Category Lipids

Cardiovascular Disease, Lipids, Nutrition

LDL Cholesterol: Challenging the Diet-Heart Hypothesis

For decades, we’ve been told by the “authorities” that high cholesterol is bad and that high cholesterol causes heart disease. It’s such an established belief in medicine that it even has a name – the Diet-Heart Hypothesis. Over the years,…

Christopher J. Stadtherr, MD
December 11, 2023
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As a physician and a parent, I am deeply invested in the health of our children and future generations. Metabolic health is as critical, if not more, for children as it is for adults. My goal is to partner with individuals of all ages to improve their health spans – the length of time that people remain healthy and functional, not just alive.