Sugar, Statins and Heart Health
The Dr. Hyman Show
Dr. Mark Hyman
4.6 • 8.7K Ratings
🗓️ 12 July 2019
⏱️ 10 minutes
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Summary
For so long we were told that having low LDL cholesterol is the key to preventing heart disease, which led to doctors overprescribing statins to keep LDL low. Many people still believe that eating cholesterol and fat, especially saturated fat, causes heart attacks and that taking statin drugs provides a powerful way to reduce your risk of heart attacks. But is this really true?
In this mini-episode Dr. Hyman sits down with internationally renowned Consultant Cardiologist and best-selling author of The Pioppi Diet, Dr. Aseem Malhotra. Dr. Malhotra has become one of the most influential and well-known health campaigners, and a pioneer of the lifestyle medicine movement in the UK. Together, Dr. Hyman and Dr. Malhotra discuss the effectiveness of statin drugs on heart disease, and Dr. Malhotra discusses why he believes that reducing insulin resistance may be the key to better heart health.
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| 0:00.0 | Coming up on this week's episode of the Doctors Pharmacy. |
| 0:02.8 | It turns out that all the separate diseases we see may be linked by this one common mechanism, |
| 0:08.4 | insulin resistance. More than 100 million Americans suffer from insulin resistance, |
| 0:13.6 | which is not only a precursor to developing type 2 diabetes, but can lead to many other |
| 0:18.5 | health challenges, including heart disease. Hi, I'm Kaye Apporoet, one of the producers of the Doctors |
| 0:23.6 | Pharmacy. In this many episode, Dr. Hyman sits down with Dr. Aseem Mahotra, a pioneer of the |
| 0:29.6 | lifestyle medicine movement in the UK. Together, they talk about the effectiveness of statin |
| 0:34.8 | drugs on heart disease. Dr. Mahotra discusses why he believes that reducing insulin resistance |
| 0:40.2 | may be the key to better heart health. Let's dig in here to one area you know a lot about, |
| 0:45.3 | which happens to be the most prescribed drug probably on the planet, which are statins. |
| 0:52.3 | Psychiatric drugs as a whole are up there and as of blocking drugs are up there, but statins are |
| 0:57.4 | up there. And they've been prescribed not just prevent a heart attack if you've already had one, |
| 1:02.8 | but for preventing people who never had heart attacks from getting one. And you challenge this as |
| 1:09.2 | as a sort of flawed idea. Can you kind of talk about as cardiologist how you came to this |
| 1:13.6 | heresy and why we should believe you? Okay, let's talk about statins. Do I think statins work? |
| 1:18.8 | I think probably yes, but in such a small number, the actually in the real world, the benefit really, |
| 1:24.0 | it's failed. It means it's failed to reduce heart disease. I mean, with reason we still have an |
| 1:28.4 | epidemic of heart disease and still the number one killer mark, you know, there was a prediction |
| 1:32.8 | by people pushing the cholesterol hypothesis and when statins came on the market that we would end |
| 1:36.8 | heart disease, the epidemic by the 21st century. And we haven't and the global campaign has failed, |
| 1:44.2 | one because the drugs are not as effective as we thought they were, two because side effects are |
| 1:47.8 | real and under reported, but in the real world, people stopped taking their drug. And three, |
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