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Nick Norwitz Has Total Cholesterol of 700 — So Why Zero Plaque? – TFP #030 | Nick Norwitz MD PhD
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In this episode of The Feldman Protocol, can living with an LDL of 700 for seven years actually leave your arteries plaque-free? Nick Norwitz (MD PhD) makes the case that the conventional cholesterol narrative is far more complicated than mainstream medicine admits, while Dave and Nick also cover the paternalistic medical system, statin side effects in women, Nick's surprising decision to take a cholesterol-lowering drug, and the recent Peter Attia rebuttal to lean mass hypersponder research.
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⏱ Chapters
3:03 – Who is Nick Norwitz?
3:51 – Leaving medicine's conventional path
5:52 – The calling Dave never felt
8:23 – Science communication as medicine's future
10:30 – Empowering patients with information
11:24 – Statins lower GLP-1: the hidden data
13:10 – Death knell of paternalistic medicine
16:19 – Dave's origin: The Feldman Protocol
18:31 – Why "we don't know" comforts patients
21:43 – Nick's illness, misdiagnosis & obsession
24:04 – The podcast origin story & echo disaster
28:41 – Cholesterol Code film blowing up
31:19 – Balancing science and accessibility in film
36:06 – Peter Attia's rebuttal to LMHR research
38:18 – Who's willing to have an open conversation?
41:01 – Causality vs. importance in lipid science
44:17 – Over-medicating metabolically healthy people
47:01 – Statins harm women more: the X chromosome mechanism
50:45 – The nocebo effect as gaslighting
55:03 – Dave's blinded crossover statin experiment
57:04 – Plot twist: Nick is taking a cholesterol drug
59:05 – Ezetimibe and Alzheimer's disease
1:02:01 – Plot twist 2: why Nick chose ezetimibe
1:04:00 – Plot twist 3: the 7-year coronary CT angiography
1:08:19 – Nick's CAD score at year 2 & family risk
1:14:10 – Clinical experience vs. contending with data
1:23:33 – Is Nick anti-statin? Dave presses hard
1:27:34 – Bempedoic acid & PPAR alpha activation
1:32:39 – Peter Attia's article vs. the LMHR team
1:36:24 – How to find Nick Norwitz everywhere
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