Cholesterol: The Great Bluff

Overview

The link between heart disease and blood cholesterol is a medical dogma that has existed for the past fifty years and has led to the development of a billion-dollar, low-fat, food industry, as well as to statins, a drug that lower “bad cholesterol” levels, so it has became one of the most prescribed medicines in the world. But more and more researchers are openly questioning the mainstream opinions on cholesterol…

Directed by Anne Georget

Top cast

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Anne Georget

Self - Narrator (voice)

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Nina Teicholz

Self - Journalist

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Dominique Dupagne

Self - Medical Journalist

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Harvey Levenstein

Self - Food Historian

Gary Taubes

Self - Scientific Journalist

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Henry Blackburn

Self - Epidemiologist

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Michel de Lorgeril

Self - Cardiologist

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Uffe Ravnskov

Self - Physician

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Sylvain Duval

Self - Nutritionist

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Frank Pfrieger

Self - Neuroscientist

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Sally Fallon Morell

Self - Nutritionist

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Kilmer McCully

Self - Pathologist

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Cristin Kearns

Self - Medical Researcher

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Jeremy Green

Self - Medical Historian

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Mikael Rabaeus

Self - Cardiologist

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John Abramson

Self - Medicine Professor

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Beatrice Collomb

Self - Medicine Professor

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Ancel Keys

Self - Nutritionist (archive footage)

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Margaret Keys

Self - Nutritionist (archive footage)

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Jules Bergman

Self - Scientific Journalist (archive footage)

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