Changing the perception on Cholesterol

On this edition of the low carb healthy fat podcast Dr Gary Fettke joins us once again. Doc, the last time you were on you were chatting a little bit about inflammation and how you feel it is probably the underlying cause for most modern disease and we touched a bit on cholesterol and I literally get so many questions in from people who go and see their doctor or perhaps they go and they want to get life insurance, as an example, and they need a cholesterol test and the numbers come back and according to the old way of thinking their cholesterol is through the roof.

They need to lower their cholesterol and they want to go on a low carb healthy fat or a healthy fat diet and their medical practitioner is advising against it because he’s still looking at that cholesterol as the major contributing factor to them having a heart attack. How can someone approach their medical practitioner, if their medical practitioner is still just looking out and out at a cholesterol test going, your numbers are too high, we need to get you on statins, how can they approach their medical practitioner with that dilemma?