300 grams of oatmeal a day, basically nothing else, and your LDL only goes down 10%.

brandonb 2 hours ago | parent | next [-]

Definitely shows the comparative power of medications. Statins, ezetimibe, and PCSK9 inhibitors can reduce LDL or ApoB by 85-95%.

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smt88 2 hours ago | parent [-]

> Statins, ezetimibe, and PCSK9 inhibitors can reduce LDL or ApoB by 85-95%

What? Absolutely not. Not even close. Provide a source if you really believe this.

	▲	brandonb 2 hours ago \| parent \| next [-]
		One source: https://www.escardio.org/communities/councils/cardiology-pra...
	▲	trylfthsk 2 hours ago \| parent \| prev [-]
		40mg Rosuvastatin + 10mg ezetimibe + leqvio did this precisely for my n=1.

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lithocarpus 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

It seems as if some researchers think that reducing this single metric without considering any other factors is inherently always a good thing and is very important.

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Snoozus 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

the diet was just maintained for two days

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deadbabe 2 hours ago | parent | prev | next [-]

Hardly “nothing else”. Two smoothies a day with 150g of oats blended in them will basically cover this. You’d still have plenty of room for other food.

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addaon 2 hours ago | parent [-]

But that's not what the study tested. The study showed that both calorie restriction, and calorie restriction combined with almost all calories from oats, reduced cholesterol; but that the effect was more durable for the latter case. No data was gathered on eating oats without calorie restriction in this study.

	▲	awesome_dude 2 hours ago \| parent [-]
		It seems more complicated than that - the "Oats only" people were only on that regime for two days, not an extended period of time. Also the paper says that the "Oats only" people were allowed to eat other fruits and vegetables with their meals.

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ycombinary 2 hours ago | parent | prev [-]

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