Dr. William Davis
Cardiologist (author of Wheat Belly)
Cardiovascular disease • gut microbiome • low-carb • contested anti-LDL framing
About the expert
Focus: Metabolic and microbiome lens on cardiovascular disease with contested anti-LDL framing
Why this matters
Cardiologist who has built a public-facing platform critiquing mainstream LDL-cholesterol-lowering frameworks. Approaches cardiovascular disease through a metabolic and microbiome lens, with strong emphasis on insulin resistance, triglycerides, small LDL particles, and gut bacteria. Useful for prompting questions about lipid panel interpretation; sales-leaning toward specific commercial protocols and adversarial toward mainstream cardiology consensus. Treat his framing as one contested perspective alongside Aseem Malhotra; pair with mainstream lipidology sources before making decisions on statin therapy or LDL targets.