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Cholesterol, metabolic health and heart disease | Dr Alan Flanagan and Danny Lennon

The Proof with Simon Hill

CHAPTER

Is LDL Cholesterol a Problem?

Chris Packard: I don't think that he's particularly scientifically literate, even though people will be like, well, he's a doctor. He says LDL for him is not necessarily a concern because he is insulin sensitive. And the way he is, at least coming to that conclusion, is off the basis of his HDL and triglycerides. So it's leaving out that inconvenient fact that even in your situation, you would benefit from LDL cholesterol lowering. If he was going to sit down and have a conversation with someone that is across the pathophysiology of atherosclerosis, who would like to see him talk?

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