{"id":2002,"date":"2011-12-03T15:51:00","date_gmt":"2011-12-03T20:51:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.willclower.com\/blog\/2011\/12\/whats-cholesterol-got-to-do-with-it.html"},"modified":"2016-09-21T08:47:21","modified_gmt":"2016-09-21T12:47:21","slug":"whats-cholesterol-got-to-do-with-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=2002","title":{"rendered":"What\u2019s Cholesterol Got to Do With It?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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I love Gary Taubes … he’s awesome. <\/span>

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I’m prepping for my Saturday radio program and ran across his op ed in the NYTimes (here’s the link<\/a>)<\/i>, which reviews how “the cholesterol hypothesis” happened. <\/span>

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Does the cholesterol idea (lower cholesterol = <\/b><\/i><\/span>
lower heart attack risk) even work? <\/b><\/i><\/span>

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This article makes the point that the early research confused a “false positive” correlation with a true causal link. <\/span>

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Yes, statins decreased heart attack risk, but not because it lowered cholesterol. Check this out and see what you think.<\/span><\/div>\n

What\u2019s Cholesterol Got to Do With It? – New York Times<\/a><\/p>\n

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\"Will<\/a>\"Will<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I love Gary Taubes … he’s awesome. I’m prepping for my Saturday radio program and ran across his op ed in the NYTimes (here’s the link), which reviews how “the cholesterol … <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":true,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[494],"tags":[284,325,324],"class_list":["post-2002","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-articles","tag-cholesterol","tag-heart-health","tag-statins"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7Qv5g-wi","jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":8502,"url":"https:\/\/www.mymedwellness.com\/blog\/?p=8502","url_meta":{"origin":2002,"position":0},"title":"Cholesterol Schmolesterol?","author":"Will Clower","date":"September 28, 2020","format":false,"excerpt":"Common nutritional advice has told us that cholesterol is a health risk. 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