Cholesterol Does Not Cause Heart Disease
Posted 08 January 2012
Dr. Dwight Lundell and “The Great Cholesterol Lie Air” On TV Health Magazine, Living In Style
Beginning first week of September, cardiovascular surgeon, Dr. Dwight Lundell’s book, The Great Cholesterol Lie, will be featured on “Living In Style,” a heath news television series airing nationally on select cable networks and local ABC, CBS, NBC, FOX or I-Network Affiliates. The show reaches 80 million households.
n this featured segment, Dr. Lundell’s message, one he has been sharing for over six years, is clear and to the point: Cholesterol Does Not Cause Heart Disease.
While traditional mainstream medicine, physicians and pharmaceutical industry continue to insist cholesterol must be controlled by medication, Dr. Lundell marches to a very different drummer and perspective having performed 5,000 heart surgeries spanning 25 years.
Dr. Lundell had one goal when he dedicated his life to healing the human heart and that was to see an end to heart disease in his lifetime. As the years went by and the number of heart surgeries he performed escalated annually, he grew increasingly troubled by what he saw in every patient on his operating table.
Each patient had noticeable inflammation in the arteries of their hearts and more than half had normal cholesterol levels. When he approached his colleagues with his growing concern medicine was chasing the wrong cause of heart disease, his words were met with derision and seen as heresy.
An unusual physician in today’s world, he took a most unusual approach by leaving his surgical practice in 2003 to open a clinic where his theory that inflammation caused heart disease could be tested. The results of his clinical testing in patient after patient confirmed that without the presence of underlying inflammation, cholesterol would not become trapped in the artery wall.
Inflammation Traps Cholesterol In The Artery Wall
Let’s be clear on what this means. Reducing the amount of cholesterol in the body through medication will not prevent cholesterol from becoming trapped; rather, reducing the amount of inflammation will free cholesterol to flow throughout the arteries and body as nature intended. That subtle, yet significant difference is enormous.
For over forty years, Americans have felt tremors of fear upon receiving the news their blood indicates “high cholesterol” translated to, they are on the verge of heart disease. As we reach for the prescription being handed to us, we rarely question adding statin medication. It is time we do.
Through the years we became thoroughly convinced cholesterol caused heart disease from our physicians, our government and masterful marketing over truth in medicine as is seen nightly on TV commercials for Crestor and Lipitor.
Cholesterol is not evil and as science shows, decreasing cholesterol through medication has dangerous side effects for our cognitive functioning. Cholesterol is a vital substance to human life yet this tragic theory stays front and center as the cause of heart disease. Let’s look at a few facts.
National Cholesterol Education Program
In 2001, the National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP) revised their guidelines by lowering the cholesterol level seen as dangerously high. That substantial lowering placed 36 million more Americans in the category of requiring statin medication. Profits soared for statin mediation.
In the melee that followed, it was discovered of the nine members on the panel that wrote the new cholesterol lowering guidelines, six received research grants, speaking or consulting fees from at least three and in some cases all five of the manufacturers of statins; only one had no financial links at all.
For the year 2007-2008, The American Heart Association received $1,160,000 from Crestor’s manufacturer, AstraZeneca; $2,629,116 from Lipitor’s manufacturer, Pfizer and $3,053,470 from Zocor’s manufacturer, Merck & Co. That’s a lot of funding for the AHA. Could there be a conflict of interest concern visà-vi the AHA’s advice on statin medication and managing heart disease?
Inflammation, The Silent Killer
On the other hand, there isn’t a prescription to help lower inflammation. Inflammation is neither mysterious nor complicated yet the damage it causes running amok coined an apt term for inflammation – the silent killer.
In The Great Cholesterol Lie, you’ll learn how dietary recommendations born of the faulty cholesterol theory steered a nation of people away from real, wholesome foods in favor of low fat packaged foods laced with sugar and Omega-6 oils creating an epidemic of inflammation. Why? The human body’s response to the low fat regime is inflammation and an obesity epidemic.
Understanding what caused inflammation to escalate throughout our bodies and learning how to bring it under control is now Dr. Dwight Lundell’s role in medicine as thoroughly explained in his book.
For the last six years, Dr. Lundell has written books and articles, given speeches, radio shows interviews and created preventative health care programs for businesses. His mission today is to expose the truth that by treating inflammation, heart disease can be prevented and reversed.
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