What the doctor says vs what it actually means.
“Your LDL is high.”
What it means: Your body is producing more of the molecule it uses to repair tissue, make hormones, and carry fat-soluble vitamins to your cells. That is biology doing its job.
“LDL is the bad cholesterol.”
What it means: LDL is a lipoprotein. A transport vehicle. It carries cholesterol to the cells that need it. There is no bad cholesterol. There is only cholesterol doing its job.
“You are at increased cardiovascular risk.”
What it means: A population-level risk calculator produced a percentage. It does not know your insulin level, your inflammation markers, or your LDL particle size. It knows your age and your total cholesterol number.
“Statins will reduce your risk by 50 percent.”
What it means: Your relative risk drops by 50 percent. Your absolute risk drops by around 1 percent. These are not the same number. One of them is used in the consultation. Malcolm Kendrick documents this distinction in Doctoring Data.
“Statins are well tolerated.”
What it means: Known side effects include muscle damage, fatigue, memory problems, and raised blood sugar. Well tolerated means most people stay on them.
“This is the standard of care.”
What it means: This is what the guidelines say. The guidelines were written by committees where financial conflicts of interest with pharmaceutical companies are well documented.
The doctor is not lying. They are following a protocol. The protocol is the problem.
Did your doctor explain the difference between relative risk and absolute risk before they wrote that prescription?
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@nixonfoundation And the secret leaker who fed inside info to the two corrupt journalists, Woodward & Bernstein, was the deputy director of the FBI. He was known as Deep Throat and his identity was only revealed much later. They were and given awards but it was Nixon's own govt who destroyed him.
There is a village in Okinawa that stopped being notable in roughly 2004.
Before 2004, Okinawa was one of the most studied populations in longevity research. The Okinawan elderly had some of the highest concentrations of centenarians on earth. Researchers arrived in numbers. Books were written. The "Okinawan diet" became a wellness industry staple.
The traditional diet was high in sweet potato, pork, and pork fat. The pork was nose-to-tail. The fat was rendered pork fat, called lard, used for cooking everything. The elderly Okinawans ate substantial quantities of it, and had done their entire lives.
The researchers noted the pork. The researchers noted the lard.
The researchers noted the sweet potato more prominently.
The books described a plant-rich diet with moderate animal protein. This was accurate in the sense that sweet potato was the primary caloric staple. It was less accurate in the sense that the animal fat, in a traditional diet with minimal other processed fat sources, was doing considerable nutritional work.
Then the younger generation of Okinawans switched to a Western diet.
Fast food. Processed foods. Seed oils. Less sweet potato. Less pork fat.
By 2004, Okinawa had some of the highest obesity rates in Japan.
The longevity researchers stopped visiting.
The wellness industry had already extracted the part of the story it wanted.
The lard did not make the summary.
The lard never makes the summary.
🇳🇬 Palm Sunday Massacre in Jos: More Than 40 Christians Slain by Jihadis in Angwan Rukuba
More than 40 Christians killed, with several others injured, following an attack by Jihadis, Angwan Rukuba, Jos.
The attack, which occurred on Palm Sunday night, March 29, 2026, around 7:50 p.m.
RFK Jr. shared shocking stats showing how real food lowers violence in prisons.
“When they change the food to real food in prisons, the violence goes down by 40%-50%, disciplinary problems drop by 40%-50%.”
“Use of restraints in juvenile detention facilities goes down by 70%.”
“This is a mental health issue as well as a behavioral issue as well as a physical health issue.”
@ProudofusUK How would one possibly prove the number of generations, the age of the fossil and disprove contamination of the sample with the teacher's DNA? This is preposterous!
They’ve executed 20-year-old Ali Heydari.
Arrested in Mashhad on Thursday, January 8th, he was hanged today by the Islamic Republic without a trial or even access to a lawyer. His family was kept completely in the dark; no official word on where he was held or his condition since the arrest, and all their desperate efforts to get answers were flat-out ignored. Reports say he was even shot during the arrest.
#IranMassacre
@MAGAVoice May the peace of God comfort you and your family. You have made a positive difference in the lives of many. I hope to meet you and break bread in the beautiful coming resurrection when Jesus will be king and evil will be no more. Isaiah 33:24 "no resident will say: "I am sick."
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