The Church slapped Galileo down: he was found “vehemently suspect of heresy” (that crime you could get burned for) and sentenced to house arrest for the rest of his life. Not heart specifically, but this is the conclusion from Dr Sebastian Rushworth’s paper, ‘Is red meat healthy?’ As with other modern tissue-specific degenerative conditions (I don’t care for the phrase “chronic diseases”— don’t like either of the two words applied, because I reject the implicit analogy to microbe-induced pathologies and I also reject the notion that there is anything (other than the behavior/diet of the individual) intrinsically persistent/persisting in the root cause), it is the BIOLOGY (and its evolution) that is so much disrespected and ignored. For cancer, for another example, it is Tom Seyfried, Peter Pedersen and many other heterodox “outcasts” (John Pawelek just recently died, I noticed by happenstance) who have focused on the biology rather than the massive institutional interests, and have filled out the enormous efforts and theses of Warburg from nearly a century ago, essentially completing the understanding of what cancer biology is and is not. BUT, I eat very low carb, so it’s the saturated fat on my lamb chops (and some wine) that’s making me a bit porky.

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Thank you for challenging orthodoxy and thinking differently, you are not the first and won’t be the last (I hope)!

I urge everyone to watch the brief piece by Daniel Hannan: Our moment of liberty is coming to an end https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ixth_kYzF9c So, since there clearly aren’t enough of the types of podcast that I want to listen to out there, I figured that I have to start one of my own. Well, voila!

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However in practice, cholesterol and lipids only play a small role, and instead there are many other different factors. My only wish was that there was more about statin's. That was what I was looking for but that topic was not covered in significant detail. He definitely beats up the cholesterol / heart disease narrative that has led to overprescribing statins to the tune of trillions of dollars. I just wanted to hear more and learn if there were cases where statins made sense and what he believes their role should be in medicine.I’d forgotten the significance of cholesterol CRYSTALS within plaque – the crystals come from the pure cholesterol in red blood cells, not from LDL, which contains cholesterol esters (BTW I suppose this couldn’t get hydolised in some way during plaque formation?. There is no necessary conflict between the Bible and the earth going around the sun, so Galileo was never implying that the Bible was wrong. You seemed to go hot and cold about alcohol consumption. You said that the body consumes alcohol as its preferred fuel – thus causing it not to consume all its glucose. I thought I had read from you or someone that although alcohol contains a lot of calories these are just wasted (maybe as heat?). Looking it up, I see that alcohol dehydrogenase does indeed produce NADH as it oxidises alcohol. A fantastic book, clearly outlining in a humorous (but spot on) way that causes (and more importantly, the non causes) of cardiovascular disease ( CVD) This is not just cutting edge science about the causes but also a nice, easy to follow solution to help improve your health. hi again Dr K – just following up on insulin… I wonder if the primary function of insulin being to transport glucose into cells means that it has some kind of power to weaken cell walls which might explain why it might be damaging.

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The Peter Bogdanovich story is a Hollywood tale through and through, replete with memorable associations and fantastic success, along with dramatic ups and downs. I’m in the middle of the book and it’s very well done, as expected. One question that has come to mind is at one point you say that they haven’t found a way to lower LP(a), but I’ve read at least one study saying evolocumab lowers LP(a). Interestingly, that study also says that the quartile with the highest LP(a) was at the highest risk for CVD events, irrespective of LDL levels. But that doesn’t seem to get any comment. I’m not a professional, just someone with a brain and some success in managing auto-immune conditions of which I have several! I see no mention of omega-3 vs omega-6 fatty acids. If I recall correctly, prehistorical (before 1980) studies showed that the prostacyclin derived from omega-3 was more potent than the prostacyclin derived from omega-6, and the corresponding thromboxanes from omega-6 was more potent than omega-3. I’ve been thinking about starting a podcast of my own for a while now, where I talk to the most interesting and original thinkers in health and medicine. I listen to a lot of medical and health science podcasts, and there are some that are truly excellent, such as The Drive with Peter Attia, Ivor Cummins’ Fat Emperor podcast, and the Diet Doctor podcast with Bret Scher, but they’re still far too few to keep me satisfied. There are of course many more, often organized by the big medical journals themselves, which are also ok, but they shy away from interviewing the people with really groundbreaking things to say, because those things often fall outside of the current dominant dogmas. And as we know, the big medical journals are all about maintaining the status quo.Agreed, vitamin C was likewise my first thought upon reading the words “The first step is that: The plaque starts, due to endothelial damage.” Blood offers less resistance to the electrical current than other body tissues. Usually there’s a large amount of current that flows through blood vessels, and that can causes damage to the lining. Increases the risk of thrombosis. Stroke is always possible.” His statement is wholly false," was our hero’s reply. "It was his miserable villainy that deprived me of my liberty, and kept me away from my work." In the first scenario, the majority needs to be convinced that what the governments are doing is wrong and the governments will stop the Covid nonsense to win elections. My simple theory is that our ancestors evolved to live strenuously – some of the time. Chimps, for instance, being mainly herbivorous, are compelled to spend a lot of the hours in the day grabbing leaves and suchlike, leaving them to be digested by bacteria in their big barrel-like guts. Like cows. They also have to move around. When our ancestors descended to the ground and began hunting, they had to walk and run rather a lot – and probably jump and climb when they were noticed by big cats or even bigger angry ungulates. It is a known fact that a fit human being can keep running longer than any plausible prey animal, making it possible to hunt just by chasing until the prey lies down and gives up. I think modern-day hunter-gatherers walk and run something like 20 miles per day; but they think nothing of that, because they are used to it.

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Also, PCSK9 inhibitors are discussed, citing a reduction of MI of 27% vs placebo – with minimal reduction of death. I’m hoping your book will educate me a bit more on how to best help him stay alive as long as possible, big ask I know but important when we have no where else to turn to for help these days. Analysis from VAERS of specific batch toxicity shows that approx. 1 in 200 batches cause most of the adverse reaction reports (e.g. over 1000 reactions per batch) and the other batches result in very few reactions, e.g. only 1 or 2. What is more is that it looks as if there is a regular pattern to the toxic events. This is a very significant finding IMHO. Is it possible to further locate the batch production facilities and see if some have particularly bad quality? But it won’t be read by a lot of the public who, despite having some intelligence, will avoid it because it is “not my area of expertise” and too long, quake quake. Most of the population reads short articles in magazines, newspapers and online. And they seem to believe it all too.This book has appeared at a very opportune time, from the medical point of view. Too late for many I fear, but it may help to save some.