The Doctor That Got Banned For Speaking Out: “We've Been Lied To About Medication & COVID!”, “After 2021 Heart Attacks Increased 25%!” Dr Aseem Malhotra

Aseem Malhotra (0:00)

From everything I know now, I've reluctantly come to the conclusion that the COVID vaccine introduction has had a catastrophic, net negative effect on society. And this is really most disturbing. And I've not been public about this before, so I'm going to tell you this for the first time.

SPEAKER_2 (0:15)

Dr. Aseem Malhotra is one of the UK's leading celebrity heart doctors, whose influential research has sparked important conversations about nutrition and exercise and the healthcare system.

Aseem Malhotra (0:25)

The Times journalist called me and said, We've got reports now of a 25% increase in heart attacks in hospitals in Scotland, which are unexplained. What do you think about the vaccine? I was a bit surprised, I said, what do you mean? He said, and to have that deep knowledge and understanding gives me very deep pain. And medical knowledge is under commercial control. This is the root of the problem. The system is psychopathic when it comes to making money, and there is so much harm that comes from drug prescriptions. One credible estimate suggests the third most common cause of death globally after heart disease and cancer is prescribed medications. This is a dirty secret within medicine. We should shift our approach to health from a predominantly drug-based model within healthcare to one which is more based upon lifestyle. So what is that? The first thing that needs to be done is, by 2030 it's estimated that about 23.3 million people will die yearly because of heart disease, globally. And there are 200 million people taking statins around the world. But the increase in life expectancy with statins, over a five-year period, 4.2 days.

Steven Bartlett (1:25)

How do I prevent myself ending up on either statins or having a heart attack?

Aseem Malhotra (1:29)

This is really important information, so...

Steven Bartlett (1:38)

Dr. Aseem, you're working on a documentary called First Do No Pharm, which will be out shortly. Why did you choose the name for your documentary, First Do No Pharm?

Aseem Malhotra (1:50)

Well, first and foremost, the credit to that name actually goes to my co-producer, Donald O'Neill, who's made a number of health documentaries and he's a former international athlete, and he used to work in marketing and PR, so he's very good with slogans and soundbites. But it totally resonated with my work and what I've been doing probably for well over a decade, which is to try and shift our approach to health from a predominantly pharmacological-based, drug-based model within healthcare to one which is more based upon lifestyle. And that's because that's where the best evidence is in terms of improving our health, but also in terms of managing the healthcare system where there is so much waste, where drugs are overprescribed. And obviously, first-do-no-farm means in the consultation room, the ideal scenario should be with every patient, that if there is a non-drug-based way, non-pharmacological way of managing their illness, chronic disease, which is the big problem in society right now on healthcare systems, that should be the primary approach. As well as highlighting through the title that there is so much harm that comes from drug prescriptions. This is something that even brings gasps from audiences when I give talks and lectures all around the world. And whenever even I say, I even think, bloody hell, how have we got to this situation? That one credible estimate suggests the third most common cause of death globally after heart disease and cancer is prescribed medications, what your doctor prescribes for you so-called appropriately.

Mainly because the information which doctors use to make decisions for patients when it's prescribing drugs, invariably is based upon a gross exaggeration on the safety and the benefits of those drugs.

Steven Bartlett (3:47)

And the phrase, first, you know, harm, which is the original phrase that you spanned for the title. Where does that phrase originate from?

Aseem Malhotra (3:53)

Well, actually, it's one of the basic principles of medical ethics. You know, as doctors, that's the something that's almost we indoctrinated or ingrained with whenever we, you know, practice medicine, treat patients. That should be the, that's at the forefront of our minds. It should be at the forefront of our minds.

Steven Bartlett (4:09)

What, professionally, what is your professional title?

Aseem Malhotra (4:14)

I'm a consultant cardiologist.

Steven Bartlett (4:16)

What does that mean?

Aseem Malhotra (4:17)

So I qualified as a doctor, medical doctor in 2001 And then after becoming a, I decided after two or three years of doing my sort of initial postgraduate basic training in medicine to sub-specialise in cardiology, which is basically everything to do with the heart. And then within that sub-specialisation of cardiology or specialisation of cardiology, I trained in interventional cardiology. In layman's terms, Steve, that means keyhole heart surgery. So that's what I trained to do. And I did that up until probably 2014, 2015 And then I shifted more towards a more holistic approach to managing heart disease, especially looking at the science and practising the evidence base behind how lifestyle changes can manage heart disease and even potentially reverse it.