If you’ve been reading my newsletter for any time at all, you know that I’ve shown again and again how having lower cholesterol is dangerous.
In fact, you want higher cholesterol.
There are many studies that have shocked the researchers because they refuted the popular idea the higher cholesterol leads to a higher risk of death.
And here’s just one study that shows that more is actually better when it comes to cholesterol.
Have you ever eaten Hawaiian food?
Hawaiian food represents the most unhealthy and tastiest of food.
It’s full of polyunsaturated fatty acids, fried foods, and lots of fat, sugar, and starch.
In other words, it’s full of every sort of “bad” that food can have.
I don’t know how many of these men were eating a Hawaiian diet, but the study followed about 3500 Japanese-Hawaiian men over many years.
The researchers were shocked, and they wrote:
We have been unable to explain our results.
These data cast doubt on the scientific justification for
lowering cholesterol
Indeed, it does.
But there are many studies that show that higher cholesterol leads to longer life.
This study shows MANY more deaths from low cholesterol than from HIGH cholesterol.
In fact, men who had higher cholesterol had a MUCH lower chance of death:
How did the idea come up the cholesterol is bad?
If you go back to the 1950s, this is when they discovered that plaque often clogged and hardened in the arteries of men and some women with cardiovascular disease.
They were able to do some crude analysis on this plaque, and they discovered it was made up with high amounts of cholesterol.
Still, nobody insisted that cholesterol was harmful to your health or that it should be lowered.
But then, the drug companies discovered cholesterol-lowering drugs, and it changed the game.
Lipitor and its ilk, including all the “statin” drugs are responsible for at least $35 billion in big Pharma sales. Per YEAR.
This is not the only study that shows high cholesterol is good.
Here’s one of MANY MANY more:
As the scientists conclude:
Our findings do not support the hypothesis that hypercholesterolemia or low HDL-C are important risk factors for all-cause mortality, coronary heart disease mortality, or hospitalization for myocardial infarction or unstable angina in this cohort of persons older than 70 years
And more and more studies show that “good” cholesterol isn’t always so “good.”
Even though the study title would indicate that this variation in genetics is rare, the actual study is not about a rare genetic condition.
The study says that many people have high HDL levels, and these people have a higher chance of getting coronary heart disease.
This is not to say that high rates of HDL cholesterol are bad necessarily.
A relationship isn’t always a cause– the study doesn’t determine why these particular people have a higher chance of heart disease.
We don’t know if the elevated HDL is a symptom, or if it’s an unrelated coincidence.
It’s just that we don’t really have a firm understanding of cholesterol, good or bad, and the last thing that somebody should probably be doing is taking medications to lower cholesterol.
Cholesterol is the mother of all of our corticosteroid and mineral steroid hormones.
In other words, we NEED cholesterol to create all of the other hormones that do the work in our bodies.
Don’t fall for the B.S. about lowering cholesterol.
If anything you should RAISE your cholesterol. Here’s why.
This large study was done BEFORE the hugely profitable statin drugs polluted and ruined the objective studies done more recently:
When differences in analytic methodology were eliminated, a consistent inverse
relation of HDLC levels and coronary heart disease event rates was apparent
Translated this means that other studies have used biased and incorrect analysis.
The study that used a decent analogy looked at these other studies, and concluded that in fact,
Higher cholesterol levels mean a lower rate of death.
To me, it’s very clear that higher cholesterol is healthy.
I would be much more worried about cholesterol level of 170 that I would about a cholesterol level of 270.
Obviously, nothing can substitute talking to a good doctor and taking their professional medical advice.
But this should be good food for thought for you to discuss with your doctor and make the right decisions for your situation.
Citations
Cholesterol and all-cause mortality in elderly people from the Honolulu Heart Program: a cohort study
http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0140673601055532
Rare variant in scavenger receptor BI raises HDL cholesterol and increases risk of coronary heart disease
http://science.sciencemag.org/content/351/6278/1166
Lack of Association Between Cholesterol and Coronary Heart Disease Mortality and Morbidity and All-Cause Mortality in Persons Older Than 70 Years
http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=381733
High-Density Lipoprotein Cholesterol and Cardiovascular Diseasehttp://circ.ahajournals.org/content/79/1/8.full.pdf
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