speaker:
Dr. David Diamond received his Ph.D. in Biology in 1985 from the University of California, Irvine, with a specialization in neuroscience. He recently retired as a Career Scientist in the Department of Veterans Affairs after almost 30 years of service and is currently a Professor in the Department of Psychology, Cognitive, Neural and Social Science Division, at the University of South Florida. Dr. Diamond has been funded by the VA, NIH, DoD, NSF and pharmaceutical companies in his neuroscience research, with over 150 publications, reviews and book chapters. In the past decade, Dr. Diamond has expanded his research program to address controversial issues involving cardiovascular disease and nutrition, with publications in peer-reviewed medical journals. In recognition of the importance of his work to global healthcare, he has been invited to present his research at numerous domestic and international nutrition, cardiology, obesity and diabetes meetings. He has delivered lectures with over a million views addressing how the public and healthcare workers have been misinformed about the purported risk of high serum cholesterol and the appearance of substantial benefits of medication that lower cholesterol.
overview:
his lecture will provide an assessment of research implicating LDL cholesterol as inherently atherogenic, and address the value of lipid-lowering medication, such as statins. Close scrutiny of the research reveals that: 1) high LDL is actually healthy; 2) there is no evidence that LDL promotes harm; 3) the appearance of benefits of statins has been distorted through the use of statistical deception; and 4) harms of statins have been largely ignored, minimized or dismissed. I will suggest that a low carbohydrate diet is superior to statin use as the optimal approach to minimizing one’s risk of developing heart disease, independent of LDL levels.
learning objectives:
At the conclusion of this session participants will be able to: