Harlan Krumholz, professor of medicine and cardiologist at the Yale University School of Medicine, says there is no scientific basis to support treating LDL targets.

by Dr. Mercola One in four Americans aged 45 and older take statin drugs to lower cholesterol and supposedly “prevent heart disease.” That amounts to 32 million Americans or, as Peter Wehrwein pointed out in the Harvard Health Letter, the equivalent of the entire populations of Florida and Illinois combined.i If you’re one of these [...]

The failure of cholesterol lowering to affect overall survival justifies a more cautious appraisal of the probable benefits of reducing cholesterol concentrations in the general population.

Graphic by JS Creationzs by Gaia Health No level is too low for the vaccinators. Now, they’re close to a vaccine they purport will fight heart attacks by attacking LDL cholesterol—an absolutely necessary substance made by the body and carried in the blood to maintain health. If you had antibodies against LDL cholesterol, then you [...]

by Alliance for Natural Health LDL cholesterol is demonized, but we’ve told you the other side of the story. Now a new discovery adds to the growing list of health benefits. There may be a link between low levels of “bad” low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol—that is, not enough of it—and increased cancer risk, according to [...]

Health Impact News Comments: While Dr. Peter Osborne does not even address the issue of whether or not it is desireable to lower one’s cholesterol, and the dangers of doing so, he does an excellent job illustrating just how worthless statin drugs are in doing what they are prescribed to do, which is to lower [...]

Dr John Briffa The Cholesterol Truth Someone sent me an interesting link this week. It was to a letter which had been published in the Daily Mail newspaper on 13th March. Entitled ‘Medical statistics which just don’t add up…’ it was written by Dr G Edlin, a doctor based in north-west London in the UK. [...]

Dr. Schersten,  professor of Vascular Surgery, University of Göteborg and previously the Principal Secretary of the Swedish Medical Research Council, headed up this study which was recently published in the Scandinavian Cardiovascual Journal. Abstract The cholesterol hypothesis links cholesterol intake and blood levels to cardiovascular disease. It has had enormous impact on health care and society [...]

by PreventDisease.com Perhaps one of the biggest health myths propagated in western culture and certainly in the United States, is the correlation between elevated cholesterol and cardiovascular disease (CVD). Unfortunately, despite dozens of studies, cholesterol has not been shown to actually cause CVD. To the contrary, cholesterol is vital to our survival, and trying to [...]

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