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What lowering cholesterol actually does for the heart
Cholesterol has been wrongly demonized in recent decades.
It has been blamed for atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, and even erections problems.
You certainly find elevated cholesterol in people with these conditions – but it’s not the cause.
These days the common way to push down cholesterol is by using statins.
These are very harmful medications, and I have written about their risks many times.
But you can also drive down cholesterol by modifying your diet.
This can be good if you’re changing your diet to reduce gastrointestinal inflammation or improve thyroid function.
These two issues can cause atherosclerosis, cardiovascular disease, etc…
So correcting them deals with the underlying problem while also lowering cholesterol.
There are also dietary hacks that lower cholesterol, but don’t do anything good for your health.
The human research was carried out at the University of Minnesota. This paper was published in Arteriosclerosis.
This was a multiyear study looking at the effect of diet on cholesterol levels in cardiovascular health.
“The Minnesota Coronary Survey was a 4.5-year randomized clinical trial that was conducted in six Minnesota state mental hospitals and one nursing home.”
Over 9,000 people were enrolled in this research.
“It involved 4393 institutionalized men and 4664 institutionalized women.”
The participants consumed one of two different diets.
Both diets were relatively high in fat at about 39% of total calories.
But the diets had different levels of types of fat.
The researchers looked at the effect of these different diets on cholesterol, cardiovascular events, and deaths over a period of years.
“The trial compared the effects of a control diet with a treatment diet on cholesterol and the incidence of myocardial infarctions, sudden deaths, and all-cause mortality.
The researchers compared a “control” diet against a “treatment” diet.
The “treatment” diet had less saturated fat and more polyunsaturated fat.
The “treatment” diet also had significantly less dietary cholesterol.
(By the way, dietary cholesterol has no noticeable effect on blood cholesterol – so cholesterol in the diet is irrelevant.)
The 39% fat control diet was 18% saturated fat, 5% polyunsaturated fat, 16% monounsaturated fat, 446 mg dietary cholesterol daily.
The 38% fat treatment diet was 9% saturated fat, 15% polyunsaturated fat, 14% monounsaturated fat, 166 mg dietary cholesterol daily.
The mean time spent on these diets was a little over a year.
“The mean duration of time on the diets was 384 days.”
About 1/6 of the participants spent more than two years on one of the experimental diets.
“1568 subjects consumed the diet for over two years.”
The “treatment” diet was pretty effective in lowering cholesterol.
It decreased cholesterol by an average of 15%.
“The mean serum cholesterol level in the pre-admission period was 207 mg/dl, falling to 175 mg/dl in the treatment group and 203 mg/dl in the control group.”
This approach to decreasing cholesterol did not have any effect on cardiovascular events.
“For the entire study population, no differences between the treatment and control groups were observed for cardiovascular events.”
This effective dietary hack for dropping cholesterol did not cause any change in deaths from cardiovascular causes or any other causes.
“No differences were found in cardiovascular deaths or total mortality.”
What’s more, we know from other research that decreasing stable saturated fat intake and replacing it with chemically reactive polyunsaturated fat…
…will have a profound detrimental effect on health in the long term.
If you are worried about “high” cholesterol, you need to figure out why it is “high.”
Simply driving down cholesterol levels is not at all beneficial – it’s only beneficial if it is corrective of an underlying health problem.
You should always consult your healthcare practitioner for guidance on medical diagnosis and treatment.
—–Important Message—–
This is why many men have “high” cholesterol — and how to fix it naturally without harmful statins
What most men don’t know (and aren’t told) is that cholesterol is a building block for testosterone.
What that means is, cholesterol is used to create testosterone in the body.
It’s a natural process that already occurs.
So when men have higher cholesterol levels, they usually have lower testosterone levels.
Because instead of cholesterol going to the testes and turning into testosterone — it’s just staying cholesterol.
Statins do nothing to fix this problem. In fact, they can make it far worse.
That’s why I came up with the C2T Protocol for men — it helps restart the conversion process of cholesterol to testosterone.
Try it and see what it can do for your cholesterol numbers, your T levels, your stamina, bedroom performance, and so much more…
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