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Cholesterol

Being afraid of high cholesterol is totally unnecessary. In Japan, high cholesterol is seen as a sign of health! Have you seen the health of these people? Why is cholesterol okay in their book but not ours? Once again we need to turn to that single one-sided study done by Ancel Keys in the early 1950’s. We learned to measure cholesterol and divided it up into ‘good’ cholesterol (HDL) and ‘bad’ cholesterol (LDL). Again an entire industry has been based on this, not just the food industry but also the pharmaceutical industry which tells us that their highly dangerous statins (cholesterol-lowering drugs) lower the ‘bad’ LDL cholesterol and up the ‘good’ HDL cholesterol.

Hogwash! Another myth based on outdated and selective research. There is no ‘good’ or ‘bad’ cholesterol. There’s only one type of cholesterol and that’s cholesterol. What makes cholesterol good or bad in the eyes of scientists? Due to bad food habits (sugars) our blood gets sticky and syrupy. Cholesterol is a part of blood and when blood starts sticking to the vascular walls so does the cholesterol in the blood (how come there’s no ‘LDL blood’ and ‘HDL blood’?). The cholesterol which sticks to the vascular walls is called LDL and is therefore ‘bad’. The cholesterol which keeps flowing through the veins is the ‘good’ HDL. As the cholesterol and the blood get stickier, the medical diagnosis will be an increase of LDL. Until you’re completely clogged up and need a bypass operation.

This faulty LDL/HDL diagnosis has doctors looking at blood cholesterol exclusively and offering a ’solution’ in the form of statins. Since there’s really only one type of cholesterol these drugs do not lower the LDL but the overall cholesterol. This is very dangerous. Side effects of these drugs are rheumatoid complaints such as muscle cramps and impaired blood flow. This result is obvious as cholesterol acts like a vacuum cleaner. That’s right, it’s a blood cleanser. Did you know that your body needs cholesterol to synthesize sunlight into vitamin D? No wonder the Japanese see high cholesterol as a good thing.

Lower your cholesterol with these drugs and your blood will get polluted more and more along with decreased blood circulation. The painful side effects this has on your muscles and extremities (arms, legs, hands, feet, head) are nothing compared to the heart hazards. Herbal medicines which promote blood flow and have zero side effects, such as ginkgo biloba, hawthorn, green tea, pine extract, cayenne, ginger, and garlic are often dismissed as nonsense and are often contraindicated, i.e. they can’t be used in combination with drugs. I know what I’d choose.