The personal stories in this documentary are riveting. One person reverses her bipolar disorder on keto. Another reverses IBD. Yet they worry about elevated LDL-cholesterol on this diet. This film brings insight and investigation into this heart disease quandary.👍👍

Here's the NYTimes with the "latest" from the American Heart Association (AHA) Advising food > drugs is always a good idea, so that's good. However, lowering LDL-C via diet has been shown in clinical trials to have little-to-no effect on longer-term 'hard outcomes' incl. cardiovascular events, cardiovascular mortality or total mortality. This fact has been found in ~2 dozen systematic reviews. So lowering LDL-C w/ diet is not effective for reducing the events that matter--heart attacks and death. The Times then recommends the "Portfolio Diet," which seems to be a rebranding of the National Cholesterol Education Program diets along with some culling of clinical trials using the word "portfolio" to describe a selection of foods. The principal study to support the "Portfolio Diet" (published in an AHA journal cited by the Times is on data from Harvard's epidemiological studies, which can only show association, not a cause-and-effect relationship. And again, the outcome measured is LDL-C, which is not linked in diet trials to hard outcomes such as heart attacks and death. To raise your "good" HDL-C, the Times again cites AHA advice, to exercise. Although a far more efficient way to raise your HDL-C is to eat saturated fat. The pharma-and-food funded AHA has been giving out misguided (wrong) advice to the public on heart disease since 1961, when it told Americans to swap out saturated fats for seed oils (for decades prior, it had been funded by Procter & Gamble, maker of Crisco Oil--and when I last checked, it still was). The @nytimeswell might consider some critical reporting on this group.