576: Your Doctor Is Wrong About Cholesterol & Heart Disease! | Dr. Malcolm Kendrick
The Ultimate Health Podcast
Jesse Chappus
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🗓️ 26 December 2023
⏱️ 122 minutes
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Summary
Watch the full video interview on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/wRjQCG4NU-Y
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick is a General Practitioner and bestselling author.
He is now well worn around the edges, from battling the cholesterol hypothesis. This hypotheses states that an elevated blood level of LDL cholesterol causes heart disease.
Malcolm’s most recent book is The Clot Thickens: The Enduring Mystery of Heart Disease.
In this episode, we discuss:
- The cholesterol hypothesis is wrong
- What is atherosclerosis?
- Saturated fat doesn’t raise LDL cholesterol (why it’s impossible)
- What makes an artery more prone to a blood clot? (vs a vein)
- What is the glycocalyx?
- The anatomy of plaque in arteries
- LPa is different than LDL
- The process of blood clotting
- Why doctors are stuck focusing on LDL cholesterol
- The thrombogenic hypothesis
- The REAL causes of heart disease
- Practical tips to repair the endothelium & protect the glycocalyx
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Related links:
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick - The Clot Thickens (book)
Dr. Malcolm Kendrick's website
Peter Libby MD PhD - Braunwald’s Heart Disease (book)
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on the Ultimate Health Podcast. |
| 0:03.0 | And I started looking into it, and a bit like the film The Matrix where you take the red pill instead of the blue pill, |
| 0:10.0 | and you suddenly realize at least in this area of medicine it's all just started to |
| 0:15.0 | fall to pieces. The problem is people have tried to understand heart disease by |
| 0:18.9 | trying to find a thing that causes it, cholesterol, ldale, whatever. |
| 0:22.6 | Rather than saying, actually, what we have is a process going on, |
| 0:26.0 | and what impacts on the process. |
| 0:27.8 | And many things can. |
| 0:29.2 | The relationship between saturated back consumption |
| 0:31.4 | and heart disease was the exact opposite of what we were told. I mean the exact |
| 0:35.6 | opposite. I mean if you draw a graph the correlation is perfect, it's an inverse correlation. |
| 0:40.0 | This obsession was the diet and the cholesterol is just not right. It's completely wrong and it needs to be got rid of. Hello and welcome to the Ultimate Health Podcast episode 576. I'm Jesse Trappis and I'm |
| 0:58.9 | here to take your health to the next level. Each week I'll bring you long-form conversations with health and |
| 1:04.2 | wellness leaders from around the world. This week I'm chatting with Dr. |
| 1:07.6 | Malcolm Kendrick. Malcolm is a general practitioner and best-selling author. |
| 1:11.6 | He is now well- worn around the edges from |
| 1:14.4 | battling the cholesterol hypothesis. This hypothesis states that an elevated blood |
| 1:19.6 | level of LDL cholesterol causes heart disease. Malcolm's most recent book is The Clot Thickens, The Enduring Mystery of Heart |
| 1:27.1 | Disease. Highlights of today's conversation include saturated fat doesn't raise |
| 1:32.4 | LDL levels and why this is actually impossible. |
| 1:35.8 | Why don't you get atherosclerosis and veins? The anatomy of plaque and arteries? |
| 1:41.2 | The alternative heart disease hypothesis, which is the thrombogenic hypothesis, |
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