Join Dr. Patrick Garrett to learn everything you ever wanted to know about cholesterol and how lowering it can actually kill you!

1. The Cholesterol Myth
Dr. Patrick Garrett, DC, B.Sci, DCCN, DABFM, FAAFM
Concierge Natural Healthcare
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2. Who is Dr. Garrett

3. Dr. Patrick Garrett
Chiropractic College / Medical School
12 Years of Functional Lifestyle Practice
Specializing in reversing acute & chronic
conditions naturally
Patients / clients all over the country & world
Clinical focus on reversing diabetes, asthma,
allergies, eczema, psoriasis, migraines and
epigenetic food therapy.
Physician

4. Postgraduate Educator
300 Hour / 2 Year Diplomate Functional Medicine
/ Clinical Nutrition Program in Denver, Colorado
National Speaker
Internal Disorders
Functional Medicine
Applied Nutrition & Clinical Chemistry
Clinical Nutrition
Functional Approaches to Reversing Diseases
National Speaker

5. Lifestyle Medicine Program
Celiac Disease
Lifestyle Medicine – Metabolic Syndrome & Nutrition
Lifestyle Medicine – Stress Management
Lifestyle Medicine – Weight Management
Lifestyle Medicine – Prescribing Exercise
Lifestyle Medicine – Osteoporosis
Lifestyle Medicine – The Biology of Normal Sleep &
Consequences of Insufficient Sleep
Infertility & Endocrinology & More
Postdoctoral Education

6. Lifestyle Medicine Program
Lifestyle Practices for Weight Management & Health Promotion
Models of Behavior Modification
The Pressure System Model of Lifestyle Counseling in Primary Care
Rationale for Lifestyle & Weight Management Counseling
Weight Bias in Clinical Settings: Improving Health Care Delivery for
Obese Patients
Postdoctoral Education

7. Diplomate of the American Board of Functional Medicine
Board Certified in Integrative Medicine
Diplomate of the American College of Clinical Nutrition
Senior Fellow of the American Academy of Functional
Medicine
Diplomates & Certifications

8. Harvard Medical School Postgraduate Association– Member
American Academy of Integrative Medicine – Member
Physicians Committee on Responsible Medicine - Member
American Board of Functional Medicine - Past President
American Academy of Functional Medicine - Chairman of the Board of Directors
Green Med Info – Board Member
Bloodid - Medical Director
Leadership / Membership

9. Food as Medicine
The Cholesterol Myth
Foods that heal
Foods that kill

10. Cholesterol Myths
Myths
• High cholesterol causes heart attacks
• Lowering cholesterol will extend your
life
How to prevent & reverse heart
disease.

11. First: What is cholesterol?
• A steroid
• Derived from the Greek term “chole”
– Chole + sterol = Cholesterol
• 80% made from liver
• 20% made from diet
• 80% of your brain
• 20% of every cell wall
• 100% of your fat based hormones like
– Vitamin D, Progesterone, Estrone, Estriol, Estradiol,
Cortisol, Testosterone, DHEA, Pregnenolone, etc…

12. First: What is cholesterol?
What does cholesterol look like?

13. First: What is cholesterol?

15. So what is cholesterol?

16. Myth 1: Cholesterol causes heart disease
• Heart disease
become epidemic
• People need a cause
• Fat didn’t pan out

17. Myth 1: Cholesterol causes heart disease

18. Myth 1: Cholesterol causes heart disease

19. Myth 1: Cholesterol causes heart disease
• If cholesterol causes heart disease then it
must be true everywhere.
– Do other countries have high cholesterol?
– Do other countries have epidemic rates of
heart disease & stroke?

20. Myth 1: Cholesterol causes heart
disease
Australia 75% less
Japan – 70% less
France – 60% less
Italy – 35% less
Poland – 20% less
OECD Health Data

21. Myth 1: Cholesterol causes heart
disease
The notorious French
Paradox
Average cholesterol is
250 mg / dl
Risk decreases by 60%

22. Myth 1: Cholesterol causes heart
disease
European
Paradox
vs.
Russian
Paradox

23. Myth 1: Cholesterol causes heart
disease
What about the paradox in America?
– Cholesterol causes heart attacks
• 300 mg/dl versus 200 mg/dl
• 70% of ER visits for MI
– LDL cholesterol causes heart attacks
• High versus low LDL

24. Myth 1: Cholesterol causes heart disease
To believe in the
idea of “bad”
cholesterol is to
ignore science in
lieu of effective
marketing.

25. Myth 1: Cholesterol causes heart disease

26. VAP Cholesterol Test

27. The VAP correction
Diagnosis Therapeutic Lifestyle Changes Supplements
Elevated LDL-R Healthy Fat Diet, Exercise
Elevated Lp(a) Lysine, Omega 3, Glutathione Niacin
Elevated IDL Healthy Carbohydrate Diet, Exercise Niacin, Nattokinase
Small Dense LDL Healthy Carbohydrate Diet, Low Glycemic, Exercise Omega 3-FA, Niacin, Nattokinase
Pattern B, A/B
Remnant Lipoproteins Healthy Carbohydrate Diet Omega 3-FA, Niacin, Nattokinase
Low HDL2 Aerobic Exercise Omega 3-FA, Niacin, Nattokinase
VLDL and Elevated Healthy Carbohydrate Diet, Low Glycemic, Exercise Omega 3-FA
Triglycerides
Metabolic Syndrome Low Glycemic, Exercise Omega 3-FA, Niacin
Niacin Rich Foods:
Excellent sources of vitamin B3 (niacin) include crimini
mushrooms, shiitake mushrooms, free range chicken,
and wild caught tuna.
Very good sources include salmon, chicken
breast, asparagus, wild caught halibut, wild
venison, grass fed calf's liver, grass-fed
beef, wild caught salmon, and free range
turkey.

28. Myth 2: Lipitor prevents heart disease
– How to get approval versus placebo

29. 100 Patients

30. Without Statins

31. With Statins

32. Is a 1% success rate worth the
risks?

33. Myth 2: Lipitor prevents heart disease
Where did Lipitor come from?
– RYR
What is the risk?
– Rhabdomyolysis (permanent)
– Dementia / Parkinson's
– Chronic fatigue
– Heart failure
– Low Vitamin D, Testosterone, Progesterone
– Early aging
need more?

34. Myth 2: Lipitor prevents heart disease
Muscle wasting
Memory loss
Confusion
Hepatitis
Neuropathy
Depression
Alzheimers
Parkinsons
Diabetes
Etc…

35. Myth 2: Lipitor prevents heart disease
It’s worth all that because it will lower my risk…right?
ABSOLUTELY NOT
1. The 2003 National Health and Nutrition Survey show that 47 million U.S.
adults have “Metabolic Syndrome” – low HDL’s; High triglycerides, High
BP and excess abdominal fat which substantially heightens the risk of
CVD even in the presence of cholesterol levels and statin use.
2. Lower cholesterol levels are tied to depression, violent behavior, even
suicide & homicide
3. Archives of Internal Medicine, 65,229 subjects from 11 studies, yielding
approximately 244 000 person-years of follow-up and 2793 deaths, we
observed that statin therapy for an average period of 3.7 years had no
benefit

36. Truth: What causes heart disease?
Inflammation, inflammation, inflammation!!!
– Inflammatory diet
– Lipid peroxidation

37. Truth: What causes heart disease?

39. Truth: What causes heart disease?
Omega 6 Versus Omega 3
1. HTN 1. Normal BP
2. Arrhythmia 2. Normal Rhythm
3. MI / Stroke 3. Prevents MI
4. Pain / Inflammation 4. Pain reliever

40. Truth: What causes heart disease?

41. Truth: Is it reversible?

42. Yes
Of all heart disease is preventable with lifestyle
Even in America!

43. Truth: Is it reversible?
Coenzyme Q 10
Vitamin E (real vitamin E)
Lysine
Fish oil
Omega 3 fatty acids
Olive oil
Ginger
Tumeric

44. Recap
Statins do not prevent heart attacks
Lowering cholesterol is dangerous
High cholesterol does not cause heart attacks
Oxidation is the cause of athlerosclerosis
Heart disease is preventable & reversible through diet & lifestyle
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To reduce risk of athlerosclerosis
Relaxation Response
Improve diet – low glycemic
Improve purposeful movement -10/10/10
Life a lifestyle that doesn’t require medications

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