--- product_id: 6493944 title: "The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It" price: "Rp68390" currency: IDR in_stock: false reviews_count: 13 url: https://www.desertcart.id/products/6493944-the-great-cholesterol-con-the-truth-about-what-really-causes store_origin: ID region: Indonesia --- # Exposes statin myths 4.6⭐ avg rating #43 Heart Disease rank The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It **Price:** Rp68390 **Availability:** ❌ Out of Stock ## Summary > 📖 Unlock the hidden truths behind heart health – don’t get left behind! ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It - **How much does it cost?** Rp68390 with free shipping - **Is it available?** Currently out of stock - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.id](https://www.desertcart.id/products/6493944-the-great-cholesterol-con-the-truth-about-what-really-causes) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Key Features - • **Top-Ranked & Trusted:** Highly rated (#43 in Heart Disease books) with 1,749 reviews, a must-read for health-conscious professionals. - • **Science-Backed Clarity:** Combines rigorous research with accessible writing to empower informed health decisions. - • **Pharma Industry Critique:** Critically examines the role of pharmaceutical companies in shaping heart health narratives. - • **Debunking Cholesterol Myths:** Unveils the truth behind cholesterol and heart disease, challenging mainstream medical beliefs. - • **Statin Side Effects Exposed:** Reveals overlooked risks and negligible benefits of widely prescribed statin drugs. ## Overview The Great Cholesterol Con by John Blake is a provocative, research-driven book that challenges conventional wisdom on cholesterol, statins, and heart disease. It exposes the pharmaceutical industry's influence and debunks myths about diet and cholesterol, empowering readers with science-backed insights to rethink heart health and medication. ## Description Statins are the so-called "wonder drugs" widely prescribed to lower blood cholesterol levels that claim to offer unparalleled protection against heart disease. Many experts claim that they are completely safe and that they are also capable of preventing a whole series of other conditions. This groundbreaking study exposes the truth behind the hype surrounding statins and reveals a number of crucial facts, including that high cholesterol levels do not cause heart disease; that high-fat diets—saturated or otherwise—do not affect blood cholesterol levels; and that for most men and all women the benefits offered by statins are negligible at best. Other data is also provided that shows that statins have many more side affects than is often acknowledged. This hard-hitting survey also points a finger at the powerful pharmaceutical industry and an unquestioning medical profession as perpetrators of the largely facetious concepts of “good” and “bad” cholesterol that are designed to convince millions of people to spend billions on statins. With clarity and wit, this appeal to common sense and scientific fact debunks common assumptions on what constitutes a healthy lifestyle and diet, as well as the idea that there is a miracle cure for heart disease. Review: Very informative and easy to understand with great humor at times! - After terrible side effects on starting with chloresterol pills, I was eager to read Kendricks' book, before I tell my GP that I refuse to take anymore of that medicine!! The first copy I got of this book of same title was NOT written by Kendricks!! The second copy was Kendricks' book. It is wonderfully easy to understand! He has a surprisingly good sense of humor, which makes his writing as enjoyable as it is informative. Also surprising was that the cover title spells Choleresterol incorrectly. 😱 But the book is even better than I'd expected! Review: A Life-Saving Must Read - This book contains some very clear explanations of many of the different words and concepts of the cholesterol debate. For the first time, I know why triglycerides are called "triglycerides". I know why measuring cholesterol in the blood is useless. I see some of my relatives taking statins, and it drives me nuts. I wish they would read this book. They are slowly killing themselves. A good friend of mine was told to take statins, and he did, for a month. He suffered severe muscular weakness, and I sent him information. He stopped cold turkey, and now in his mid-80's, his readings are amazingly normal. He regained his strength. The writer has a biting, sarcastic sense of humor. This may be off-putting for some people, but I think the pharmaceutical companies deserve it. I enjoyed this as much as I did the other aspects of the book. As they say, laughter is the best medicine. It never occurred to me that the manufacture of cholesterol is a multi-stage process in the liver, and that stopping the liver from making the final conversion to cholesterol may be just as damaging, if not more so. This would require further research, and I hope that when the author updates this book, he talks about it more. From Dr. William Campbell Douglass, II, I read that he would be worried if his cholesterol level went below 200. From Dr. Mercola, I learn that there is no connection whatsoever between cholesterol and any heart problems until the cholesterol goes above 330. It is also becoming widely known that women's cholesterol SHOULD be above 200. Trying to force-fit a woman into a man's normal readings is despicable. The writer shows WHY NO WOMAN should EVER take statins! I know nowadays, it is more popular to measure certain kinds of cholesterol. They responded to criticism of how invalid the whole thing is, but not in the way they SHOULD have. I also know there are quick and easy ways to lower cholesterol. My own was once measured at 220, and I went home and ate salsa which is loaded with cayenne twice weekly for awhile, and was re-tested, and it was 165. I am wondering if this lowered the cholesterol, or that I was simply caught at different times with respect to receptors that take cholesterol out of the blood. The bottom line is that taking a toxic pharmaceutical PATENT medicine is never wise, especially when there are so many healthy alternatives available. Are statins to blame for the fact someone close to me has diabetes? Considering similarity in heredity and the fact that I'm not even close to diabetes, though substantially older, should say something. If a doctor told me to take statins, I'd spit in his eye! This book gives me the BASIS for my position like nothing else I have read, covering many topics I have seen nowhere else. The author doesn't dwell on statins, though he discusses them. He doesn't need to. The other facts speak for themselves. In the meantime, I stay away from doctors. Who needs to trust the word of someone who regularly gets bribed by pharmaceutical companies, anyway? Obviously, medical shills will find this book lacking in some way. I don't trust them, either, for the same reason. He documents his assertions, and that's good enough for me. If you value your health, and your doctor instructs you to take statins, READ THIS BOOK. The life you save will be your own. ## Features - The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It - Product type: ABIS BOOK - Brand: John Blake ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #64,154 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #39 in Heart Disease (Books) #389 in Other Diet Books | | Customer Reviews | 4.6 out of 5 stars 1,759 Reviews | ## Images ![The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61LrMqmqxHL.jpg) ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Very informative and easy to understand with great humor at times! *by J***N on September 28, 2026* After terrible side effects on starting with chloresterol pills, I was eager to read Kendricks' book, before I tell my GP that I refuse to take anymore of that medicine!! The first copy I got of this book of same title was NOT written by Kendricks!! The second copy was Kendricks' book. It is wonderfully easy to understand! He has a surprisingly good sense of humor, which makes his writing as enjoyable as it is informative. Also surprising was that the cover title spells Choleresterol incorrectly. 😱 But the book is even better than I'd expected! ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Life-Saving Must Read *by P***Z on April 28, 2013* This book contains some very clear explanations of many of the different words and concepts of the cholesterol debate. For the first time, I know why triglycerides are called "triglycerides". I know why measuring cholesterol in the blood is useless. I see some of my relatives taking statins, and it drives me nuts. I wish they would read this book. They are slowly killing themselves. A good friend of mine was told to take statins, and he did, for a month. He suffered severe muscular weakness, and I sent him information. He stopped cold turkey, and now in his mid-80's, his readings are amazingly normal. He regained his strength. The writer has a biting, sarcastic sense of humor. This may be off-putting for some people, but I think the pharmaceutical companies deserve it. I enjoyed this as much as I did the other aspects of the book. As they say, laughter is the best medicine. It never occurred to me that the manufacture of cholesterol is a multi-stage process in the liver, and that stopping the liver from making the final conversion to cholesterol may be just as damaging, if not more so. This would require further research, and I hope that when the author updates this book, he talks about it more. From Dr. William Campbell Douglass, II, I read that he would be worried if his cholesterol level went below 200. From Dr. Mercola, I learn that there is no connection whatsoever between cholesterol and any heart problems until the cholesterol goes above 330. It is also becoming widely known that women's cholesterol SHOULD be above 200. Trying to force-fit a woman into a man's normal readings is despicable. The writer shows WHY NO WOMAN should EVER take statins! I know nowadays, it is more popular to measure certain kinds of cholesterol. They responded to criticism of how invalid the whole thing is, but not in the way they SHOULD have. I also know there are quick and easy ways to lower cholesterol. My own was once measured at 220, and I went home and ate salsa which is loaded with cayenne twice weekly for awhile, and was re-tested, and it was 165. I am wondering if this lowered the cholesterol, or that I was simply caught at different times with respect to receptors that take cholesterol out of the blood. The bottom line is that taking a toxic pharmaceutical PATENT medicine is never wise, especially when there are so many healthy alternatives available. Are statins to blame for the fact someone close to me has diabetes? Considering similarity in heredity and the fact that I'm not even close to diabetes, though substantially older, should say something. If a doctor told me to take statins, I'd spit in his eye! This book gives me the BASIS for my position like nothing else I have read, covering many topics I have seen nowhere else. The author doesn't dwell on statins, though he discusses them. He doesn't need to. The other facts speak for themselves. In the meantime, I stay away from doctors. Who needs to trust the word of someone who regularly gets bribed by pharmaceutical companies, anyway? Obviously, medical shills will find this book lacking in some way. I don't trust them, either, for the same reason. He documents his assertions, and that's good enough for me. If you value your health, and your doctor instructs you to take statins, READ THIS BOOK. The life you save will be your own. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Awesome full of humor and serious talk on cholesterol. Love every page! *by A***D on May 5, 2016* It there were 10 stars possible, I would give it 10 stars. The book is written by a British doctor whose humor is unmistakable; you can almost hear him and see his face with a funny under-mustache smile. It is a complicated subject that he manages to write about with great simplicity. There are several essential pages in this book but if there is one I would have to pull out, it would be the one in which he describes the chemical process of how the body creates cholesterol. Contrary to popular belief, it contains no fat at all so you can have all your doctors and friends telling you to stop eating fat becuase your cholesterol will increase but the two are unrelated so they are all wrong. It is also important to note that while many people think that if you eat fat you will become fat, this is equally true then to the following statements: if I eat cake I will become cake or if I eat grapes I will become grapes. Nonsense as it may sound, many doctor and people actually believe that eating fat will make you fat but actually eating sugar will make you fat. Also, eating sugar will create the kind of cholesterol that gets stuck in your arteries and may cause heart failure or stroke. Eating cholesterol or fat will have nothing to do with that except if you eat a ton of sugar AND fat--in which case you will get a heart attack while you are fat. Just to be sure you know--and this is not in this book as I am stating it--the human brain is 70% fat and 25% of all cholesterol in the body is found in the brain. The "white matter" (the most important layer that is insulation (myelin) around your neurons (brain cells)) is all made of cholesterol. Also, all cells in your body are made of fat and cholesterol. So, go ahead and get on a cholesterol lowering medicine and you instantly manage to reduce your brain power and your muscles in one hop! No wonder it causes memory issues (yeah.. your white matter gets reduced and your voltage starts to leak so your brain is degenerating). You also lose muscles from cholesterol lowering medicines since your muscle cells are made of cholesterol so you are literally destroying your muscles (your heart muscles too!). This book details the different thing we call cholesterol that are actually proteins, like LDL (the bad cholesterol) is actually Low Density Lipoprotein so it is not cholesterol at all and while it does carry some cholesterol inside the LDL protein ball, it also carries fat soluble vitamins. So if you want to lower your LDL, you are lowering your vitamins. Makes sense? Not much. So read this book to understand. Since he wrote this book, science has advanced and has proven him right so enjoy learning science in a casual way filled with British humor. 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