The Myth about Cholesterol and its Causes
To quote Dr. Chetty : “If you look at, you talk about observation, you talk about the look at myeloid, take the Framingham study that's trying to show that cholesterol causes heart disease. That's gone on for 30 years. They haven't shown up for 30 years of research, they haven't shown that cholesterol is correlated to heart disease. And it showed that people with very high cholesterol have the lowest risk of dementia and all the other psychiatric illnesses. Now, putting that back into science, 70 to 80 percent of your brain is cholesterol. Your myelin sheath is 100 percent cholesterol. All your hormones are cholesterol. So what are we doing? They've only shown that decreasing your cholesterol with the statin will give you a 1.6 percent benefit. What's 1.6 percent benefit? You can say 1.6 percent, Philip, but tell a statistician that and you tell you it's not significant. It can be an error. Remember,