The Great Cholesterol

THE GREAT CHOLESTEROL MYTH

WHY LOWERING YOUR CHOLESTEROL WON’T PREVENT HEART DISEASE— AND THE STATIN-FREE PLAN THAT WILL

TWO HUNDRED YEARS AGO physicians routinely bled, purged, and plastered their patients. Bloodletting was the standard treatment for a host of diseases and had been so since the time of the philosopher-physician Galen almost 2,000 years before. 

The theory was that there were four humors—blood, phlegm, black bile, and yellow bile. Blood was dominant, requiring the most balancing for returning an ill patient to health. 

Every doctor’s kit was equipped with a variety of lancets, brutal–looking scarificators, and, starting in the early nineteenth century, leeches. In fact, the latter were used so often that physicians were themselves commonly referred to as leeches. 

Learned physicians conferred on the best veins to tap for given diseases and the optimal placement of leeches for the most therapeutic value, and countless protocols dictated the proper amount of blood to be let or number of leeches to be applied. 

Doctors wrote lengthy papers describing their own bleeding techniques and presented them at august medical conferences.

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