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While doctors have assumed for decades that high cholesterol causes heart disease and other health problems – and that lowering cholesterol is the way to fight disease – they have apparently missed the boat.
For example, the Journal of the American Medical Association published a study in 1987 finding no in people over 50. The study also found that falling cholesterol levels can sometimes lead to increased mortality. A large found that raising levels of HDL “good” cholesterol using a drug did not reduce the risk of heart disease. The Journal of Cardiac Failure reported that . Similarly, the Journal Lancet reported that. Other studies have .
It is also important to have a reality check: cholesterol is actually a to vitamin D, and to basic hormones such as testosterone, estrogen, and adrenaline. If we don’t have enough cholesterol in our body, we will be sickly, impotent and depressed.
Despite the foregoing, mainstream doctors are pushing cholesterol-lowering drugs called “statins” like they were candy … and some are even pushing to add it to the public water supply. As Paul Joseph Watson :
Drug companies claim that statins have been proven to lower cholesterol and help prevent heart disease and strokes, leading many health experts to insist that they be artificially added to public water supplies, but dangerous side-effects buried by drug companies conducting statin trials have now come to light, in addition to the fact that A new study published in the Cochrane Library, which reviews drug trials, examined data from 14 drugs trials involving 34,000 patients and that had been deliberately underplayed by the drug companies funding the research. The researchers warn that, “Statins should only be prescribed to those with heart disease, or who have suffered the condition in the past. Researchers warn that unless a patient is at high risk of suffering a heart attack or stroke, statins may cause more harm than good.” However, despite the fact that statins have also been linked to a greater risk of liver dysfunction, acute kidney failure, cataracts and muscle damage, healthauthorities have been pushing for the drug to be added to public water supplies as part of a mass medication program that is not only illegal without consent, but also threatens a plethora of unknown consequences. Only last week, George Lundberg, MD, the editor of MedPageToday…, wrote an op-ed entitled, In May 2008, to be artificially added to drinking water. Putting statins in the water supply was also which featured Robert Bonow, M.D., of Northwestern University in Chicago, Gordon F. Tomaselli, M.D., of Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, and Anthony De Maria, M.D., of the University of California at San Diego. Also in November 2008, CNBC aired a segment lauding the effectiveness of statins, after which one of the hosts remarked, “Why don’t they just put statins in the water supply,” to which CNBC’s medical expert replied, “A lot of people have said that and they are in the water in fact.”
If cholesterol itself isn’t the problem, what is?
Ron Rosedale, M.D., says that the problem isn’t cholesterol, (LDL or HDL), but:
As CBS News today:
The Mayo clinic notes that a handful of a day helps lower cholesterol. Harvard found that .
also help reduce cholesterol.
The other main problem is the oxidation of cholesterol. Oxidation of the cholesterol in our bodies creates damaging compounds, in the same way that oxidized fats become rancid and unhealthy. See , and (more ).
Increasing the amount of antioxidants in our diet from oxidized cholesterol. Antioxidants are – by definition – compounds which prevent oxidation.
Dr. Andrew Weil :
The antioxidants in green tea help lower cholesterol and prevent the cholesterol in your blood from oxidizing. *** Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10). CoQ10 is a powerful antioxidant that has been shown to be beneficial for heart health by protecting LDL cholesterol from oxidation and by re-energizing the mitochondria in the heart cells, which is where energy metabolism occurs.
You may be surprised by the cheapest and most abundant sources of antioxidants. .
Note: I am not a health care professional, and this should not be taken as medical advice.
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