But my message continues to get lost in the unrelenting Big Lie presented by so-called experts in the FDA, AHA, and USDA.
If you listened to the advice of the so-called “experts” in charge of our country’s health, you would believe cholesterol is a deadly enemy that needs to be removed at any cost.
These “experts” continue to prescribe dangerous drugs that force cholesterol lower and lower... while continuing to demonize the foods ancestors ate in abundance like eggs, butter, bacon, and fat.
But their lies can hurt your health. Because cholesterol is NOT the enemy. In fact, cholesterol can be your body’s best friend.
Doctor Discovers That Eating 720 Eggs In 30 Days LOWERS Cholesterol Dramatically
For most of your life you’ve been fed the great lie that cholesterol causes heart disease, and that eggs and other animal fats increase your cholesterol and your risk of heart attack.
The truth: Eating eggs won’t raise your cholesterol or harm your heart.
In a groundbreaking experiment, Oxford University PhD and Harvard medical student Dr. Nick Norwitz decided to challenge those lies.
He ate two full cartons of eggs every day for a month — 24 eggs daily for 30 days. That’s a total of 720 eggs — about one an hour.
After just two days, his LDL cholesterol — the kind medical pundits call “bad” cholesterol — dropped around 2%.
By the end of the 30 days, his LDL plummeted another 18%.
In fact, after eating 720 eggs — which contained 133,200 mg of dietary cholesterol — Dr. Norwitz’s LDL cholesterol dropped by 20%.
I commend this young man on his approach.
He didn’t rely on Big Data... maybe he’s figured out that it can’t be trusted and the whole process is corrupt. That’s what I did when I was his age — and I’ve been doing these same kinds of studies on myself for about 35 years now.
The science behind this young man’s experiment makes an important point. Eating eggs won’t increase your cholesterol or increase your risk of heart disease. And the diet dictocrats who tell you to avoid eggs or limit eating them to one a day are either wrong or just plain lying.
Don’t Believe Their Big Cholesterol Lies
Almost everything you think you know about cholesterol is wrong, based on a decades-old lie. The false idea behind it all is that high cholesterol equals heart disease.
But if lowering cholesterol solves heart disease, then why is heart disease still the number one killer in America?
It kills about 1 in 5 adults in the U.S. And it’s even worse for women, killing 1 in 3. And it’s been number one for more than 100 years.
Yet... despite decades of prescribing statin drugs to hundreds of millions of people to lower their cholesterol, heart disease still claims the top death spot.
That doesn’t sound like it’s working, does it?
When you know the truth about cholesterol, it will save your life. And you won’t be one of those statistics who died from the Big Medical Lie. Let’s look at each of these cholesterol myths...
■ Big Lie #1: Cholesterol Causes Heart Disease
Of course, it doesn’t. And the real causes of heart disease also harm the cholesterol your body needs to survive.
Heart disease is a direct result of inflammation and oxidation.1 In fact, these are the underlying causes of pretty much all chronic diseases. They do a lot of damage throughout the body, and that damage piles up. Oxidative stress triggers inflammation. And inflammation increases oxidative stress.2
This deadly one-two punch also attacks cholesterol so it can’t work properly. Once this happens, cholesterol becomes diseased along with your heart.
In other words, cholesterol is a victim, not a cause. As I point out in my book The Doctor’s Heart Cure, about 75% of heart attack victims have normal cholesterol.3
And you need cholesterol. Without cholesterol, your cells and organs — especially your brain — can’t function. Your body relies on cholesterol for critical processes including:4
• Helping brain cells communicate
• Increasing brain processing speeds
• Build cells and enhance cell communication
• Production of hormones like testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, and DHEA
• Making vitamin D
• Break down and digest fat
• Protect against infectious disease
That doesn’t sound like a threat to me.
■ Big Lie #2: High Cholesterol Is Bad For You
This lie has been hammered into us, courtesy of Big Pharma and their buddies at the FDA. But the opposite is true:
The more cholesterol you have, the better — especially as you get older. It’s a normal and necessary part of your body. You can’t live without it. Turns out that low cholesterol is deadly...
• Research shows that high cholesterol has a protective effect for cancer patients, but low cholesterol increased their risk of all cause death.5
• A long-term study that included 935 older adults found that lower LDL was linked to a higher risk of death.6
• A Swedish study of 3,090 older adults found that higher cholesterol reduced the risk of death, especially among adults who weren’t taking statins.7
■ Big Lie #3: High Cholesterol Numbers Mean Everything
Mainstream medicine focuses firmly on total cholesterol and LDL cholesterol. If those numbers cross a certain threshold — which they lower all the time in order to sell more statins — they whip out the prescription pad. But they don’t look at the full picture of what’s going on. And they don’t consider the numbers that actually make a difference.
What really matters with cholesterol is particle size, HDL, and a different lipid called triglycerides.
Big fluffy cholesterol is good no matter how high the level is. Very small cholesterol particles, known as VLDL, carry 70% triglycerides and a little bit of cholesterol. VLDL particles can be dangerous because they’re small enough to get stuck in blood vessels.
Triglycerides play a bigger role in heart disease and death than either kind of cholesterol.8 But that can be balanced out with HDL cholesterol, which helps clear fat from the blood and deliver it to your liver for elimination.
So you want plenty of big cholesterol particles. You want the highest HDL you can reach. You want very low triglycerides. And — most important — you want your HDL number to be at least half the triglycerides number. If you can get your HDL higher than your triglycerides, even better.
■ Big Lie #4: Dietary Cholesterol Affects Blood Cholesterol
You’ve been told to avoid eggs, for example, because they contain cholesterol. And that eating cholesterol increases your cholesterol. That’s not how it works.
Cholesterol is so important that your body — mainly your liver — produces its own supply no matter what you eat. About 80% of your total cholesterol is created by your liver and intestines.
Dietary cholesterol from natural sources doesn’t affect blood cholesterol.9 Plenty of research backs this up, even though mainstream medicine has been feeding you this myth for decades.10
■ Big Lie #5: Eating Eggs And Other Animal Fats Spikes “Bad” Cholesterol
For your whole adult life, you’ve probably heard that animal fats clog your arteries and stop your heart. You’ve been warned to stay away from eggs, red meat, butter, lard, and bacon. Those lies were all brought to you by the fake fat industry.11
In fact, animal fats promote healthy cholesterol and low triglycerides.12
It’s fake trans fats like margarine and vegetable oils that cause heart problems. Eating as little as 2% of your diet in trans fats increases your risk of coronary heart disease by 23%. Even as little as 60 calories a day coming from fake fats can cause heart disease.13 In a head-to-head comparison, margarine increased the risk of heart disease — butter did not.14
■ Big Lie #6: You Need Statins For Heart Health
Around 92 million Americans take statins, spending at least $3.1 billion.15
But heart disease is still the leading cause of death. The math just doesn’t make sense.
I’ve been telling my patients to toss these drugs in the trash for more than 30 years.
They cause fatigue and confusion... They make your muscles weak and inflamed... They damage your liver and kidneys.... They can cause permanent nerve injury... They may lead to impotence... They trigger insulin resistance and increase your risk of diabetes.16
And statins can absolutely harm your cholesterol-loving brain.
Cholesterol is so important to your brain that it makes its own. It’s home to about 20% of your body’s total cholesterol.
That’s why statins come with a black box label warning about the threat of cognitive impairment... memory loss... confusion. But all these symptoms will magically disappear when you stop taking the drug.
Statins are a nightmare for your body to deal with. And even the American Medical Association knows it. An analysis published in their own Journal of the American Medical Association found that millions of people currently taking statins shouldn’t be.17
There are much better ways to improve your cardiovascular health. And they don’t involve taking Big Pharma drugs for the rest of your life.
■ Big Lie #7: Your Cholesterol Can’t Be Too Low
Millions of doctors prescribe statins to almost all of their older patients. The goal is to drop cholesterol levels as much as possible.
That can be a deadly mistake.
Driving cholesterol too low can kill you... and cause serious health problems along the way.
I’ve never bought into the mainstream cholesterol lies. I’m proud of my high cholesterol. And I steer my patients in the same direction.
Cholesterol is not the enemy. It won’t cause heart attacks and strokes.
Dealing with real problems like inflammation and oxidation will turn your heart health around. Boosting your HDL cholesterol matters more than lowering LDL cholesterol. And of course, getting your triglycerides below 150.
5 Simple Steps To Heart-Healthy High Cholesterol
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