“Statins are prescribed like they’re candy—they’re not. They’re mitochondrial poison,” says Francisco Gutierrez, MD, allopathic trained physician specializing in internal medicine, who joins the Quantum Biology Collective podcast to explain why these drugs—which remain among the top three most prescribed in the U.S—not only do nothing for the primary prevention of heart disease but, for most people, do more harm than good. The mass overprescription of statins is based on a misunderstanding of the role cholesterol plays in the body, a misguided correlation between LDL and heart disease, flawed metrics and propaganda. 

Today, Dr. Francisco explains what we’re getting wrong about metabolic syndrome and how having a stroke at age 41 led him to first question the traditional medical paradigm. He discusses how many of the symptoms we associate with poor diet are just as much if not more a case of circadian misalignment. He shares stories of clients who have healed many of these symptoms. He also explains the difference between relative risk and absolute risk, how the pharmaceutical industry creates confusion between the two to promote products.

Join today’s episode to learn more about what we’re getting wrong about food, calories and exercise, and we truly build muscle–and it’s not about calories or exercise. 

Quotes

• “The guardians of the ship of resiliency are the mitochondria. The mitochondria are basically what dictates if we’re sick or we thrive…mitochondria are quantum antennas, they pay attention to a lot of different inputs.” (15:10 | Francisco Gutierrez, MD)
• “By just helping people fix their desynchronized circadian clock, I can show them how their mitochondria function is improving—how? By showing them with a body composition scan—that they’re reducing their body fat and increasing their muscle without exercise…Everybody has this idea that you have to go to the gym and spend an hour and a half and pump iron and that’s the way you’re going to make muscle. Nope. Nature makes your muscle.” (17:45 | Francisco Gutierrez, MD) 
• “There are two things that really annoy me in how medical care is being promoted: one of them is cholesterol…The other one is the idea of calories.” (19:01 | Francisco Gutierrez, MD)
• “Food is important, but food is the easiest thing to fix and I’ll explain why. More fundamental is the realization that you can get insulin resistance and fatty liver and high insulin with the resulting metabolic syndrome just by not enough sunlight and too much artificial light.” (23:02 | Francisco Gutierrez, MD)
• “I was one who thought that the prescription pad was a solution. That’s it. What changed my view was my own stroke because I had to ask myself the question: ‘Why did this happen if I’m doing the things that they tell me to do?’”  (40:36 | Francisco Gutierrez, MD)
• “Statins are prescribed like they’re candy—they’re not. They’re mitochondrial poison.” (58:27 | Francisco Gutierrez, MD)

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