As I have shown in my previous newsletters, there is a total lack of scientific support of the cholesterol hypothesis. We have documented that in a detailed review published six years ago in Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology. According to the …
In one of my previous newsletters, I have shown that many studies are in accordance with our view that the commonest cause of cardiovascular disease may be infections. We have recently published a summary of these studies in the journal …
More and more researchers have realized that a high LDL-cholesterol is not the main cause of cardiovascular disease, but none of them seems to have understood that it is just the opposite. As we have shown several years ago, elderly people …
Infections may cause atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction Read more »
Together with a number of international experts I have demonstrated that high LDL-cholesterol (LDL-C) is beneficial; it is not the cause of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease (Ref. 1). Hitherto it has been downloaded by almost a quarter of a million …
For several years more and more researchers have claimed that statin treatment prevents cancer. In their studies they have followed statin-treated patients for several years and found that they suffer less often from cancer than untreated patients. However, they have …
On April 4 a letter of mine was published in BMJ as a Rapid Response with the title “Cholesterol-lowering treatment may worsen the outcome of a Covid-19 infection.” On May 1 a response to my letter was published by Matteo PirroOn May 4 my …
Statin treatment may increase the risk of covid-19 and vitamin C may cure it Read more »
If LDL-cholesterol is bad, as we have been told for many years, those with the highest values should of course have a shorter life than those with low values because, as we have been told as well, high LDL-cholesterol is …
You may probably have read or heard about the article published in the Guardian on October 31 by Sarah Boseley entitled Butter nonsense: the rise of the cholesterol deniers. She mailed me a few days before its publication because she would …
Introduction In 2016 we published a review in BMJ of 19 studies where the authors had followed more than 68,000 elderly people for several years after having measured their `bad` LDL-cholesterol. None of them found that LDL-cholesterol was bad; in …
A few years ago, we published a review of 19 studies where the authors had measured cholesterol in more than 68,000 people and followed them for several years. At follow-up, they found that those with the highest level of “bad” LDL-cholesterol …