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so I want to create a short video on

cholesterol I want to separate the facts

from the opinions and the myths first of

all that cholesterol has a purpose and I

know that you were taught and I was

taught the cholesterol clogs arteries

it makes heart disease and it’s really

really bad we should avoid it and eat

Cheerios because of course that oatmeal

reduce it but let’s just take it one

step further and help you understand

what the heck it is first of all the

first thing you need to know is that

your body makes cholesterol in fact 75%

of all the cholesterol in your body

right now is made by your own body only

25% comes from the food from your diet

that’s interesting so if your

cholesterol was so bad why does your

body make it because obviously it has a

reason here’s the purpose of cholesterol

number one it’s the raw material that

makes up hormones especially the steroid

hormones which is like testosterone

adrenal hormones the sex hormones all

these hormones that you need to prevent

aging are built from cholesterol so when

you start cutting down cholesterol

especially when you get older you’re

going to have a lot of problems because

there’s just as many diseases and

problems that occur with a low

cholesterol as with I high cholesterol

which I’m going to get into in the next

section but we need cholesterol to make

hormones especially as you age number

two you need cholesterol to make bio

biles the detergent that breaks down the

grease it’s a fluid from your liver that

helps you digest without bile you get

bloating right shoulder pain you can’t

absorb under the fought with that side

we’ll vitamins like vitamin A D E and K

so we need the cholesterol emic bio and

vitamin D vitamin D is made from

cholesterol from converting the sunlight

through the skin all the cell membranes

are made from cholesterol your brain is

made of cholesterol the skin is lined

with cholesterol so you need cholesterol

okay so it’s not as bad as you think

the problem with cholesterol is when you

have maybe too much cholesterol that

goes in versus coming out but it’s

overrated

back I would say about 20 years ago the

normal cholesterol was 225 and the

arbitrarily lowered it to 200 put

millions of people on

cholesterol-lowering drugs I don’t know

if you knew that so the other problem is

that now they’re going down to 150 and

100 it’s getting crazy so it’s the

inability to kind of they kind of take

if the little cholesterol might clog an

artery they go all the way to the

extreme some other facts about

cholesterol are number one carbohydrates

turn into bad cholesterol and

triglycerides which are blood fats

faster than consuming cholesterol turns

into cholesterol okay so in other words

when you eat eggs and things like that

your body will break that down with the

bio but when you have too many carbs

breads pasta cereal crackers biscuits

waffles pancakes you’re going to spike

your cholesterol a lot higher so there’s

a conversion ratio sugar and refined

carbs and juices and alcohol and all

that stuff alright next thing is the

dream I’ll stress when you’re under

stress your body requires more

cholesterol to make more hormones and a

lot of times doctors when they evaluate

they don’t find out in the history when

did your cholesterol start spiking it

could have been after a stressful event

your body’s just trying to survive it

needs cholesterol to make these anti

stress hormones and then lastly the eggs

eggs are loaded with cholesterol but

eggs will increase the good cholesterol

okay and they are loaded with lecithin

lecithin is the antidote to cholesterol

it breaks down cholesterol so I do I’ve

been doing four eggs a day every day for

the last 20 years 25 years and my

cholesterol is about 4,000 no I’m just

kidding it’s actually pretty low it’s

like 180 and it’s within the normal

range and the other thing I want to

mention is that when your cholesterol is

normal don’t let the doctor put you on a

cholesterol-lowering medication only

treat something if there’s a problem not

when you don’t need it because a lot of

people are taking as a preventive well

the side effect from a lot of these

medications are major they’re way more

than potential problems with cholesterol

so you want both ends but sometimes the

doctor puts you in fear INSAS if you

don’t

take this you’re going to get a stroke

but you just need to you need to

understand all the facts so so in the

next section I want to show you

something even more interesting okay so

now check this out here’s a graph of the

Framingham study which basically all of

the risk factors that you get on your

cholesterol reports are based on this

one study and if you’ve ever read the

study

it’s fascinating very a lot of doctors

have never read the study but this is

what it says it says that when you have

lower cholesterol and by the way on the

left side here these are the deaths

yearly deaths 1 2 3 4 & 5 okay and

that’s with people with low cholesterol

and then people with high cholesterol

they’re considering 270 high 130 low

okay so this is what happens if you look

at the deaths with low cholesterol it’s

one or the thousand at 1:30 and it’s two

out of a thousand at 270 okay so this is

what they did they said that’s an

increase of a hundred percent risk but

notice what they said they they used the

word risk but not rate of getting heart

attacks risk has basically no legal

definition apparently in this study

because it’s not really a hundred

percent increase because these are

fractions if you know anything about

mathematics going from one one thousand

to a two and thousand is only an

increase of an actual point one percent

one tenth of one percent that’s the real

rate of getting a heart attack this if

the doctor told you that you have a

point one percent of getting a heart

attack you probably wouldn’t take the

medication because it’s so rare one

tenth of one percent okay that does not

make sense so so that’s that’s basically

how they fudged it they use the risk

factors and you say you’re one hundred

percent at risk and they have risk one

to like our risk factors of one two

three and four which I’m still trying to

figure out what it means because it’s

very complex and confusing but it’s not

a hundred percent risk now the other

thing that you need to look at

that the total deaths from cholesterol

low cholesterol is even higher than high

cholesterol so check this out other side

effects of cholesterol-lowering drugs

include a 7% sit I’m sorry a 700 percent

increase in colon cancers a 12 fold

increase in breast cancer 45 percent

increase in gall stones 145 percent

increase in gastritis an increase rather

than expected decrease in heart and

circulation rate related deaths and

twice as many heart attacks internal

bleeding and severe constipation liver

disease and ulcers of the stomach

intestines anemia taste and smell

disturbances and visual difficulties

dizziness lower white blood cell count

enjoin heart rhythm problems

phlebitis that’s inflammation of the

arteries cancer increased death rate in

a 5,000 patients study there was a 36

percent increase in death as compared to

those taking the placebo let’s see

placebo increased incident of impulsive

homicidal and suicide by and a hundred

and seventy five percent increase in

appendectomies other than that there’s

no the side effects