Talking About Fats, Cholesterol, Statins and Other Modern Medical Fallacies
Interview with Malcolm Kendrick, heart disease specialist and misinformation debunker
Imagine the proverbial frogs simmering in the water, but instead of boiling to death, they turn obese.
That's what happened to humanity in less than half a century. There is no need to refer to statistics. Just dig up any semi-revealing picture of your grandparents. Or take any polaroid of a beach in the Western hemisphere before the 1980s and compare it with today.
Obesity is not a body type. It's a metabolic disease that shortens the lifespan, impairs cognition, and increases the prevalence of chronic illness.
The consequences of rapidly fattening populations are devastating our species on multiple levels - mentally, physically, and behaviorally.
Today in the US, 55 percent of the population have heart disease, 10 percent have diabetes, 30 percent have pre-diabetes, 40 percent are obese, 70 percent are overweight, and 75 percent of all deaths are related to lifestyle- and nutrition-related complications.
These figures are accelerating. We're looking at 60 percent obesity rates in less than a decade at this rate. Europe is half a decade behind this curve. The same goes for our anxiety and depression pandemic, closely tied to obesity levels through the disruption in the gut-brain axis.
Excess simple carbohydrates (sugar, wheat, processed foods, rice, pasta, junk food, etc.) are easy to blame, but at the heart of the problem lies a darker root causality, namely deliberate misinformation related to nutrition.
Just one example. The "low fat" craze that began in the 1980s and was spread by Big Food, aka Big Sugar, may have been responsible for more deaths than the combined tolls of last century's world wars.
It took me a chronic death scare before I could accept the truth about sugar1 - and quit that beast. Once you get the actual biochemical narrative, you inevitably begin to dig into the reality of saturated fats, cholesterol, and statins.
And that's when your life expectancy starts to increase radically.
One of the foremost experts in nutrition-related misinformation is Dr. Malcolm Kendrick, a Scottish general practitioner, heart disease specialist, and author who has studied heart disease for over 35 years. His book Doctoring Data is a deep look into data corruption in the healthcare industry. The Clot Thickens unravels the mystery of heart disease with data realism that shifts the firmament.
I had the pleasure of interviewing Malcolm two years ago. Last week, YouTube decided to delete the video and give me a warning about "distributing misinformation" - another veritable sign that Dr. Kendrick is telling the truth.
(Luckily I did a backup copy on Rumble, see below)
Understanding the source and rationale for data bias, such as the Standard American Diet, is the first step in healing ourselves.
We can regain control of our health and well-being by rebuilding the trust in what our bodies are telling us.
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Excellent, thanks.