The Relationship Between Cholesterol and Heart Disease

The conventional wisdom max for a very long time amongst lipid specialists amongst cardiologists still is that there is this mantra that basically says for every one millimole per liter that you lower LDL cholesterol, there is a 20% risk reduction in cardiovascular events. Myself was very skeptical, having looked at a lot of misinformation that was being perpetuated by drug industry and scientists who were funded by them. The effect of diet on cholesterol actually is quite minimal when it comes to LDL and total cholesterol in general; the drugs have a much more profound effect. So overcoming that, people understand why are they being misled or how can it be so obvious? It's because a lot of people make a lot