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I appreciate you are trying to give a benefit of doubt suggestion on the why and how of changes in medical understanding, but this cholesterol malarkey all goes back to the beginnings and a certain fraudulent/selective study you may have heard of from a certain Ancel Keys, aka the so called 7 countries study which claimed dietary cholesterol was the primary driver of CHD merely by association of dietary habits. In between then and now certain industries and players have been more than keen to promote this unevidenced flawed nonsense, as have numerous physicians and researchers who have lost all integrity in my humble opinion. Many still to this day persist in showing their true ignorance, maybe dishonesty, i am never sure, in continuing to explain a component of CVD as "blocking up your arteries with cholesterol". At that point one should be aghast at the lack of basic medical knowledge/ lack of integrity, either reason is dreadful. Fire your physician or cardiologist immediately is my advice and find one that can actually explain honestly what actually occurs (epithelial damage from inflammation).

The real rub is that none can offer any plausible biochemical way that dietary cholesterol can actually affect bloody cholesterol, let alone how blocking the movalenate pathways lead to reduced CVD events and primary risk reduction, not even in those with the rare familial Hypercholesterolaemia. As you may have guessed by now, I very much align with such as Dr Kendrick's overview and evidence analysis. It is time to reject this paradigm from vested interests obsessed with selling more Statins and PCSK-9's all in the name of so called prevention of which it has roundly shown to have a null affect in various studies.

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