{"id":67471,"date":"2026-10-05T09:06:51","date_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:06:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=67471"},"modified":"2026-10-05T09:06:51","modified_gmt":"2026-10-04T22:06:51","slug":"the-great-cholesterol-lie-and-the-dangers-of-statins","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=67471","title":{"rendered":"The Great Cholesterol Lie and The Dangers of Statins"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&#8226;There is a widespread belief that elevated cholesterol is the \u201ccause\u201d of cardiovascular disease. However, a large body of evidence shows that there is no association between the two and the real data shows lower cholesterol significantly increases one&#8217;s risk of death.<\/p>\n<p>&#8226;An alternative model &#40;which the medical industry buried&#41; proposes that the blood clots the body uses to heal arterial damage, once healed, create the characteristic atherosclerotic lesions associated with heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>&#8226;The evidence for the blood clot model is much stronger than the cholesterol hypothesis and provides many critical insights for treating heart disease.<\/p>\n<p>&#8226;The primary approach to treating heart disease is to prescribe cholesterol lowering statin drugs &#40;to the point, nearly a trillion dollars have now been spent on them&#41;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8226;Unfortunately, the benefits of these highly toxic drugs are minuscule &#40;e.g., at best taking them for years extends your life by a few days&#41; and the harms are vast &#40;statins are one of the most common pharmaceuticals that severely injure patients&#41;.<\/p>\n<p>&#8226;Multiple 2026 studies have further shown statins do not extend the lives of the healthy individuals they are primarily prescribed to, while a new wave of expensive patented cholesterol drugs is being approved simply for lowering cholesterol&#8212;many of which are being marketed to the same \u201cstatin intolerant\u201d patients the industry insists are imagining their injuries.<\/p>\n<p>&#8226;In this article we will explore the specific injuries caused by statin drugs, the forgotten causes of cardiovascular disease, and our preferred treatments for heart and vascular diseases.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8226;There is a widespread belief that elevated cholesterol is the \u201ccause\u201d of cardiovascular disease. However, a large body of evidence shows that there is no association between the two and the real data shows lower cholesterol significantly increases one&#8217;s risk of death. &#8226;An alternative model &#40;which the medical industry buried&#41; proposes that the blood clots &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/?p=67471\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;The Great Cholesterol Lie and The Dangers of Statins&#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-67471","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\/67471","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=67471"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":67472,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/67471\/revisions\/67472"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=67471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=67471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.tomgrimshaw.com\/tomsblog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=67471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}