Sugar Beat Quotes

“As established throughout this book with LDL”
― Anthony Jay, Sugar Beat: How Sugar — NOT CHOLESTEROL — Destroys Your Arteries and the New Science of REVERSING PLAQUE

“The JUPITER trial demonstrated that rosuvastatin reduced cardiovascular events in patients with normal LDL but elevated hsCRP — a finding that some researchers interpreted as evidence that statins work primarily through anti-inflammatory rather than cholesterol-lowering mechanisms.”
― Anthony Jay, Sugar Beat: How Sugar — NOT CHOLESTEROL — Destroys Your Arteries and the New Science of REVERSING PLAQUE

“Women’s Testosterone (top line) and Estradiol (bottom line) when blood test units are made the same. Testosterone is higher throughout a woman’s life.”
― Anthony Jay, Sugar Beat: How Sugar — NOT CHOLESTEROL — Destroys Your Arteries and the New Science of REVERSING PLAQUE

“Across most of the female lifespan, testosterone is the most abundant biologically active sex-hormone that a woman produces. Testosterone, in women, circulates at several times the level of estrogen (estradiol). For most of their lives, women are more androgen-exposed than estrogen-exposed, and the testosterone is doing cardiovascular work the entire time.”
― Anthony Jay, Sugar Beat: How Sugar — NOT CHOLESTEROL — Destroys Your Arteries and the New Science of REVERSING PLAQUE

“The evidence for carb restriction as a blood pressure intervention is at least as strong as the evidence for sodium restriction”
― Anthony Jay, Sugar Beat: How Sugar — NOT CHOLESTEROL — Destroys Your Arteries and the New Science of REVERSING PLAQUE

“This is not an argument against blood pressure medication in patients with severely elevated pressure. In the short term”
― Anthony Jay, Sugar Beat: How Sugar — NOT CHOLESTEROL — Destroys Your Arteries and the New Science of REVERSING PLAQUE

“A separate study of 4,000 people found that even “normal” triglyceride levels within the standard range were associated with systemic inflammation”
― Anthony Jay, Sugar Beat: How Sugar — NOT CHOLESTEROL — Destroys Your Arteries and the New Science of REVERSING PLAQUE

“oxidize.”
― Anthony Jay, Sugar Beat: How Sugar — NOT CHOLESTEROL — Destroys Your Arteries and the New Science of REVERSING PLAQUE

“it.”
― Anthony Jay, Sugar Beat: How Sugar — NOT CHOLESTEROL — Destroys Your Arteries and the New Science of REVERSING PLAQUE

“glucose.”
― Anthony Jay, Sugar Beat: How Sugar — NOT CHOLESTEROL — Destroys Your Arteries and the New Science of REVERSING PLAQUE

“predict. Both men and women lived longest when their total cholesterol fell between 180 and 280 mg/dL (4.65 – 7.24 mmol/L) — a range that most modern physicians are actively trying to push their patients below. More striking still: people with low total cholesterol were roughly twice as likely to die from any cause compared to people with optimal, “high” cholesterol levels.”
― Anthony Jay, Sugar Beat: How Sugar — NOT CHOLESTEROL — Destroys Your Arteries and the New Science of REVERSING PLAQUE

“Dedication I dedicate this book to the American cardiologist Dr. Mohammed Alo. While appearing on The Proof with Simon Hill (Episode 244, around the 32-minute mark), Dr. Alo claimed that about 90% of the American population does not have insulin resistance. To hear a practicing cardiologist publish a metric so wildly divorced from reality was the exact spark I needed to finish this manuscript.”
― Anthony Jay, Sugar Beat: How Sugar — NOT CHOLESTEROL — Destroys Your Arteries and the New Science of REVERSING PLAQUE