Dr. Aseem Malhotra

Most people don't know this, right?

I mean, it's estimated between 200 million and 1 billion people are prescribed this drug.

So it's a big deal.

And especially for me as a cardiologist, whose primary purpose is to help my patients and also with my special interest to really understand the root cause of heart disease and how we can reverse it in the population.

We hadn't done that.

That's how my journey started.

I was somebody that believed in statins.

I was one of the biggest prescribers.

I was giving it in the ER to a patient coming with a heart attack and telling the nurse to give it in them in the ER before they've even gone to the cardiac catheter lab for them to have a stent.

100%.

100%.

So understanding that there's a barrier to the truth, which is essentially a financial barrier because there's so much at stake, as you say, not just with statins alone, but the cholesterol lowering industry, the low fat food movement, the fear of cholesterol is a trillion dollar industry, right?

So I think people need to understand that.

So how have we got here and what is the truth or what is the greater truth?

And the reason I say what is the greater truth, this is another myth that we need to bust for people listening to kind of try and get cut through the confusion.

The first thing is we have to understand, the public needs to know, doctors even need to know this, medicine is not an exact science.

It's not even close.

It's an applied science.

It's a science of human beings.

It's a social science.