{"id":62032,"date":"2025-10-12T15:04:20","date_gmt":"2025-10-12T04:04:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62032"},"modified":"2025-10-12T15:04:20","modified_gmt":"2025-10-12T04:04:20","slug":"barbara-oneill-on-cholesterol","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62032","title":{"rendered":"Barbara O&#8217;Neill On Cholesterol"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-62033\" src=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Barbara_ONeill_On_Cholesterol.jpg\" alt=\"Barbara O'Neill On Cholesterol\" width=\"571\" height=\"569\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Barbara_ONeill_On_Cholesterol.jpg 571w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Barbara_ONeill_On_Cholesterol-300x300.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Barbara_ONeill_On_Cholesterol-150x150.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Barbara_ONeill_On_Cholesterol-100x100.jpg 100w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 571px) 100vw, 571px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We Consider The Cholesterol Level Of 350 Perfectly Fine.&#8221;<br \/>\nBarbara O&#8217;Neill<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Now, Doctors Want You Down To 150&#8243;&#8230;Every Time The numbers Are Lowered, Millions More People &#8216;Need&#8217; Drugs.<\/p>\n<p>That&#8217;s Not Health Care, That&#8217;s Greedy Marketing.<\/p>\n<p>Statins Are A $22 Billion Dollar Industry.<\/p>\n<p>Dr Uffe Ravnskov, world renowned Lipidologist, &#8220;For half a century, a high level of total cholesterol (TC) &amp; low-density lipoprotein (LDL-C) has been considered to be the cause of atherosclerosis &amp; cardiovascular disease (CVD), &amp; statin treatment has been widely promoted for cardiovascular prevention.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The Cholesterol Hypothesis was falsified &amp; has been unequivocally proven as false. The Framingham Heart Study failed to prove that cholesterol causes heart disease&#8230;in fact it proved the opposite. The findings of the 30year study actually shows that when cholesterol is lowered&#8230;mortality INCREASES.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The hypothesis that high total cholesterol causes CVD was introduced in the 1960s by the authors of the Framingham Heart Study. However, in their 30-year follow-up study published in 1987, the authors reported that \u2018For each 1 mg\/dl drop in total cholesterol per year, there was an 11% increase in coronary &amp; total mortality\u2019.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;If high LDL-C was the major cause of atherosclerosis &amp; CVD, people with the highest LDL-C should have shorter lives than people with low values. However, in a recent systematic review of 19 cohort studies including more than 68,000 elderly people (&gt;60 years of age), we found the opposite. In the largest cohort study, those with the highest LDL-C levels lived the longest.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;In a systematic literature review of all statin trials that presented all-cause survival curves concluded that statin therapy only extends life by 3.2 days.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;So I make no mistake by saying that long term treatment with a statin is an iatrogenic mitochondrial disease&#8230;a physician caused death. Physician&#8217;s have broken their oath to &#8216;first do no harm&#8217; by prescribing the deadly cholesterol lowering statin that is causing Parkinson\u00b4s disease, Alzheimer\u00b4s, chronic fatigue, cardiomyopathy, diabetes, fibromyalgia, kidney disease, unexplained heart failure, multiple sclerosis, epilepsy, etc.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>There are no benefits in taking a cholesterol lowering statin. It is harmful to every cell in the body to lower cholesterol, which is the building block to every cell membrane.<\/p>\n<p>Statins cause a litany of side effects that will cause sickness &amp; a low quality of life. Statins do not lower Cardiovascular Risk or Disease, Stroke, Heart Attack or Mortality. Statins cause more death.<\/p>\n<p>Chronic Conditions Caused By Statin Drugs:<br \/>\nLiver Inflammation &amp; Damage<br \/>\nNew Onset Type 2 Diabetes<br \/>\nHeart Failure<br \/>\nVertigo &amp; Dizziness<br \/>\nCognitive Impairment<br \/>\nALS (Lou Gehrig&#8217;s Disease)<br \/>\nAphasia<br \/>\nDementia &amp; Alzheimer&#8217;s Disease<br \/>\nCancer<br \/>\nPancreas Inflammation<br \/>\nParkinson&#8217;s Disease<br \/>\nMuscle Tearing &amp; Pain (Rhabdomyolysis)<br \/>\nFatigue &amp; Weakness<br \/>\nNeuropathy<br \/>\nHormone Deficiency<br \/>\nBrain Damage<br \/>\nMS Multiple Sclerosis<br \/>\nClinical Depression<\/p>\n<p>Elderly With High LDL Live The Longest<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/bmjopen.bmj.com\/content\/bmjopen\/6\/6\/e010401.full.pdf\">https:\/\/bmjopen.bmj.com\/content\/bmjopen\/6\/6\/e010401.full.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The Higher Your LDL, The Longer You Live<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/meddocsonline.org\/annals-of-epidemiology-and-public-health\/the-LDL-paradox-higher-LDL-cholesterol-is-associated-with-greater-longevity.pdf\">https:\/\/meddocsonline.org\/annals-of-epidemiology-and-public-health\/the-LDL-paradox-higher-LDL-cholesterol-is-associated-with-greater-longevity.pdf<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Statins Extend Life Only 3.2 Days<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/26408281\/\">https:\/\/pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov\/26408281\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Click to view the video:\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/ValerieAnne1970\/status\/1976525994170163642\">https:\/\/x.com\/ValerieAnne1970\/status\/1976525994170163642<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8220;We Consider The Cholesterol Level Of 350 Perfectly Fine.&#8221; Barbara O&#8217;Neill &#8220;Now, Doctors Want You Down To 150&#8243;&#8230;Every Time The numbers Are Lowered, Millions More People &#8216;Need&#8217; Drugs. That&#8217;s Not Health Care, That&#8217;s Greedy Marketing. Statins Are A $22 Billion Dollar Industry. Dr Uffe Ravnskov, world renowned Lipidologist, &#8220;For half a century, a high level &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=62032\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Barbara O&#8217;Neill On Cholesterol&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-62032","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\/62032","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=62032"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62032\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":62034,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/62032\/revisions\/62034"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=62032"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=62032"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=62032"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}