How Big Pharma Turned Normal Cholesterol Into a $20B Problem

Your doctor just told you your cholesterol is "high" at 210. Time for a lifetime of pills? Not so fast. That number used to be considered perfectly normal until a few drug companies needed to sell more statins. What we cover: • How Pfizer turned Lipitor into the best-selling drug ever by moving the goalposts on "healthy" cholesterol • Why the 2013 guideline changes suddenly made 13 million more Americans "sick" overnight • The real numbers: for every 100 healthy people taking statins for 5 years, maybe 1 or 2 heart attacks get prevented • How a $20 billion industry convinced us that normal became dangerous Who this is for: Anyone who's been tol...