If you have been told that you must take statins or risk a devastating heart attack or stroke, you need to read this book. Dr Kendrick, a well-known statin sceptic and author of the bestselling <i>The Great Cholesterol Con</i>, has returned to the diet-heart-cholesterol battlefield to warn that people are being conned.<br><br>In relaxed and humorous style, he lifts the rock to allow the reader to peer underneath. He points out that statins, even in high-risk individuals, increase life expectancy by a mere four days after five years of treatment. Yet adverse effects have been swept under the carpet by researchers who are closely tied to the industry.<br><br>The way to avoid heart disease, and strokes, is simple – but, as this riveting book shows, it has nothing to do with lowering cholesterol levels.
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Dr Malcolm Kendrick. A Statin Nation
Contents
Introduction
Notes
What is CVD?
Notes
What is the Average Blood Pressure in Various Blood Vessels?
What is Atherosclerosis?
Notes
Heart Attacks and Strokes
HEART ATTACKS
STROKES
Notes
What are Fats?
FATTY ACIDS AND TRIGLYCERIDES
POLYUNSATURATED FATTY ACID
Notes
Triglycerides
Notes
What is Cholesterol?
Notes
What is Your Blood Cholesterol Level?
Notes
Cholesterol Lowering Without Statins
POWERING CLINICAL TRIALS
BLOCKBUSTER DRUGS – WHAT ARE THEY?
Notes
What is a Statin?
PLEIOTROPIC EFFECTS
THE STATIN TRIALS
DEATHS PER BILLION MILES TRAVELLED
HOW MANY SERIOUS ADVERSE EVENTS WILL STATINS DELAY?
Notes
The Downside of Statins
HOW STATINS CAUSE HARM
Notes
The Diet-Heart Meme
PURE STUDY, DIRECTLY CONTRADICTORY TO RECENT AHA ADVISORY
Notes
Does Raised Cholesterol (LDL) Cause CVD?
THE FRAMINGHAM STUDY
THE AUSTRIAN STUDY
THE (OTHER) AMERICAN STUDY
THE WORLDWIDE STUDY
THE HIDDEN STUDIES
THOSE WITH FH ARE FAR MORE LIKELY TO DIE OF CVD, AND AT A YOUNG AGE
Notes
How to Avoid Dying of CVD and Anything Else
Notes
Diet, Lifespan and CVD
Vitamins, Supplements and Medication
VITAMINS
SUPPLEMENTS
MEDICATION
Notes
What of Testing and Screening?
BLOOD CLOTTING/THROMBOPHILIA
Notes
Heart Rate Variability (HRV)
Notes
Salt
Notes
The Placebo Effect
Notes
The Top Ten Ways to Avoid Heart Disease and Live Longer
About the Author
Copyright
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Almost ten years ago, I wrote a book called The Great Cholesterol Con. I tried to outline, as clearly as I could, why the central ideas about cardiovascular disease (CVD, i.e. basically heart attacks and strokes) were absolutely, completely and totally wrong. I knew that the impact would be instant and earth shattering.
There would be an immediate realisation that saturated fat and cholesterol have nothing whatsoever to do with CVD. Medical experts and opinion leaders would reverse their thinking, and the public would fling their statins into the nearest dustbin. Guidelines would be hastily rewritten around the world. My Nobel Prize would be polished furiously in Sweden. My acceptance speech was already written and it was a cracker … humble, witty, incisive.
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Left to their own devices, experts drift inexorably to extremism. After all, what is the point of having an important new guidelines meeting if you can’t then tighten, ban, enforce or demand that everyone must do something different. The inevitable end result being either ‘nothing’ or ‘everything’. This is now a well-defined phenomenon of ‘group-think’, as outlined in this article in the Spectator: ‘To become an extremist, hang around with people you agree with. Cass Sunstein – co-author of the hugely influential Nudge and an adviser to President Obama – unveils his new theory of ‘group polarisation’, and explains why, when like-minded people spend time with each other, their views become not only more confident but more extreme.5
Over the last ten years, I have watched a large branch of medicine heading in a very strange and extreme direction. I had hoped that various guidelines would become so ridiculous, so distanced from reality, science and logic, and anything else that there would be some kind of backlash. But backlash there came none. Not yet, anyway.
