The Heart Disease Lie: It’s Not Genetic & Cholesterol Isn’t the Enemy | Dr. Jack Wolfson, DO
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What are the common misconceptions about heart health?
No one is healthy who has a heart attack. If they have a heart attack, they weren't healthy. If they had cancer, if they developed cancer, they weren't healthy. Because heart disease and cancer and brain disease only occur in people who are unhealthy.
In your own practice, do you prescribe statins?
Never.
Is the need for statins built on lies?
I think it's the most egregious thing that's ever been committed on the worldwide populace. Doctors are the biggest bullies in the world. The truth is out. The truth is winning. And people of your generation, they saw the sickness. They don't want that.
Wait, cholesterol is good for you? Bacon is good for me. It's not a question, it's official. Everything we were taught about heart disease, saturated fat, and statins is trash and unscientific. And it's this bad science and advice that is making heart disease worse, not better. Today, I'm joined by Dr. Jack Wolfson, board-certified cardiologist, founder of Natural Heart Doctor, and author of best-selling book, The Paleo Cardiologist. After spending over a decade inside one of Arizona's largest hospital cardiology groups, Dr. Wolfson walked away from conventional medicine to expose what's really driving heart disease. We're talking butter versus statins, why heart-healthy labels are a joke, the trillion-dollar cholesterol industry, seed oils, energy drinks, and how to heal a fried nervous system.
Are you living and breathing? Then you should leave a five-star review for this show on Apple or Spotify. Please welcome the founder of Natural Heart Doctor, cardiologist Jack Wolfson to Culture Apothecary. As a cardiologist, you believe that the lies Americans have been told about heart disease was the catalyst for all of the piss-poor health advice and nutrition advice that Americans have been given for the last 100 years.
Yeah, no doubt. I mean, the information that was given based on the government and the government promoting, for example, all these different processed foods, talking about fat is bad, carbs are good, sugar is not a problem, artificial is the way to go, all these different artificial colors, flavors, sweeteners, they were all catastrophic as it relates to heart disease. And heart disease is the number one killer in the world. We had all these foods, all these recommendations for all these years. And we've totally missed the mark. So undoubtedly, the information that really came from the food companies, right? So you're talking about Kellogg's, Nabisco, Quaker Oats. These big box food producers of just pure processed poison just led to a whole generation of just sickness and death.
Heart disease is now the leading cause of death in America, but it wasn't always that way. So did something happen to us or did we bring this upon ourselves?
Well, heart disease has been the biggest killer when we talk about heart attacks, strokes, cardiomyopathy, congestive heart failure. That has been true for probably 75 years. Before that, the leading cause would have been trauma, maybe infections. I would say that ultimately you're talking about 100 years ago, you have people who live in big cities and they don't have access to clean water, to clean food, to the outdoors, to sunshine, sanitation. It was just a So many people lived in these big cities where sickness was able to flourish. People are now immunocompromised and therefore infections, whether it's viruses, bacteria, parasites, that stuff would easily spread. Fast forward, now you have kind of cleaned up sanitation and now people ultimately are living longer because of that.
And heart disease has really come to the forefront since then. But heart disease is 100% preventable. It's not genetic. People don't have the genetic risk for heart attacks and strokes. People have perfect genes. Whoever built us, call that person God, call that evolution, however we got here. We're built perfectly. We can run and jump and see and feel and make babies and do incredible things. So we don't have a genetic program to heart attacks. We can say 100 million Americans have high blood pressure.
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Chapters
7 chapters
1
What are the common misconceptions about heart health?
0:00–4:49
2
Why is cholesterol considered beneficial for health?
4:49–11:36
3
What is the truth behind statin medications?
11:36–19:43
4
How does family history influence heart disease risk?
19:43–22:12
5
What dietary changes can prevent heart disease?
22:12–33:27
6
How do environmental factors contribute to heart health?
33:27–49:36
7
What role does physical activity play in heart health?
49:36–1:17:14
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