Cholesterol: the biggest scam of the 20th century

2024 Author: Seth Attwood | [email protected]. Last modified: 2023-12-16 15:55

The myth of the dangers of cholesterol-rich foods has led to serious health consequences. The main causes of atherosclerosis are revealed.

The famous Viennese surgeon and scientist Theodor Billroth (well-known for his author's operations to remove part of the stomach in case of peptic ulcer disease) asked his students to conduct an interesting experiment. The thyroid gland was removed from goats and sheep. The result was completely paradoxical. The operation led to a sharp jump in cholesterol levels and total atherosclerosis of the arteries, incl. coronary. So, herbivores that have never tried animal food containing cholesterol developed atherosclerosis.

It has been suspected that decreased thyroid function may lead to atherosclerosis. Later, these assumptions were confirmed in humans. It is the insufficient function of the thyroid gland, and not animal fats, that is one of the main causes of atherosclerosis. Since the 19th century, atherosclerosis has been successfully treated with low doses of thyroid hormones.

In the second half of the twentieth century, a theory appeared, the consequences of which were tantamount to carrying out mass genocide. The birth of the theory that the cause of atherosclerosis is the consumption of animal foods containing cholesterol was implicated in the selfishness of narrow-minded scientists and the greed of pharmaceutical companies. Many millions of patients with atherosclerosis died as victims. Among the victims was the President of the United States, Dwight Eisenhower, who was put on a low-cholesterol diet right after the first myocardial infarction by doctors. Despite the diet, cholesterol levels continued to rise. The more severely the animal fat was restricted, the higher the cholesterol level rose. Together with cholesterol, the weight grew. The result of the wrong treatment turned out to be sad: the president suffered several more heart attacks, which ultimately led to cardiac death. Presidents are treated by not the most knowledgeable doctors. If the attending physician of President D. White had listened to the advice of his knowledgeable colleague B. Barnes, then perhaps the course of history and the direction of scientific research would have gone a completely different path.

Many millions of dollars have been thrown into the furnace of fruitless scientific research in order to confirm the "culpability" of animal fats in the occurrence of atherosclerosis and myocardial infarction. Up to this day, no real evidence has been provided. However, this was not reported to the general public, and the anti-cholesterol drug Lipitor successfully holds the sales lead.

Another remedy that could help President Eisenhower lower his cholesterol levels is eliminating "dense" carbohydrates from the diet. It is sweet, starch-rich and refined foods that are the second most important cause of high cholesterol and atherosclerosis of the myocardial arteries.

Meanwhile, even the father of physiology, Rudolf Virchow, wrote that cholesterol was never the cause of atherosclerosis, but appears only at the final stage of damage to the arteries. Cholesterol comes in to "heal the wound," but never caused this "wound," the scientist argued. Elevated cholesterol levels are ONLY a SIGN of inflammation in the body, not the cause. Many factors damage the walls of arteries. For example, elevated blood glucose and insulin levels.

Not surprisingly, half of the people who have had myocardial infarction had normal cholesterol levels. Conversely, people with low cholesterol have a 2-fold higher death rate.

There are many proofs of the failure of the cholesterol myth. For example, the population of the northern part of India consumes 17 times more animal fat than the population of the southern part of it. However, the frequency of atherosclerosis of myocardial arteries in northerners is 7 times lower.

Cholesterol is an essential substance that also has antimicrobial properties. It is necessary both for the intrauterine development of the fetal brain and for the normal function of the central nervous system. It is not for nothing that 23% of cholesterol stores are in the brain. If many generations of our ancestors had been on a low-cholesterol diet, then, I'm afraid, the human brain would become like a jellyfish. Not surprisingly, it is low cholesterol levels that cause memory loss in middle-aged and older people.

I would especially like to emphasize the vital necessity of cholesterol as a building material for the synthesis of vitamin D and hormones, in particular sex and adrenal hormones. It is a low-cholesterol diet that weakens the body's ability to deal with stress.

The lack of animal fats in the diet forces the liver to work with overload. Since cholesterol is critical for life, the liver is forced to synthesize it from what is available - from carbohydrates. Cholesterol synthesis requires the liver to mobilize enormous resources. Lack of cholesterol in the diet is a real crisis for the liver! Wouldn't it be better to give her the opportunity to do the work of removing toxins?

I'm afraid no one knows that cholesterol is an antioxidant. And lowering it increases your risk of cancer, sexual dysfunction, memory impairment, Parkinson's disease, stroke (yes, stroke!), Suicide, and even violent behavior. Is this why there are so many massacre firearms in the low-fat-obsessed America, such as in schools? So my advice to you is: if someone boasts that they have low cholesterol, it is better to be extremely polite with such a person …

No one would argue that gray hair is the cause of old age. Likewise, cholesterol is not a cause of myocardial infarction. The cholesterol myth has led to the extremely healthy food of animal fat being declared the enemy of heart health. It came to an absurd "circumcision": the white was cut off from the yolk, and the most useful part of the egg was thrown away.

It's time for the ceremonial burial of the myth of the culpability of cholesterol in myocardial infarction; and this should be done with a loud military salute. So that as many deceived people as possible hear the salute volleys.

OI Sineva, Candidate of Medical Sciences.