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Cholesterol & Statins: The Science You Haven’t Heard | Joe Rogan

Name: Cholesterol & Statins: The Science You Haven’t Heard | Joe Rogan
Uploaded: 2025-09-19T16:00:34+00:00
Duration: 48 s
Channel: Darrian Peck
Description: Short excerpt from a spoken interview arguing that elevated LDL cholesterol alone is not correlated with cardiovascular disease; instead risk appears…

19 Sept 2025 · 1 min

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Short excerpt from a spoken interview arguing that elevated LDL cholesterol alone is not correlated with cardiovascular disease; instead risk appears when LDL elevation co-occurs with high triglycerides, inflammation, or other metabolic derangements (e.g., hypertriglyceridemia, hyperinsulinemia). The speaker also asserts that large-scale data undermine statins’ benefits on life extension and all-cause mortality and raises concerns about unstudied downstream complications and ubiquitous polypharmacy in older adults.

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There is no correlation between elevated levels of LDL cholesterol on its own and cardiovascular disease. You had to have corresponding increases in triglyceride. You had to have inflammatory factors. You usually had to have other metabolic factors like hypertriglyceridemia, hyperinsulinemia. And yet everybody, you know, would really come after me for that. And now we're starting to see that the data on statins is really falling apart. Big data is starting to tell us that the extension of life is near zero, but the extension of all cause mortality is near zero. And then the complications downstream, which we never study. I mean, you'll never find a randomized clinical trial looking at more than one pharmaceutical compound in the same biome. Yet almost everybody at the age of 60 is on five or more prescriptions. So what's happening?