Cholesterol is barely relevant to heart disease.
In this video, Dr. Jason Fung takes a closer look at LDL cholesterol, heart disease risk, statins, and the evidence surrounding cholesterol treatment. The discussion examines whether LDL cholesterol deserves as much attention as it currently receives compared with other major cardiovascular risk factors such as diabetes, smoking, and high blood pressure.
The video explores the 2026 American Heart Association cholesterol guidelines, LDL targets, statin use, cardiovascular risk, and findings discussed from several major studies.
You’ll learn:
• Why cholesterol has become such a major focus in heart disease prevention
• What the 2026 AHA cholesterol guidelines recommend
• How LDL cholesterol compares with other cardiovascular risk factors
• The relationship between diabetes, smoking, blood pressure and heart disease
• What hazard ratios mean when comparing different risk factors
• The discussion around statins and cholesterol-lowering treatment
• Evidence involving very low LDL cholesterol levels
• Cholesterol and cardiovascular risk in dialysis patients
• What a study of adults aged 75+ found when comparing statin continuation and discontinuation
• Why understanding the magnitude of different risk factors matters
Rather than looking at cholesterol in isolation, this video asks a bigger question: Where should we actually be focusing our attention when it comes to heart disease risk?
The discussion highlights smoking cessation, dietary approaches to diabetes management, and monitoring and treating high blood pressure alongside the ongoing debate about LDL cholesterol and statin therapy.
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⏱️ Video Chapters (Timestamps):
00:00 Why You Are Worrying Too Much About Cholesterol
00:22 The 2026 AHA Cholesterol Guidelines
02:37 Comparing Heart Disease Risk Factors
04:10 Understanding Hazard Ratios
05:20 Diabetes, Smoking & Blood Pressure vs. Cholesterol
07:13 Statins and Cholesterol Treatment
08:39 USA vs. Japan: Statin Use
09:15 Diabetes vs. LDL Cholesterol
11:03 The Large International Study
12:46 Lifetime Cardiovascular Risk
14:31 Should Cholesterol Be Treated Aggressively?
15:30 Can Very Low LDL Prevent Heart Disease?
17:25 Cholesterol and Dialysis Patients
18:10 Stopping Statins After Age 75
18:45 What Matters Most for Heart Disease?
20:05 Smoking, Diabetes & Blood Pressure
20:37 The Final Question About Statins
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The WEF, behind the pharma companies and med school textbooks and training, is on a serious depopulation mode: they’re more dangerous than cholesterol. Don’t follow THE science as you should, follow THEIR science.
And I thought Fauci was science
The WEF are middle management. The minions of the Fabian socialists and the Milner round table groups (both agents of the Rothschilds) are the real players.
Telling truth to the American public. A genuine public service.
Jason is a nephrologist and best selling author *not* a cardiologist or a lipidolgist.
He’s CANADIAN
@MathTeacher_111
Yes he IS!❤ 👌✔️🙌
Fung is spreading lies and disinformation and getting people killed. 99.99% of treating cardiologists disagree with Fung and have to deal with patients trusting infoproduct peddlers over validated science: CVD mortality has been brought down by four-fifths on therapeutic interventions targeting LDL precisely because LDL does matter. LDL matters and the best evidence is in children with HzFH who without LDL lowering therapy die by 20-25, even if they eat silly low carb diets, have no insulin resistance and do not smoke. All successful interventions, surgery or drug, have one therapeutic target and that is LDL cholesterol. They may target the downstream effects of atherosclerosis like BP meds. The ones that veer away from that generally fail.
@MathTeacher_111 IMPOSSIBLE.
Got a blood test last month, and had slightly higher LDL for the first time in my life. I was shocked how quickly the doctor was ready to prescribe statins for the rest of my life.
I had low LDL, low triglycerides, and high HDL. Of course my new doctor, first time seeing her, prescribed me a statin. She also prescribed me a sleep aid, an anxiety medication, and an antidepressant.
I did my own research on cholesterol and statins and declined all of it.
I listen to audiobooks, use brown noise and a fan, and keep my room cooler and I no longer have problems sleeping. The anxiety and depression have gotten better with a carnivore diet, intermittent fasting, exercise, prayer, and going back to church.
I have high ldl for decades and never took statin. I think two years ago I had a series of test for my heart and arteries including calcium score and stuff. The result says my arteries are 15 years younger than my real age. If ldl never caused any harm in the past two decades I believe it never will. I will never take statin. Another test to help them selling poison to us is a1c. I was told I was prediabetic since a1c is in the range more than 10 years ago. I was an avid swimmer back then and very fit. So I thought it was funny and turned down proscribed medicine. Without doing anything about it, now swim less and gain a little more weight my new a1c result looks better. 😂 Just give them some fingers about the crap. I just stopped blood work this year.
Higher to what?
@519stream3
What was your A1C?
@JenHawk-j2i
Why would a doctor prescribed a statin for low LDL, low TG, and high HDL? Is she a real Doctor? 😂
Thank God Dr. Fung is willing to speak the truth. God bless him and protect him.♥️
I mean, his 5 day fast has him on fire right now. Insane that he’s using the ANA’S own data to discredit their claims, and data that included millions of people to show that lowering LDL didn’t really do a damned thing. Actually killed more people than lowering cholesterol saved.
@80sWavrDude YES RIGHT!!!
Such corruption of the health industry. I am 73. My LDL is over 300. I will not be doing anything to lower it, as it helps keep me healthy
And keeps the dementia away!
@Iluv2crochet
How is high LDL keep the dementia away?
@k14michael research it
@k14michael it doesn’t matte why, facebook chat told him and theyve “done their research”.
@Iluv2crochetl have heard that LDL is the right kind of cholesterol for the brain. So I’ve heard that it actually is food for the brain rather than bad for it.
Why do most physicians resist or refuse to learn more about human metabolism and proper nutrition?
I know the pharma industry pushes very strongly with heavy $$ and biased studies to help with the lie that every person believes on, that “sickness” + “pill” = “health improvement” but it can’t be just that.
First it is your job to eat correctly and learn nutrition. There is no conspiracy. Doctors working in offices are not playing games with people minds.
@g@glennmiller8851s an example, Doctors working in offices still prescribe pills and give very bad advice for people with Diabetes T2.
Diabetes T2 is not even a disease, it’s a condition derived from Insulin resistance. In more advance Diabetes stage they even prescribe insulin shots.
So, if the body is resistant to
Insulin, forcing higher doses is a solution?
I’ve been pre-diabetic and reversed it easily after learning from it with people like Dr Fung. My own doctor suffers from Diabetes and is taking the recommended pills and eating frequent small quantities along the day.
I don’t say it is a conspiracy, but it’s ignorance on life changing topics.
Nutrition is the most important factor to our health, we are what we eat, and doctors still push pills as solution when pills only remediate while they bring side effects.
First of February I was 201# 5’9” 54 yo male on my way to obesity and T2D with HBP. I went carnivore and now down to 147# BP is running right at 118/72 and A1C is now back to 5.5 from 6.1 and all my Dr wants to talk about is my high LDL. I’m able to run again and Im lifting weights regularly (I’m exercising 350 min a week) with a resting heart rate of 49 and a Vo2 max of 48 but it’s my LDL that he wants to talk about. My BMI is 21.9 dude and you are worried about my LDL. At my annual physical he spent less than 5 minutes with me. Wanted me on a statin before I left his office (literally was going to give me a sample) and when I asked a simple question “could I fall into the LMHR category?” He looked at me and said “You can go argue with someone else about that!” So…. I will
Edit: Forgot to mention I have a ZERO CAC score
That doc is just a pill pusher. I hate that!
You are definitely in the lmhr category!
Awesome! You’ll never regret your decision.
Great work!!
You DO have high LDL. I’m 6 ft 0, 168 lb, and have an LDL of 73. Get away from that carnivore nonsense; it’s a calorie reduced diet in disguise for severely obese binge eaters. Losing weight and getting lots of exercise and being lean, won’t protect you from a bad diet. If you have improved your diet over time, and your LDL is still over 100, then you should be on statins for life, because your cholesterol is high genetically and can’t be reduced any further with lifestyle changes. I’ve been running and lifting weights for 31 years. 350 minutes a week works out to less than half an hour for cardio and weights each day. I had exercised for over two hours yesterday and it’s always over ten hours a week in total. How big is your waist? If your BMI is probably lower than mine, because you have less muscle mass.
Thank you. I’m a woman and feel better about my LDL now 😂
Thank You Dr. Fung for speaking the truth about statins and cholesterol!
❤️❤️❤️🇨🇦 I am an vegan, 84 year-old white male. I have high LDL and low HDL. But I have never been concerned about it. I have refused all drugs. I believe triglycerides are the devil not lipids. I live in a forest. I sleep 8 to 10 hours each night. Walk 1.5 km on a Hill Road to my Post box each day with my dog. I try never to eat after 1800 And very often can push that back to 1500 hours. I take no medication. I sit outside and watch the sunrise every morning whether it’s visible or not with my dog and we watch the sunset. Namaste, my friends.
It’s great that you are vegan. Problem is you can’t outrun the laws of biology, vegan or not. Therapies targeting triglycerides do not reduce CVD nearly as much as therapies that target LDL. This has been known for decades.
@basharal-asshead458 100% nonsense, Cholesterol and LDL are not a risk factor for any disease, they’re protective against disease.
May you continue to have a healthy happy life.
Wow..vegans are rare enough, but a male vegan is almost a unicorn! And 84, no less. I am 72 and know no other vegans my age.
I have high LDL but every statin ever prescribed me I got so weak that I couldn’t even stand up out of a chair. Lots of muscle pain too.
Quit taking the statin and within a couple week I got strong enough to stand up unassisted. So it’s a quality of life issue, I’m over 65 and without statins I can be active but statins make unable to exercise. We KNOW that sitting kills you, being active you’re healthier so why should I take something that’s harms my health.
Neither cholesterol or LDL are causal of disease, they are protective against disease. It’s all been a pharma scam for the last few decades. Statins cause disease because they lower cholesterol
THANK YOU for continuing to tell us the truth. You are one of a very few trusted sources of intelligent health information for me
Poor Dr. Fung..the frustration in his voice is palpable..stay on the straight path!
AGREED
They’re not misguided; they’re criminal. Another pharma payoff to get us on drugs.
It is all about the money –plus all the money they make from all of the meds they sell to attempt to mitigate all of the side effects.
They make us ill for profit.
The American Heart Association is sponsored by the processed food industry and big pharma. What do you expect?
Dr Fung is so great. He’s been speaking the truth for 10 years, and the medical community isn’t listening, it’s criminal.
Dr Fung you are the best doctor.
Thank you Dr Fung. You are one of the smartest doctors I’ve found out here
It’s not the arrow you need to worry about (LDL) – it’s the archer (insulin resistance, high blood sugar, hypertension, obesity, chronic inflammation, smoking). No archer, no worries! 😎
My LDL was high but my HDL and triglycerides were outstanding. I don’t tolerate statins. I had a heart calcium scan and it was 0%. My doctor is still begging me to take statins.