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Bombarded with scientific literature, continually attending education seminars, we opinion makers insisted heart disease resulted from the simple fact of elevated blood cholesterol.

The only accepted therapy was prescribing medications to lower cholesterol and a diet that severely restricted fat intake. The latter of course we insisted would lower cholesterol and heart disease. Deviations from these recommendations were considered heresy and could quite possibly result in malpractice.

It Is Not Working!

These recommendations are no longer scientifically or morally defensible. The discovery a few years ago that inflammation in the artery wall is the real cause of heart disease is slowly leading to a paradigm shift in how heart disease and other chronic ailments will be treated.

The long-established dietary recommendations have created epidemics of obesity and diabetes, the consequences of which dwarf any historical plague in terms of mortality, human suffering and dire economic consequences.

I’m a big fan of the health and medicine podcast, Health Talk, with Dr. Ronald Hoffman. On the May 5th episode (part 1), he briefly discussed this “coming out” by Dr. Lundell. Here is the excerpt:

The news that saturated fat and cholesterol do not cause heart disease is nothing new for those of us who have been paying attention, but when mainstream health practitioners like heart surgeons and neurosurgeons start making loud public announcements about it, you know that a big wave of change is coming. The medical authorities change their recommendations at a glacial pace, however. I expect that soon, we will start seeing lawsuits from patients who were harmed by the standard advice from dieticians, nutritionists, and medical doctors.