hese cases, the real culprit at the root of the heart disease is the inflammation caused by the elevated insulin and blood sugars associated with eating refined carbohydrates and too many carbs in general. The higher cholesterol indicates the body is trying to repair the damage done to the arteries by the high insulin levels.
Chronically high blood sugar and insulin are at the root of the inflammation associated with so many health conditions, including heart disease, and most autoimmune diseases. Dr. Ron Rosedale writes about this here.
Cholesterol levels, in the context of normal blood sugars and insulin, have never been linked definitively to heart disease in any study, and in fact, many recent studies discussing cholesterol Information have declared no relationship exists.
More Cholesterol Information
If your cholesterol levels are elevated, and your doctor has mentioned statin drugs, please read the following resources, so you can make an informed decision. Statin side effects are real and debilitating. It's my intent that the cholesterol information below will help you make the right decision for you.
- Dave Feldman's Cholesterol Code website
- Cholesterol information from Perfect Health on Levels and Mortality Rates
- Perfect Health Diet post on Cholesterol Information and Health: A great, well research article which shows that poor health and mortality rates increase as cholesterol levels drop.
- Hulley SB, Walsh JMB, Newman TB: Health Policy on Blood Cholesterol -Time to Change Directions. Circulation 86(3), 1026-1029 ( 1992)
- A Doctor Discusses the Dangers of Low Cholesterol
- The Statin Effects Study website
- THINCS: The International Network of Cholesterol Skeptics
- Spacedoc.net, a website by Duane Graveline, M.D.
- A study which reports that higher cholesterol levels help build muscle mass.
- Medical Consumers website.
- Cholesterol and Health
- What's Cholesterol Got To Do With It? - article by Gary Taubes
- Dr. Drug Rep: article in New York Times magazine
- Spacedoc.net Forums: Read anecdotal evidence about the damage that statin drugs cause to individual health.
- The Great Cholesterol Con: The Truth About What Really Causes Heart Disease and How to Avoid It by Dr. Malcolm Kendrick
- The Great Cholesterol Con by Anthony Colpo
- Alzheimer's Solved: Condensed Edition by Henry Lorin, DMD.
- Fat and Cholesterol are Good for You by Uffe Ravnskov, MD PhD
- The Cholesterol Myths: Exposing the Fallacy That Saturated Fat and Cholesterol Cause Heart Disease by Uffe Ravnskov, MD PhD. This book is sometimes out of print, but you may be able to find copies on the web.
- Lack of Association Between Cholesterol and Coronary Heart Disease Mortality and Morbidity and All-Cause Mortality in Persons Older Than 70 Years A cholesterol Information study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association
- Dr. Peter Attia's Blog Series on Cholesterol: a comprehensive source of cholesterol Information.
Large volumes of cholesterol Information and evidence support the fact that in addition to having no link to heart disease, borderline high cholesterol levels actually lower your risk of having a stroke or succumbing to an early death from cancer, digestive or respiratory diseases. In addition, there are many documented cases of statin drugs causing serious injury and death to otherwise healthy people. You would be wise to educate yourself, starting with the cholesterol Information on this page.
What to Say to Your Physician
Get your physician involved in a discussion about the cholesterol information on this page and the study results which contradict the mainstream lipid hypothesis:
- Ask him or her to look at the cholesterol information studies which prove there is no relationship between high cholesterol blood levels and arteriosclerosis. Dave Feldman's Cholesterol Code website is a good place to begin.
- Ask why many long term study reassessments like Framingham and MRFIT have shown that people with "elevated" cholesterol levels have the lowest rates of "all cause mortality", and that in fact, lower cholesterol l