The Blindspot in our Healthcare System About Fat

You should not eat eggs. Eggs are killing us. We need to avoid fat. Fat is bad for you. This was the mantra that started in our healthcare system from the 1950s even up till today, and now we know that it's wrong. This is a massive blind spot in our healthcare system. Marty Macary in his recent book Blind Spots, talks about a couple of these. I'm going to briefly mention a few of these here. We've now learned that actually total cholesterol has relatively nothing to do with your risk for heart disease. And this is actually not new information. Dr. Mark Houston, the Vanderbilt Hypertensive Clinic, his book of vascular biology, talks about this. But what we've learned is that total cholesterol doesn't have a whole lot to do. It's what's under the hood. It's the ratio of LDL to hdl. It's your LDL particle number. It's now three factors we know that have the biggest predictor, especially women for 30 year risk for heart disease. It's your HSCRP, which is a marker for inflammation, your LDL number and a thing called your protein little A lp. These three markers by themselves have a bigger predictive risk for heart disease.