On this episode, we cover the Joe Rogan Experience, episode number 1979, with guest Dr. Asim Malhotra.

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The No Rogan Experience starts now. Welcome back to the show.

There's a show where two podcastsers with no previous Rogan experience get to know Joe Rogan.

It's a show for those who are curious about Joe Rogan, his guests and their claims,

as well as for anyone who wants to understand Joe's ever-growing media influence.

I'm Cecil Cicero, joined by Michael Marshall, and today we are going to be covering Joe's April

23 interview with Dr. Assim Malhotra.

Marsh, how did Joe introduce Dr. Malhotra in the show notes?

So according to the show notes, Dr. C. Malhotra MD is an NHS trained consultant

cardiologist and visiting professor of evidence-based medicine at the Bahaina School of Medicine

and Public Health in

Salvador, Brazil. And he is the author of several books, including the Piopi diet, the 21-day

immunity plan, and a statin-free life. Okay. Is there anything else we should know about him?

Yeah, I think there is. So Malhotra is somebody that is relatively

well known, certainly in sceptical circles of the UK, someone whose career I've been watching for a while.

So he made a name from himself as a cardiologist who, as his book title might suggest,

advocates very strongly against the use of statins. He described them as a multi-billion dollar con by the pharmaceutical industry.

He's accused his critics of receiving millions in research funding from the pharmaceutical industry.

And then in 2017, his other book, The Piaopi Diet,

in that he claimed that his diet could prevent 20 million deaths per year from cardiovascular disease

if they just followed the diet in his book. The book was named by the British Dietetic Association

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