Ph.D. in Biology/Neuroscience Professor, Univ So Florida My second career focuses on cardiovascular disease I'm skeptical of LDL cholesterol as a cause of CVD

Tampa, FL
I'm honored that my paper on statistical deception in cholesterol research will be the topic of a Grand Rounds Med School panel discussion today. bit.ly/3Lpo5gw @ProfTimNoakes @DoctorTro @DominicDAgosti2 @lowcarbGP @SBakerMD @ethanjweiss @davidludwigmd @DrAseemMalhotra
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I am building the world's first root cause health AI, and it is meant to be the place you go with a health question. It looks like the search you already use. A box, a question, an answer in seconds. That part is deliberate. Nobody wants to learn a new tool to find out why they are tired. What changes is underneath. Google hands you a ranked list and leaves the judgment to you. A general model hands you the published consensus, faithfully, including the tilt in it. Neither of them knows a single thing about your blood work, and neither can tell you about the marker nobody ordered, because neither one has ever seen your panels. Neo holds every panel you have ever uploaded and reads each new one against all of them. It goes back up the chain to the primary research. And when the consensus is the thing in question, it takes a position and says which research it is taking it from. Three physicians and a scientist put their names to that. No pharmaceutical funding, at any size. The truth heals
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Our new research shows that ketogenic metabolic therapy can be a novel non-toxic therapeutic strategy for managing pediatric high-grade gliomas. cancermetabolismnews.substac…
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Leaked video of Mark Zuckerberg warning his Facebook Execs NOT TO GET VACCINATED with the mRNA (COVID) vaccines because "we don't know the long-term side effects of modifying people's DNA & RNA." He censored doctors, scientists & the sick who denounced the ‘Vaccines."
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Modern cardiology has been the blind men and the elephant. One doctor grabs the LDL particle and says that's the whole story. Another feels blood pressure. Another touches inflammation. Everyone certain. Everyone blindfolded. Everyone touching one part of the animal in the dark. The elephant was always the arterial wall. The coupling status of your eNOS enzyme. Whether your wall produces nitric oxide to protect you or superoxide to destroy you. That's the whole animal. That's what nobody was looking at. The lights are on now. The LDL particle magic show is over. Cardiology will never be the same. The Truth Heals
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Lethal vaccine myopericarditis is autopsy-proven, peer-reviewed, and published since 2021. @FDA has not required the vaccine companies to list this as a fatal side effect of COVID-19 vaccination. Why? Courtesy Marissa Streit, Prager University @prageru @marissastreit @McCulloughFund
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Some were more cancelled than others, but I’m quite confident that all will ultimately be vindicated. Thank you @KatyTalento for the shoutout at @AAPSonline.
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Çoğu insan aşağıdaki antrikotun (400 gr) kolesterol bombası olduğunu düşünür. Oysa içindeki toplam kolesterol 3 tane bal arasının ağırlığı kadardır (300 mg). Gıdalarda kolesterol son derecede nadir bulunur. Bu nedenle kanımızda dolaşan kolesterolün de neredeyse tamamını bizzat vücudumuz üretir. Vücudumuz kolesterole çok ihtiyaç duyarsa üretimi arttırır. Az ihtiyaç duyarsa üretimi azaltır. Kanda yüksek kolesterol, düşürülmesi gereken bir şey değildir. Kötü kolesterol yoktur. Sürekli ilaç satışlarına hizmet eden kötü ve yanlı bilim vardır.
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Doctor: "I've asked you in because you've stopped taking your metformin." Patient: "I have." Doctor: "Type 2 diabetes is a progressive condition. You need that medication." Patient: "You've had me on it for about 10 years." Doctor: "And it's working." Patient: "It gave me diarrhoea for 10 years. I was too embarrassed to tell you. You never once asked about side effects." Doctor: "So what have you been doing?" Patient: "I cut the carbs. I found a forum online, 40,000 people doing the same thing. I've lost 3 stone." Doctor: [orders the blood test] Doctor: "Your blood sugar is normal." Patient: "I know." Doctor: "I've been a GP for 25 years. I've never seen anybody put type 2 into remission." Patient: "Are you actually medically qualified? Starch is sugar. It's basic." That doctor was David Unwin, in Southport, in 2012. He'd been thinking about retiring. He didn't. From 2013 he offered his type 2 patients the diet she'd found. Of those who took it up within a year of diagnosis, 77% went into drug-free remission. By 2022 his practice was spending £68,353 a year less on diabetes drugs than the practices around it. She came in for a telling-off, and left having written the treatment plan.
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FDA estimates (Graham): 88k–140k excess US heart attacks from Vioxx, ~44% fatal (~39k–62k deaths). Settlement paid 3,468 death claims. Many more nonfatal injuries. No individuals went to jail. Merck pled guilty only to a corporate misdemeanor for off-label promotion and paid $950M to DOJ. Sales totaled ~$10–12B. Settlements reached ~$4.85B (injury suits) + $950M (DOJ) + $830M (securities) plus >$1B legal fees. The company still posted net profits overall after all costs.
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I want to tell you about two scientists who won the Nobel Prize and accidentally disproved the narrative built on top of their work. In 1979, Joseph Goldstein and Michael Brown ran an experiment that should have changed everything. They took macrophages. The white blood cells that build plaque. And they bathed them in native LDL. The same LDL floating in your bloodstream right now. Nothing happened. The macrophages ignored it. Completely. No uptake. No foam cells. No plaque. Then they modified the LDL. They acetylated it. Changed its structure. And the macrophages devoured it. Through scavenger receptors called CD36 and SR-A that are specifically designed to recognize damaged particles. This is the moment the world should have asked: if normal LDL does not trigger plaque formation, why are we treating the number? Goldstein and Brown won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1985 for this work. The entire field celebrated them. And then the field ignored the most important part of what they found. The macrophage does not recognize your LDL. It recognizes oxidized LDL. Modified LDL. LDL that has been changed inside a damaged artery wall. The particle in your blood is not the particle that causes disease. Something has to change it first. And that something is the wall. Forty-six years later, most doctors still do not know this. They check your LDL. They write a prescription. They never ask what is happening inside your wall. The Nobel Prize told us the answer in 1979. We just were not listening. The truth heals
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Replying to @Lpa_Doc
Dr. Tsimikas, genuine question. If Lp(a) is carrying oxidized phospholipids that activate platelets through CD36, that tells us there is oxidative damage happening upstream. The OxPL had to come from somewhere. Why is the field focused on eliminating the particle that carries the damage signal rather than asking what is generating the oxidized lipids in the first place? It is like studying the ambulance at every car crash and concluding that ambulances cause accidents. If the arterial wall were not damaged and inflamed, would Lp(a) even have a reason to be there? The endothelium is the first domino. OxPL does not appear in a healthy vessel with an intact glycocalyx. What if Lp(a) is not the cause of thrombosis but part of a repair response to a wall that is already under siege? Serious question from someone trying to understand the biology, not challenge your work.
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I ran a trial in Greece a few weeks ago. One participant, eight days, zero bottles of sunscreen, and the ethics committee was me. Early September. 32°C by ten in the morning. Hiking for hours, shirt off, no hat, no shade, no cream, in the exact sun the leaflet has been warning me about since I was in a pram. The intervention started six years ago, when the last bottle of seed oil left the house. Since then every membrane in my body has been rebuilt out of butter, tallow and beef. About three full turnovers of the skin's fat, if you want the arithmetic. And every summer I gave it a little more sun than the last, the way you would train anything else. Outcome: I got a bit browner. That is the whole result. No redness. No heat coming off the shoulders at night. No peeling. No sleeping on my front. No aloe vera. No pharmacy. The Greek sun did what the Greek sun has done to Greeks for 4,000 years. It tanned me. Meanwhile on the same beach: a woman reapplying factor 50 every 90 minutes with the concentration of a bomb disposal officer, and still going the colour of a tinned tomato by the third afternoon. Her skin and mine were under the same light. Hers was built out of the sunflower spread and the rapeseed the packet told her was kind to her heart. Mine was built out of the fat the packet told her would kill her. Sunburn is a polyunsaturated fat oxidising inside the skin. Ultraviolet is the match, the seed oil is the kindling, and the redness is the fire brigade turning up. Take the kindling away and the match lands on stone. I know what one man's story is worth. It is worth exactly one man. But the chemistry predicted this result before I set off, and six years of messages from redheads, Celts and other former human tomatoes describe the same thing, unprompted. The dermatologist will tell you I was reckless. The dermatologist has spent fifty years telling you what to put on the outside of your skin and has never once asked what you built the inside of it from. I put butter on the inside. Then I went and stood in the sun. Reckless. Brown, though.
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Thanks to @DrStephenHussey for putting my discussion with him yesterday on youtube so it'll be readily accessible. I'll copy/paste the original message here, followed by an active link: I had the pleasure to discuss LDL cholesterol concerns, the lean mass-hyper-responder #LMHR, low carb ketogenic diet and statins, including statin adverse effects, with @DrStephenHussey yesterday. There was an excellent Q&A session after my presentation. I highly recommend viewing it to anyone concerned about their high LDL, as well as those on a statin or other means to lower their cholesterol. I'll be presenting a version of this in a few weeks in Dallas: conference.ketogenicfoundati… @ifixhearts @markkaplan20 @KenDBerryMD @dramerling @lowcarbGP @DoctorTro @lowcarbusa @LowCarbBeast @bigfatsurprise @GeorgiaEdeMD @DominicDAgosti2 @realDaveFeldman @AdrianSotoMota piped.video/watch?v=h5cqFj9A…
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This Should HORRIFY Every Parent & Grandparent... Nurse: "just a little pinch, we're sorry. Almost done with this leg." Dad: "You're doing so good, just a few more buddy. You are so brave." 7 VACCINES LATER THIS INNOCENT BABY IS FOREVER HARMED...
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I had the pleasure to discuss LDL cholesterol concerns, the lean mass-hyper-responder #LMHR, low carb ketogenic diet and statins, including statin adverse effects, with @DrStephenHussey yesterday. There was an excellent Q&A session after my presentation. I highly recommend viewing it to anyone concerned about their high LDL, as well as those on a statin or other means to lower their cholesterol. @ifixhearts @markkaplan20 @KenDBerryMD @dramerling @lowcarbGP @DoctorTro @lowcarbusa @LowCarbBeast @bigfatsurprise @GeorgiaEdeMD @DominicDAgosti2 @realDaveFeldman @AdrianSotoMota drive.google.com/file/d/1TJr…
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BREAKING: A daycare in Boise, Idaho challenged the Idaho Medical Freedom Act. The Idaho Attorney General @Raul_Labrador just defeated the case. The court dismissed the case, with prejudice. From the press release: “Parents make medical decisions for their children. A daycare does not,” said Attorney General Labrador. “The Legislature protected that choice in the Medical Freedom Act, and the court upheld it. Daycares can tell parents what they believe about vaccines and health, but they cannot turn a child away because of a parent’s medical decision. That decision belongs to families, and I’m pleased the court agreed.” @theHFDF @ChildrensHD @jeffreytucker @brownstoneinst @standforhealth1 @Honest_Medicine @HighWireTalk @delbigtree @WTPatriotsUSA @AutismActionNet @G_W_Forum @MAHA_Action @MAHA_Institute @WestonAPrice @MaryBowdenMD @feds4freedomusa @momsacross @CCHFreedom @liberty4_ever @ClendenonSarah @robbeiswenger @Mikeemoyle @josh_idaho @FLSurgeonGen @kelly_a_anthon ag.idaho.gov/newsroom/ag-lab…
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I wonder what these lobby groups were paid to pivot against animal protein? #carnivore
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Me: "May I please have the package insert for the flu vaccine?" Rite-Aid Pharmacist: "Why?" Me: "So I can read it." P: "Which one?" Me: "The one advertised with the little banners on every aisle." P: "I will print you the information sheet." Me: "No, that's not the same thing." P: "What do you want to know? I can tell you." Me: "I would just like to read the whole thing before I consider getting one...side effects, contraindications, effectiveness, ingredients like mercury." P: "I don't think I have any. Let me check. (checks) Sorry, I can't give you one until the box is empty, because it has to stay in the box. And there isn't any thimerisol in the single dose flu shot any more. I can print you the information sheet." Pharmacy co-worker with big smile at me: "Hi, I found one." (hands insert to me) *** Here are some things in the insert not on the store's sheet: 1. The single dose vial contains mercury at ≤1mcg (This is called a "trace amount" by the industry.) The multi-vial contains 25 mcg. 2. People with egg allergies are contraindicated. 3. "Safety and effectiveness have not been established in pregnant women, nursing mothers and children under four. There are no adequate and well-controlled studies in pregnant women. This vaccine should be used during pregnancy only if clearly needed. It is not known whether fluvarin is excreted in human milk." 4. "Fluvarin has not been evaluated for carcinogenic or mutagenic potential, or for impairment of fertility." 5. "Antibody response is low in the geriatric population." 6. "Serious reactions, including anaphylactic shock, have been observed." 7. "There are no data to assess the concomitant administration of flu vaccine with other vaccines." 8. "The vaccine has been associated with an increased frequency of Guillain-Barre syndrome." 9. "In some studies, fluvarin protected up to 50% of subjects." With love to those who read this far. Please share. 👊🏼 No one needs a #Flu shot! (It unalived my mom…) fda.gov/files/vaccines%2C%20… rxlist.com/fluvirin-drug.htm cdc.gov/flu/vaccine-types/in…
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How a dinner invitation is received, by years off seed oils. Year 0: "Lovely, what can I bring?" Year 1: "Lovely. What are you cooking it in?" Year 2: "Lovely, I'll bring a dessert." Brings butter. Just butter. Year 3: Arrives early to inspect the pan. Finds the bottle. Says nothing. Says nothing all evening in a way everyone notices. Year 4: Eats beforehand. Sits at the table with a black coffee. Describes it as intermittent fasting. Year 5: Invited to fewer things. Relieved. Year 6: Hosts instead. Rib of beef, roast potatoes in dripping, a jug of something brown. Watches thirteen people who have had a lot to say over the years go quiet for a full minute, then ask for more. The paranoia gets you disinvited. The dripping gets you a following.
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Today I got to see the patient who gave me the courage to treat even the most severe Covid patients as an outpatient. He walked in with an oxygen saturation of 62% and refused to go to the hospital. Even after 8 days, his oxygen saturation was only 83% on room air. I treated him with high dose ivermectin, steroids, spironolactone, high dose IV vitamin C, azithromycin, fluvoxamine, glutathione, and home oxygen. Slowly but surely he stayed out of the hospital and survived. He is one of the stars in my book.
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