I hope this is our last video on LDL cholesterol because we're going to review a

22 year follow-up study that finds that low-LDL cholesterol is linked with

higher odds of dying from cardiovascular-specific mortality over the course of this follow-up period involving 177,000 people.

The study that we're going to talk about today is titled, is LDL cholesterol associated with long-term

mortality among primary prevention adults a retrospective cohort study from a

large health care system outside of Pennsylvania and this was published in March of 2024.

Again as I mentioned this 22 year follow-up study involved the analysis of

LDL cholesterol and they were looking at cause of atherosclerotic cardiovascular disease related death

and the probability were the odds of surviving and the odds of dying and

essentially what this study found is lower LDL cholesterol levels are linked with higher odds of dying over the follow-up period,

which is incredibly counterintuitive to most people because they've been told by their primary health

professional that you need to lower your LDL cholesterol. In fact some

papers say lower is better. I was reading a study the other day advocating

for LDL cholesterol levels being as low as 30 milligrams per

desileter which is absolutely absurd because the thinking goes that your

coronary arteries become occluded or narrowed because all of this cholesterol just spontaneously causes

placking but we know that the process of atherosclerosis involves

inflammation, insulin resistance, exacerbates this, blood viscosity,

iron overload, high blood pressure, there's all these other factors

that the mainstream medical system tends to ignore and then monotonically focus

on lowering L. D. L. cholesterol.

But we have these follow-up studies involving hundreds of

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