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Dr. Aseem Malhotra

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
2145 total appearances

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The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE

Ron Krauss.

The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE

Ron Krauss, sorry, Krauss, you're right.

The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE

And he showed there was an abnormal effect on lipids if your saturated fat consumption in obviously certain groups of people was more than 18% of your total calories, right?

The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE

So it's still very, very high.

The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE

But again, you're absolutely right.

The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE

That might happen with a certain subgroup of people.

The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE

I've seen, for example, a patient on a carnivore diet

The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE

who actually had something like that.

The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE

And when they reduced their saturated fat intake, their lipid profile got better.

The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE

That's all they changed.

The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE

So I agree with you.

The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE

There are going to be a subset of people.

The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE

What do you do with FH, the people with the familiar hyperlipidemia?

The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE

So let's just lay it out for people, right?

The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE

There are.

The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE

But, you know, you talk about ApoB and lipoprotein little a, which are all these other extra markers of risk that are added in.

The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE

Basic teaching in medical school, certainly what I teach medical students and junior doctors, right?

The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE

Don't organize a test unless it's going to change your management plan, right?

The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE

Because what's the point?

The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE

So you create unnecessary anxiety, for example, for some people.