If cholesterol truly isn't the bad guy, as most of us real foodies know, what does cause heart disease? Do you still have loved ones who are avoiding butter to “protect their heart” or because their cholesterol is high? Even worse, do you have friends or family taking statins? (See this post for more on Statin dangers.)
Share the video below with your hard-headed friends and family
This video explains very clearly…
- What really starts dangerous lesions in the vessel wall
- How cholesterol fixes the problems in our blood vessels
- How did the scientific community get this so wrong? “Well it's because cholesterol was at the scene of the crime but it is not the perpetrator. It would be like if they're a bunch of house fires in a neighborhood and you say, “I wonder what's causing all those?” Well there are firemen all over the place every time there's a house fire, so they must be causing it. But no, it's actually something else and that's how it is with cholesterol.“
- What are the different types of cholesterol and what foods raise the worst kind
Since it is presented so well, it would be a great tool to share with those in your life who still don't “get it”. So if someone sent it to you, don't be offended, just watch with an open mind, and as you do, think of the health of our nation in the past twenty to thirty years or more.
Have we become healthier since believing the ‘eat low fat to protect your heart' mantra, or have we become more sick? Don't we all know people, probably several people, who struggle with the top three: obesity, diabetes, and heart disease?
NOTE: Here's a book that many in the comments have suggested on this topic: The Great Cholesterol Con.
Shocker: The wild thing is, I agreed with almost everything in this video, how refreshing!
The main thing I didn't agree with was the push for “fish oils”, which are often super processed in big labs and sold by pharmaceutical companies, and aren't anywhere near as good as the more natural cod liver oil that we take. “Ours” is not only less processed, but it also has the correct vitamin A and D ratios so you can safely take extra when needed (to boost immunity).
Twenty years ago doctors told us to stay away from high-fat foods like butter, cheese, bacon and eggs because they raise cholesterol and could lead to heart disease. America responded and stop eating fat. In its place however we ate more sugar and other carbohydrates, and how'd that worked out? Not great, as a whole Americans grew fatter and sicker then before. It looks like back then scientists may have reached the wrong conclusion.“
- Be sure to scroll down at this post on healthy fats for loads of scoop on statin meds.
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- A 19-year-old success story: How to Heal Your Body with Real Food
The one thing I can’t figure out and can’t get anyone to tell me: if cholesterol is the band-aid your body makes to heal the inflammation, and it can build up to the point that blood does not flow, and roto-rooter-ing arteries is a bad idea, how do you survive the inflammation once you have it? Does your body just reabsorb the cholesterol bandage once the inflammation is healed? How do you survive with 90% blockage long enough for the cholesterol to do its job?
Becoming more important to me as I get older.
That’s a good question, and it makes me realize that more than anything it’s about preventing the inflammation in the first place, which is obvious I guess, but yes, what to do once it’s already gotten bad? Common sense alone tells me that once the arteries are almost totally blocked, we’d probably need to let the docs do their thing to save a life. Doctors are good at that, it’s just chronic disease that I don’t trust them with…
Maybe I’ll put this on FB and see what else we can learn if we get people talking about this.
Thanks Peggy!
Kel
Heart disease is a chronic disease. Similar is the case with diabetes, cancer, arthritis etc. Even World Health Organization says that all chronic diseases are caused due to unhealthy diet, smoking and lack of exercise. The real cause of heart disease then should be unhealthy diet which we eat regularly. Then why do doctors don’t talk anything about what we should eat and what you should not eat?
I think doctors are now only trained to treat symptoms not desease … it would not pay the sickness industry if we actually got better. With MTHFR, pyroluria, histadelia & Autism all playing their part in my household I know much about little known syndroms and disorders and how little the sickness industry really cares
This video is well worth the watch if you want to inform yourself of truth about fats, cholesterol, and inflammation. I already knew all of this from various other sources like Weston A Price and others but this video is very to the point and explains it simply!!
Please read near the bottom where it mentions Sugar, Flour and Refined Corn and Soy oil. Then, pease look at up Rath of Germany who stalks about scurvy http://www.realfarmacy.com/world-renown-heart-surgeon-speaks-out-on-what-really-causes-heart-disease#IEflP2Lr3JblVQoI.01
My husband’s family has this. Sometimes their doctors have them on a statin drugs but they get muscle aches and discontinue that. The diet does help some. They also be sure to have oatmeal regularly and a small glass of red wine every night. His grandmother lived to 93 but she had a heart attack 20 years earlier and had several angioplasties. His brother had an angioplasy but died of a heart attack while undergoing chemotherapy for lung cancer. My husband has not ever had an angioplasty or a heart attack. His mom is 80 and has had 2 angioplasties and a mild heart attack. The statin drugs do not bring their colesterol to normal. They really work to get their good colesterol up. That’s all I know.
My husband DRASTICALLY lowered his cholesterol (triglycerides down 700+ points) by eliminating dairy and grains. WAP isn’t the best diet for everyone. We eat Paleo, now and it’s amazing. I’d try that, first.
Everyone in my family has had high cholesterol. No one, as far back as I know of, has ever had a heart attack.
There is a new development called lunasin that helps remove cholesterol from the blood and blocks the body from producing that bad cholesterol. It also has been proven in epigenetics which means promoting only the healthy cells to regenerate and stopping the unhealthy DNA cells from replicating. You can find out more at http://www.lunasin.com
My first thought is that years ago, 330 wouldn’t have been considered as high as it is considered today. No one used to even worry about that stuff. And we know that 8 out of 9 on the committee who set the most recent criteria for “high” cholesterol had financial ties to drug companies that make Statin drugs. Is it possible that her cholesterol is exactly what it’s supposed to be? I don’t know, I guess in my mind, it seems that if someone had a genuine defect that caused extreme, truly unhealthy, high cholesterol, that it would be a lot higher than 330. What about triglycerides or HDL/LDL ratio? How about C-Reactive Protein? Overall cholesterol levels are a very poor indicator of heart disease risk. Older people with “high” cholesterol live longer than those with “ideal” cholesterol anyway. My understanding is that our bodies raise cholesterol levels to meet whatever the body’s demands at the moment are, so if there is repair work to be done, illness, stress, or inflammation, it will be much higher out of sheer necessity. Are any of those factors being taken into consideration as well? This would be worth LOTS of research before ever considering cholesterol-lowering drugs.
A book by Dr. Malcolm Kendrick called “The Great Cholesterol Con” is a MUST-READ. It’s sold on the WAPF site. This is one of the things he talks about – he explains the mechanism by which it works and why it’s different than other “supposed” cholesterol issues – with this issue it’s not the cholesterol that’s the problem. It’s the fact the body lacks the proper number of cholesterol receptors to utilize existing cholesterol so it builds up in the system. Also, interesting to note, he said cholesterol doesn’t get dangerous unless your level is 350 or higher. Anyway, check out that book. It might answer your questions.
Since the release of GMO to farm animals this has been a HUGE problem for everyone. The AMA says it is “genetic” yes it is genetically engineered. In my family everyone lived to be quite an old age. Soon as GMO’s were fed to farm animals heart disease high cholesterol lifted it’s ugly head. & THAT was JUST from farm animals being fed it not actually in the food. Of course now it is in almost all food & many foods are now unedible. Thanks Bush Sr, Jr, & the damn Clintons may they all rot in hell.
As an example my Great Grandparents ate EVERY SINGLE MORNING A full course meal, Eggs, Bacon, Sausage, toast with REAL butter, Milk, Juice, & coffee with REAL cream to finish it all off. By the end of the 70’s into the early 80’s GMO’s were fed to farm animals especially in the middle states their testing grounds. My Grandparents developed “heart disease & Alzheimers” there was NONE in their background before this. Then my Grandfather developed “heart disease” at about the same time they were dying from the nasty foods. He was told his was so bad he couldn’t even have surgery because he was so bad off. Yet he lived to be in his 70’s losing 10 years on his parents who died in their 80’s. By the time my Mother was in her 50’s she was told she had high cholesterol which the AMA blamed heart disease on. My husband was told when he was only 28 the same.
Meanwhile Ruth & her sisters raised ALL of their own foods canned them & ate ONLY what they made. Their Mother died in her 90’s from old age. Ruth & her Sisters also died in their 90’s. They only had GRASSFED milk & beef. Chickens got some feed. But that was all.
By the time they told my Husband about his issues I had found out about GMO’s. I changed our diet DRASTICALLY! He NO LONGER had high blood pressure. His cholesterol was FINE. Oddly enough his Sinus infections completely cleared up & he hasn’t had one since. So what do I believe? I believe that GMO’s are the ENTIRE problem. We wouldn’t need the AMA, Doctors, NOR BIG PHARMA if we got rid of them so they all are whores for Monsanto. That is what I believe.
Thank you sooo much for sharing this, Kelly!!!!
Would love to hear your thoughts on familial hypercholesterolemia. I am getting conflicting information about how to deal with this problem. It is when you actually have a genetic defect that makes your body unable to process cholesterol correctly, and therefore it collects throughout your body. I have spoken with WAPF-minded people, who are very well researched on this issue, and they have told me that this IS cholesterol to be concerned about. However general reading on the WAPF website and in the journal and on blogs such as this I find nothing but how cholesterol is good and we’ve been duped. Somewhere in here the line isn’t so black and white. And if diet doesn’t affect cholesterol, how does one control their familial hypercholesterolemia? Or should they? What do you do when you’ve eaten a WAPF style diet for the last ten years and your cholesterol is 330 and you’re only 45 years old?
Obviously I’m no where even CLOSE to an expert on any of this, but what I would suggest is finding a really good naturopath to help you figure it all out. If what they’re saying/doing isn’t feeling right to you, then go to another one who you feel comfortable working with. Who knows, maybe 330 is good for your body? Maybe it’s protecting you from some other disease. I don’t know, but someone else surely could help you. In the meantime, I’ll put your question up on Facebook to see what else we could find out. Not that there are necessarily experts there (!!), but maybe we’ll learn something. Watch for it on my page this week or keep an eye on the comments here where the info will show up, too.
Amy,
I’m in the same boat — my mom was on a fat free diet for a year for her very high cholesterol and it never budged. The doctors decided it was her liver that was cranking out the extra cholesterol. She was put on cholesterol meds and it went down, but is still high.
I am now 44 y.o. and have high cholesterol. I’m trying to get in shape and lose weight to see what that does to the numbers, but I don’t want to go on any cholesterol meds if the numbers don’t come down. As a member of the medical community, I’ve seen cases where the cholesterol medications cause neurological issues (tingling) in the legs.
I’ll be interested to see the replies that come back from your question.
I started taking flax seed oil, one tab a day, and my cholesterol went down over 40 points.
Yahoo for that rare gem of a friend on the elderly board!
what about the chemtrails and all the heavy metal being dumped on us. From what I Have read they cause the blood to thicken and cause heart attacks and strokes in addition to hypertension, asthma, neurological issues etc. http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/chemtrails-aerosol-and-electromagnetic-weapons-in-the-age-of-nuclear-war-2/
Luckily my aunt was there at the hospital this morning and they will not be giving her the statins! My friend who runs a Elderly Board and Care facility says that she noticed when doctors prescribe statins to her elderly residents that it seems to contribute negatively to their dementia, causes dizziness and confusion. She most definitely doesn’t need that! Thanks for the comments Sharon & Jill!
This is exactly what I have been hearing from the Livin’ La Vida Lowcarb podcast and reading on paleo blogs such as Mark’s Daily Apple for many years. They even got fluffy LDL in there. There’s only one lab in the US that does the NMR Lipoprofile. Jimmy Moore’s book on cholesterol is coming out later this year. He wrote it with Dr. Eric Westman from Duke University. This video is cutting edge information.
Many people will find this information completely new. It will probably have to be repeated meany times before they believe it. The next step, of course, is to talk about how nutrient dense and protective foods like butter, eggs and lard are.
I’m curious, what did you disagree with?
The main thing was the push for “fish oils”, which are often super processed in big labs and sold by pharmaceutical companies, and aren’t anywhere near as good as the more natural cod liver oil that we take. (Most of my readers also already take the fermented CLO I’m guessing!)
I should probably add this to the post…
Thanks!
Kelly
I agree, Kelly. The following post makes a really good case why to get your fish oil from eating oily full fat fish and roe, aside from consuming FCLO: http://www.chrisbeatcancer.com/my-high-fat-diet-and-why-i-dont-take-fish-oil/
Julia, you need to watch Statin Nation (documentary)! You will be more sure than ever once you watch it!
I would have to agree with you Julia. It very well could be the drugs causing the problems.
My 90 year old Grandma is in the hospital for blood pressure problems among other things and they want to put her on a statin drug on top of the other 16 Meds she’s on. I’m beginning to think at this point that its not her age or health as much as it may be the pharmaceutical cocktails she’s on.
My 90 year old mother-in-law was released from the hospital three years ago to hospice and was expected to possibly live two more weeks. She had congestive heart failure, was in end stage kidney failure, her hemoglobin was 5.8, her diabetes was out of control, and she had pneumonia when she went into the hospital. They gave her 3 bags of antibiotics and two units of blood. Once at home, hospice nurses removed all of her prescription drugs except ones for diabetes, arrhythmia, and blood pressure. For two weeks she slept 23 out of 24 hours, waking to eat “healthy” food I’d prepared and take the reduced number of prescriptions as well as some vitamins that I’d added. After two weeks she woke up and said she wanted to get dressed and has gotten dressed everyday since. We continue to daily monitor her food and medications and the doctor commented at her last physical, that she is healthier than she’s been for years!
Wow Gayle, what an awesome story of recovery – getting her out of the hospital and off the drugs, what an amazing turnaround! Thanks for sharing!!
Kelly
You should check out the little pic posted on fearless eating page. It goes right along with this. https://www.facebook.com/FearlessEating?hc_location=stream