# Claims About Cholesterol, Statins, and Heart Disease

- Original post: https://www.twitter.com/i/status/2120881144107282771
- Source account: [@XPHOENIXDRAGON](https://x.com/XPHOENIXDRAGON)
- Source language: English
- Duration: 1:42
- Published: 2026-11-12
- Canonical URL: https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease

## Transcript

[0:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease) The biggest, most expensive, most profitable lie in modern medicine, and it's still being pushed today.

[0:05](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease?t=5) And here's where it came from, same guy, Ancel Keys.

[0:08](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease?t=8) In the 1950s, he noticed that people with heart disease often had high cholesterol, so he concluded that cholesterol must be the cause.

[0:17](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease?t=17) This is a classic correlation-causation error.

[0:20](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease?t=20) Obviously, he wasn't very good at studies or honesty.

[0:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease?t=23) People with heart disease also wear shoes.

[0:26](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease?t=26) That doesn't mean that shoes cause heart disease.

[0:29](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease?t=29) See what I'm getting at? The pharmaceutical industry saw an opportunity.

[0:33](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease?t=33) If cholesterol causes heart disease, then we need a drug to lower cholesterol.

[0:37](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease?t=37) Enter statins. Statins are now one of the most prescribed medications in the world.

[0:42](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease?t=42) Over 200 million people take them. The statin industry is worth over 20 billion dollars a year, and the whole thing was built on a lie.

[0:51](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease?t=51) Here's what the actual science shows. Cholesterol doesn't cause heart disease, inflammation does.

[0:57](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease?t=57) Your body produces cholesterol because you need it.

[1:00](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease?t=60) It's essential for every cell membrane in your body.

[1:03](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease?t=63) It's the precursor to testosterone and estrogen and cortisol and vitamin D. Your brain is 25% cholesterol.

[1:10](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease?t=70) Blaming cholesterol for heart disease is like blaming firefighters for fires because you see them at every fire.

[1:16](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease?t=76) And here's the part that should make you question everything.

[1:19](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease?t=79) Half of all heart attacks occur in people with normal or low cholesterol.

[1:23](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease?t=83) Half. That means the other half had high cholesterol and half had low cholesterol, which means there's no correlation.

[1:31](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease?t=91) If cholesterol caused heart disease, that wouldn't be possible.

[1:34](https://www.translate.mom/transcript/RlfdEzTkfA7B/en/claims-about-cholesterol-statins-and-heart-disease?t=94) The Framingham Heart Study found that people with cholesterol below 150 had higher rates of cancer, stroke, and overall mortality.