The Cholesterol Code Movie
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In a world where 92 million Americans take statins, one man's unexpected health journey uncovers a medical mystery that could upend everything we think we know about cholesterol and heart health.
When engineer Dave Feldman reverses his pre-diabetes with a low-carb diet, he feels invincible—until a routine blood test reveals sky-high LDL cholesterol, putting him at odds with decades of medical advice. Torn between feeling the healthiest he’s ever been and warnings of catastrophic heart disease, Dave refuses to accept easy answers. What begins as a personal experiment quickly expands into a global investigation, challenging the mainstream science that shapes our beliefs.
The Cholesterol Code is more than a documentary—it’s a high-stakes David-versus-Goliath battle for truth. What if our fear of cholesterol has been fueled more by profit than the science? What if low-carb and keto diets—dismissed and demonized—hold the key to reversing the global epidemic of chronic disease? Driven by curiosity and grounded in science, the film follows Dave and a team of researchers through a landmark research study using high-resolution heart imaging.
The results raise a daring question– have we been fighting the wrong enemy all along? Part personal journey, part investigative thriller, The Cholesterol Code explores what happens when science meets an open mind. It’s a story for anyone who’s ever questioned the status quo—and wondered if the truth might be more complex than we’ve been led to believe.
https://cholesterolcodemovie.com/
Available for streaming on the standard platforms (Amazon/FMHY 🦜✅)
The LMHR also having rising cholesterol during a two week fast is a interesting data point I hadn't seen before.
They don't address the ClearlyAI drama, which I think they should have considering they follow the rest of the publication process.
They don’t address the ClearlyAI drama
Is this in reference to the ClearView AI scandal? Or something totally different?
no, totally different - there are a few companies that do ai assisted plaque characterization of ct angiograms. Basically the first company these researches worked with refused to do blinded analysis, which is weird because why can't a AI be blinded? Turns out they also where the only company that showed monotonically increasing plaque for all patients.
They have since used 3 other AI plaque algorithms that allow blinding, and those analysis of the same data set don't show monotonically increasing plaque for all patients.
I think they are now involved in some legal drama over it.
The results raise a daring question– have we been fighting the wrong enemy all along?
I'd say it's definitely possible! There was an extremely weird positive feedback loop (i.e. scientific circle jerk) where alzheimer's funding perpetuated the myth of focusing on the wrong thing for over a decade and after tens of millions of dollars wasted on a senseless pet theory obsessing over a risk marker, not a risk factor:
https://www.statnews.com/2019/06/25/alzheimers-cabal-thwarted-progress-toward-cure/
https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/alzheimers-inc-when-a-hypothesis-becomes-too-big-to-fail/
Fascinating articles. Humans really can get caught up in target fixation and emotional sunk cost!
Plus I've seen some interesting papers in Alzheimer's link to metabolic health.