Academy of Achievement Address 2006 by Professor Michael Brown
In 1985, the Nobel Prize in Medicine was awarded to Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein “for their discoveries concerning the regulation of cholesterol metabolism.” They wrote 1
If the LDL-receptor hypothesis is correct, the human receptor system is designed to function in the presence of an exceedingly low LDL level. The kind of diet necessary to maintain such a level would be markedly different.
It would call for the total elimination of dairy products as well as eggs, and for a severely limited intake of meat and other sources of saturated fats.
They also state that “such extreme dietary change is NOT warranted for the entire population” because of the “severe social and economic consequences”.
Perhaps the extreme social and economic consequences of NOT implementing that diet far outweigh the consequences of continuing to farm and feed ourselves in our habitual manner.
To be fair, this was written in 1984.
More recently, in 2006 his conclusions were different.
In a speech at the 2006 International Achievement Summit in Los Angeles, California, Professor Michael Brown tells the Academy’s students that heart disease is totally preventable. He opens his talk by telling the audience to: 2
And it turns out to be a lot easier to do the science than to change people’s behaviour. The real news is that we shouldn’t really need these drugs (statins). That for those of us who have normal genes, the reason why our blood is being filled up with cholesterol is because we are basically eating too much cholesterol and too much animal fat. And if you look at populations where the diet is lower in cholesterol and fat, they don’t need these statin drugs, they have low cholesterols in their blood, and they have twenty times lower rate of heart attacks than we do in the United States.
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