What is Cholesterol and how can you manage your cholesterol levels safely. Heart Health
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The confusion continues. According to UCLA University, a national study showed that around 75% of patients hospitalized for a heart attack had NORMAL cholesterol levels. Yet, according to the Mayo Clinic, and other authorities in healthcare, there are many studies showing that having lower than average total and LDL cholesterol is healthy. Really? And despite my best efforts to uncover real EVIDENCE of harmful levels, I haven't been able to find a single study that shows causation of disease by cholesterol. Surely, this lack of correlation proves no causation whatsoever?
CHOLESTEROL: A VITAL COMPONENT OF HUMAN HEALTH
I've also learned that cholesterol is a vital component of human health. It plays a crucial role in so many bodily functions, such as building cell membranes, producing vital hormones, aiding in digestion, enabling the body to synthesize vitamin D, and much more. Moreover, the human brain is the most cholesterol-rich organ in the body. Don't some statins cross the blood-brain barrier and lower brain cholesterol?
QUESTIONING THE CHOLESTEROL HYPOTHESIS
Based on the above, how can reducing this life-critical substance to "normal" or below normal levels (decided by ACC and AHA) be good for human health? Heck, it's no wonder statins come with so many nasty side effects. Maybe it's time for the medical profession to start looking for the root causes of heart attack and stroke instead of clinging to the old unproven cholesterol hypothesis. How about focusing on insulin resistance as a start? It's just an idea!
THE LIMITS OF MEDICAL CERTAINTY
David Sackett, often referred to as the “father of evidence-based medicine,” once famously said: "Half of what you'll learn in medical school will be either dead wrong or out of date within five years of your graduation; the trouble is that nobody can tell you which half."
What are your thoughts on the current research studies being undertaken by Budoff, Feldman, Kaplan, Kontush, Ludwig, Norwitz (et al) regarding extreme high LDL levels in otherwise metabolically healthy individuals who follow a low carbohydrate diet?
Please explain to me why the body makes something that is dangerous to you. If cholesterol is a vital part of life then why does the body make it in dangerous levels. Logically there must be some other element that is causing heart disease and high cholesterol alone is not bad. I believe I know the answer. Let me get this straight, every other animal in nature doesn't have dangerous levels of cholesterol but we do.