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The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE
It's a trillion dollar industry.
The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE
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.
The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE
And then you can make your own decision who you trust more.
The Dr. Hyman Show
The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE
But also the most important thing is to try and give people information in a way they can understand.
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The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE
We'll get there in a second.
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The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE
So what happened in the case?
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The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE
So we have this kind of defamatory attack on us.
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The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE
But what made the story was the Secretary of State for Health getting involved.
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The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE
Now, interestingly, one week earlier, just before this news story broke, I was speaking in Parliament about type 2 diabetes reversal and the benefits, for example, of a low-carbohydrate real food diet for that purpose.
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The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE
Matt Hancock had agreed to meet me.
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The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE
He was aware of my work because of another politician who had lost 94 pounds from following my diet plan.
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The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE
No, that was the editor of the, of the, of the actual, of the, um, of the newspaper.
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The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE
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?
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The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE
And he gave a generic comment saying there's no place for this misinformation.
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The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE
Right.
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The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE
And that it looked as if he knew who we were and we were.
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The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE
So I met Matt Hancock a week before I gave him a copy of my book.
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The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE
He was very respectful, very appreciative of what I'm doing and lifestyle 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.
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The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE
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.
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The Cardiologist Who Stopped Prescribing Statins Explains the Real Cause of Heart Attacks | Dr. Aseem Malhotra - ENCORE
So that was probably the peg because that was getting a lot of attention to then come back and have a go at me and two other people.