“Somewhere along the way cholesterol became a household word - something that you must keep as low as possible or suffer the consequences. You are probably aware that there are many myths that portray fat and cholesterol as one of the worst foods you can consume. Please understand that these myths are actually harming your health. Not only is cholesterol most likely not going to destroy your health (as you have been led to believe), but it is also not the cause of heart disease.” Dr. Joseph Mercola, 10th August 2010
One certainly needs cholesterol. It is present not only in the bloodstream, but also in every cell in the body, where it helps to produce cell membranes, hormones, vitamin D and bile acids that assist in the digestion of fat. Cholesterol also helps in the formation of memories and is vital for neurological function.
The liver makes about 75 percent of a body's cholesterol and according to conventional medicine, there are two types: High-density lipoprotein or HDL: This is the ‘good’ cholesterol that helps to keep cholesterol away from the arteries and remove any excess from arterial plaque, which may help to prevent heart disease.
Low-density lipoprotein or LDL: This ‘bad’ cholesterol circulates in your blood and accumulates in arteries, forming a plaque that narrows arteries and renders them less flexible (a condition called arteriosclerosis). If a clot forms in one of these narrowed arteries leading to your heart or brain, a heart attack or stroke may result.
Please understand that the total cholesterol level is not an indicator of one’s heart disease or stroke risk. Health officials in the United States urge everyone over the age of 20 to have their cholesterol tested once every five years. Part of this test is your total cholesterol or the sum of your blood's cholesterol content, including HDL, LDLs, and VLDLs.
The American Heart Association recommends that total cholesterol should be less than 200 mg/dL, but what they do not tell you is that total cholesterol level is just about worthless in determining your risk for heart disease, unless it is above 330. In addition, the AHA updated their guidelines in 2004, lowering the recommended level of LDL cholesterol from 130 to LDL to less than 100, or even less than 70 for patients at very high risk.
In order to achieve these outrageous and dangerously low targets, you typically need to take multiple cholesterol-lowering drugs. So the guidelines instantly increased the market for these dangerous drugs. Now, with testing children's cholesterol levels, they are increasing their potential market even more. So another digit on Big Pharma’s bottom line profits there then.
Actually, you may be surprised to hear that cholesterol is neither ‘good’ nor ‘bad’. Now that good and bad cholesterol has been defined, it has to be said that there is actually only one type of cholesterol!
"Notice please that LDL and HDL are lipoproteins - fats combined with proteins. There is only one cholesterol. There is no such thing as ‘good’ or ‘bad’ cholesterol. Cholesterol is just cholesterol.
It combines with other fats and proteins to be carried through the bloodstream, since fat and our watery blood do not mix very well. Fatty substances therefore must be shuttled to and from our tissues and cells using proteins. LDL and HDL are forms of proteins and are far from being just cholesterol. In fact, we now know there are many types of these fat and protein particles.
LDL particles come in many sizes and large LDL particles are not a problem. Only the so-called small dense LDL particles can potentially be a problem, because they can squeeze through the lining of the arteries and if they oxidize, otherwise known as turning rancid, they can cause damage and inflammation. Thus, you might say that there is 'good LDL' and 'bad LDL.' Also, some HDL particles are better than others. Knowing just your total cholesterol tells you very little. Even knowing your LDL and HDL levels will not tell you very much." says Ron Rosedale MD, a leading anti-aging doctor in the USA
The idea that cholesterol is ‘evil’ has been very much ingrained in most people's minds; due to the propaganda expounded by the pharmaceutical cartel, but this is a very harmful myth that needs to be eliminated as soon as possible.
Dr. Rosedale further points out, "First and foremost, cholesterol is a vital component of every cell membrane on Earth. In other words, there is no life on Earth that can live without cholesterol. That will automatically tell you that, in and of itself, it cannot be evil. In fact, it is one of our best friends. We would not be here without it. No wonder lowering cholesterol too much increases one's risk of dying.”
Vitamin D is a much-neglected source of wellness and general health and what most people do not realise is that the best way to obtain vitamin D is from safe exposure to sun on one’s skin. The UVB rays in sunlight interact with the cholesterol on the skin and convert it to vitamin D.
So therefore, if cholesterol levels are too low it will be impossible to use the sun to generate sufficient levels of health-giving vitamin D. As vitamin D is a major influence in the prevention of many diseases, particularly cancer, this obviously contributes to higher incidences of these diseases, which I am sure is no coincidence.
Essentially, HDL takes cholesterol from the body's tissues and arteries and brings it back to the liver, where most cholesterol is produced. If the purpose of this was to eliminate cholesterol from the body, it would make sense that the cholesterol would be dispatched back to the kidneys or intestines so it could be removed. But, instead it goes back to the liver. Why should this be? The reason is because the liver can reuse it.
"It is taking it back to your liver so that your liver can recycle it; put it back into other particles to be taken to tissues and cells that need it," Dr. Rosedale explains. "Your body is trying to make and conserve the cholesterol for the precise reason that it is so important, indeed vital, for health."
If cholesterol levels drop too low this can have a devastating effect on the body in so many ways. Remember, every single cell needs cholesterol to thrive including those in the brain. Perhaps this is why low cholesterol wreaks havoc on the psyche. One large study conducted by Dutch researchers found that men with chronically low cholesterol levels showed a consistently higher risk of having depressive symptoms. (Anyone feel a long intensive course of suicide-enhancing anti-depressants coming on?) Seriously though, this could well be because cholesterol affects the metabolism of serotonin, a substance involved in the regulation of moods.
On a similar note, some Canadian researchers found that those in the lowest quarter of total cholesterol concentration had more than six times the risk of committing suicide as did those in the highest quarter. Dozens of studies also support a connection between low or lowered cholesterol levels and violent behaviour. Lowered cholesterol levels may lead to lowered brain serotonin activity, which may, in turn, lead to increased violence and aggression. And one analysis of over 41,000 patient records found that people who take statin drugs to lower their cholesterol as much as possible may have a higher risk of cancer, while other studies have linked low cholesterol to Parkinson's disease.
Probably any cholesterol level reading under 150 is too low - an optimum would be around 200. How strange then that doctors tell us that cholesterol needs to be under 200 to be healthy. Or not?
In 2004, the U.S. government's National Cholesterol Education Program panel advised those at risk for heart disease to attempt to reduce their LDL cholesterol to specific, very low, levels. Before 2004, a 130 milligram LDL cholesterol level was considered healthy but the updated guidelines however, recommended levels of less than 100, or even less than 70 for patients at very high risk. It is worth noting that these extremely low targets often require multiple cholesterol-lowering drugs to achieve.
Fortunately, in 2006 a review in the Annals of Internal Medicine found that there is insufficient evidence to support the target numbers outlined by the panel. The authors of the review were unable to find research providing evidence that achieving a specific LDL target level was important in itself and found that studies attempting to do so suffered from major flaws. Several of the scientists who helped develop the guidelines even admitted that the scientific evidence supporting the less-than-70 recommendation was not very strong. So how did these excessively low cholesterol guidelines come about? As if we cannot guess!
Eight of the nine doctors on the panel that developed the new cholesterol guidelines had been taking money from the drug companies that manufacture statin-based cholesterol-lowering drugs – the same drugs that the new guidelines suddenly created a huge new market for in the United States. Coincidence? Probably not, but I will allow the reader to decide.
Now, despite the finding that there is absolutely no evidence to show that lowering one’s LDL cholesterol to 100 or below is good for health, what do you think the American Heart Association still recommends to this day? Nothing less than keeping your LDL cholesterol levels to less than 100. And even better for Big Pharma, the standard recommendation to get to that level always includes one or more cholesterol-lowering drug.
If you are personally concerned about your cholesterol levels, taking a drug should be your absolute last resort. The odds are very high, greater than 100 to 1, that you do not need drugs to lower your cholesterol levels.
According to recent data from Medco Health Solutions Inc., more than 50% of health-insured Americans are using drugs for chronic health conditions and cholesterol-lowering medications are the second most common variety among this group, with almost 15% of chronic medication users taking them (high blood pressure medications - another vastly over-prescribed category, were first in the list). This is true as you would imagine for the rest of the Western world, its healthcare systems managed and controlled as it is by Big Pharma’s aggressive profit targets.
"Some researchers have even suggested that the [cholesterol-lowering] medications should be put in the water supply." Business Week magazine, 2008 Indeed, cholesterol-lowering drugs are some of the most insidious on the market and please believe me when I say that that is despite the fact they are up against some pretty stiff competition for that particular ‘honour’!
Statin drugs take effect by inhibiting an enzyme in the liver that is needed to manufacture cholesterol. What is so worrying about this is that when we try to mess around with the extremely delicate workings of the human body, the major risk is putting the body’s natural cycles out of balance, causing a chain reaction of knock-on effects. Big Pharma’s answer to that scenario of course is to keep prescribing more and more drugs to counter the side effects of the previous one. Can you even imagine the internal disruption caused by this state of affairs with some patients taking in excess of twenty different medications, each to combat the side-effects of the others? My own father springs to mind. Additionally, do you think that ALL the different combinations of drugs it is possible to have prescribed by your local death-dealer have been tested, even cursorily? The answer has to be ‘no’ as the permutations would run into many millions if not billions.
"Statin drugs inhibit not just the production of cholesterol, but a whole family of intermediary substances, many if not all of which have important biochemical functions in their own right," Enig and Fallon
Statin drugs deplete the body of Coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10), which is beneficial to heart health and muscle function. Because doctors do not as routine, inform people of this risk and advise them to take a CoQ10 supplement, this depletion leads to fatigue, muscle weakness, soreness and eventually heart failure.
Muscle pain and weakness is actually the most common side effect of statin drugs, which is thought to occur because statins activate the gene which plays a key role in muscle atrophy.
They have also been linked to: An increased risk of nerve damage Dizziness Cognitive impairment, including memory loss A potential increased risk of cancer Decreased function of the immune system Depression Liver problems Motor Neurone (Lou Gehrig's) disease
With all of these risks to consider, one would hope that statin drugs were effective. Well, unfortunately this is highly questionable.
Most cholesterol lowering drugs can effectively lower cholesterol numbers, but this does not necessarily make for a healthier individual and there is certainly no available evidence that says that they may help prevent heart disease.
Reproduced with kind permission from the author: John Hamer
From his book: The Falsification of History: Our Distorted Reality (pp. 679-683).
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Editor: If you are taking any of the drugs mentioned or are concerned about your health in any way we suggest you seek independent medical advice.
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