Should You Really Fear High Cholesterol?

What do you think twice about before eating?

Eggs, steak and butter?

Or maybe

Cornflakes, bread and canola oil?

And how is it that right after everyone was scared off the first list and pushed onto the second, heart attacks, clogged arteries and obesity only went up?

Honestly, sometimes I feel like I'm repeating the same messages, because to be precise, almost everything we're told about nutrition is meant to pull us away from the natural diet we ate for most of evolution and toward processed food,

and almost everything we're taught about health is meant to get us to consume drugs.

To make sense of this cholesterol story, we need to take one thing into account: in a world that profits from sickness, there's no reason drug companies wouldn't lie to sell their drugs.

It's what's known as propaganda.

So just as the cornflakes box says it's healthy, and the canola oil says it's "heart healthy," you can say a drug cures a disease.

So what were we told? "High cholesterol is a bad thing, high cholesterol leads to heart disease, high cholesterol comes from the foods we ate throughout all of evolution."

So how did all of this happen?

After all, heart attacks barely existed until processed food entered the human diet.

When heart attack cases rose in the 1960s, the establishment looked for a culprit as usual, and since you can't pin the blame mainly on the food corporations (you can't hit their pockets), you have to find another culprit.

The establishment's food pyramid decided that animal fat was the culprit behind heart disease.

Not sweets, not processed dairy, not pastries, not margarine (which is basically plastic in plastic packaging) but the foods we'd consumed throughout all of evolution. In an era when heart attacks didn't exist.

So if you don't eat eggs and meat, what do you eat? The average person will usually eat more ultra-processed food.

So people avoid the foods we ate throughout evolution and eat fast food instead: cornflakes, sweets, fried stuff, to fit their fast-paced, stressful lives.

So here are some facts about cholesterol you may not have heard:

Cholesterol is a basic raw material produced by the liver, the brain and nearly every cell in the body.

Cholesterol is food for our cells. It becomes vitamin D as well as estrogen and testosterone, our sex hormones.

High cholesterol does not cause heart disease.

The real cause of heart disease is unmanaged stress, inflammation, oxidation and ultra-processed foods.

So is high cholesterol an indicator of heart disease?

70% of people hospitalized for a heart attack have completely normal cholesterol.

50% of people with high cholesterol have a healthy heart.

Lowering cholesterol has almost nothing to do with extending life.

Lower cholesterol levels are associated with worse cognitive performance.

People with lower cholesterol levels are far more likely to be hospitalized for infectious diseases as well as heart disease.

There are five causes of heart disease:

smoking, alcohol, a sedentary life, processed foods and stress.

Just so you understand how sophisticated drug companies are:

In the past, high cholesterol meant over 280, and today, high cholesterol is over 200, and soon that number will drop too. Doctors are already reporting it.

What changed? The opportunity to push the drug onto more people.

It means they create the problem and the solution both. This is the world we live in.

In 2004, when the international cholesterol panel convened to decide on optimal cholesterol levels, 8 out of the 9 people on the board had financial ties to the pharmaceutical industry.

In other words, they made their living off statins.

Statins for lowering cholesterol are among the most widely used drugs in the world.

In 2020, global statin sales approached a trillion dollars.

The statin is considered a miracle drug that promised improved heart function and a reduction in the cholesterol the medical establishment considers the terrible demon and the great threat to mankind.

It promised to lower the risk of heart attacks by 50%, which sounds impressive.

Statins are a family of drugs designed to lower the bad LDL cholesterol in the blood.

Anyone who reaches 40 with slightly elevated "bad" cholesterol will immediately get a recommendation from their doctor to take the drug.

Does it seem reasonable to you that every 40-year-old should have to take a drug just because they were told to? In other words, they felt pretty good, but because the doctor said so, they took the drug, and afterward their health only deteriorates.

The way statins work is by blocking an enzyme called HMG-CoA that produces the bad LDL cholesterol. The problem with this is that the moment this happens, the body can no longer produce or benefit from various vitamins, among them vitamin D, vitamin K2 and coenzyme Q10.

And so the body's ability to produce testosterone and other hormones like DHEA is impaired.

The immune system weakens, the bones crumble, and the antioxidant systems fail.

On top of that, statins have many side effects, such as inflammation of the liver and pancreas, muscle pain, reduced libido, mood problems, dizziness, skin irritation, numbness, abdominal pain, fatigue, and there are now studies showing that statins may possibly cause dementia, diabetes and cataracts.

We live in a swamp of ignorance, lies and medical intervention that creates serious health harm.

It's depressing to say this because there are good doctors, but it's all controlled by drug companies, so all that's left is to say the truth out loud.

We need to love our high cholesterol, and likewise the foods rich in cholesterol.

So is there anything to fear at all? Was it all nothing? Not exactly.

So, even though I don't feel like playing along with this narrative...

There's good cholesterol (HDL) and there's bad cholesterol (LDL).

The good cholesterol is part of us, and it can rise when we consume foods with natural cholesterol, always food from nature.

The bad cholesterol, contrary to what we were told, doesn't come from eggs, meat, butter or coconut oil. It comes from foods that create inflammation and oxidative stress: processed sugars, seed oils, empty carbs and processed foods. These create blood fats called triglycerides. When the body gets processed food it doesn't know what to do with, it turns it into oxidized cholesterol, triglycerides.

The human body was not made to eat ultra-processed food. That includes flours, sugars, processed dairy products, snacks, fried foods, processed grains and so on. These are things our body doesn't know what to do with, and that's how blood fats (triglycerides) are created, that's how acidity in the blood is created.

That's how people get sick.

In the 1970s, the cardiologist Dr. Robert Atkins founded a "diet," or "nutrition method," that helped millions of people lose weight and heal their sick American bodies from the side effects of the food pyramid and the American diet that makes so many people sick.

Is the diet complicated? Not at all.

What does it propose? That a person give up simple, starchy carbs and switch to a diet built on proteins, natural fats and dietary fiber.

I don't think there's one diet that suits everyone, but there are some very basic, clear things about what we were and weren't made to eat.

Did his diet succeed? It did. Atkins was named Man of the Year by Time magazine in 2002, and his books are among the best-selling in the world to this day. Not only because people lost weight, but because their cholesterol numbers balanced out for the better, blood fats dropped, and health improved dramatically.

Whatever they're selling you, do the opposite.

Real health is free, and it comes from nature.

But we won't reach it if the foods we're used to eating are far from nature.

It wasn't enough that we normalized processed food, cakes, seed oils, desserts, smoking, alcohol,

and the fact that we turned our bodies into garbage cans?

The world is getting less and less healthy for the user. Choose wisely.

A little about the vitamins that statins harm, and why they matter for the body.

Vitamin D - We get it mainly from the sun, but the body actually uses cholesterol to produce the vitamin, which is in fact a kind of steroid the body uses to strengthen itself. It's responsible for mood, metabolism, keeping our bones from crumbling, gut bacteria, the energy of the cells, the immune system, and a deficiency of this vitamin has been linked to early death.

Vitamin K2 - again, a kind of steroid that prevents the formation of blood clots, which are one of the causes of heart attacks, and is absolutely vital to us. We get this vitamin most efficiently from animal sources, eggs and meat.

Coenzyme Q10 - essential as a catalyst for intracellular processes at the mitochondrial level, and vital for maintaining energy in the body. It can prevent heart attacks, it protects fertility, helps maintain youthful-looking skin, can prevent headaches, can prevent cancer and more. We produce this in the body too.

Testosterone - a deficiency can of course harm libido, but it will also cause weight gain, mood changes, fatigue, and weak, thin bones. We get it from eating meat and from resistance training, like lifting weights.

The hormone DHEA - responsible for hormones in general, and the source of all the hormones such as testosterone, progesterone and estrogen, produced in our adrenal gland. Harm to it can damage our memory, among other things, and eventually cause dementia.

I've eaten meat, eggs and animal fat every day for years now and I only get healthier and healthier. Always pay attention to the narrative, and remember that nature doesn't make mistakes. Nature responds to our actions.

High cholesterol does not cause heart disease.

Lowering cholesterol has almost nothing to do with extending life.