My high cholesterol was found at 3yo. At that time in my life I was allergic to milk and eggs, supposedly 2 of the most high in cholesterol foods. Around 5yo, I overheard my Dad tell a friend that if they didn't get my numbers down, I would have a heart attack. That stuck with me my whole life.
By 7yo, I was reading ingredients labels. I can't remember tasting a real egg yolk before the age of 16. I went to have blood taken every 6 months my entire life. My numbers never got below 200, and usually stayed around 250-280. My drs. wanted me to try statins, and I did briefly, but I had the side effects of severe body aches, so I stopped them. My drs. were not happy. I began researching cholesterol and what it means for the body, and tests began to be able to differentiate between good (hdl) and bad (ldl) cholesterol. Turns out I had extremely high good cholesterol.
I brought this to my Dr's attention, but it seemed to hold no weight and I only got more doom and gloom. But I knew for myself and I mostly trusted in my own instincts. Recently, I was sent for this CTA scan due to my age and my most recent cholesterol numbers of 241. I was glad to do it because I would finally know the condition of my heart and arteries.
LOOK AT THESE RESULTS! I'm done. I have been eating whatever I want for the last few years. Lots of butter and bacon and eggs, because of my research. I try to stay away from a lot of processed foods and do my own cooking. Stopped using seed oils. My hdl is still extremely high. I've never felt a bit of trouble with my heart in 57 years.
I got a follow up call from the cardiologist. I'm thinking they need to do a case study on me, but nope. They want me to start an injectable cholesterol medication to get my ldl below 70. I refused. I was really disappointed in their response to such good scan results. SMH.
I am at peace, finally, not just with my health, but with my discernment and trust in my own instincts. Trust the science? Science is made up of theories which are supposed to be tested to prove or disprove, but that isn't happening and medicine is based on faulty test results being published in some medical journal and then followed by AMA as THE STANDARD. These Dr's do not question, and they don't like it when you do. They are lemmings and it's a fucking shame.
There is ZERO evidence that eating food high in cholesterol makes your cholesterol go up. Someone made that up. If your body is working properly, you simply poop the cholesterol out. The foods that the American Medical Association tells us not to eat because "cholesterol" are nutritionally dense and easy to digest. The foods the AMA encourages us to eat are less nutritious and high in toxins (making them hard to digest) that can actually cause body damage. My cholesterol went DOWN by a LOT when I switched from the AMA recommended diet (grains, beans, seed oils, etc) to a diet high in saturated fats.
Cholesterol is very important in our bodies for brain function and creation of sex hormones. The AMA has set the cholesterol number artificially low in order to push their drugs and to keep our bodies from properly functioning (thus insuring we are chronically ill and need their drugs daily/doctors monthly).
High (or low) cholesterol is a red flag that something else is wrong in your body. It is only a red flag. Saying cholesterol "causes" heart problems is like saying firemen must be setting fires because they are at every fire. The reality is that high cholesterol may indicate heart problems, but it can also indicate thyroid problems or kidney problems, amongst other things.
Yes, inflammation is caused from sugars/carbohydrates oxidizing and therefore causing cell damage. The cholesterol comes to the rescue in the form of a "Band-Aid" to facilitate in repairing the damage.
Our liver naturally makes 1000 mg of cholesterol a day. One egg is 200 mg of cholesterol. If you eat that egg your liver will make only 800 mg of cholesterol. Our body balances it out naturally. There is absolutely no need for statins or any other drugs that are man-made, it is all just profit for the pharmaceutical companies and to keep us sick in order to keep them in profit.
The old herbal remedies have not been taught or carried on to teach to the masses in Western culture.
You touch on a subject I speak of a lot with friends and family. Not knowing your background, you may not put a lot of faith in God. I am here to tell you He has provided all we need. If you put your faith in God and consume the natural materials He made for us you will live YOUR longest life and be the healthiest YOU can be. If you put your faith in man-made copies of what He made for you, not so much. This goes across the entire spectrum. Diet, medicine, money (gold-check the rate of return of gold vs the stock market), decision making, life etc., PERIOD. He knows us best and gave us an instruction manual on how to live our best. Shalom. That word has deep meaning.
I also followed my own advice and my cholesterol has "hovered" SOMEWHERE around the normal range...AND I eat eggs/bacon/meat (in moderation) BUT I am on a diet that consists of proteins and NO DAMN BREADS OF ANY KIND....or other things that are processed...
When I changed my diet, I gave up grains. I do still make certain kinds of breads (such as Brazilian cheese bread made from tapioca flour), and I am certain that the lack of grains has helped with my cholesterol going down. My high cholesterol was due to kidney problems, and grains are hard on the kidneys as they are high in toxins.
I forgot to add that I have a gluten intolerance just enough to cause an issue...once I found that out and the connection to cholesterol...it was an easy decision!!!!. I also found out by a doctor that getting off the grains will get rid of the waist "fat" --the "rubber tire" the becomes pronounced as one gets older...WOWZA!!!
I'm perfectly healthy because I don't go to the doctor. Healthy foods, activity learning. Last doctor I saw was an orthopedic surgeon 25 years ago but I made an exception because I had a bone poking out of my arm.
You're right and I hate it because it gives criminals an out - " just doin muh job ". It aids in one of our biggest problems in this world. No accountability = no change.
I'm old enough to remember when margarine hit the market and was touted as heart-healthy because it had no saturated fat. Everyone switched from butter to margarine because the drs and the TV told them to. Now we know it was full of transfats, was invented from petroleum by-products as an ant attractant and poison. Nothing but butter in my house for over a decade.
Margarine is made from hydrogenated soybean or other seed oils not petroleum products.
You're thinking of petroleum jelly (Vaseline), which is not edible.
The hydrogenated oils (trans fats) are part of what is causing heart disease and are very bad for your health. I definitely agree about real butter!
It's always been a huge scam because they want everyone on statins for the rest of their lives. Prior to the COVID death jabs, statins were big pharma's biggest money makers. And statins permanently destroy your liver, so eventually they get to sell you a bunch of expensive drugs to treat the symptoms of your failing liver or your liver transplant.
Graveline also wrote "The Dark Side of Statins" --
The full range of statin side effects includes cognitive dysfunction, behavioral and emotional disorders, chronic nerve and muscle damage and an ALS-like neuromuscular degenerative process, as major categories of damage.
Thousands of statin users, like myself, have been afflicted with peripheral neuropathies with a tendency to be resistant to all traditional medical treatment.
Statins inhibit not only dolichols, corrupting our DNA damage correction, but CoQ10 as well, increasing our damage load. Predictably the inevitable effect is increased mitochondrial DNA damage — considered by many authorities to be the mechanism of our aging process as well as that of many chronic diseases.
Many of the statin side effects are permanent and weakness and fatigue are common complaints. Many statin victims say that abruptly, almost in the blink of an eye, they have become old people.
Statins block the synthesis of CoQ10 and dolichols, thereby contributing directly to the premature common chronic ills of aging. Since this involves normal physiologic processes, it is silent. By the time we become aware of it, it is already far too late and the damage has been done to those susceptible. This, in my judgment, is the truly Dark Side of Statins.
Of course it is, taking out cholesterol from your brain causes it to not recover from normal damage via metabolic processes. Like taking oil from an engine and being suprised it rips itself apart.
My high cholesterol was found at 3yo. At that time in my life I was allergic to milk and eggs, supposedly 2 of the most high in cholesterol foods. Around 5yo, I overheard my Dad tell a friend that if they didn't get my numbers down, I would have a heart attack. That stuck with me my whole life. By 7yo, I was reading ingredients labels. I can't remember tasting a real egg yolk before the age of 16. I went to have blood taken every 6 months my entire life. My numbers never got below 200, and usually stayed around 250-280. My drs. wanted me to try statins, and I did briefly, but I had the side effects of severe body aches, so I stopped them. My drs. were not happy. I began researching cholesterol and what it means for the body, and tests began to be able to differentiate between good (hdl) and bad (ldl) cholesterol. Turns out I had extremely high good cholesterol. I brought this to my Dr's attention, but it seemed to hold no weight and I only got more doom and gloom. But I knew for myself and I mostly trusted in my own instincts. Recently, I was sent for this CTA scan due to my age and my most recent cholesterol numbers of 241. I was glad to do it because I would finally know the condition of my heart and arteries. LOOK AT THESE RESULTS! I'm done. I have been eating whatever I want for the last few years. Lots of butter and bacon and eggs, because of my research. I try to stay away from a lot of processed foods and do my own cooking. Stopped using seed oils. My hdl is still extremely high. I've never felt a bit of trouble with my heart in 57 years.
I got a follow up call from the cardiologist. I'm thinking they need to do a case study on me, but nope. They want me to start an injectable cholesterol medication to get my ldl below 70. I refused. I was really disappointed in their response to such good scan results. SMH.
I am at peace, finally, not just with my health, but with my discernment and trust in my own instincts. Trust the science? Science is made up of theories which are supposed to be tested to prove or disprove, but that isn't happening and medicine is based on faulty test results being published in some medical journal and then followed by AMA as THE STANDARD. These Dr's do not question, and they don't like it when you do. They are lemmings and it's a fucking shame.
So many things to unpack here.
There is ZERO evidence that eating food high in cholesterol makes your cholesterol go up. Someone made that up. If your body is working properly, you simply poop the cholesterol out. The foods that the American Medical Association tells us not to eat because "cholesterol" are nutritionally dense and easy to digest. The foods the AMA encourages us to eat are less nutritious and high in toxins (making them hard to digest) that can actually cause body damage. My cholesterol went DOWN by a LOT when I switched from the AMA recommended diet (grains, beans, seed oils, etc) to a diet high in saturated fats.
Cholesterol is very important in our bodies for brain function and creation of sex hormones. The AMA has set the cholesterol number artificially low in order to push their drugs and to keep our bodies from properly functioning (thus insuring we are chronically ill and need their drugs daily/doctors monthly).
High (or low) cholesterol is a red flag that something else is wrong in your body. It is only a red flag. Saying cholesterol "causes" heart problems is like saying firemen must be setting fires because they are at every fire. The reality is that high cholesterol may indicate heart problems, but it can also indicate thyroid problems or kidney problems, amongst other things.
I wonder if inflammation and/or sugar causes high cholesterol.
Yes, inflammation is caused from sugars/carbohydrates oxidizing and therefore causing cell damage. The cholesterol comes to the rescue in the form of a "Band-Aid" to facilitate in repairing the damage. Our liver naturally makes 1000 mg of cholesterol a day. One egg is 200 mg of cholesterol. If you eat that egg your liver will make only 800 mg of cholesterol. Our body balances it out naturally. There is absolutely no need for statins or any other drugs that are man-made, it is all just profit for the pharmaceutical companies and to keep us sick in order to keep them in profit. The old herbal remedies have not been taught or carried on to teach to the masses in Western culture.
A patient cured is a customer lost.
Good info, thank you.
This a million times. One Dr said it’s like seeing firemen everytime there is a fire and blaming the fire on the firemen.
My ldl is 450 since I started a very low carb diet. My dr. FREAKED! It’s called “lean mass hyper responder”
Going for a CAC next week.
Good thing to educate the doctors who really don’t know about this.
You touch on a subject I speak of a lot with friends and family. Not knowing your background, you may not put a lot of faith in God. I am here to tell you He has provided all we need. If you put your faith in God and consume the natural materials He made for us you will live YOUR longest life and be the healthiest YOU can be. If you put your faith in man-made copies of what He made for you, not so much. This goes across the entire spectrum. Diet, medicine, money (gold-check the rate of return of gold vs the stock market), decision making, life etc., PERIOD. He knows us best and gave us an instruction manual on how to live our best. Shalom. That word has deep meaning.
It will cause high triglycerides.
Rhetorical question of the day. You win!
It most definitely does.
Low fat diets do.
I also followed my own advice and my cholesterol has "hovered" SOMEWHERE around the normal range...AND I eat eggs/bacon/meat (in moderation) BUT I am on a diet that consists of proteins and NO DAMN BREADS OF ANY KIND....or other things that are processed...
When I changed my diet, I gave up grains. I do still make certain kinds of breads (such as Brazilian cheese bread made from tapioca flour), and I am certain that the lack of grains has helped with my cholesterol going down. My high cholesterol was due to kidney problems, and grains are hard on the kidneys as they are high in toxins.
YEP... to you're response...
I forgot to add that I have a gluten intolerance just enough to cause an issue...once I found that out and the connection to cholesterol...it was an easy decision!!!!. I also found out by a doctor that getting off the grains will get rid of the waist "fat" --the "rubber tire" the becomes pronounced as one gets older...WOWZA!!!
I'm perfectly healthy because I don't go to the doctor. Healthy foods, activity learning. Last doctor I saw was an orthopedic surgeon 25 years ago but I made an exception because I had a bone poking out of my arm.
Well done. Those are among the healthiest foods humans can eat. Super high in saturated animal fat, high protein, zero carbs.
Amazingly, doctors and scientists have been lying to us all along, for money.
They aren't (all) technically lying, they're just repeating what the elites taught them in college and such. Test takers, not critical thinkers.
Not defending anyone, just ranting I guess.
You're right and I hate it because it gives criminals an out - " just doin muh job ". It aids in one of our biggest problems in this world. No accountability = no change.
The medical industry was pretty much taken over and controlled by the Rockefellers, which convinces me not to trust them.
It would be interesting to know how many medical schools/curriculum were donated by pharma or their ilk.
I'm old enough to remember when margarine hit the market and was touted as heart-healthy because it had no saturated fat. Everyone switched from butter to margarine because the drs and the TV told them to. Now we know it was full of transfats, was invented from petroleum by-products as an ant attractant and poison. Nothing but butter in my house for over a decade.
Rockefeller = Oil industry = Fake foods = Fake pharmaceuticals = Fake medical schools = Fake media = Fake government = Fake money.
Any questions?
Only problem is, butter has gotten so bloody expensive under bidenflation!
As has EVERYTHING! I'm waiting on eggs to go up some more now because of this bird-cow-cat flu they are trying to bolster.
Margarine is made from hydrogenated soybean or other seed oils not petroleum products. You're thinking of petroleum jelly (Vaseline), which is not edible.
The hydrogenated oils (trans fats) are part of what is causing heart disease and are very bad for your health. I definitely agree about real butter!
I could definitely be confused; I've read so much that I may have overload.
My friend told me it was one molecule away from plastic. I don't know if it was true but made me change eating it.
See Ancel Keyes
It's always been a huge scam because they want everyone on statins for the rest of their lives. Prior to the COVID death jabs, statins were big pharma's biggest money makers. And statins permanently destroy your liver, so eventually they get to sell you a bunch of expensive drugs to treat the symptoms of your failing liver or your liver transplant.
Statins are also a main cause of Alzheimer's.
Sources, plz?
Look up a couple of books:
"The Case Against Statins" by Larry Hobbs
"Lipitor: Thief of Memory" by Duane Graveline
Graveline also wrote "The Dark Side of Statins" --
Of course it is, taking out cholesterol from your brain causes it to not recover from normal damage via metabolic processes. Like taking oil from an engine and being suprised it rips itself apart.