From Gut-Brain Secrets.
Cholesterol is not the bad guy. It does not cause heart disease. And the conspiracy to deceive us all has been carefully planned, extremely well-funded, and manipulatively orchestrated.
The truth of the matter: cholesterol is an essential material for
- tissue repair
- development and normal functioning of the brain and nervous system
- hormone production, such as cortisol, testosterone, estrogen
- vitamin and nutrient synthesis (particularly vitamin D and CoQ10)
- production of bile salts (that break down fats)
- many other processes in a healthy body.
Consequently, cholesterol is needed for blood vessel repair, coping with stress, sexual response, heart and muscle function, digestion of fats, and dozens of biochemical processes in the body. For those affected by ADD, cholesterol helps regulate your mood through production of feel-good chemicals, such as serotonin. Cholesterol is also one of the body’s most potent antioxidants (bet your sources never told you that).
It’s so important to bodily operations that your liver, which makes about 85% of your daily requirements, actually increases or decreases cholesterol production, based on how much of it you need at that moment. Without sufficient cholesterol in the bloodstream, these all-important mechanisms malfunction, causing all sorts of problems – including anger, violent behavior, depression, muscle degeneration, debilitating back pain, infertility, loss of libido, fat-soluble vitamin and mineral deficiency, free radical damage, stroke and heart failure.
Cholesterol is your ally in good health. So not only is it foolish and futile trying to reduce blood-cholesterol levels, it’s harmful to the body’s maintenance and repair processes. To put it plainly, having abnormally low blood cholesterol hurts your health in many ways. Which means cholesterol-lowering statins are destructive to your body and can cause both chronic and acute health crises.
Do not believe people who try to tell you otherwise. They are either misinformed, or they know the truth and are lying to you. True, cholesterol is found “at the scene of the crime.” But it is not the cause of heart disease. Rather, it is there helping out. It’s like repeatedly finding firemen at the scene of every fire and concluding that firemen must be causing the fires. Don’t be fooled.
Dr. Natasha Campbell-McBride tells us the truth about cholesterol
“As I was telling all of my patients for years to eat animal fats, naturally a question would come up: ‘What about heart disease? Am I going to die from heart disease on your diet?’ Having spent many hours explaining to hundreds of people why animal fats are good for us, and that they have nothing to do with heart disease, I thought I better write a book about this. (Put Your Heart in Your Mouth is the result.)
Fats and cholesterol are the essence of life. We are made out of them, to a large degree. Cholesterol is one of those molecules without which we cannot live. It is involved in so many functions in the body. So Mother Nature went to great extent to provide every cell with biochemical machines to produce cholesterol. Every cell in the body produces cholesterol all the time. Blood cholesterol is maintained by our liver. The liver produces it and throws it into the bloodstream.
It has been estimated by physiologists that only about 15% of cholesterol floating in your blood might come from food. The rest – 85% – is produced by your liver. And study after study, all over the world, has confirmed the fact that diet – what we eat – has no effect on blood cholesterol whatsoever. You can live on a high cholesterol diet of eggs and butter only, or you can eat no cholesterol at all, and you will have the same levels of cholesterol in your blood either way… because cholesterol is a very important substance in the body. It’s fulfilling many, many functions around the body. It’s a busy substance. It’s doing good work. And the body will maintain that amount of cholesterol in the blood that it needs for all those functions at that particular moment in your life.
There are many things that can increase blood-cholesterol levels. The most common reason is some sort of damage in the body – any kind of damage – particularly chronic inflammation. Why is this? Because cholesterol is essential for healing. We cannot heal any wound, any scratch, any damage in the body without huge amounts of cholesterol. So when there is any damage in the body, inflicted by anything – whether it’s an infection, or a toxin, or whether you went to the dentist and there’s been damage to your gums, and your root canals, and other things – it’s damage.
Or whether you had surgery so your skin has been cut, and other tissues have been cut. So a lot of healing has to happen to heal all those cuts, and heal that bruising and damage… Whether you went through a very stressful period in your life, so there was a lot of free radical damage, and other damage done in the body… Whether you have an ongoing inflammation in your body, for whatever reason, which is inflicting damage to your tissues around your body… In order to heal that damage, you need lots of cholesterol.
So every damaged part of your body sends messengers to the liver immediately. It signals to the liver. The liver gets into gear, and it starts manufacturing cholesterol – in large amounts, and sending it to the site of the damage to heal it and seal it, and to repair it, because the inflammation process, and the repair process, both require large amounts of cholesterol.
So if your cholesterol is high it means your body’s doing something. It’s repairing something in your body. It’s healing something. Don’t mess with it. Don’t interfere with it, because you will do a lot of damage in other parts of your body. So if your blood cholesterol is high and your doctor says, “Oh, you have to go on statins. This is dangerous,” just think to yourself ‘My body is healing something.’ What might it be? What have I done? What have I damaged recently? Maybe I’ve got inflammation. Maybe I’ve had the flu. Maybe I’ve been to the dentist? Maybe I’ve had something else happening to me – that’s what’s happening.
All our steroid hormones in the body are made out of cholesterol. Cholesterol is the building block of steroid hormones – all our sex hormones, our adrenal hormones, and other steroid hormones. That is why our low-cholesterol diets, and our low-cholesterol foods, and our low-fat diets, and our toxic bodies, are to blame for our infertility epidemic.
A lot of people in this world cannot produce enough sex hormones. They haven’t got enough cholesterol, or their pathways of production of cholesterol in the body are damaged or blocked, so they cannot produce enough cholesterol. These people have been studied quite extensively by a lot of renowned researchers who found that they’ve got consistently low blood cholesterol because their bodies are unable to produce enough cholesterol.
The first thing that has been observed in these people is that they have low self-control. They’re aggressive. They’re reactionary. They’re cranky. And they have difficult personalities. These are people difficult to deal with, and difficult to live with. That is why every spouse, pretty much, of a person who is put on statins, which impair production of cholesterol in the body, comments that ‘Gosh, overnight, as soon as he started taking statins he became cranky. His personality changed. He became intolerant and impatient and unpleasant. And a very different person’.
One of the hungriest organs for cholesterol is our brain. About 20% of myelin (fatty layer of nerve insulation) is cholesterol. So that fatty substance that the brain is coated in – every structure in the brain is coated in – 20% of it is cholesterol. And it has to be renewed all the time. So fresh cholesterol has to be delivered there all the time to renew myelin (myelin: fatty layer of nerve insulation.), to rebuild it, to regenerate it. Other structures in the brain require huge amounts of cholesterol for its structure, and for its function. The brain cannot function without cholesterol.
That is why people put on statins lose their memory. They’re likely to develop dementia. I’m sure a large percent of our dementia epidemic amongst our elderly people is due to statin prescription. I have no doubt about it because every elderly person in Britain (where Dr. Natasha resides and practices) certainly is on statins. They’re all popping cholesterol pills, because their doctors put them on cholesterol pills.
And yet research after research has demonstrated when you give elderly people eggs and butter [which contain large amounts of cholesterol] for breakfast their memory improves, and their cognitive ability improves. And that has been proven with psychological/psychometric testing. All people need more cholesterol. All the people with higher levels of cholesterol in their blood are healthier, stronger, and they’re 100% “here” – no dementia at all. And they’re usually fitter, these people. And cholesterol is so important for older people.
The older we become, the more we need it. So much so that one of the major researchers in this area has posed a question, “We need to take steps to increase blood cholesterol in our elderly population.” Which sounds like an anathema, doesn’t it, to the mainstream? Because they’re doing just the opposite: they’re putting everybody on statins, and they’re reducing their cholesterol levels in the body. The brain cannot function without cholesterol.
That is why the GAPS diet is very rich in cholesterol, because we need to rebuild the brain. We need to feed it properly. We need to allow it to rebuild its structure, and to function appropriately. There are many other functions of cholesterol in the body. For example, vitamin D is made out of cholesterol, when the skin is exposed to the sun.”
Violent offenders are shown to have low cholesterol
Researchers discovered that 4 out 5 violent offenders in prison have very low cholesterol levels. This fits well with what we know about low cholesterol causing deficiency of the stress hormone cortisol. Low cortisol makes people less able to cope with stress, triggering all sorts of anti-social behavior like road rage, anger management issues, and acts of violence. Vicious dogs have also been found to have low cholesterol levels.
Heart attacks were rare before man-made vegetable oils arrived
To illustrate the lunacy of the “cholesterol-heart attack” theory, consider this: Prior to the invention of human-engineered vegetable oils around the year 1900, people cooked in animal fats, and ate mostly animal products. In 1921, the first incidence of heart attack was reported.
Before that, atherosclerosis did not exist. Or, if it did, it wasn’t widely reported in the medical literature. So if cholesterol in eggs, bacon and milk products causes heart disease, why were heart attacks unheard of prior to the 1920s, even though plenty of people were eating high-cholesterol foods for breakfast, lunch, and dinner?
Calling HDL “good cholesterol” and LDL “bad cholesterol” = B.S.
When the “cholesterol-heart disease” hypothesis was first proposed, there was no distinction between high-density lipoprotein (HDL), low-density lipoprotein (LDL), and triglycerides. In the decades since, expert opinion and mounting research have forced proponents of the cholesterol-heart disease theory to give their idea a makeover. They now say that cholesterol traveling to the damaged blood vessel is bad, and the cholesterol traveling away from the repair site is good. How silly is that?
The food industry and the medical profession are claiming the very foods that Nature designed the human digestive tract to eat – the staple foods our ancestors survived on for millennia – are killing us because they’re found in blocked arteries. Apparently animal fats and animal products are confusing the body and causing it to malfunction. On the other hand, they want us to believe that foods made by scientists in a lab for commercial gain are ones the body likes and knows how to process.
General news release: American Medical Association, October 12, 1962
“The anti-fat, anti-cholesterol fad is not just foolish and futile. It also carries some risk. Scientific reports linking cholesterol and heart attacks have touched off a new food fad among do-it-yourself Americans. But dieters who believe they can cut down on their blood cholesterol without medical supervision are in for a rude awakening. It can’t be done. It could even be dangerous to try.”
ADD individuals need to eat lots of cholesterol and saturated fat
ADD children and adults need lots of cholesterol and saturated fats for brain function, in a form as close to Nature as possible. Make sure to eat plenty of animal fat and meats (particularly organ meats), eggs and, if well tolerated, raw or organic milk products because cholesterol in food is virtually the same as that made by the liver. When you eat cholesterol, the liver doesn’t have to work as hard making it.
Cholesterol conclusion
This “diet-heart” hypothesis, as it’s called, is not harmless profiteering and fear-mongering by food companies and medical companies in collusion with government agencies. It’s actually inflicted an incredible amount of suffering on millions of trusting people. Based on what? There is no connection between cholesterol levels in the blood and heart disease … zero (which statin literature freely admits to in fine print). If anything, cholesterol lowers the risk of heart disease. So, word to the wise: You should be thanking cholesterol for all that it does for you, not demonizing it.
To learn more about “the great cholesterol lie” watch Sally Fallon Morell’s (President and Co-Founder Weston A. Price Foundation) presentation “The Oiling of America” .