The Statin Lie

IS THE CONVENTIONAL WISDOM ABOUT CHOLESTEROL WRONG?

For decades, Americans have been warned about high cholesterol and told that lowering it is essential to preventing heart disease. Statins have become some of the most widely prescribed drugs in modern medicine, and millions of people take them every day believing they are protecting themselves from a future heart attack.
But there is another side to the story, and it raises some disturbing questions. In The Statin Lie, Mark Swarbrick investigates the science, history, statistics, side effects, and enormous financial interests behind the war on cholesterol. The result is a provocative challenge to medical advice that most of us have been taught to accept without question.

DISCOVER WHAT MOST PATIENTS ARE NEVER TOLD

• How cholesterol became the enemy and the surprising history behind the theory that changed the American diet.
• What the impressive statin statistics really mean when the numbers are examined more closely.
• What cholesterol actually does in your body and why this much-maligned substance is essential to human life.
• What statins do besides lowering cholesterol and the side effects and biological consequences every patient should know about.
• What may really be driving heart disease and why metabolic health deserves far more attention.
• How the Internet shattered medicine's information monopoly and allowed dissenting doctors, researchers, and patients to be heard.
• Why diet, fasting, and exercise matter and what they can accomplish that simply lowering a cholesterol number cannot.
• Who profits from the war on cholesterol and the staggering financial interests surrounding one of the most successful classes of drugs in pharmaceutical history.