The Great Cholesterol Myth

Why Lowering Your Cholesterol Won't Prevent Heart Disease - and the Statin-Free Plan That Will

By: Stephen T. Sinatra, Jonny Bowden

Narrated by: George K. Wilson

Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins

Publisher's summary

Heart disease is the #1 killer. However, traditional heart disease protocols - with their emphasis on lowering cholesterol - have it all wrong. Emerging science is showing that cholesterol levels are a poor predictor of heart disease and that standard prescriptions for lowering it, such as ineffective low-fat/high-carb diets and serious, side-effect-causing statin drugs, obscure the real causes of heart disease. Even doctors at leading institutions have been misled for years based on creative reporting of research results from pharmaceutical companies intent on supporting the $31-billion-a-year cholesterol-lowering drug industry.

The Great Cholesterol Myth reveals the real culprits of heart disease, including:

• Inflammation
• Fibrinogen
• Triglycerides
• Homocysteine
• Belly fat
• Triglyceride to HCL ratios
• High glycemic level

Bestselling health authors Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., and Stephen Sinatra, M.D. give listeners a four-part strategy based on the latest studies and clinical findings for effectively preventing, managing, and reversing heart disease, focusing on diet, exercise, supplements, and stress and anger management.

Get proven, evidence-based strategies from the experts with The Great Cholesterol Myth.

©2012 Jonny Bowden and Stephen Sinatra, M.D. (P)2013 Tantor

Critic reviews

"Anyone skeptical of the notion that there is more to heart disease than 'cut your fat, take a statin drug' would be well served by [listening to] this book." (William Davis, M.D.)

Such an eye opening book (MUST LISTEN)

I’ve been put on statin drugs since I was 26 yr old (31 now), INSANE. Knowing how much damage it cause vs how little benefit it might bring, I’m so chocked. Why would a 26 yr old active & eating healthy would need a statin drugs. I’m so glad someone recommended this book to me, such an eye opener and a life changer. I learned not to rely on doctors and just trust whatever they say, but I have to be proactive and do my own research. I also have the paper book version and it includes 100 recipes!

About cholesterol and heart disease with humor

I bought this book because my father got severe arteriosclerosis despite having lower cholesterol level than mine. Now I know why!
I have no medical background whatsoever but majority of concepts in this book were easy to grasp thanks to many examples and comparisons from everyday world ( veins like gardening hose...). The book is full of citations so it is easy to go deeper and check the sources. i also appreciate that the authors understood when the reader's eyes can glaze over and insert some humor in the serious subject. I was making notes and now i know what to do to attack the cardiovascular problem instead of focusing wrongly on lowering the total or bad cholesterol.

This may have saved my life.

Fantastic book. I will be listening again and again to remind myself of how to stay healthy. I will be ordering the hard copy with recipes also.

It has helped me with my health 100%.

My Cholesterol is now perfect and I am off all my cholesterol meds. Thank you! My weight is down and I am working on getting off all meds with the help of this book and a new Dr. Thank you so much.

Awesome information

this is a great book and loved every word wish there was more to read

Ahhh moment

Would you listen to The Great Cholesterol Myth again? Why?

You would think it would be in the best interset to big corporations that they give us heathly food. NOt just cause it the right thing to do but it infact makes US live longer and if we live longer we use more of the green aka money.
this book is very informative

What did you like best about this story?

broke things into understandable segments

Great Book

Everyone Needs to Read this book. I am Shocked how we have been Lied to.

Easy to understand, helpful in practice

Where does The Great Cholesterol Myth rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

While I mostly listen to fiction books I have a long standing interest in books about food and healthy living. I've read/listened to books from Pollan, Hyman, Taubes, Schlosser and more. This one is right up there with the best of them. It includes real research on both sides of the cholesterol/fat debate. In addition they do a good job explaining how some research has been "interpreted" which helps to frame the explanation of how we got to where we are when it comes to eating right.

What did you like best about this story?

This book isn't a story (exactly) but the authors did a great job making the science easy to grasp. They acknowledge the parts that can cause eyes to glaze over and summarize these concepts very accurately. Given the nature of this material they still did a good job keeping it entertaining without detracting from the quality of the book.

Did you have an extreme reaction to this book? Did it make you laugh or cry?

There were a few parts that did get a chuckle out of me and I think that speaks to how well the authors managed to deliver their message. Glycation, oxidization, metabolism and other such concepts are not innately entertaining to most people. This book kept my attention and didn't bore me. I found it very interesting and if I had never read another book about this subject I would have been astounded at how inaccurate the common perceptions of heart health are.

Any additional comments?

For most of my life I was trying to "eat healthy" and seemed to only gain more weight no matter how much I excercised or avoided "bad foods". I was a vegetarian for seven years and even that made me gain weight and upped my triglycerides. Thanks to this book and others like it I have gradually come around to realizing that sugar (in every processed form) is really the true "bad food". This book represents a solid explanation of how the common knowledge and dietary advice is contributing to "western diseases". I feel that books like this should be required reading for every physician that is in business to keep people well and not just sell them the newest prescriptions.

Excellent, Excellent, Excellent

This is such important information. It is written in many places on blogs and podcasts and it is still treated as rare and unusual information.
The research is here, the information to save your own life is here, please read this.
The narrator is good also, considering the subject matter, he kept it interesting.
Thank you for writing this book.

The info we all need

The Great Cholesterol Myth is a wonderful look into our systems needs on a level we can all understand. It shares the way food can be our medicine and the every day choices we make add to and build our health or lead to the damage of our systems. Learn what to eat and why.