2015: Dietary guidelines finally remove cholesterol limits. No fanfare. No admission of error. Just quiet revision. “Total cholesterol is no longer a marker of concern.”
The egg panic cost:
– Two generations avoiding a perfect food
– Public trust in nutritional science
– 40 years of people eating Egg Beaters instead of eggs
What did we gain?
Nothing. Heart disease rates continued climbing.
The egg panic was based on:
– Flawed cholesterol hypothesis
– Misunderstanding of dietary vs blood cholesterol
– Industry lobbying against eggs (cereal industry benefited)
– Institutional momentum once policy was set
Eggs were exonerated in 2015. Most people never got the memo.
They’re still eating egg white omelets and avoiding yolks. Because they remember “eggs are bad” but missed “actually never mind.”
Your grandmother ate eggs daily and lived to 90.
Experts told you to avoid them for 40 years.
Who was right?
1968: American Heart Association recommends limiting eggs to 3 per week.
Why? Eggs contain 200mg cholesterol. Dietary cholesterol was assumed to raise blood cholesterol (it doesn’t). Therefore eggs cause heart disease (they don’t).
Restaurants removed eggs from menus. People… pic.twitter.com/04XkYqqTc3
— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) December 7, 2025
Dr. Aseem Malhotra: “There was a dogma that saturated fat causes heart disease. It’s complete BS.”
Dr. Aseem Malhotra: “There was a dogma that saturated fat causes heart disease. It’s complete BS.”
“So my approach to patients, and everyone should hear this, is lowering cholesterol is a complete waste of time based upon the best evidence.” pic.twitter.com/09f1y2M4tx
— Red Pill Dispenser (@redpilldispensr) November 12, 2025
To sell statins, we’re told cholesterol damages arteries—in reality, it repairs arterial injury. Statins hence don’t prevent death and give 20% of users muscle, liver or nerve damage.
Here I show what doctors never tell you about statins and heart disease.
Exploring the Actual Causes and Treatments of Heart Disease
Story at a Glance:
•There is a widespread belief that elevated cholesterol is the “cause” of cardiovascular disease. However, a large body of evidence shows that there is no association between the two and that lower cholesterol significantly increases one’s risk of death.
•An alternative model (which the medical industry buried) proposes that the blood clots the body uses to heal arterial damage, once healed, create the characteristic atherosclerotic lesions associated with heart disease. The evidence for this model, in turn, is much stronger than the cholesterol hypothesis and provides many important insights for treating heart disease.
•The primary approach to treating heart disease is to prescribe cholesterol lowering statin drugs (to the point, over a trillion dollars have now been spent on them). Unfortunately, the benefits of these highly toxic drugs are minuscule (e.g., at best taking them for years extends your life by a few days) and the harms are vast (statins are one of the most common pharmaceuticals that severely injure patients).
•In this article we will explore the specific injuries caused by statin drugs, the forgotten causes of cardiovascular disease, and our preferred treatments for heart and vascular diseases.
