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80% of the Cholesterol in your body is made by your body. It is vital to protect and repair the 30 trillion cells membranes. Why do you want to alter this?
Gaining an understanding
This is the most complicated discussion I could take part in, and I honestly can’t explain it the way so many professionals like Dr. Ken Berry, Dr. Eric Berg, Dr. Bret Scher, Ben Azadi, Dave Feldman, and so many others can. Rather than try to explain it myself, I’d prefer you heard from these folks. I love the way they teach us about some really difficult-to-digest facts, and I trust you’ll get what you need from these videos.
Dr. Ken Berry
I believe what Dr. Berry explains here is a comprehensive yet basic and easy-to-understand explanation of cholesterol.
What you’re about to hear:
The human body has, on average, 30 trillion cells at any given time.
Around each cell is a membrane (wrapper). Without that membrane (to protect), that cell would die, and you would die within minutes. 30% or 1/3 of every single cell’s membrane in your body is cholesterol.
Your body uses cholesterol to repair damage that has been done within your body. It’s like drywall spackle on a wall in your home, used to repair a hole.
Your body uses cholesterol to create bile in your gallbladder. This breaks down (emulsifies) the fats that you eat. Then your body reabsorbs that bile to use over and over again. If you take a statin, it will deplete your cholesterol, thereby interrupting your body’s ability to break down fats to gain the necessary vitamins A, D, E, and K.
Why does your doc want you to lower your cholesterol? That’s a good question that you need to get your doctor to explain to you.
I implore you to watch this 8-minute video to the end.
Dr. Berry talks about this top 10 surgery in the video shown below. You can still eat keto and carnivore!
Dr. Eric Berg
Dr. Berg speaks to the actual/real cause of high triglycerides in the video below.
Ben Azadi
Ben is a FDN-P, which means Functional Diagnostic Nutrition Practitioner. He isn’t just an educated person. He personally lost over 80lbs of pure fat to achieve a healthy life, and his mission is to educate over a billion people about how to do this.
I challenge you to get a deeper understanding of what cholesterol is, and what it does for your body. This doesn’t mean asking your doctor. They are likelier to put you on medicine to “control” your cholesterol than they are to explain what causes it, and how you can control it with your dietary intake, and importantly, why cholesterol is necessary for proper body function. Learn more from Ben directly on his website: Ben Azadi’s Keto Kamp
As explained by Ben, I encourage you to watch/listen to this entire video podcast, but if you only hear from 4:23 to the end, I think you’ll get the point. He’s describing cholesterol as a traffic jam, something most of us can relate to.
Dave Feldman
…is a software engineer who has taken the mission of understanding cholesterol to a high level. Dave has produced hundreds of minutes of videos, thousands of words of data, and spent countless hours in front of audiences helping us to understand the myths behind one of the most misunderstood scientific elements of the human body: cholesterol. You can learn more at his website: The Cholesterol Code
He has used his own body as the ultimate tool for experimentation, with intentional efforts to both raise and lower his cholesterol levels by various intakes of foods. Because he is an engineer, he has the ability to break information down into very tight data. It can be overwhelming to hear his words, but that’s because explaining something so complex can’t be made too simple, although he does a great job. The net takeaway is that we are fed data and stats by people we think we can trust, yet their words are saturated with money, whether it’s taking a “safe” route of medicating you to prevent lawsuits, or because they are directly benefiting from the corporations which make money from the drugs you are prescribed. Perhaps his interview with another of my favorite Doctors, Dr. Bret Scher, will help you understand better the cholesterol myth.
Dr. Bret Scher
Dr. Scher is an amazing cardiologist when you consider his mission statement. Here he explains who he is in his own words:
I hope to be the most unique cardiologist you have ever encountered. Sure, I am a card-carrying, board-certified cardiologist. And I spent years learning the invasive procedures and the medications used to treat heart disease. Now I want to do everything in my power to make sure those multi-billion dollar tools and drugs go unused.
My goal is to inspire individuals just like you to dictate your own health by adopting healthy lifestyle habits that allow you to achieve your best health ever:
*Health free of prescription drugs.
*Health that leaves you feeling great, feeling energetic, and living the life you have always dreamed of.
*Health with you in control
You can learn more at his website: Dr. Bret Scher
Summary
What you don’t know is just the tip of the iceberg. What you do know is everything you’ve been told so far in your life, by people you believed you can trust. When you hear things like “statins weaken the heart” you should really be more aware of what a doctor is prescribing you so that you can make changes that don’t give you weak hearts. I’m asking you to consider the significance that there are hundreds, perhaps thousands of doctors out here trying desperately to get you off of drugs, trying to teach you nutrition. They don’t stand to gain nearly as much taking the “get off pharma” approach. But this is how they are built. Of course they would still like to make a living, and that’s what supporting them through certain ways such as monthly $5 subscriptions can do. It’s a heck of a lot cheaper to pay one of these folks a few $ per month to get straight info, vs paying for monthly drugs and visits, specialty checkups, etc.
You’re probably saying to yourself: If statins are so bad, why are they still on the market? That’s a fair question, and again, follow the money. If today major “trusted” outlets within the field, such as the American Heart Association, were to retract or retrace their words about how harmful cholesterol is, understand the gravity of that. They’re retracting support for one of the most prescribed drugs in America: Lipitor. In 2019, it was prescribed the most, to over 24.4 million people. Prices are driven by demand, and with such a perceived need, the money transacted is significant. If you listened to the talking heads outside of those with money to gain, you will hear them all saying the same thing: change your habits, and you can get off meds. You won’t hear that from anyone standing to make something off you if you take a medication.
