As was mentioned in this blog’s introductory post, much of
what will be written on here will be expansive pieces on health and nutrition,
designed to be both in-depth but also accessible to somebody with no background
in topics related to health, physiology, or nutrition. Future topics will likely
include, among others – why epidemiology (ie. observational study) is mostly
junk science, why meat is certainly not causing cancer, why animals are not driving
climate change, various aspects of chronic disease, the relationships between
extreme exercise and health, why vegetables oils will lower your cholesterol but
probably also contribute to killing you, why vegetables aren’t all they’re
cracked up to be, and why your health will likely improve if you eat a bunch of
them anyway.
However, the first topic that will be explored, likely over
the course of the next 2-3 months, is cholesterol and cardiovascular disease. Cardiovascular
disease is probably the most prominent chronic disease in the modern consciousness
and the disease at which most dietary and nutrition advice has been aimed over
the last several decades. Simply put, I believe the bulk of that advice has
been and remains erroneous and actively harmful to those subscribing to its
tenants, and has been far more effective at promoting massive commercial and pharmaceutical
interests than it has at improving health or preventing disease.
I have already written a lengthy paper on the subject of
lipid metabolism, cholesterol, and cardiovascular disease, which can be found here. However, this paper almost certainly suffers from the aforementioned
problem of inaccessibility. My hope here, over the next several weeks, is to
explain in lay terms the paper’s thesis and its implications for cardiovascular
disease and human nutrition. I intend for this to be a roughly ten-part series
on all things cholesterol, beginning with the necessary background information before
walking through the behavior and mechanics of lipids and the dietary choices
that drive these observations. This introductory post will serve as a table of
contents of sorts, with part 1 coming shortly.
Part 1 - The Development of the Lipid-Heart and Diet-Heart Hypotheses
Part 2 - LDL Studies and the Association Between LDL-C and Heart Disease, Pt. 1
Part 3 - LDL Studies and the Association between LDL-C and Heart Disease, Pt. 2
Part 4 - Lipids and Cholesterol: Who Are the Players and What Are We Really Measuring?
Part 5 - An Energy Delivery Model: Triglyceride Production and Utilization
Part 6 - An Energy Delivery Model: The Consequences of Poor Triglycerides Utilization
Part 7 - An Energy Delivery Model: Efficient Triglyceride Uptake and an Increased Energy Demand
Part 8 - An Energy Delivery Model: The Contrasting Presentations of Elevated LDL-C
Part 9 - An Energy Delivery Model: The Downstream Consequences of an Impaired Energy Delivery System
Part 10 - Other Factors in the Development of Atherosclerosis
Part 11 - The Effects of Diet on Markers of Cardiovascular and Metabolic Health
Part 12 - The Effects of Diet on LDL-C, As Told By Energy Delivery
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