{"id":17996,"date":"2018-01-29T20:59:23","date_gmt":"2018-01-29T10:59:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=17996"},"modified":"2024-06-29T05:55:14","modified_gmt":"2024-06-28T19:55:14","slug":"cholesterol-tests-do-not-test-cholesterol-what-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=17996","title":{"rendered":"Cholesterol Tests Do Not Test Cholesterol? What!?!?!?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/DonChisholmAndDrCarlos-1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter  wp-image-17997\" src=\"http:\/\/tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/01\/DonChisholmAndDrCarlos-1-300x167.jpg\" alt=\"Don Chisholm And Dr Carlos\" width=\"772\" height=\"430\" \/><\/a><br \/>\nMind blown!<br \/>\nI knew that cholesterol was a complete red herring, just an excuse for drug companies to marking statins, as<br \/>\n1. more people my age and older die from heart disease with low cholesterol than high and<br \/>\n2. statin drugs INCREASE the risk of people dying from heart attack.<br \/>\nBut this is some AMAZING data!<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uuu0A1uFQjg\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=uuu0A1uFQjg<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mind blown! I knew that cholesterol was a complete red herring, just an excuse for drug companies to marking statins, as 1. more people my age and older die from heart disease with low cholesterol than high and 2. statin drugs INCREASE the risk of people dying from heart attack. But this is some AMAZING &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=17996\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Cholesterol Tests Do Not Test Cholesterol? What!?!?!?&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17996","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general-interest","category-health-tips"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17996","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17996"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17996\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":51576,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17996\/revisions\/51576"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17996"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17996"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17996"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}