Cholesterol Myths and Health Impacts

40 years ago, it was perfectly fine for a cholesterol

lev--

of three hundred. Now, has everyone got that?

Three hundred. What are you told today if you're

three hundred? Last year in Maryland, I was talking to a

lady in her seventies who was a pathologist.

She said, "I used to do all the testing

on blood cholesterol levels. We considered a cholesterol level of

three hundred and fifty perfectly fine." What are you

told today? It can't go over one ninety. Am I right?

What do they want you down to, one fifty?

Do you know the fattiest organ in the body is the brain, and cholesterol is

used to protect the brain against chemicals, heavy metals?

We've been deceived. And the cholesterol-lowering medication,

its

side effect is dementia, muscle wasting,

Alzheimer's, breast cancer, vitamin D deficiency,

because our sex hormones are made from cholesterol.

And if we don't have enough vitamin D, we can't get

the minerals into our bones to have strong bones.

So what have we got now? Osteoporosis.

It's all about precision balance. We need that cholesterol.

Framingham Heart Study, been going for forty years,

set up to prove

that cholesterol causes heart disease, still hasn't forty years later.

But you know what it did show? People with high cholesterol levels don't

get

Alzheimer's. Now, do you need a moment's silence to digest

that one?