THE GREAT CHOLESTEROL LIE: Why Inflammation Kills And The Real Cure For Heart Disease DR. DWIGHT LUNDELL THE GREAT CHOLESTEROL LIE i All Rights Reserved This e-book is protected by US Copyright Act of 1976 and other applicable international copyright, trademark, and other intellectual property laws, federal, state and local, with all rights reserved including resale rights. No part of this report may be reproduced or transmitted in any form whatsoever, electronic, mechanical, including photocopying, recording or by any information storage or retrieval system without the informed, written, dated and signed consent of the author, Dr. Dwight Lundell, Heart Surgeon’s Health, Plan, LLC, and Phil Lunde Marketing. Notice: This e-book is password protected for one authorized download per purchase tracked. Any illegal e-mail forwarding, copying, renting, leasing, loaning, sub-licensing or resale of this e-book will be detected. You may download only one personal copy of this e-book. 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Box 5467 Scottsdale, AZ 85261 THE GREAT CHOLESTEROL LIE 1 Table of Contents Acknowledgments ............................................................................................... 6 Foreword: Knowledge is Power—Truth Will Save A Nation .................................. 7 Message From Dr. Dwight Lundell ......................................................................... 9 Chapter One—There Is A Cure For Heart Disease .................................................. 11 University of Arizona, College of Medicine .......................................................................12 Yale University ..................................................................................................................14 The Next 25 Years ............................................................................................................14 Chapter Two—Shattering The Cholesterol Theory- In The Midst of an Epidemic .......................................................... 16 World War II Soldiers Succumb to Heart Attacks ..............................................................18 “The Framingham Study” Creates the Cholesterol Theory ..............................................19 “Seven Countries Study” The Fat Consumption Theory ...................................................20 1968—US Senator George McGovern’s Committee .........................................................21 Politics Speaks ...................................................................................................................22 Low-Fat Theory Becomes Dogma .....................................................................................23 Concepts Become Public Consensus ................................................................................24 Statistical Significance .....................................................................................................25 Facts Of The Framingham Study .......................................................................................26 Results That Prove Nothing ..............................................................................................27 THE GREAT CHOLESTEROL LIE 2 Chapter Three—We’re Burning Up From Inflammation ........................................ 30 What is Inflammation? .....................................................................................................31 Your Body, The War Zone of Inflammation .......................................................................32 Your Body’s Arsenal of Weapons ......................................................................................33 Biology of Inflammation ...................................................................................................34 The Miracle of The Healthy Human Heart .......................................................................35 Three Layers of Arteries ...................................................................................................36 When The Cardiovascular System Fails .............................................................................37 Chapter Four—The Biology of Heart Disease......................................................... 39 Understanding a Heart Attack ...........................................................................................40 Cholesterol Is Vital—Not Evil ..........................................................................................41 The Creation of Fatty Streaks ..........................................................................................43 Controlling Heart Disease and Aging ...............................................................................45 Chapter Five—The Carbohydrate Craze, Low-Fat Diets And Inflammation .................................................................. 48 Current Health C.H.A.O.S. in America ..............................................................................49 The Hunter and Gatherer ..................................................................................................50 Biological Reactions ..........................................................................................................51 Low Carbohydrate Diet and Inflammation .......................................................................51 Sugar Consumption ...........................................................................................................52 The Change In Fats ...........................................................................................................52 Battle Over Low-Fat Diets .................................................................................................53 Body Fat Increases Inflammation .....................................................................................54 THE GREAT CHOLESTEROL LIE 3 Message Low-Fat Sends to Consumers .............................................................................55 Obesity and Heart Disease ................................................................................................56 The Perfect Firestorm ......................................................................................................59 Good and Bad Health Flows Through The Same Vessels ..................................................60 The Need To Change Our Thinking ...................................................................................61 Chapter Six—Fighting The Fires of Inflammation ................................................... 62 Smoking ............................................................................................................................63 Hypertension ...................................................................................................................63 Elevated Blood Sugar ......................................................................................................64 Omega-6 Overload ...........................................................................................................65 Omega-3 Deficiency .........................................................................................................65 Trans-Fats .........................................................................................................................66 Stress................................................................................................................................66 Obesity .............................................................................................................................67 Vitamin Deficiency/Homocysteine ..................................................................................67 Anti-Inflammatory Medications .......................................................................................68 Prostaglandins PG1, PG2 and PG3 ...................................................................................69 Extinguisher #1 Douse the Fire .......................................................................................71 Extinguisher #2 Douse the Fat ........................................................................................73 Extinguisher #3 Douse the Spark ...................................................................................75 Extinguisher #4 Douse Your Body with Anti-Oxidants .....................................................75 Fuel Source #1: Omega-6 Fats—Lower Your Consumption ............................................76 Fuel Source #2: Hypertension - Lower Your Blood Pressure ...........................................76 THE GREAT CHOLESTEROL LIE 4 Fuel Source #3: Blood Sugar—Lower Your Sugar and Carbohydrate Consumption ..................................................................77 Fuel Source #4: Smoking—Don’t Smoke ........................................................................78 Fuel Source #5: Stress—We Need to Chill Out ................................................................78 Fuel Source #6: Trans-Fats—Eliminate Them Completely ...............................................79 Chapter Seven—Living Happily And Healthy In A War Zone .................................. 80 Conveniences and Manufacturers ..................................................................................81 Changing the Food Supply ...............................................................................................83 Fats ...................................................................................................................................84 Carbohydrates ..................................................................................................................84 Protein ............................................................................................................................84 Twelve Marching Orders Through The War Zone ............................................................85 Chapter Eight—Six Rules For Homeland Defense .................................................. 91 Rule #1: Prepare Your Home ...........................................................................................92 Rule #2: Strategy for Venturing Out .................................................................................94 Healthy Tips For Fast Food Eating .....................................................................................95 Rule #3: Assess Your Battlefield—Testing ........................................................................96 Health Screening Tips ......................................................................................................96 Rule #4: Train for Battle ....................................................................................................99 Rule #5: Prepare for Friendly Fire .....................................................................................99 Rule #6: Start Your Own Army ..........................................................................................100 THE GREAT CHOLESTEROL LIE 5 Chapter Nine—Bandages For Heart Disease Stents, Surgery and Statins ............................................................. 101 Invitation to Our Readers ..................................................................................... 113 Appendices .......................................................................................................... 115 A. Cholesterol/Heart Disease Studies .............................................................................115 B. Clinical Success Studies ..............................................................................................116 C. Omega-3 Studies ........................................................................................................127 D. CLA Studies .................................................................................................................129 E. Antioxidant Vitamins ..................................................................................................133 F. Additional Resources .................................................................................................134 THE GREAT CHOLESTEROL LIE 6 Acknowledgments The Troops We are a nation under attack Until we come to the realization that our current health care system is treating sickness instead of wellness, we will be plagued by epidemic. This book is dedicated to those men and women who refuse to lose the war against heart disease. This book is dedicated to you. -- Dr. Dwight Lundell The information in this book is not intended to replace the advice and counsel of your personal physician. I hope it will empower you to more effectively manage or prevent heart disease in conjunction with your doctor. THE GREAT CHOLESTEROL LIE 7 Foreword Knowledge is Power—Truth Will Save A Nation For far too long, the medical profession has monopolized all health-related knowledge and when it comes to heart disease, medicine has largely failed the people of this nation. In spite of strict recommendations from the National Cholesterol Education Program (NECP), the American Heart Association and the United States Department of Agriculture, we are still faced with an epidemic that will kill more than half of our population. In spite of a constant barrage of advertising touting cholesterol-lowering drugs, less than half the people who suffer a heart attack have elevated cholesterol. A massive industry has been built around lowering cholesterol and treating the symptoms of heart disease. Still, scant attention has been given to the actual cause of heart disease. After performing 5,000 open-heart surgeries, contributing to the advancement of heart surgery and being one of the leaders in the field of beating heart surgery, Dr. Dwight Lundell has discovered that heart disease can be cured—not just treated. “Intelligence is the wise use of knowledge,” says Dr. Lundell. “Anyone who reads this book, acts on the knowledge and shares this information with their loved ones can save more lives than any heart surgeon. The truth can save us all.” Dr. Lundell witnessed heart disease, held it in his hands spending a quarter of a century performing over 5,000 open heart surgeries. Ironically, while he was saving lives, for years he wrestled with what he saw in arteries of every patient without fail—inflammation, not cholesterol, and why the inflammation was there. This book is also about you—your heart and your life that are about to change dramatically as you become empowered from the wisdom of this dedicated heart surgeon. Medicine, to Dr. Lundell, is much more than a career—it is his passion and his purpose. This book will startle you as he shatters the “cholesterol theory” we’ve been led to believe for untold years is the cause of heart disease and the lack of scientific fact that began the theory THE GREAT CHOLESTEROL LIE 8 several decades ago. This book isn’t like any book, article or medical journal you’ve ever read on heart disease. It focuses on the heart, yes, but it also focuses on how our bodies are cellular mechanisms connected at all levels. Once you understand that, the complexities of heart disease fall simply away replaced by a very clear awareness that heart disease can be prevented. It is not a complicated medical journal that delves into human physiology and disease that leaves most readers bewildered. This book compellingly reveals how heart disease became an American epidemic and what that epidemic looks like inside the heart. This information will prevent you from being a statistic because everything changes now— the facts are being told and a war will be won once you understand that the war within is inflammation. By reading this book, today begins a new chapter in your life because of a new understanding and treatment of a disease that has, until this point, eluded progress. Please don’t make the mistake of thinking you’ve heard all this before for it isn’t possible that you have. Dr. Lundell, with his knowledge spoken simply and with great caring, brings a quarter-century of wisdom to an epidemic that has eluded a cure reaching frightening statistics. More people are developing heart disease today than ever before--every 34 seconds a person in this country will die of a heart attack; which means, 2,500 die each day. Despite vast amounts of research, fabulous new technological innovations, we haven’t made a dent in this epidemic and instead, it’s grown progressively worse until now. Why? We’ve been treating the wrong culprit for decades. “If everyone knew the real reasons people develop and die from heart disease, the statistics of heart disease would be dramatically reduced—and that’s if they only told their family and friends,” says Dr. Lundell. Lois Smithers Coconut Grove, FL http://inflammationawarenessnow.com