of years ago, my previous GP told me to try a low dose of statins. One week later I had to stop because of liver pain. When I told her this, she said stick with it or take a week off and try it again. Now my new Doctor wants me on statins and I refused. My triglycerides are 71, HDL 61, LDL (the so-called bad cholesterol) is 149 - total cholesterol 222. Big pharma has ruin medical care.
Blame John D. Rockefeller, he is the one who created the pill popping paradigm, displacing the holistic approach to health back in 1920. Because drugs use petroleum in their manufacture and he had 90% monopoly on the resource.
I have stopped taking statins. My cholesterol has gone up slightly, but i dont care. The Dr. Told me if I take statins it reduces the chance of a heart attack or stroke by 10%. He had no answer when i pointed out that his statement meant that i had a 90% chance of not getting either.
Brave. Reminds me of ABBA's 'Take a chance on me'. A little transient ischaemic stroke (TIS) can shrink a part of your cerebellum and cause (e.g.) dysdiadochokinesia. Not nice then when you're sober but walk at times like you're drunk.
Years ago the ABC (Australia) ran a documentary on cholesterol citing research and speaking to researchers saying similar things as you are. The next day the Australian Medical Association was having a melt down. Drs flooded the govt with complaints. That doco is nowhere to be found now.
My mother had a heart attack @52. Her cholesterol was fine, but her triglycerides were a bit high. She didn’t smoke. She ate healthy for the most part. My father ate bacon and eggs daily, plus other fat laden foods. He also smoked for about 30 years. No heart attacks and lived to 100.
High chance your mother's heart attack was due to her menopause and her estrogen lowering. Estrogen protects from heart attacks. You should research and not take my word for it. Fat in diet helps with Adrenal glands taking over from ovaries that stop working. Your father had excellent genes lol
I worked with a cardiac consultant when I was in nurse training (early 90s) He told us that it's inflammation that causes plaques to form in blood vessels, the vessel's lumen becomes rough due to constant inflammation, reduce the inflammation and the atherosclerosis stops. This was proven in myself an overweight, high LDL cholesterol, hypothyroid older woman with chest pain. Having a heart scan with dye they found zero calcium build up even in the tiniest vessels. Why? Because I have auto immune disease for which I take ibuprofen, an anti-inflammatory medication on a daily basis.
I was built at 19 and my cholesterol was 870 and my triglycerides were over 1400. I got so sick from statins I won't take them. I've never had cholesterol under 250. It's BS. I have autoimmune disease (lyme) that screws up my system. BTW I'm 57
I went to the clinic and they asked me what drugs I was on and I said none.They told me that that wasn't normal for my age.I got a call later that day and was told I needed to be on cholesterol drugs.That was about 15 years ago and now the doctor said the same thing and he told me if your over 40 you need to be on cholesterol drugs.I told him off and said he was just a drug pusher for big pharma and he was speechless.He didn't even have any numbers on me and was pushing drugs on me.Doctors don't cure anything they drug symptoms and create more health issues with too many drugs.My ex girlfriend started having seizures so they gave her epilepsy drugs but it was a combination of other drugs that caused the problem.She is now off all those drugs and is fine.These doctors take no responsibility for the damage they do pushing all those poisons.
In Canada the Federal Government cares so much about peoples health it ads Palm Oil to Dairy feed. Compare grass fed butter to corn and palm oil fed butter, the grass fed out of the fridge is nearly as soft as the palm oil fed butter sitting on the table. In a warm summertime room, the grass fed melts into a puddle while the palm oil butter remains a solid block. Wounder why your arteries are clogged?
Palm oil is fine. It has been used for 1000s of years and has saturated fat. It has been demonized the same way animal fats have been by the quack medical industry. Palm oil is in the same league as olive oil
I found some good advice many years ago and it's been pretty successful. Stay away from your local GP as much as possible. We refused the jibby jabby and haven't seen a doctor since 2020. Exercise, positive thinking and fasting have left us two feeling fantastic.
Several years ago, I was so sick of hearing about older people who lived to a ripe old age due to being a vegetarian, I did a search on the oldest person alive, which at that time was a 116 year old Italian lady who ate the same thing every day. Three eggs, a plate of raw meat and some fresh pasta. Virtually no vegetables or fruit. She had been told as a young lady that she was anemic and this was the diet that was prescribed. So, she stayed on it her entire life. You will never her about her in the medical press or mainstream media. Wonder why??
Yes, just look on the cemetery. Those generations who lived longest have been those born in or short after the second world war. Their diet was everything that is considered a bad diet today. And besides this, everyone knows that heart attacks and strokes are more a genetically thing. There are people where it runs in the family and for generations people die around the same age, though they lived in completely different times and environments.
Cholesterol is a vital. We need lots of it. Women entering menopause need vast amounts of it. There is a reason your body makes varied amounts at different times in your life. The worst diet is low fat, seed oils, synthetic sugars, processed factory foods. If your bread is wrapped in plastic it isn't bread despite the label. If your bread lasts longer than 48 hours it is not bread.
Nice presentation, which sums up nicely how we've been mislead. Look forward to more of your concise Podcasts to refer to, to optimise my health. Thanks.
I've given up seed oils (corn, vegetable, Canola) and gone to Lard, Tallow, Butter and Olive oil. After switching, my cholesterol has been within normal range for a full year now, when before it was very high. Not telling you what to do, just what I did and the effect.
I don't think it's so much the government as it is the big corporations that own the pharmaceutical companies and also can fund the research. Ever since we allowed corporations to donate money, they have owned our government and we need to take it back.
My endocrinologist keeps upping my Synthroid, which makes me feel absolutely worse than taking a lesser amount. I tried to tell him, and instead of lowering the dose, he raises it. He said he's doing this according to my blood work. Guess what, whatever dose he prescribes, I end up cutting the pills in half and feel so much better. He's not helping me to get off of the Synthroid, he's upping the dose and says I need it. I don't think he knows what he's doing. He also thinks I should be taking a statin and Mounjaro. I really need a new doctor.
I'm subscribed 🙂- great video, thanks. Wish we had GPs like you in NZ. I am a year out from a heart attack, - changed to keto, dropped 15 kgs, feeling fit - keeping actvie. I did have a small dense ldls showing, hopefully over time I can drive them away with my changes, but shortage of GPs here to support one on such a journey.
@@drphilipbosanquet Much gratitude for your response. My bloods got sent to Australia to get my LDL subfractions done. I will be watching all your instalments. 🙂. Awesome, meaningful stuff you are doing.
In the late 80's when my gynecologist started testing my cholesterol as part of the "exam", I thought that was weird and refused to get on meds. My dad, who was in his late 70's; he was always in great shape, had cholesterol levels in the high 200's. Around that same time, he was tested for irregular heart beats (which turned out to be nothing) but his test results showed all his valves were clear. At that point, I saw absolutely no correlation between high cholesterol numbers and blocked arties. If his levels were "dangerously high" yet no blockages existed when he was in his late 70's, what did it all mean? To me, it meant it was all BS.
My husband and I are on the carnivore diet (he is ketovore) Our cholesterol numbers are off the charts. However, per a John’s Hopkins study and others on remnant cholesterol, (total cholesterol minus LDL and HDL) we are in the healthy range. My MD had no idea what remnant cholesterol was. We have an epidemic of Alzheimer’s and Dementia due to lack of fat which our brains need. We have an epidemic of obesity due to the total non food diet that people in America eat. Diabetes and or insulin resistance are the culprit of most statin drug takers. I literally had a cardiologist tell me that his job is to ‘keep people alive’. He scoffed when I asked about the quality of the life he’s providing to them. Enough said.
@@davidrockefeller2007 cost would depend on where you live and the access you have to farm meat and eggs/bacon vs store bought. I eat mostly red meat and eggs. Skin on chicken and pork added in once or twice per week. However, I started out on what’s known as BBB&E (beef, butter, bacon, eggs) until I lost the excess weight that has crept on as I approach 60 yo. My husband had a mild stroke in Sept 2023, and I purged our home of all junk, and carbohydrates. The only dairy we use is heavy cream. At this point we’re both healthier and actually eat less than when we ate a standard American diet. If I crave crunchy, I eat spicy pork rinds, or bacon chips (bacon I’ve cut up and cooked in a covered pot). So, living in NY, if I had to guess at a daily cost of eating for both of us (hubby still eats low GI veggies that don’t create a huge insulin response), I’d estimate about $20 per day for everything both of us consume. That would include about 8lbs of bacon, and roughly 8 dozen eggs per month. Meats I get from Omaha steaks (found a deal I subscribed to that gives me a variety of steak burgers made from sirloin, rib, filet mignon…68 count, and some pork for $130./3 mos), and White Oak Pastures meats which cost me about $250 for 50lbs of different red meats. However, they are a fresh farm and their meats aren’t aged. There is also a company I tried recently called, ‘Just Meats’ which gives you precooked meats in a variety of dishes. My first subscription was for 13 different meats/recipes for $110. For the two of us it worked out to be 26 meals. There are so many different meat delivery companies out there, so you’d have to look at them and see if they fit your personal budget. I will say, our groceries average $500 or less for two people per month. Which is much cheaper than what it was with all the excess chips, dairy, snacks etc… The plus is, we don’t have the munchies, we feel better, no bloating, gas, mental fog, tiredness, and when I eat the occasional veggie, I have been able to tell if they cause any type of inflammation or off feeling with my body. Check out Dr. Ken Berry on UA-cam. He’s a great wealth of info on Keto and Carnivore. I don’t consider this a diet, but a way of eating to live vs living to eat. Good luck and I hope I was helpful. 🌼Lily🌼
I gave up statins about 3 months ago, most of my aches and pains went away, i don't wake up sore now, also cutting carbs and my weight has dropped, eating more meat with the fat on, and my thoughts and maths skills have improved, I'm 54
Every patient cured is a customer lost
Yuppers, no money in seeing people who are well. SMH
Yes you are a customer first, patient second.😔
@idk-cm91t Your comment, very Interesting.
Peace to all.
Nailed it! 💯%
I'm a Dr. But I don't feel like that,I'm happy and feeling proud of myself if my patient is cured.
Am I the only one tired of being lied to?
Stay out of their offices and they will not lie to you.
No dear, you are not alone.
@@alph8654 This right here. My job requires a yearly physical. When I retire I’ll never go to a doctor again unless something is wrong, maybe.
Corruption at every level. It disgusts me.
No, you are not. It is tiring and maddening on all levels.
My husband was on kidney dialysis and therefore on a lot of necessary medication. The renal doctor wanted him to try out a new medication for cholesterol. I queried this and the Doctor assured me he had a problem. I had someone check his levels and they were normal. I phoned the Doctor and informed him of this, he slammed the phone down on me. I later discovered that the hospital was getting a large fee for every patient who was naive enough to fall for this.
Sick system 😢
What country ❓️ 😳
Criminal!
Every time I see my dr, he tells me that he wants me to be on statins. Tried them once and they gave me horrendous leg cramps. Told my dr thank you, but no thanks! Sure it’s in my chart. Will NEVER take them again !
I was foolish enough to take statins once, and spent two hours of the following day in a semi conscious state. Gave them another go a few years later. Same result Never again.
When I told my doctor I wasn't taking the statins anymore, she made a point of putting that in my medical record. My health is my responsibility and I take care of myself with healthy diet, exercise, don't smoke, don't drink, don't take drugs. Why should I be berated by my doctor for not getting on the big pharma bandwagon?
Good for you! I've also refused statins opting instead for a more healthy life style.
We should not be penalised for opting out of big farma
Because you negatively impact his bottom line, and that of his masters, and he's in the position to extract trust from you, with menaces.
Doctors of all types are getting upset ,they are feeling a lil jealous,a lil slighted that the Internet has educated their patients more then they have.
Kudos! Eat well, exercise, remain grateful.
I have the same response.
I am a firm believer in eating butter, not margarine.
100% Butter and NOT a mixture of both!
Like in Italy - it is either butter or olive oil, both great. Just not seed oil, at least not the refined kind.
my pap had eggs fried in butter every morning for 95+ years. 🍻
same... nature knows best... don't want the horrible factory creations...
No one eats margarine anymore these days….its barely even sold
Healthy patients are not profitable.
Older people have medicare that pays for it..then to counteract the side effects of the statins, they prescribe more ( co q10, Prilosec etc) they tell you liver damage is ok as liver enzymes are ok as the liver repairs itself.. if a med hurts that bad in your guts , legs, etc... if its hard on your body,
it can't be good to take .. ( memory loss ? Oh yea, they ste building 1000s of these memory loss, alzheimers care centers .....etc
Thanks to all who are sharing their experiences.
Healthy people aren’t patients.
💯💯
Your exactly right, the more people are using their drugs, the more money they are making, so I think that these drug companies have people working in the health services, all the way to doctors, and they must encourage them to get people on their drugs, and there must be some of them that benefit from it with money or whatever else they offer. Everyone is corruptable under the right circumstances.
Right on. The Sickness Industry love unhealthy people!
Now, let's also get rid of the industrial processed seed oils from our diet
I couldn’t believe that they put seed oils in almond milk and butter, oat milk, rice milk etc.
stoppodrinking all those plant based beverages. Damn. No wonder I suffered from eczema.
@@drphilipbosanquet LOL… Who would have thought it is how long we have been doing something instead of that thing’s actual properties that matters? LMAO
Will you please define what is a seed oil? Is it actually listed like that on a product label? Thanks.
But ... the pharmacutical companies are our friends. Right?
@@Agapy8888 Now take a look at the labels for your 'health' supplements. Seed oils are often found in the soft-gel packaging. Rice bran oil is a favorite.
My great-grandfather had bacon and eggs every morning. He ate a lot of red meat. My great-grandmother used lard to fry *everything*. He didn't take any statins and lived to be 96 years old with his mind intact.
Yeah. But what about his heart?😂
@@jamesdellaneve9005 😂🤣
I'm 75 today. Ate the same drank and smoked for 60 years. Ate red meat. Cheese and I drink 2 pints full fat milk every day. Cholesterol BS. Fad started in California USA and grew from there. Total BS. Just like vitamin tablets. Another world con. Almost every scientist and dietitian say. Vitamin tabs do nothing but create very expensive piss. Eat the fruit, veg and whatever for natural vitamin intake.
@jamesdellaneve9005 his heart ticked all the way to 96😂
I think a lot of older people have dementia or Alzheimer's because of all the medication they're put on
At age 34 l was diagnosed to have high levels of bad cholesterol, prescribed statins. Decided not to take them .At age 77 I still have high levels of bad cholesterol and enjoy overall excellent health
Not true, Statins didn't exist 43 years ago.
@@tpbtpb2602 They did
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@tpbtpb2602 the first one "Mevacor" was marketed in 1987. So, 37 years for first marketed ones, but other things were used to try. So, she's not too far off.
Habar nu ai@@tpbtpb2602
I can’t help but think that all this cholesterol reduction is feeding the increasing levels of dementia.
Who can tell for sure but who can be trusted to research this objectively?
Brain consist of fat ,1+1=2. Make sense then ?
What does the brain consist if primarily?
Yes, that's right, cells full of lipids, i.e. fats.
Where does the lipids come from?
Yes, from cholesterol in the bloodstream.
Deplete the blood from lipids, and the brain is starved of its main building blocks, end result, amongst others, are Alzheimer's and Dementia.
@@grumpiebrown exactly the brain needs cholesterol to thrive. There seems to be so much of dementia compared to a few years ago when it was hardly heard of. Big pharma has everyone on these damn anti statins and I bet in a few years time we will be getting warnings not to take them as there is a link to dementia. Every person I know taking them has got some sort of memory problem. There needs to be a lot more research on this matter.
You are right. My friend was a nurse for a Geriontologist and she said that all the patients that had Alzheimers or Dementia had “low” cholesterol.
Philip - ever sceptical 66 year old retired Aussie orthopaedic surgeon here. GREAT presentation. I’ve been following the cholesterol and statin bulls$&t for years. Spot on. Looking forward to your next video. Good stuff 👍
I really appreciate your comment, thanks!
It didn't seem logical to subject people to a drug that could wreak havoc with their liver in order to save them from cholesterol. So I thought it might be a scam.
@@joannleichliter4308 That is true of so many drugs today. Many also have their effects from wreaking havoc with white blood cells.
Good to see a fellow Aussie on this site!
My G.P. is fiercely supportive of Statins & is annoyed I hold fast to my refusal of them.
Another Aussie here.❤
I have suspected that statin use could be a culprit in the dramatic rise of dementia over the past several decades......
that would be worthy of a study (I might see if there have been any done).
I tried taking them for a couple of months and I got so bad that I couldn't remember well enough to do my job. I refused to take them AMA and got almost back to normal. My mother was prescribed them and was diagnosed with dementia three months later. I insisted she go off them and she improved dramatically.
Cure is worse than the disease..
@JoBrew One that I am familiar with incidentally discovered that patients with diagnosed dementia improved and had the diagnosis removed once they had stopped taking statins. Their dementia returned when they began taking the statins again during the experiment. This was a side effect noted during the experiment testing for lowering cholesterol levels of a big name statin. The mechanism is obvious, as the brain needs a vast amount of cholesterol, statins lower this, so the brain doesn't have enough to function properly.
@@JoBrewThere was a study done by the University of Iowa on seniors who were taking stations. Brain CT scans showed areas of loss in gray matter,some resembling Swiss cheese holes. The body needs cholesterol to maintain gray matter and a healthy brain. Study was buried.
My Grandfather said: “We never needed the doctor, cause there wasn't one around to tell us we did.”
Exactly
Though I agree with him in principal we can’t deny /ignore the fact that life expectancy has markedly gone up since his generation primarily due to pharmaceuticals and improved living conditions ( for some of us ) . Can’t say for sure that quality of life has improved though but people seem to live longer with serious ailments that yrs ago would have seen them die younger . A hospital doctor said they now regard patients aged in their 70 s to be the new 50s yr old of years ago .
@@KAJAMAJA122 life expectancy means nothing when it’s not worthwhile they were only slaves back then. And the only reason people died younger was because they lacked in their diet it’s not like they didn’t have doctors close by and it has nothing to do with pharmaceuticals since nutrition is enough. Nobody in my generations died young. You actually have more problems today because of crowding and sure pharma may come up with a concoction for that too, but you’ll still only be rats in a cage.
Bingo!
The only reason you have doctors is because cities are manipulated to crowd people and influence behaviour to mingle
My 2 biggest problems over the years was way too much sugar and extreme levels of anxiety. Quit the sugar as much as possible and have concentrated on not giving a damn on the craziness going on around the world. So much of my physical problems have disappeared, or lessened greatly. Inflammation was killing me.
My friend has always said
“If you want to stay healthy, stop going to the doctor”
I am leaning towards his advice these days😂😂😂
Your friend is telling you the TRUTH. I stop going a few years ago, I started to feel much better, brain fog disappeared, and so much more😃. If I would have listened to the doctor, I would not be here now.👍
I am 69 and have hardly been in a dr's office since i was about 25. I do not even have a family physician.
@@alph8654same . I am 61 and stay away from those nose picking freaks. Lots of energy, lots of farm work , vinyasa yoga , red meat, eggs , goat cheese , etc - no processed food.
My dad said stay out of the hospital if possible as once you get in they won't let out
@@nancybaumgartner6774 Actually the only animal products i eat is eggs. I eat them almost everyday. I eat a lot of vegetables and some fruit. Lots of white potatoes and sweet potatoes and some grains, nuts and seeds and beans. I do just fine. I have been growing most of my own veggies until this summer. But it is for reasons out of my control. Have good energy most of the time.
this needs to be shouted out to the roof tops. As a RN during 80s and 90s I saw the push for getting everyone on drugs and how they kept changing the numbers to get more on drugs.
It’s still happening!non-hdl is now supposed to be 2 or below, Som my husband was recently told by his cardiologist
I agree. Ret RN.
Also, think of the opioid disaster pushed by major big pharma marketing. Doctors are happy to generate more cash from more appointments.
@@RedDragon-eh8hxI concur that this is the lies we are being told....at the risk of premature death LOL.
Just learned from another Channel Barbara O'Neill that 40 years ago the level used to be 300 for cholesterol. Now it's 200.
I'm experimenting on myself. For years I accepted everything medicine has said, but now, I am trying to actually improve my health on my own. Still having trouble with exercise. It still hurts, but I am seeing some slight improvement. I've always had pain in my legs and the doctors always just shrugged when I told them how much pain I was in.. they didn't seem to even care - they just wanted me to get a mammogram, a blood test and take pills. I'm on a low carbohydrate diet, high fat, meat, no wheat and alcohol, some fruit, vegetables.... very typical. I know it's weird but I feel better, not perfect, after all, I'm 73, but the pain in my body ... arthritis, etc.. is lessened. I don't feel like I am 20, again, but I don't feel like I'm being tortured by the inquisition, either. I'm trying to stay as far away as I can from the medical community because I want to try to fix myself. I wasn't going anywhere listening to my nurse-doctor. .. I lost all faith in the medical community when my husband died of cancer. He kept his cholesterol low, he exercised he obeyed the doctors and all it got him was death at 66 of spreading pancreatic cancer. I'm still having stress problems, no doubt, but I was profoundly in love with my husband, and even 4 years afterwards, I am grieving. Medicine by the numbers isn't fixing anything. I want to garden again. Live a meaningful life until my last breath.
Bless you, dear. ❤ Give that grief to God and just live thankful and happy! You are doing great!
My heart goes out to you. It takes a long time and go with all the happy memories.
Read up on veggies/oxalates you might need to consider some of the plant toxins
Hemp,Arnica and Comfrey Balm is great for arthritis. I can't post a link as they get deleted. I'll try and disguise the web page. Black.
Sheep. Farm. Oils. In Australia
I posted link below but sure it will get deleted
I was similar until I got rid of all veggies and fruit. The difference to my arthritis and skin was night and day. 5 years on and I do eat occasional veggies and seasonal fruit but only that I grow in my garden. The fruit and veggies from supermarkets are usually toxic, not just because of the plant toxins but because of the chemicals used to grow and extend their shelf life. I also use thermography, not mammograms. Drs mean well, but their training and the system they work in means they are not able to heal us.
Thank you for this video. I had the misfortune to have to a so called 'health check' by my GPs practice nurse after I had some bloods taken. The very first thing she said was about cholesterol. When I said that I disagreed with her she went ballistic and said that she had a degree in nursing and that she knew better. I immediately left the room. Needless to say I will not be taking advantage of this service again.
Same here but I put her straight.
Totally unprofessional.
You did right by walking out of that arrogant nurse, like most Drs, pushing Big Pharmas' medication.
Thanks be to GOD for all the brave Drs who discovered this biggest scam of the century.
It's in my medical records at the VA to most definitely NOT speak to me about my cholesterol levels, blood pressure, sugar or anything else that is regularly used as an excuse to get people to pop dangerous drugs like they're vitamins, yet I have to change my PCP every few years because they eventually just cannot resist any longer and start trying to berate me about one of the numbers, but cholesterol is their favorite one to chew me out over! Mine is in the 230-240 range.
@@DavidJohnson-yg8qmhow? I'll take any advice as I'll be facing some of that soon
If the pharma industry actually CURED , THEY would be out of business and no more million dollar bonuses
If you want to find the reason for anything... just follow the money!
Truth, reason, and fact will never be allowed to stand in the way of making money.
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Last year I had a well man checkup which was basically a lifestyle questionnaire, at the end of the
consultation I asked can I have a PSA blood test as I’m over 60 the “nurse practitioner” said why do you want that ? I replied because nearly every male and several female members of my family has died of some form of cancer !
She agreed and the blood test was done, a week later I get a call from the “doctor” saying he’d like me to come in and discuss my blood test, I asked “is there anything wrong ? “ He replied “no I’d just like to talk to you about your cholesterol levels,” I said are they high ?” he said “no but I’d like to discuss with you about going on statins”, my response was “no thank you !” I just knew from the start of that conversation where it was going, “Do no harm” no moral compass where drug money is concerned.
This is so sad and corrupt
GOOD FOR YOU!
In the late 80's I worked in a doctors office and normal Cholesterol levels were 400. When I left normal was 275. So how did we get to 200? Big pharma raking it in again. So many people on statins with artificially lowered much needed cholesterol and people are getting more obese and unhealthy!
Where can we read about that?
Wow, I never knew about this level 400. Now Drs are telling spouse and I they want it under 200… spouse is in statin and his total cholesterol is 160..
Yes. The Medical Lobbyists changed the number mutiple times. Each time they lobbied they lowered the number to increase their profit through pharmaceuticals. Does anybody remember the smear campaign on eggs in the 80's ? Bad medicine. It's been going on for a long time.
@@liviucristianionescu I was in my late teens when this happened for eggs - which lead to egg white products. The cholesterol levels are rather easy. Start with the New England Journal of Medicine publications in the 80's. I was just starting out in the medical field at that time. I was mainly Administrative, but I started taking medical billing classes in the mid 90's. It's shameful what they did to the whole industry - lobbyists convinced the government. This was the start of the destruction in the industry. ICD 9 code books, and PCP books list the billing / and documentation needed for Billing. It use to be 400 for high cholesterol, now 200 - purely profit for the PharmaceuticalThe industry - and Doctor's were receiving kickbacks at that time from big pharm - supposedly 🙄 that changed, when Medicare ( government ) became the biggest customer for providing Coverage. Apparently the government doesn't like to be f@@ked over, but it's ok for the citizens.
@@TR-nv3if That is too low. The body needs cholesterol. Watch Dr Bergs YT channel. Lots of good videos on Cholesterol. Also read about the benefits of Berberine to lower cholesterol naturally. It has many other positive benefits. I have been taking it for 2 years. Dr Berg has videos on this also. Doing Keto diet will also help.
My GP was left in despair after I refused taking interventions to reduce my cholesterol. I asked her what we have cholesterol for, what do statins do and in conclusion what would reducing my cholesterol level would do? Think about it!. I was then asked where I got my information from, which I replied ....medical books. There was no answer to that.
Dr. Sandra Cabot is a leader in this I think. Again she was trained at The University of Adelaide in the medical/dental precinct.
Dr Berg has a recent video out about why we need cholesterol
Are we still restricted to only 8-minute appts with them? It's not long enough to have any sort of meaningful discussion about one's health, which is how they like it, "You tell us what's wrong, we give you the solution (medication),..'Bye." They certainly don't like it if you question their diagnosis? By the way, I brought along to the appt a book by a GP criticising statins. To save time, I had marked relevant pages. Didn't want to know!
I can remember where I read it but cholesterol bandaids minor rips and scratches within the vascular system.
@@HammerbammersI remember reading a study about 25 years ago that theorised cholesterol, working as a repair system, rushed towards the heart in an attempt to repair a problem, and that that was why it was often observed in arteries after a heart attack.
About 15 years ago my blood results showed high LDL and I checked out three books from the library on the subject and read everything else I could find. I was already practicing a good diet and exercise. I decided the whole thing was rubbish. I'm nearly 58 now, feel great with no health problems. So glad I skipped the side effects from Staton drugs. Maybe I'll drop dead tomorrow, but something will get us all eventually. Trust in Jesus for salvation.
Amen to that.
You almost got a thumbs up for your commitment to free will and self-determination, but for the closing line 😉
I find myself in the same boat, and you and I have read almost all the same books.
Cheers, long life to you. 😊
@@HiVizCamoso you don’t like the closing line? You don’t trust in Jesus?
God is LIFE ! Without HIM you would have never been born.
CHRIST is the DOOR to Everlasting LIFE. His Blood has covered ALL my sins.
I Praise the Lord for HIS Mercy.
Take god Extra virgin olive oil, brings it down
My mother in law was 92 when she passed she ate red meat used lard to cook and make pastry and smoked drank brandy
Genetics plays a big role. Some of us need higher cholesterol to be healthy. Important to know your body and listen to it.
I know a guy who lived to be 99 yet ate from the dollar store.
I can assure you she is in the minority.
There’s too much money at stake to believe pro-statin research! Even my gout went away after going back to a high saturated fat diet against medical advice. Great video!
@@drphilipbosanquet That’s certainly what I found and they’re shocked and curious when you tell them how it went away as they never expect it to do that - lifetime chronic condition like diabetes!
@@drphilipbosanquet My sense is that the only diagnosis, effectively, is pharmaceutical deficiency.
Same here.
On that basis, beware every single money making money seeking You Tuber. Getting away with Snake Oil advice by carefully saying it is not medical advice etc.
@@robertkopp873 Great job!
Thank you Doctor Philip. I was prescribed Statins 4 years ago. Did not take them and I am in good health. My doctor wanted to scare me. I told her I am not afraid of dying, but she said: "You might have a stroke, sitting in your car and killing a bunch of pedestrians und you end up in a wheelchair."
This made me think, she is desperate to sell me something. So I avoided it.
5 years high fat carnivore.
Best decision of my life.
Need raw fruit and veg aswell for key enzymes
@@andrewhoughton-py1hqNo you don't. Fructose can cause fatty liver and insulin resistance. And you get everything you need from the fat. However, Vitamin D3, K2 are sometimes important to supplement unless you eat liver and get plenty of morning sun. And vegetables are full of pesticides, oxalates, and lectins.
@@andrewhoughton-py1hq After 5 years you telling me to eat veg and fruits? I don't even take any supplement. Stop listening to corporations. Some fruits are OK on carnivore, but not essential.
@@desmomotodesmomoto2033 lm not telling you to do anything. I don't listen to corporation's . Problems can arise later than 5 years.👍
@@andrewhoughton-py1hq BS. You listening to corporations, this is why you telling me to eat fruits and vegetables.
My anatomy professor in 1985 was saying the same thing: is not just as simple as the cholesterol number. He saw plenty of cases of people with "normal" cholesterol and heart attacks, and "high" cholesterol but healthy, just like these studies reported! WAKE UP, LEARN REAL SCIENCE, AND FOLLOW THE $$$!
After switching from a vegan diet to keto, my cholesterol spiked, and my doctor prescribed statins. When I told him that I refused to take them, he told me to find another doctor if my cholesterol levels didn't drop in 3 months. I referred him to the research I had been reading and had a follow-up appointment in 3 months. My cholesterol levels were still high, but he changed his mind about me finding another doctor and said it was my call. He still doesn't like my cholesterol levels, but after I told him I refuse to take any meds, and do not want to talk about it again, he relented.
Good for you for standing up for yourself!
Bravo!!! 👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Yup same thing my doc threatened to threatened to refer me another doctor I said ok, that was 2 years ago she still hasn't done it.
My brother, sister and I had bad reactions to statins and now refuse to take them. I "fired" two doctors for pushing statins after I told them about the side effects I experienced. Just in case you're wondering, statins gave me extreme pain in my lower legs and feet. I was walking around like an old man. After I stopped taking them, the pain started going away. It took about 6 months to get back to normal. I was on Crestor, brother on Zocor and sister on Lipitor. We all had similar issues.
Add being physically active with family and friends that make you happy. Social support. Family. That was one result of a study of a small town with a very low heart attack rate. No statins.
I can't wait until the covid vaccine research gets released in 70 years😢
Remember Thalidomide? They insisted that was safe.
@@rongablue And DDT, and margarine, and...
lol, I think the all cause mortality skyrocketing & shocking cancer rates in the young after 2021 should be a very obvious indicator... 🙄
@@djtoman6875bleach 🤭
I can't wait either. I'll be dead.
All of these studies are still ignored by those pushing the cholesterol hypothesis. Money talks :(
Most doctors are unable to ever admit they are wrong. That and "money talks" are both the problem.
These studies were confounded by the use of hydrogenated oils and spreads which were described as polyunsaturated oils and spreads. Unlike 50 years ago, we now know that tranfats are even worse than saturated fats for human health. You might find it useful to read Low-density lipoproteins cause atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease. 1. Evidence from genetic, epidemiologic, and clinical studies. A consensus statement from the European Atherosclerosis Society Consensus Panel
@@tomgoff7887 Saturated fats aren't bad for your health. But transfats are.
@@mariiris1403 The sciedntific evidence shows that, while ditary saturated fats may be as bad as refined carbohydrates and processed foods generally, they are worse for us than unsaturated fats and healthy carbs. That evidence doesn't sell many sensational books though nor is it convenient for the meat, dairy and processed food industries.
@@mariiris1403 see the AHA scientific report Dietary Fats and Carfiovascular Disease.
Retired UK cardiac rehab nurse here. Happy to see your video today. I was fighting the narrative on cholesterol for the last few years of my employment. I retired a decade ago. It seemed utterly obvious to me but mostly it fell on deaf ears.. the old narrative and constant bombardment on tv etc was too much to enable people to question their doctor’s decision. As with so many things nowadays the “consensus” argument is so adhered to it is almost heresy to question it. But we must constantly question and reevaluate when necessary.
According to the conventional idea , my decades old diet of fresh food, plus loads of traditional saturated fats and few carbs should have seen me off years ago and yet here I am, slim, healthy and zero medication at 75 yrs.
Right. Science should reevaluate and change as necessary.
Many years ago I was told by my doctor that my cholesterol was a little high and would increase my risk of heart/stroke problems. I asked what were the chances of me dying in the next twelve months and he agreed it was very unlikely. I then pointed out that taking statins would therefore only change it from very unlikely to very very unlikely.
Refused them and have survived a further ten years and am now healthier than I was then!
smart 👍
You took a great stance! That's their MO; fear. If you don't take this med or that you'll get a heart attack; stroke, blood clots; ailment dijour. They do the same with our pets; flea and tick chemicals, needless shots. We need more holistic Doctors and Veterinarians instead of drug pushers.
Oh how clever and simple!!
Very interesting. My LDL is about 190 and my HDL is 60 with my triglycerides being about 75. My Primary care provider has never put me on medication. She offered it to me if I wanted it, but I refused. My parents both had elevated levels but lived to be in their 90's, neither ever had any heart conditions.
I've been telling my doctor for years that my brain needs cholesterol, therefore refusing to take a statin
Jesus, tell me you have no idea of how a body works
Fire your doctor.
Agree. High cholesterol. No dementia? Cholesterol is what the brain needs
@@jamesfitzgerald6636 Actually, nomifyle is right. Our brains *_do_* need cholesterol.
What’s even crazier is the fact that your doctor can drop you as a patient for “non-compliance” if you refuse to take the meds they think you need. Heath are has become a criminal organization imo
Yep.
It's amazing how nutrition "experts" ignore these Very Important, well done studies...
Two truth tellers!
Post-covid ,the medical industry is less interested in helping people become well or stay well and are more focused on more billable hours. It is truly a travesty. I miss the old time family doctors, the ones that really wanted to make a difference, the ones that made house calls, the ones that listened to you and saw you as a human being and not a number and billable number.
A lot of doctors would agree with you. It is government policy running the show sadly.
When pressed by a reporter about weather cancer will ever be cured, a Pharma executive was quoted as saying, “Sure we can cure cancer. But, that’s not a profitable business model “
My unbelievably, strong, active, 86 year old mother called me and said she felt terrible. When I went over to check on her she said her doctor gave her Zocor. I told her to stop taking it. She asked me if she could do that. I told her that the doctor works for you, not the other way around. She had only taken the statin for 6 days and it took two weeks for her to feel good again. She lived by herself in great health until she died at 94. Her cholesterol? 313 was standard. They would have killed her with that crap. Instead she was active and happy until the end. Do NOT worship this quack doctors that would have you take statins or the vaccine. If they suggest you take either one, run for your life.
Yeah several years ago some quack doc put me on lipitor for a cholesterol level of 180. I took it for one week and never felt so tired and crappy. Throw the pills in the trash and never went back to that idiot and I feel great
Wife's doctor put my wife on statin. She started to show early stage of Alzheimer's (note; my mother had Alzheimer's ). I asked she stop taking it, within a week she was back to normal. My doctor tried to push statin on me also, I answered " No Satin drugs, if my slightly high cholesterol kills me, so be it. "
When the gene therapy shot(s) was being pushed hard, my instincts kicked in ' Danger, Danger '. At that point I had no evidence or info on the jab, but wise enough to listen to my instinct as it saved my life many times in the last 65 years.
The salt lie too, very dangerous lie!
@@redstone1999smart move. I did the same thing when everyone around me was taking the poison jab. I have lost some friends who wouldn't listen.
@joedon...: I agree with you about statins (etc.), I agree with you about quaky doctors but I do believe that vaccines offer something far and above what drugs do (but in moderation).
Hi from South Africa, many yeara ago I was much younger my doctor ran tests and told me I had high cholesterol, what he said next shocked me... he said you're too young for statins as statins will kill your liver before the cholesterol kills YOU 😮 I really appreciated his candour and never took them as chronic medicine.
SA doctors are the best.
Brilliant doctor! Rare find. South african carnivore here, working in the medical industry. I share a lot of what I have learned on this incredible journey with my patients. When you know better, you do better!
Absolute truth. Goes against the medical model which is obsessed with continuity drugs. The older we get, the more cholesterol is crucial to our well being
At 71, my doctor wanted to put on cholesterol drug. My cholesterol is 188. I stopped short of calling her out for malpractice.
@@drphilipbosanquet My doc was shocked how high my cholesterol is but would not prescribe a statin. He told me to change my diet. I stopped frying food, rather steam or boil it. Over 6 mo's I lost 30 lbs. I'm 71 this year.
@@drphilipbosanquet It is called depopulation.
Pharm. cos. DC investors etc
My father in law, now passed, was on a statin for decades and he, in his last years did not know where he was most of the time. When I was in my 40’s a cardiologist wanted me on a statin and I couldn’t have run away faster. Statins are one of the drugs good for the stock price but deadly for the human.
From my perspective as a diabetic, my logic runs like this. Sugar damages blood vessel walls. The role of cholesterol is repair of blood vessels. The body is good at producing what's needed, so when blood vessels are damaged, cholesterol is appropriately dispatched. So naturally, where you find blood vessel damage, you find cholesterol - and of course where you find that cholesterol, you find blood vessel disease. A mistake of cause and effect.
I observed something interesting in myself. As part of my restriction of carbs, I went to full fat dairy, heavy creme for coffee, Irish butter, full buttermilk, creme cheese, etc. as well as plenty of bacon. Those forms have little or no carbohydrate. The next month, my total cholesterol had dropped markedly. I believe that was simply because I had less circulating glucose and lower spikes, so less cholesterol was needed.
But medical dogma dies hard and always has.
Thanks for sharing this
So apparently sugar is my real problem. All the crap meds I was put on were treating what the sugar caused. Why not just tell me to cut back on the sugar instead of pumping me full of meds that made me feel horrible? No money in doing that I guess.
@@retrotek0409 First of all, this is not scientific certainty. Most of medicine is informed guessing. Professional guessers are called physicians. And every field has its deeply embedded dogma, which is long-lived. Part of my suspicion is because the sugar industry years ago paid two professors to produce study results that demonized fat and absolved sugar of all blame. One of those professors went on to be head of a federal nutrition agency. And out of that grew the cholesterol notions and the very profitable statins. Physicians were just applying what they were taught and what studies seemed to confirm, especially when the statistical methods were biased. And they are very attracted to a therapy in a bottle. Once the idea takes hold, then other studies tend to confirm the findings. Yes, where there's obstruction, there also is cholesterol. Denying the dogma can be just like a priest who denies dogma - your faith is questioned, and you may get cast out, in science meaning that your papers don't get published.
Now, this is not willful lying or an ongoing conspiracy. Everyone does believe in what they're doing. But I spent many years working with expert witnesses, and they all believed in their conclusions. If the conclusions were palpably absurd, it didn't mean they were being dishonest. They were simply letting bias rule. Busy physicians do not have the time to do deep critical reading in the specialized journals of every field. And they are not divine and are therefor limited by their own natural abilities, and they are not particularly more able to properly apply proper scientific practice. What do you call someone who finished med school with a D average? Doctor. (Actually some have a higher threshold, and many do only pass/fail. Pass/fail is safe. It doesn't leave numbers lying around for malpractice attorneys to harp on.)
And as in most things, it likely not so simple. No matter whey the cholesterol was dispatched, there may be good reason to worry about how it's working at the site where it is used. Plus, offer someone options of permanent and dramatic lifestyle changes and all the effort that goes with it or a pill, and see what happens. It is indeed a debate. But today, at least there is debate. Just because high cholesterol is not necessarily an evil, trans fats may still be bad for you. There are reasons to worry about LDL's. But most olf the things that raise LDL levels are lifestyle and environmental issues.
Here's what an expert who rejects the dogma says.
www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4684135/
I like this line: "I told him in no uncertain terms that elevated cholesterol was not the problem. Rather, the problem was a measure of his unhealthy diet and lifestyle, which the drugs could not fix." The patient took the pills and was dead in less than ten years without reaching 60.
You won't find any pat answers, but be careful not to create your own answers to suit your own biases. It's not simple.
I knew about the myth in the 90s. I told my doc I need my cholesterol for my libido among other health concerns.
@ 0:05 Good oils vs bad oils.
BAD (any oil that's been overpriccessed, overheated), & margarine (faux butter).
GOOD (oils that are first cold pressed).
New big fan! Should have seen look on face of Cardiologist, when I told him where to stick the Statins.
Tiny Back-story. this was the 6 months checkup after heart attack @ 58, and 6 months of Dr. Berry advice.
AND he just told me I was the biggest Turn-Around he has ever seen in 35 years. He was not interested in why. Not even a little...
I took these Statins in 2017 and was paralyzed in my legs with extreme pain, couldn't even get in a car. I stopped them and within a couple weeks, I could walk again.
Thanks so much for warning us about statins.
God Bless ❤️ 🙌
Yes similar to me ! chronic knee pain, soon as I stopped taking them no more pain 👍
@jerryross7135 God Bless 🙌 the powers that be know all the symptoms statins cause but they carry on selling them because its big money.
They want to out me on statins they can run and jump. 👎👎
same with me. I could hardly walk and it was extremely painful
My mother knew this years and decades ago as a 1958
Qualified British trained registered nurse … they were taught to use their common sense alongside labour 🙏🏽
Nice to know that not all drs are controlled by non medically trained beurocrats and the pharma industry. Unfortunately there are very few like you in Australia. I'm guessing you have come across Nicholas Norwich, a medical student in the USA who's motto is to " stay curious". While drs stay curious then we can have some form of protection against the bone headed beurocrats. Another of your British compatriats Dr rasheed malhotra is also worthy of note for standing up against said beurocrats, who proposed lowering the cholesterol threshold for recommending statin prescription. Happily the beurocrat was overruled on this occasion.
I’ve had high cholesterol for years. No amount of exercise or change in diet seemed to make any difference. I just had a CAC scan to see if I had any plaque so I could make an informed decision about statins. My score was 0 so I’m not going to take statins. My parents are in their mid eighties and they both have high cholesterol so I guess it’s just normal for my family as all my siblings have high cholesterol too.
The health organization ( big pharma ) have changed the numbers on many tests. Blood pressure used to be normal at 140 but now it’s high and needing medication
I’m married to a Dr, her and her fellow Dr’s believe because they went to medical school they know everything. My personal biggest pet peeve, people who can never be wrong.
Dr.s only know what they are taught from books….they lose a lot of common sense in academia. Drug incentives from Pharmaceutical Companies should be cause for jail sentences.
Bet they all took the coof juice
How do you cope with that she needs to grow a way of doing things to help naturaly too
My daughter moved to Australia almost a year ago. She is now 41 and a type 1 diabetic. Her drs there took her off 6 or more medications that Drs here in US put her on. They said they don't understand why the sea here put us on so many meds. My daughter feels and looks amazing now. We need to do better in the US.
American healthcare is largely based on the profit motive, unfortunately.
money and kickbacks. false information from the big pharma
From South Africa: As far as I am aware, USA doctors prescribe AND sell / dispense the medication they themselves prescribe - making double-profit from prescribing and selling medication. In other countries one has doctors that prescribe, while pharmacists / dispensaries / chemists will provide according to the doctor's prescription. Therein lies some "second thinking" and less motive for doctors to prescribe all kinds of drugs: Their focus is on giving quality advice (and making money from it) rather than giving profitable advice.
USA is the worst place on the PLANET FOR DRUGGING PEOPLE AND KILLING THEM.
Forget all the "scores" of this and that. Exercise daily, eat good food, not too much (you know what that is), don't smoke or drink. Relax. And live your life.
K
Er don’t drink AT ALL? Sorry, you lost me….🙂
The whole country of Italy and Greece would rebel against the idea of no more alcohol. They drink a glass of wine every single day of their life.
@@stevef9530My grandfather drank a bottle of whiskey every week and lived to be 100. Btw, he had no health ailments either
And stay out of Dr's offices. At least most Dr's offices. There are some good ones out there and it seems that the Dr that did this video may be one of them.
Aren't the levels recommended influenced by the pharmaceutical industry?
I wouldn't want to be Ancel Keys upon his final judgement. How many lives have been ruined and lost from his machinations?
I thought about that too…
Turns out that much of what doctors have been telling us to do is in fact bad for our health, but great for the doctors standard of living (trips, cars, flash homes).
I'm positive I lost 10 good years of my earlier life due to taking statins for cholesterol. Many years ago I stopped all drugs that were prescribed. I looked at improving my diet and I took more exercise! I returned to the heart specialist and she advised all was good! 'Are you still taking the statins' ? I said no , I stopped many months ago! The look I got was priceless! Still running strong at 73. Life your life correctly!
Why does cholesterol go down when these patients were on vegetable oil?
Why does any resource go down? Thats not a tough question, and the answer is obvious. Resources go down WHEN THEY ARE USED.
One of the most important jobs of cholesterol is healing. Damage control. When people intake vegetable oil, cholesterol goes down, as it repairs the damage caused by vegetable oil. Why would vegetable oils cause damage? One reason might be because they are not natural. They are man made.
How do you get oil out of something? Squeeze it. Olive oil can be squeezed to give you olive oil. Avocado oil is gotten the same way as well as coconut oil. One might call these fruit oil (that term just came to me, I dont like it). But you cannot squeeze corn and get the oil out of it. You need to use chemical extraction. They use HEXANE to extract the oil. Hexane is a by product of petroleum distillation. Used to make gasoline, kerosene, propane, hexane. Those tall skinny smoke stacks at the oil refinery, that often has flaming vapors coming out the top. At different levels in this smoke stack are condensation points (my term, I dont know what they are really called) that collect each type of gas. The heavier stuff at the bottom and lighter stuff as you go up.
But hexane is one of these. Hexane draws oil out of the corn. Any vegetable has oils or fats in it that can be drawn out. Simply flow the hexane over it, it draws out the oils, bottle it. Tada! You have corn oil, or safflower oil, or palm oil, or non-virgin olive oil. The stuff you can no longer squeeze out can be extracted using hexane. But here is the catch… these oils need to be heated to a certain temperature to remove the hexane from the oil. So besides being a plant based oil, if thats not damaging enough, and it is damaging, you need to deal with the petroleum by products.
Sorry about all of that, but its good to know where vegetable oil comes from, as well as seed oils, these are made the same way. Hexane extraction.
So back to cholesterol… the patients getting vegetable oil are getting damaged. The cholesterol goes down as a result of being used. When the damage is repaired, it goes right back up to where it was before.
You can see this take place in the “Oreos vs Statins” experiment. I forget his name. Smart guy, figures shit out. He ate a sleeve of Oreos a day, and his cholesterol went down A LOT. He did this for several weeks. He then let levels rise back up to normal, and did the test again, this time taking statins. It went down, but no where near the amount of drop from the cookies. Again, drop can come from healing damage. Any carbohydrate will probably cause this. Sugar damages the body. Cholesterol heals it.
This always gets overlooked in these “studies”. Which are epidemiological studies. Which can not inform on risk. The guy in the video kept saying risk of death, but instead he should have been saying “the incidence” of death. Because when you use epidemiology, you can not asses risk. The data just isn’t there.
Dr. RobertJohnson- thank you. Your info / advice made great sense to me. I am now relieved and happy that I turned down statin 40mg, strongly urged by my GP at Kaiser just because my total cholesterol was 376 (LDL 160, HDL 108, trig 108}. It's been at this level for the last 20+ years and in good health otherwise. Calcium test scored 0. She stlll tells me I may "drop dead" at any time.
Thanks for that. Very interesting information, and I think you're probably right about the cholesterol level dropping because it's being used. An overlooked explanation for its rise in old age is the natural drop in DHEA, which is the precursor for sex hormones. Reduced manufacture of sex hormones would mean higher levels of cholesterol.
@@CriticalLinker I agree. Cholesterol level is set by our genes. Everyone’s level will be different. That is base level. Some people may have base level of 150, others may be 300.
@@drphilipbosanquet but it does imply death was caused by…
TY Dr. Johnson, this was a really helpful comment you posted. Sure do appreciate your knowledge and time to post this information!!!
Thank you for your efforts. I recommend adding your medical bio to your YT description. An MD that can think is a rare thing indeed. God bless you.
I am nurse in cardiology since 25 years. ALL patients on statin therapy become heart infarctions, we never had even one who was not on statin. The conclusion is simple: statins don’t prevent heart attacks.
Thank you I refused statins recently. You made me feel better about my decision.
My brother and my mum were both on statins. My brother died of a heart attack and my mother died from heart failure. I have high cholesterol and have for many many years. I have refused statins. I know if I improve my liver health my cholesterol levels will go down accordingly. The body produces the cholesterol it needs to function. Interfering with that process using statins is what causes issues.
I'd heard about some of these findings several years ago when my doctors started hounding me about having what the textbooks considered to be "High Cholesterol" levels.
I was just at a routine doctor's appointment yesterday to go over my latest blood tests focusing on my cholesterol levels.
Virtually every doctor I've ever seen who had ordered cholesterol testing on me all rattled off almost verbatim, the big-pharma warnings of not getting my cholesterol levels down.
My latest blood tests showed that my cholesterol levels had "Improved" by a few points compared to the previous tests. I had already researched the information presented in this video so, I didn't really care what my latest blood testing indicated.
The sad irony here is that at least three of the doctors from my past that warned me adamantly about lowering my cholesterol levels are now no longer among the living. They're dead, and I'm still alive. Go figure.
I'm going to have to forward this video to my doctor, even though I know that she'll most likely side with big pharma.
Follow the money. 🤷🏻♀️
Don't send this to her. She will complain to youtube and they will take it down.
My dr told me when i was 32 i needed to get my tot cholesterol down ( I weighed 135 lbs..5'3"... he said he didn't want to put me on statins as i was a bit too young.. he said stats showed id be dead at 40 if i didn't get it lowered ( it was 25) im 66 now, feel like a 36 yr old
Yea, drs have to go by " reliable " testing and research that has been approved by their bosses ( AMA?
Best practices,,
Guess those doctors took their own advice
Preach it Bro! 69 years old with Lipids off the charts and a mild TIA 5 years ago. I do not care where my blood markers are these days. I care about my diet & lifestyle.
Three years of Ketovore + OMAD & walking + weights and No Statins.
I do I really are and I've tried statins but id rather not feel disabled or in pain in my legs... id rather have quality of life.. ill keep watching my diet and exercise.. eventually ill get a lab test to check levels
Ketovore? Wh at does that entail?
And don't believe for one minute that facts will change the doctors mind.
Half of the GPs I have seen did so, when I presented them with evidence from their colleagues working in research or epidemiology. A burn-out rate of 30-40% is surely an indicator that GPs don't have the time to keep up-to-date.
Also of note, vegetable oil by itself is extremely unhealthy & should not be eaten by humans but rather only used as a machine lubricant. I'm a big believer in (and consumer of) saturated fats, but I'd like to see if this study could be done with something other than vegetable or seed oils.
As a child in the 1940s,we never had vegetable oils,not even olive oil,everything was cooked in lard or dripping ,and heart problems and cancer rates were lower than now,and there were less fat people.
@@jeanbrown8295 and now young people are fat & getting cancer that used to be in the 60+ only range. Food is medicine, bad food is poison :(
Absolutely! Seed oils are as natural for humans as meat is for a cow...
Say that to Italy and they are amongst the people that live the most. American way of thinking is rather deadly.
@@Cliodhna-z1i Are you saying Italians eat a lot of seed oils? Olives aren't seeds...
The only time I ever had any problem with my cholesterol was when I was eating at restaurants almost every day two times a day and I was drinking lots of beer. I cut way down on eating out and drinking beer never had any issues after that.
The problem (for me) is that if you see a doctor and they send you for a blood test and the LDL comes back even slightly high, they instantly bang on about statins, even when told that you won't take them, and if you go against their advice and don't take them, what's the point of going to to the doctor? How do you get an honest and, more importantly, up-to-date opinion without going to the doctor?
By spending a week-end reading research, trials and analytical papers on Pub-Med.
Could you please do a video about Familial hypercholesterolemia, thank you.
Outstanding video. Clear, concise and evidence based. Subbed.
I’ve been on keto for two years and and my recent blood tests sent my GP into panic mode over LDL levels. This led to me being invited to an appointment to discuss taking statins. I was never going to take them, but what was most amusing was being spoken to about cholesterol and general health by a woman who was twice the size she should be. Irony really doesn’t cover it.
A a nurse I was told years ago that the original study was likely flawed and that we really don’t know if elevated cholesterol levels lead to heart disease or are the body’s natural response to a damaged heart. After hearing this and seeing how many physicians are quick to put patients on cholesterol, I determined never to take statins. In my mid sixties, and for the first time in my life I had an abnormal HDL during a recent checkup. It was low as was my LDL. My physician immediately sent a script to my pharmacy for a statin which I did not fill. Subsequent tests have not shown any abnormal results. I wish that the general public could understand that every medication we take is also a poison and we should not be so quick to consume them.
Wait, he wanted to put you on statins for having low cholesterol?
They will realy use any excuse to push that-poison
Remember Terry pratchet? Boasting he'd got his cholesterol down to 2 and died with dementia as mad as a hatter
A number of years ago, my previous GP told me to try a low dose of statins. One week later I had to stop because of liver pain. When I told her this, she said stick with it or take a week off and try it again. Now my new Doctor wants me on statins and I refused. My triglycerides are 71, HDL 61, LDL (the so-called bad cholesterol) is 149 - total cholesterol 222. Big pharma has ruin medical care.
Why can't such scientists who lie in their research and puts people's life at risk be arrested or made unaccountable.
Because bigger criminals are at the top running things.
Blame John D. Rockefeller, he is the one who created the pill popping paradigm, displacing the holistic approach to health back in 1920. Because drugs use petroleum in their manufacture and he had 90% monopoly on the resource.
I have stopped taking statins. My cholesterol has gone up slightly, but i dont care. The Dr. Told me if I take statins it reduces the chance of a heart attack or stroke by 10%. He had no answer when i pointed out that his statement meant that i had a 90% chance of not getting either.
Brave. Reminds me of ABBA's 'Take a chance on me'. A little transient ischaemic stroke (TIS) can shrink a part of your cerebellum and cause (e.g.) dysdiadochokinesia. Not nice then when you're sober but walk at times like you're drunk.
Let's look at homocysteine instead of cholesterol. Dr Kilmer McCully
👍Yes, mine is good ...I mentioned it to the Doctor and no comment. He would like me to take statin...no way❣
Years ago the ABC (Australia) ran a documentary on cholesterol citing research and speaking to researchers saying similar things as you are. The next day the Australian Medical Association was having a melt down. Drs flooded the govt with complaints. That doco is nowhere to be found now.
My mother had a heart attack @52. Her cholesterol was fine, but her triglycerides were a bit high. She didn’t smoke. She ate healthy for the most part. My father ate bacon and eggs daily, plus other fat laden foods. He also smoked for about 30 years. No heart attacks and lived to 100.
High chance your mother's heart attack was due to her menopause and her estrogen lowering. Estrogen protects from heart attacks. You should research and not take my word for it. Fat in diet helps with Adrenal glands taking over from ovaries that stop working. Your father had excellent genes lol
Excellent presentation!
Extremely well done video! Nice clear voice, easy to understand and very good graphs showing everything. Congrats! Thanks!
I worked with a cardiac consultant when I was in nurse training (early 90s) He told us that it's inflammation that causes plaques to form in blood vessels, the vessel's lumen becomes rough due to constant inflammation, reduce the inflammation and the atherosclerosis stops.
This was proven in myself an overweight, high LDL cholesterol, hypothyroid older woman with chest pain. Having a heart scan with dye they found zero calcium build up even in the tiniest vessels. Why? Because I have auto immune disease for which I take ibuprofen, an anti-inflammatory medication on a daily basis.
I would be very wary of the ibuprofen as a cause for increased intestinal permeability my friend.
I was built at 19 and my cholesterol was 870 and my triglycerides were over 1400. I got so sick from statins I won't take them. I've never had cholesterol under 250. It's BS. I have autoimmune disease (lyme) that screws up my system. BTW I'm 57
I went to the clinic and they asked me what drugs I was on and I said none.They told me that that wasn't normal for my age.I got a call later that day and was told I needed to be on cholesterol drugs.That was about 15 years ago and now the doctor said the same thing and he told me if your over 40 you need to be on cholesterol drugs.I told him off and said he was just a drug pusher for big pharma and he was speechless.He didn't even have any numbers on me and was pushing drugs on me.Doctors don't cure anything they drug symptoms and create more health issues with too many drugs.My ex girlfriend started having seizures so they gave her epilepsy drugs but it was a combination of other drugs that caused the problem.She is now off all those drugs and is fine.These doctors take no responsibility for the damage they do pushing all those poisons.
In Canada the Federal Government cares so much about peoples health it ads Palm Oil to Dairy feed. Compare grass fed butter to corn and palm oil fed butter, the grass fed out of the fridge is nearly as soft as the palm oil fed butter sitting on the table. In a warm summertime room, the grass fed melts into a puddle while the palm oil butter remains a solid block. Wounder why your arteries are clogged?
Palm oil is fine. It has been used for 1000s of years and has saturated fat. It has been demonized the same way animal fats have been by the quack medical industry. Palm oil is in the same league as olive oil
Canada is one of the only developed nations to continue mining and exporting asbestos. So much for health concerns.
I found some good advice many years ago and it's been pretty successful. Stay away from your local GP as much as possible. We refused the jibby jabby and haven't seen a doctor since 2020. Exercise, positive thinking and fasting have left us two feeling fantastic.
My relatives all had hyper lip. And they all lived to 83-100
Several years ago, I was so sick of hearing about older people who lived to a ripe old age due to being a vegetarian, I did a search on the oldest person alive, which at that time was a 116 year old Italian lady who ate the same thing every day. Three eggs, a plate of raw meat and some fresh pasta. Virtually no vegetables or fruit. She had been told as a young lady that she was anemic and this was the diet that was prescribed. So, she stayed on it her entire life. You will never her about her in the medical press or mainstream media. Wonder why??
Yes, just look on the cemetery. Those generations who lived longest have been those born in or short after the second world war. Their diet was everything that is considered a bad diet today.
And besides this, everyone knows that heart attacks and strokes are more a genetically thing. There are people where it runs in the family and for generations people die around the same age, though they lived in completely different times and environments.
Cholesterol is a vital. We need lots of it. Women entering menopause need vast amounts of it. There is a reason your body makes varied amounts at different times in your life. The worst diet is low fat, seed oils, synthetic sugars, processed factory foods. If your bread is wrapped in plastic it isn't bread despite the label. If your bread lasts longer than 48 hours it is not bread.
Nice presentation, which sums up nicely how we've been mislead. Look forward to more of your concise Podcasts to refer to, to optimise my health. Thanks.
I've given up seed oils (corn, vegetable, Canola) and gone to Lard, Tallow, Butter and Olive oil.
After switching, my cholesterol has been within normal range for a full year now, when before it was very high. Not telling you what to do, just what I did and the effect.
Make sure it IS 100% butter and not a mix.
@@kingston163 Its the "spreadable" butter that is the mix.
Inflammation is probably the main cause of plaque , not cholesterol per se
Government lies to us?!?! Crazy, I would have never thought that. Lol
A danger to humans. Govt.
@@janetmalcolm6191 And doctors.
@@janetmalcolm6191So with 8 billion people on the planet what would your plan be to make sure there is social order?
I don't think it's so much the government as it is the big corporations that own the pharmaceutical companies and also can fund the research. Ever since we allowed corporations to donate money, they have owned our government and we need to take it back.
My endocrinologist keeps upping my Synthroid, which makes me feel absolutely worse than taking a lesser amount. I tried to tell him, and instead of lowering the dose, he raises it. He said he's doing this according to my blood work. Guess what, whatever dose he prescribes, I end up cutting the pills in half and feel so much better. He's not helping me to get off of the Synthroid, he's upping the dose and says I need it. I don't think he knows what he's doing. He also thinks I should be taking a statin and Mounjaro. I really need a new doctor.
I wouldnt trust him with a box of grapes!
@@Bugsworththank you, I agree with you. I'm searching for a new doctor.
I'm subscribed 🙂- great video, thanks. Wish we had GPs like you in NZ. I am a year out from a heart attack, - changed to keto, dropped 15 kgs, feeling fit - keeping actvie. I did have a small dense ldls showing, hopefully over time I can drive them away with my changes, but shortage of GPs here to support one on such a journey.
@@drphilipbosanquet Much gratitude for your response. My bloods got sent to Australia to get my LDL subfractions done. I will be watching all your instalments. 🙂. Awesome, meaningful stuff you are doing.
In the late 80's when my gynecologist started testing my cholesterol as part of the "exam", I thought that was weird and refused to get on meds. My dad, who was in his late 70's; he was always in great shape, had cholesterol levels in the high 200's. Around that same time, he was tested for irregular heart beats (which turned out to be nothing) but his test results showed all his valves were clear. At that point, I saw absolutely no correlation between high cholesterol numbers and blocked arties. If his levels were "dangerously high" yet no blockages existed when he was in his late 70's, what did it all mean? To me, it meant it was all BS.
My husband and I are on the carnivore diet (he is ketovore) Our cholesterol numbers are off the charts. However, per a John’s Hopkins study and others on remnant cholesterol, (total cholesterol minus LDL and HDL) we are in the healthy range. My MD had no idea what remnant cholesterol was. We have an epidemic of Alzheimer’s and Dementia due to lack of fat which our brains need. We have an epidemic of obesity due to the total non food diet that people in America eat. Diabetes and or insulin resistance are the culprit of most statin drug takers. I literally had a cardiologist tell me that his job is to ‘keep people alive’. He scoffed when I asked about the quality of the life he’s providing to them.
Enough said.
Quality of life is focus one , the rest will fall into place. How much a day does that diet cost and what meats do you eat?
@@davidrockefeller2007 cost would depend on where you live and the access you have to farm meat and eggs/bacon vs store bought. I eat mostly red meat and eggs. Skin on chicken and pork added in once or twice per week. However, I started out on what’s known as BBB&E (beef, butter, bacon, eggs) until I lost the excess weight that has crept on as I approach 60 yo. My husband had a mild stroke in Sept 2023, and I purged our home of all junk, and carbohydrates. The only dairy we use is heavy cream. At this point we’re both healthier and actually eat less than when we ate a standard American diet. If I crave crunchy, I eat spicy pork rinds, or bacon chips (bacon I’ve cut up and cooked in a covered pot). So, living in NY, if I had to guess at a daily cost of eating for both of us (hubby still eats low GI veggies that don’t create a huge insulin response), I’d estimate about $20 per day for everything both of us consume. That would include about 8lbs of bacon, and roughly 8 dozen eggs per month. Meats I get from Omaha steaks (found a deal I subscribed to that gives me a variety of steak burgers made from sirloin, rib, filet mignon…68 count, and some pork for $130./3 mos), and White Oak Pastures meats which cost me about $250 for 50lbs of different red meats. However, they are a fresh farm and their meats aren’t aged.
There is also a company I tried recently called, ‘Just Meats’ which gives you precooked meats in a variety of dishes. My first subscription was for 13 different meats/recipes for $110. For the two of us it worked out to be 26 meals.
There are so many different meat delivery companies out there, so you’d have to look at them and see if they fit your personal budget. I will say, our groceries average $500 or less for two people per month. Which is much cheaper than what it was with all the excess chips, dairy, snacks etc… The plus is, we don’t have the munchies, we feel better, no bloating, gas, mental fog, tiredness, and when I eat the occasional veggie, I have been able to tell if they cause any type of inflammation or off feeling with my body.
Check out Dr. Ken Berry on UA-cam. He’s a great wealth of info on Keto and Carnivore. I don’t consider this a diet, but a way of eating to live vs living to eat.
Good luck and I hope I was helpful.
🌼Lily🌼
I gave up statins about 3 months ago, most of my aches and pains went away, i don't wake up sore now, also cutting carbs and my weight has dropped, eating more meat with the fat on, and my thoughts and maths skills have improved, I'm 54