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<blockquote data-quote="Dave B." data-source="post: 103213" data-attributes="member: 17807"><p>I just read this book. Good book with an awful title. </p><p></p><p></p><p>"Stop worrying about it" is NOT the conclusion to draw from this book, and not the path forward to safeguarding your own health. In contrast, we should all be paying MORE attention to our types of cholesterol and the ratios between them. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Yes, the "high cholesterol equals heart attack" is 40 year old advice that is too simplistic. That was all debunked years ago and no physician today thinks that way (unless they are very old and refuse to read literature). </p><p></p><p></p><p>My doctor was testing my LDL particles well before this book was ever published, so they waste a lot of time tilting at windmills. </p><p></p><p></p><p>Other books and resources that come to the same conclusions as this book include:</p><p></p><p></p><p>Wheat Belly - William Davis M.D.</p><p>The End of Heart Disease - Joel Fuhrman M.D.</p><p>Ford Brewer's YouTube channel (often linked here)</p><p>And you could read the Atkins and South Beach diet books, for that matter.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The authors should have spent more time talking about one thing, which is that the reason cholesterol is so crucial is that it is difficult to know what is going on in regards to heart disease -- cholesterol was the only marker we had. Well, guess what, it is 2018 now and we can actually LOOK. Go get a CT scan of your heart, or a carotid-artery ultrasound. You can look and see whether you have calcified plaques (I do, already, in my mid-40s!) and gauge your risk that way. A lot of people like me are fit, healthy, with so-so levels or mixed health markers, and have no idea of the condition of their epithelial tissues. Basically, if you tell me you have no heart disease or are "low risk" and you haven't' gotten a heart scan of some kind, you are lying to others and fooling yourself. </p><p></p><p></p><p>This is why dietary articles and books like this are no substitute for having a good doctor and using the available resources to monitor your own health.</p><p></p><p></p><p>So OK, read this book and enjoy it, then go get a heart scan.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>The authors spend a lot of time trying to tear down statin drugs as dangerous, but don't do very much diligence when recommending expensive and ineffective supplements like resveratrol, Niacin, and several others that sound good, but aren't actually linked with any studies about cardiac events. My doc stopped recommending niacin years ago, in fact, because of lack of results and lack of good studies.</p><p></p><p></p><p>For people like me who have a family history and genetic predisposition for a disease, diet and exercise only do so much. To their credit, the authors do recommend statins in low doses for high-risk patients (white male, middle-aged, history or high risk of heart disease). So, I guess that is potentially me, but I'm still trying to get to good levels without statins.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Dave B., post: 103213, member: 17807"] I just read this book. Good book with an awful title. "Stop worrying about it" is NOT the conclusion to draw from this book, and not the path forward to safeguarding your own health. In contrast, we should all be paying MORE attention to our types of cholesterol and the ratios between them. Yes, the "high cholesterol equals heart attack" is 40 year old advice that is too simplistic. That was all debunked years ago and no physician today thinks that way (unless they are very old and refuse to read literature). My doctor was testing my LDL particles well before this book was ever published, so they waste a lot of time tilting at windmills. Other books and resources that come to the same conclusions as this book include: Wheat Belly - William Davis M.D. The End of Heart Disease - Joel Fuhrman M.D. Ford Brewer's YouTube channel (often linked here) And you could read the Atkins and South Beach diet books, for that matter. The authors should have spent more time talking about one thing, which is that the reason cholesterol is so crucial is that it is difficult to know what is going on in regards to heart disease -- cholesterol was the only marker we had. Well, guess what, it is 2018 now and we can actually LOOK. Go get a CT scan of your heart, or a carotid-artery ultrasound. You can look and see whether you have calcified plaques (I do, already, in my mid-40s!) and gauge your risk that way. A lot of people like me are fit, healthy, with so-so levels or mixed health markers, and have no idea of the condition of their epithelial tissues. Basically, if you tell me you have no heart disease or are "low risk" and you haven't' gotten a heart scan of some kind, you are lying to others and fooling yourself. This is why dietary articles and books like this are no substitute for having a good doctor and using the available resources to monitor your own health. So OK, read this book and enjoy it, then go get a heart scan. The authors spend a lot of time trying to tear down statin drugs as dangerous, but don't do very much diligence when recommending expensive and ineffective supplements like resveratrol, Niacin, and several others that sound good, but aren't actually linked with any studies about cardiac events. My doc stopped recommending niacin years ago, in fact, because of lack of results and lack of good studies. For people like me who have a family history and genetic predisposition for a disease, diet and exercise only do so much. To their credit, the authors do recommend statins in low doses for high-risk patients (white male, middle-aged, history or high risk of heart disease). So, I guess that is potentially me, but I'm still trying to get to good levels without statins. [/QUOTE]
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