The truth is that there’s no evidence that reducing cholesterol prolongs life. Disturbingly, there’s a consistent and confounding increase in deaths from other causes when you reduce cholesterol below 180 mg/dl. Yet every two years, experts from around the world meet and decide that the optimal cholesterol level is invariably lower than it was decided to be at the last meeting – without having any solid evidence to back it up.
Check out on Youtube, a documentary called, “Cholesterol – The Great Bluff”. It may be the most eye opening time you spend in front of a screen.
Forty-six years ago a doctor explained:
(a) the body is incapable of absorbing, in a 24-hour period, any more cholesterol than is contained in about two eggs;
(b) the body has its own mechanisms for controlling the amount of cholesterol present, including manufacturing its own when short;
(c) believing that reducing cholesterol levels will reduce heart disease is akin to believing that, because your knee hurts before a storm, amputating your leg will stop storms.
The doctor?
Dr. Robert C. Atkins – correct then, correct now.
yes, dr atkins. i remember back in the early 90’s when i adopted his diet that people would scream at me and tell me he was a witch doctor. then i found out that the low fat diet was pushed by a cabal of epidemiologists that only tested theories using government grant money. when i follow that diet, it makes me feel satiated yet not lethargic. it’s only if i go off the plantation for too long that i have trouble.
It’s never been about dietary cholesterol, but about levels in the bloodstream. Not the same thing at all.
Doctors caution people who already have high serum cholesterol to avoid foods like eggs, but otherwise, they’re great food. If you like energy for workouts or just getting through a busy day, this is a magic pill.
A friend of mine has a small farm and his free range eggs are amazing.
The uncurious mediocracy – devoid of context or intellectual work ethic, again fails to present an issue accurately.
no shammy, it’s about “health professionals” justifying their existence, nothing more. Most of these quacks are libtards, thusly bullshitters!!!
It is also complicated by the fact that cholesterol is an acute phase reactant. It will always be present at sites of inflammation. Since sites of inflammation will also have immune system components present and some of these make and secrete activated oxygen, there will also be reaction products of cholesterol and oxygen, as long as there is oxygen available to the site.
This debate, with respect to dietary cholesterol, has been going on for some 50 + years. That said, the “statins” do modulate the immune response, so there will be some protective effects from them at the margin of thrombotic occlusions. No, they won’t prevent infarctions; but they will, up to a point, limit the local damage that results from vessel occlusions. The same thing is true of calcium channel inhibitors. These limit the damage due to calcium levels that get too high from damaged cell membranes.
Ultimately, though, we are mortal man doomed to die (his chemical body), with a fixed span of about 120 years. That said, the limit can be changed; but not by us puny humans. The very mechanisms that transform us from the single fertilized egg cell to a 70+ Kg man or 50+ Kg woman are capable of destroying the body from within. Remember, life span is a fixed number. You live until you die. Life expectancy is a statistic. Very few will match the statistic. Lots will vary from it and some more than others.
Look around, those KG #’s you gave for men and women are wayyy too low. Fat F**ks everywhere.
That’s what the “+” was for. That said, guess who’ll survive longer in a lengthy real emergency with respect to food supplies.
Not unrelated:
https://www.medicalnewstoday.com/articles/321954.php
Genetic predilection. There, I fixed it.
If you wish to live a long life, eat what your ancestors ate, and live a lifestyle similar to theirs. THEY made you, based on what worked for generations and generations of natural selection of your family tree. I am guessing that NONE of your ancestors ate junk food by the fistful while sitting on the sofa playing video games. There, I fixed it … again.
Correct. My mother is 98 and all of her peers are dead. I am in my mid seventies and still drink too much beer, but still walk 18 holes and carry the bag. Still eat mostly that which I cook, as I am the cook in our family.
“Too much beer” Good one.
ya saying, “go easy on the beer”????:-)))
So they take a small sample of people who are all on a bad diet and are already diseased, and see what the effect of 10 additional eggs a week has on their system.
They should try a follow up study where a large population of healthy people add 12 eggs a week to their diet, and see how the markers change.
I’m also an “old white guy”,and I also have along memory,so if I cut everything out of my diet that scientists have told us were deadly to our health,I would now have eliminated: red meat, eggs,butter, milk,cream, coffee, sugar, artificial sweeteners, salmon, pork, pepper,salt, tea, beer, carbonated beverages, all hard liquor, cheese, breads, and several vegetables that are said to be unhealthy.
IF I did cut out all the aforementioned, I might live a bit longer,but what the hell for, to eat dry crackers and oatmeal for the rest of my miserable life?
I hate to agree with De Debbil Hizself,but yes,health professionals DO have to justify their existence.
I agree. About to be seventy-six, but did have 3 stints inserted in the fall of 2016. Although I like wine rather than hard liquor, use limited amounts of real white and brown sugar. I took statins for almost twenty years, but they did not help any to reduce fairly high cholesterol levels, thus the stints I guess. Now, 6 almonds a day for two years did the trick and levels in the blood stream are now at the bottom end of normal.
Oatmeal?
That’s wheat and gluten
Off the list
Eggs are as perfect a food as there is. Eggs of pasture-raised chickens are rich sources of vitamin B12, betaine, methionine, choline, folate (all five of which are important methyl donators for better epigenetics and cognitive health), retinol, lutein and zeaxanthin (all three for eye health), vitamin K2, DHA, and sulphur especially. The protein has proportions of amino acids suitable for animals.
Two of the most recent oldest women in the world had eaten eggs daily for over a century.
Mention should also be made of the recent Chinese observation study of some 500,000 people. http://heart.bmj.com/content/early/2018/04/17/heartjnl-2017-312651
For those who ate about 6 eggs per week:
Death from Ischaemic heart disease was reduced by 12%
Death from haemorrhagic stroke reduced by 26%
Death from ischaemic stroke reduced by 10%.
There was also a significant dose-response relationships of egg consumption with morbidity (non-fatal illness) of all CVD endpoints. Which means that the more eggs you ate, the greater the benefit. Daily consumers also had an 18% lower risk of CVD death and a 28% lower risk of haemorrhagic stroke death compared to those who ate no eggs at all.
Egg yolks are emulsifiers and are perfect for creating a range of dishes, as the genius of French cuisine has developed.
For many year now I have at least 3 raw egg yolks per day of free range chickens.
remember the cutesy TV ad, the kid cant pronounce ‘cholesterol’ but is happy daddy is taking pharmaceutical X so he doesnt croak.
ya, that one. tug tug tug heart strings heart strings heart strings.
the modern equivalent is the animated octopuses etc clutching at the wymyns legs and such. or the baby elephant sitting on their shoulders of depression. also the new millenium’s version of mad men.
history keeps repeating. all you need to do is pay attention to what happens in your generation and turn it into a cookie cutter. many patterns emerge, like socialists cropping up like a mold infestation.
some rewriting with each generation but the story line is the same each episode. same characters and roles, diff cast.
evidence: massive ponzi schemes. why is this evidence? when was mr ponzi born?
Going by statistics dementia and alziemers increased when statin drugs were introduced. Create another problem
Fact is, sooner for some and later for some others , we’re all gonna die.