Welcome back! Today I had the pleasure to talk to one of the very controversial figures in regards to heart disease and the association between Apo-B containing lipoptroteins, aka LDL, VLDL, etc. and heart disease. Dr. Malcolm Kendrick who is a family physician from Scotland can be considered a great mentor and teacher as far as I am concerned, since many of the ideas that he brings forward and methods and ways of scientificly approaching a problem, just resonated with me so beautifully that I have been able to extract tremendous value and continue to learn a lot from his work. Malcolm has authored several books like Doctoring Data or his most recent one – The Clot Thickens, he leads a blog on his website https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/ and has published and co-authored quite a significant number of scientific papers many of which were aimed at assessing the controversies and unresolved questions in regards to the pathophysiological processes which fundamentally underlie atherosclerotic plaque formation and, ultimately, heart disease. 

In this first part of our conversation we were mostly discussing all the facts and evidence pointing against the presumption of LDL, or Apo-B containing lipoproteins, being the number one driving causal factor behind plaque formation which is usually referred to as cardiovascular disease. Unfortunately, we didn’t quite manage to thoroughly discuss Dr. Kendrick’s hypothesis and explanations which he so beautifully describes in his most recent book and which he established as a result of several decades of constant digging, reading, questioning and exploring for the mere sake of finding something, finding a model that would be incontrovertible, unambiguous and capable of withstanding any criticisms from the other side. A model that would be able to explain virtually every observation and risk factor as far as heart disease is concerned.In our second part we will continue to take apart the standard mainstream Lipid Hypothesis and, in particular, go much deeper into the real pathophysiology behind cardiovascular disease manifesting itself as a heart attack, stroke, etc. Enjoy the great conversation I had today with Dr. Malcolm Kendrick!

Check out his blog on his website: https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/

The link to all the books he has written: https://drmalcolmkendrick.org/books-by-dr-malcolm-kendrick/

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