Jonny Bowden - The Great Cholesterol Myth, Revised and Expanded:Why Lowering Your Cholesterol Wont Prevent Heart Disease--and the Statin-Free Plan that Will

This book reveals the true dietary villain when it comes to heart disease and its not saturated fat! Backed by scientific research from peer reviewed journals, this is an excellent read with potentially life-saving information.

NINA TEICHOLZ , New York Times best-selling author of The Big Fat Surprise and executive director of The Nutrition Coalition

Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., and Stephen Sinatra, M.D., have brought the science of cholesterol into the 21st century. This book significantly moves the needle on our understanding of health and disease.

SHAWN BAKER, M.D. , author of The Carnivore Diet

If you want to know the truth about cholesterol, and what you absolutely must do to improve your heart health, this is the book for you. Jonny Bowden and Dr. Stephen Sinatra reveal the facts in a compelling and insightful way. This invaluable book belongs on the bookshelf of anyone who cares about the truth in medicine and healing.

DANIEL AMEN, M.D., CEO, Amen Clinics, Inc., author of The Daniel Plan, Change Your Brain Change Your Life, and The End of Mental Illness

Theres a persistent myth in our current culture: cholesterol and saturated fat are the enemy, leading to heart disease and a short life. Jonny Bowden and Steven Sinatra break that antiquated paradigm with a hammer of balanced truth! Highly recommended!

DR. WILL COLE , best-selling author of The Inflammation Spectrum and Ketotarian

If you have any lingering fears about cholesterol and what it means for your health, read this book! When youre done with it, pass it on to your physician!

JENNIFER ISENHART , writer/director, Fat Fiction

Thanks to the extensive scientific evidence provided by Bowden and Sinatra, the truth about cholesterol will hopefully end the utter madness that has plagued our society for far too long. Dont even think about taking another statin drug, cutting your fat and cholesterol intake, or other heart-healthy measures until you read The Great Cholesterol Myth.

JIMMY MOORE, host of Livin La Vida Low-Carb, and co-author of Keto Clarity, Cholesterol Clarity, and The Complete Guide to Fasting

The Great Cholesterol Myth shows that the primary cause of heart attacks is not cholesterol but insulin resistance. Timely and importantit will show you what steps to take to prevent and reverse heart disease

STEVEN MASLEY, M.D., FAHA, FACN, C.N.S. , best-selling author of The 30-Day Heart Tune-Up

A must-read for anyone interested in learning how deception and financial gain have dominated current diet and cholesterol treatment recommendations, with evidence-based advice on which foods and behavioral strategies can optimize your health.

DAVID DIAMOND, PH.D. , Professor, Departments of Psychology, Molecular Pharmacology and Physiology, University of South Florida

Education is the key to health for both the patient and the health care provider. The updated Cholesterol Myth is there for everyones education. It is a sign of maturity for all to admit when you do not know something and heres a great introduction to your learning.

GARY FETTKE, once sanctioned Australian or thopedic surgeon and real-food advocate

The mind is like a parachuteit only works if its open.

Anthony J. DAngelo

TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO physicians routinely bled, purged, and plastered their patients. Bloodletting was the standard treatment for a host of diseases and had been so since the time of the philosopher-physician Galen almost 2,000 years before. The theory was that there were four humors: blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile. Blood was dominant, requiring the most balancing for returning an ill patient to health.

Every doctors kit was equipped with a variety of lancets, brutallooking scarificators, and, starting in the early nineteenth century, leeches. In fact, the latter were used so often that physicians were themselves commonly referred to as leeches. Learned physicians conferred on the best veins to tap for given diseases and the optimal placement of leeches for the most therapeutic value, and countless protocols dictated the proper amount of blood to be let or number of leeches to be applied. Doctors wrote lengthy papers describing their own bleeding techniques and presented them at august medical conferences.

The whole idea was nonsense, of course, and has been shown to be so in the early 1600s by William Harvey, the discoverer of how the circulatory system actually works. But the fact that the scientific basis for bloodletting was nonexistent didnt give pause to physicians 200 years ago, some of whom applied as many as fifty leeches to a single patient and, in the case of George Washington, relieved him of almost two quarts of blood in an effort to treat the throat infection that, coupled with the physician-caused anemia, ultimately killed him.

We look back today and can only shake our heads. And be thankful we, ourselves, dont have to worry about getting bled by lancet or leech or that with todays modern, truly science-based medicine, we would ever be exposed to such nebulously grounded treatments. Surely with all the scientific studies performed in great institutions the world over, todays doctors would never ignore the actual evidence and pursue unnecessary and possibly even harmful treatments. Would they?

Sadly, many doctors today have the same herd mentality as those doctors of yore. By the tens of thousands, they treat a nonexistent disease with drugs that are far from benign. And they do so based not on any hard scientific data, but because they, like their colleagues of 200 years ago, are firmly in the grip of group think. What is the nonexistent disease? Elevated cholesterol.

Cholesterol is an essential molecule without which there would be no life, so important that virtually every cell in the body is capable of synthesizing it.

The vast majority of laypeople have been bombarded with so much misinformation about cholesterol that most take it as a given that cholesterol is a bad thing and that the less they have the better. The reality is that nothing could be further from the truth.

Cholesterol is an essential molecule without which there would be no life, so important that virtually every cell in the body is capable of synthesizing it. Among its other duties, cholesterol is a major structural molecule, a framework on which other critical substances are made. Were we able to somehow remove all its cholesterol, the body, would, in the words of Shakespeare, melt, thaw and resolve itself into a dew. And thats not to mention that we wouldnt have bile acids, vitamin D, or steroid hormones (including sex hormones), all of which are cholesterol-based.

Despite the essential nature of cholesterol, doctors the world over administer billions of dollars worth of drugs to try to prevent its natural synthesis. The fact that only a tiny minority of patients actually extend their lives by taking these drugs is lost on the multitude prescribing them, but not, of course, on the pharmaceutical industry making and selling them. How did we come to this sorry state?