Dr. David Sinclair

It makes its own.

So I've actually been on a statin to lower my LDL since I was 30.

Really?

Well, I had high cholesterol.

It's in my family.

But I went to my doctor and I said, I want to go on these new drugs at the time, statins.

And he said, why?

You don't have heart disease yet.

And I said, why would I wait?

Get me on it.

I want to be on it.

And in those days, it was very weird to give someone a statin at age 30 with no evidence of heart disease.

But as you know, I'm of the

opinion that we shouldn't wait till we get diseases to treat them we should preempt that and start early in life and so yeah I insisted with my doctor initially with statins but on all of these things I go in and I say I need you to prescribe me this test I need this medicine and eventually after talking it over with him he typically prescribes me something or gets me a test and

But I've been fighting the system.

And my doctor's at Harvard, so he's a good doctor but conservative.

The old way of doing medicine is if you're not sick, we're not going to give you a medicine, certainly not if you're young and healthy.

But that has to change.

Well, what's your LDL level?

Well, we can talk about food and cholesterol because it depends whether you absorb still best role or not.