Could this be the real Culprit of Heart Disease?

I’m not a big fan of statins. Whether they cause dementia, as some people claim, still seems to be a topic of debate. However, there seems to be a lot of evidence they don’t do much to prevent heart attacks or other cardiovascular events.

In fact, there are some papers coming out that statins may contribute to artery calcification and coronary heart disease.

Kinda scary.

So then if it’s not cholesterol that’s causing heart disease, what could it be? I had read a lot that it could be insulin resistance. Indeed, diabetics generally have double the risk of also contracting some form of coronary heart disease.

Seems pretty correlated. There are some other risk factors.

Then I came across this article in the substack for a guy named Tucker Goodrich. Mr. Goodrich was a big Wall Street tech investor before having a cardiovascular event at age 38. Following the event, he felt like the medical system was failing him. So he ‘did his own research’, and found a lot of interesting information.

The article caught my eye because it was endorsed by Dr Robert Malone. Dr Malone is famous for helping to invent mRNA technology used in vaccines such as the Covid vaccine. Yet Dr Malone has spoken out about the problems with the vaccine.

Mr. Goodrich goes through the history of research into heart disease. He starts by talking about  the history of tracking deaths.

From 1836 when they started a “Causes of Death” list in the UK, through 1893 when causes of death started being tracked internationally, until 1930, coronary heart disease was not listed as a cause of death.

Meaning the numbers of coronary deaths were so low that they were not listed.

It was only in 1912 that a doctor named Herrick first described heart disease.

Maybe back then they didn’t understand heart disease very well and missed it.

However, a very prominent cardiologist, Paul Dudley White, who graduated from Harvard Medical School in 1911 and wrote about it in 1971, stated that heart disease had increased much more in the 50’s, 60’s and 70’s. It was very different than his early career.

Goodrich then cites a bunch of studies over time both debunking the cholesterol idea while finding one of the largest contributors to heart disease.

Omega-6 and Linoleic Acid from seed oils.

Here are some quotes:

"From the animal experiments alone the most reasonable conclusion would be that the cholesterol content of human diets is unimportant in human atherosclerosis." (Keys, 1952)

“This result would support the view that linoleic acid is essential for the production of atherosclerotic plaques.” (Gresham, 1961)

Gresham and Howard further noted that:

“Our results are in accord with the recent work of Bottcher [et al.] (1960) who showed conclusively that human atherosclerotic plaques have a high content of linoleic acid which increases with the severity of the disease.”

“It is concluded that under the circumstances of this trial corn oil cannot be recommended in the treatment of ischaemic heart disease.” (Rose, 1965)

One study compared seed oils to smoking. Smoking is a known contributor to cardiovascular disease. The group with approximately double the level of smokers did better than the group prescribed seed oils (Christakis, 1966; Singman, 1980).

Linoleic acid is the most common fat in the LDL molecule. LDL is the ‘bad cholesterol’ molecule everyone hears about when we talk statins.

Maybe it’s not LDL. Maybe it’s what is in the LDL? We don’t use seed oils in our assisted living homes for lots of reasons. Our health coach through them all out when she went through our pantries.

She might be on to something?