The Great Cholesterol Myth, Revised and Expanded

Why Lowering Your Cholesterol Won't Prevent Heart Disease - and the Statin-Free Plan That Will

By: Jonny Bowden PhD CNS, Stephen T. Sinatra MD, Michael R. Eades MD - foreword, Mary Dan Eades MD - foreword

Narrated by: Roger Wayne

Length: 10 hrs and 9 mins

Publisher's summary

The best-selling book on heart disease, updated with the latest research and clinical findings on high-fat/ketogenic diets, sugar, genetics, and other factors.

Heart disease is the number-one killer. However, traditional heart disease protocols - with their emphasis on lowering cholesterol - have it all wrong. Emerging science is showing that cholesterol levels are a poor predictor of heart disease and that standard prescriptions for lowering it, such as ineffective low-fat/high-carb diets and serious, side-effect-causing statin drugs, obscure the real causes of heart disease. Even doctors at leading institutions have been misled for years based on creative reporting of research results from pharmaceutical companies intent on supporting the $31-billion-a-year cholesterol-lowering drug industry.

The Great Cholesterol Myth reveals the real culprits of heart disease, including inflammation, fibrinogen, triglycerides, homocysteine, belly fat, triglyceride to HDL ratios, and high glycemic levels.

©2012, 2020 Jonny Bowden and Stephen Sinatra (P)2021 Tantor

Fantastic Information

Loved the info. I'm more proactive about my health . Watching sugar carb intake .

Valuable Information

The book provides the information to keep you heart healthy that others aren’t talking about. Thank you authors for having the courage to go up against the standard of care.

Must read

Sad that there is so much misinformation out there in established medicine. I highly recommend everyone read this book.

Great information

Likes: Very professionally presented and listenable, well researched and cited, the use of anecdotes and mild humor kept interest, the information presented makes one want to take action immediately

Dislikes: Of all the audiobooks that deal with health issues, this one with all its citations and recommendations really needed an accompanying pdf, I was mildly annoyed to have to repeat parts so I could make notes. The authors were persuasive in mythbusting and breaking the dogma around cholesterol, diet, and heart disease (and attempting to undo the damage Ansel Keys unleashed with his faulty research)-- but -- they seemed to be as dogmatic in cherry picking research regarding body weight, heart disease, and longevity. The authors' weight bias comes through in accepting the "obesity epidemic" and "obesity causing ___" correlations as established facts, not theory, just as the cholesterol/heart disease theory became "fact that everyone knows," that was actually false when put to the test instead of accepted because it sounds right.

Different view

Logical and backed by evidence. Great book. Chapter on the pharma companies was amazing. Fun with statistics! I hope they keep updating.

very informative

Well read and packed with useful information for anyone interested in maintaining good health. I am not surpised at how little most MDs know as the are educated and owned by Big Pharma and Big Food.

Be your own health advocate and find an integrative doctor who is up to speed abd an independent critical thinker.

Simple Eye Opening

Very informative, doesn't over-explain, and gives clear advice on what to do and what not to do; all in an evidenced-based package. Highly recommended to anyone, healthcare professional or not, to improve their heart health.

As a Cardiac ICU RN, this makes sense.

As a Cardiac ICU RN, I really appreciated this book. Almost all of my patients who come in for heart attacks have normal cholesterol but are either diabetic or prediabetic. I will be educating my patients and coworkers on the recommendations from this book to hopefully create some level of awareness in the conventional medical field.

Fantastic Original & New Content, Wonderful Wpdate

Read the original years ago. Loved it / lived by it. Really enjoyed the updated version. I let everyone I know they should “read” this wonderful book!! Now I need to find out how to find a local Dr like these Dr’s. Most still believe in the old BS Cholesterol tests. Ugh.

Worse than I thought

I practice Functional Medicine and Clinical Psychopharmacology. I see bad medicine daily BUT it’s criminal