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Confidence Intervals, He Has No Idea
"You can cherry pick articles and come up with something that agrees with you," he says. "I always tell my people at the conferences and on TikTok or social media everywhere, you have to look at the totality of evidence"
In Episode #244, cardiologist Dr Mohammed Alo joins me to talk about cardiovascular disease myths, many of which he has been brilliantly covering on Tik Tok over the past year.
Is it perfectly ok to eat a lot of saturated fat and red meat if your triglycerides and HDL are normal? Does a coronary artery scan of zero mean we won’t have a heart attack? What’s better - a coronary artery scan or a CT angiogram for measuring plaque in our coronary arteries. Are statins beneficial? Is too low cholesterol a problem? Does this affect brain health and hormone production? Eggs, fish and fish oil, cooking oils - the list goes on.
Specifically, we discuss:
We covered a lot.
To explore more of Dr Mohammed Alo’s work, check out his website or connect with him on YouTube and TikTok.
Discover more insights and supporting studies in the full show notes.
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Simon
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Simon Hill, MSc, BSc (Hons)
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