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310: Have We Been Wrong About Cholesterol, Statins, and Heart Disease? | Aseem Malhotra, MD

The Genius Life

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The Impact of Dietary Changes on Metabolic Syndrome

I give them all the information with me. You can reverse metabolic syndrome in three weeks of pure dietary change in about 50%. So I tell patients this is not a long term separate like just do this for a few weeks. And they come back after a month and they're like, wow, I feel like a new person. That's what that's ethical evidence based medical practice on every letter I write for my patient. But yes, if patients are resistant, you still have to tell them in an honest way what the benefits of the drugs are.

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