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Dr. Aseem Malhotra

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The Dr. Hyman Show
Ditch the Statins: How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol With Lifestyle Changes | Dr. Aseem Malhotra

Yeah, absolutely right, Mark. And that reminds me actually of somebody who I cite quite regularly, Professor John Ioannidis. In Stanford, I refer to him as a Stephen Hawking in medicine. He's the most cited medical researcher in the world. He is a professor of medicine and epidemiology and statistics at Stanford. He's a mathematical genius.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Ditch the Statins: How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol With Lifestyle Changes | Dr. Aseem Malhotra

And he published a paper in 2006 that we've talked about before, I think, which is called Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. And one of the risk factors for false research is this. the greater the financial and other prejudices in a given field, the less likely the research findings are to be true. Think about that. That's right.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Ditch the Statins: How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol With Lifestyle Changes | Dr. Aseem Malhotra

And he published a paper in 2006 that we've talked about before, I think, which is called Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. And one of the risk factors for false research is this. the greater the financial and other prejudices in a given field, the less likely the research findings are to be true. Think about that. That's right.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Ditch the Statins: How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol With Lifestyle Changes | Dr. Aseem Malhotra

And he published a paper in 2006 that we've talked about before, I think, which is called Why Most Published Research Findings Are False. And one of the risk factors for false research is this. the greater the financial and other prejudices in a given field, the less likely the research findings are to be true. Think about that. That's right.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Ditch the Statins: How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol With Lifestyle Changes | Dr. Aseem Malhotra

So when you start with statins, you're talking about one of the most lucrative drugs in the history of medicine. It's a trillion-dollar industry. It's the number one selling drug in the world. So start from that kind of overview to try and help explain what's going on and why this confusion is happening and why the battle is happening. And then you can make your own decision who...

The Dr. Hyman Show
Ditch the Statins: How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol With Lifestyle Changes | Dr. Aseem Malhotra

So when you start with statins, you're talking about one of the most lucrative drugs in the history of medicine. It's a trillion-dollar industry. It's the number one selling drug in the world. So start from that kind of overview to try and help explain what's going on and why this confusion is happening and why the battle is happening. And then you can make your own decision who...

The Dr. Hyman Show
Ditch the Statins: How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol With Lifestyle Changes | Dr. Aseem Malhotra

So when you start with statins, you're talking about one of the most lucrative drugs in the history of medicine. It's a trillion-dollar industry. It's the number one selling drug in the world. So start from that kind of overview to try and help explain what's going on and why this confusion is happening and why the battle is happening. And then you can make your own decision who...

The Dr. Hyman Show
Ditch the Statins: How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol With Lifestyle Changes | Dr. Aseem Malhotra

You trust more, but also the most important thing is to try and give people information in a way that you can understand. We'll get there in a second. So what happened in the case? So we have this kind of defamatory attack on us. But what made the story was the secretary of state for health getting involved.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Ditch the Statins: How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol With Lifestyle Changes | Dr. Aseem Malhotra

You trust more, but also the most important thing is to try and give people information in a way that you can understand. We'll get there in a second. So what happened in the case? So we have this kind of defamatory attack on us. But what made the story was the secretary of state for health getting involved.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Ditch the Statins: How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol With Lifestyle Changes | Dr. Aseem Malhotra

You trust more, but also the most important thing is to try and give people information in a way that you can understand. We'll get there in a second. So what happened in the case? So we have this kind of defamatory attack on us. But what made the story was the secretary of state for health getting involved.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Ditch the Statins: How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol With Lifestyle Changes | Dr. Aseem Malhotra

Now, interestingly, one week earlier, just before this new story broke, I was speaking in parliament about type two diabetes reversal and the benefits of, for example, of a low carbohydrate, you know, real food diet for that purpose. Matt Hancock had agreed to meet me. He had, um, was aware of my work because of another politician who had lost 94 pounds from following my diet plan.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Ditch the Statins: How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol With Lifestyle Changes | Dr. Aseem Malhotra

Now, interestingly, one week earlier, just before this new story broke, I was speaking in parliament about type two diabetes reversal and the benefits of, for example, of a low carbohydrate, you know, real food diet for that purpose. Matt Hancock had agreed to meet me. He had, um, was aware of my work because of another politician who had lost 94 pounds from following my diet plan.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Ditch the Statins: How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol With Lifestyle Changes | Dr. Aseem Malhotra

Now, interestingly, one week earlier, just before this new story broke, I was speaking in parliament about type two diabetes reversal and the benefits of, for example, of a low carbohydrate, you know, real food diet for that purpose. Matt Hancock had agreed to meet me. He had, um, was aware of my work because of another politician who had lost 94 pounds from following my diet plan.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Ditch the Statins: How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol With Lifestyle Changes | Dr. Aseem Malhotra

This is the one who said you need to have a special place in hell or No, that was the editor of the, of the, of the actual, of the, um, of the newspaper. So Hancock, all Hancock was involved in the story because he had basically said he'd been contacted by the mail on Sunday and said, there were these doctors saying this, do you have a, can you give us a comment?

The Dr. Hyman Show
Ditch the Statins: How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol With Lifestyle Changes | Dr. Aseem Malhotra

This is the one who said you need to have a special place in hell or No, that was the editor of the, of the, of the actual, of the, um, of the newspaper. So Hancock, all Hancock was involved in the story because he had basically said he'd been contacted by the mail on Sunday and said, there were these doctors saying this, do you have a, can you give us a comment?

The Dr. Hyman Show
Ditch the Statins: How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol With Lifestyle Changes | Dr. Aseem Malhotra

This is the one who said you need to have a special place in hell or No, that was the editor of the, of the, of the actual, of the, um, of the newspaper. So Hancock, all Hancock was involved in the story because he had basically said he'd been contacted by the mail on Sunday and said, there were these doctors saying this, do you have a, can you give us a comment?

The Dr. Hyman Show
Ditch the Statins: How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol With Lifestyle Changes | Dr. Aseem Malhotra

And he gave a generic comment saying there's no place for this misinformation. Right. And that it looked as if he knew who we were and we were. So I met Matt Hancock a week before I gave him a copy of my book. He was very respectful, very appreciative of what I'm doing and lifestyle.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Ditch the Statins: How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol With Lifestyle Changes | Dr. Aseem Malhotra

And he gave a generic comment saying there's no place for this misinformation. Right. And that it looked as if he knew who we were and we were. So I met Matt Hancock a week before I gave him a copy of my book. He was very respectful, very appreciative of what I'm doing and lifestyle.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Ditch the Statins: How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol With Lifestyle Changes | Dr. Aseem Malhotra

And he gave a generic comment saying there's no place for this misinformation. Right. And that it looked as if he knew who we were and we were. So I met Matt Hancock a week before I gave him a copy of my book. He was very respectful, very appreciative of what I'm doing and lifestyle.

The Dr. Hyman Show
Ditch the Statins: How to Naturally Lower Cholesterol With Lifestyle Changes | Dr. Aseem Malhotra

and gave my lecture in parliament, which got a lot of attention, by the way, as well, which may have been the reason why they decided to suddenly do this. You know, the new story is like, okay, we're getting something that's challenging our views on cholesterol, on low-fat diets or whatever.