Gary Taubes wrote a couple good books on this. Highly recommend.
Cholesterol Myths is also great. Here’s the PDF: https://www.ravnskov.nu/wp-content/uploads/2016/01/CM.pdf
Became much less trusting of the medical community in general after reading this.
“Became much less trusting of the medical community in general after reading this.”
At this point, I’ve had 7 surgeries, all successful. So if it’s time for #8, I’m not worried.
Having said that, I now know that Statins and related Cholesterol numbers are a scam, Salt intake limits are bogus, the high-carb diet they recommend is poison, and meat, particularly Red Meat with FAT is the healthiest food a human can eat.
I also have suspicion regarding numbers for blood sugar, blood pressure, and probably other crap are BS. Just too much money to be made in telling people they’re unhealthy, regardless of whether true or not. No different than Scientology ‘personality tests’, that everyone, somehow, failed. Hmmm.