Dr. Donald Layman

So, yeah, you know, I don't know.

I would hope that they would see the guidelines as having the flexibility.

So.

In terms of people who are at risk for cardiovascular, we know that as far as people who have high LDL levels, it's less than 7% of the population.

So should a recommendation... 7% of the population have elevated LDL levels.

And by elevated, I used the word high, so that's above 160.

That's the original definition.

But if you look at triglycerides, it's over 17% have high triglycerides above 200 milligrams per deciliter.

So basically, carbohydrates are almost three times the risk of fats.

And so those are the kinds of things I hope the medical people come to grips with that I know companies love to sell statins, 40 million prescriptions on that.

But I think we need to come to grips with not everybody needs those.

And, you know, there are other dietary approaches that we can go after.

And I think that the guidelines provide the flexibility to do that.

Yeah, well, I appreciate that.

And, you know, we sort of went down a path back around 2000, where we sort of brought together a lot of biochemistry and thought we had the idea of how, and we've sort of worked on that and worked on it.

And I think the science that people are going to find in these guidelines is very solid.

It's not really opinion driven.

It's not, you know,

You know, I believe in a certain kind of diet.

I eat a certain way, but that's not there.