Stop Lowering Your Cholesterol - Do This Instead
When I was 30 years old, the medical industry became obsessed with lowering cholesterol. I had just completed my master’s degree in drug design and was building a successful career as a pharmaceutical chemist. My peers quickly embraced the cholesterol-lowering movement. That was 21 years ago.
Many of those same colleagues are now battling cancer, dementia, or have already passed away. Lowering cholesterol—whether with meds or natural compounds—was possibly their worst decision ever.
What I witnessed firsthand as a medicinal chemist was the aggressive push to reduce a lab number—often without addressing the deeper metabolic drivers of disease. Cholesterol was branded as a villain. Lowering it became Pharma’s universal “solution.”
Panels and expert committees with documented financial ties to pharmaceutical companies shaped many of the cholesterol guidelines during that era. And that problem still exists today. When the same industry that defines the “disease” also manufactures the “cure,” patients need to question the incentive structure. That means taking charge of your own health.
Looking back, lowering cholesterol didn’t produce the broad health improvements many people expected. Treating a number without considering lifestyle factors, weight loss, and sugar intake will always detract from the real drivers of long-term health.
The Cholesterol Lie
The cholesterol lie has raked in more cash than all other medical interventions combined—the kind of money that would solve world hunger and buy everyone a Breitling watch. And yet it’s done nothing to stop heart disease. More than 50% of people who die from heart attack and stroke have “low cholesterol.”
The impetus driving this “gold rush via pill” is the idea that decreasing cholesterol, LDL or otherwise, prevents heart disease. But the idea itself is nonsense. And still millions of people sweat over cholesterol blood test results. Population studies show that those with high cholesterol live the longest. That’s because as you age, the body raises it in an attempt to preserve and protect your health.
The ill-thought-out obsession with lowering cholesterol to prevent heart disease has led to doctors overprescribing cholesterol-lowering drugs and countless premature deaths of millions of patients. A smarter approach to a healthy cardiovascular system is to lower inflammation through exercise, sunshine exposure, and quitting sugar.
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To believe that nature has outsmarted Big Pharma, you’d have to see past the mountain of greed, fear campaigns, censorship, statistical deception, and willful ignorance that aims to hook you on drugs for life. And that’s not easy for most. Denial is easier.
Exposing Pharma Lies
When defending the “high cholesterol” myth, supporters either ignore the evidence or cherry pick select medical journals that favor the use of statin drugs and lowering cholesterol. But this data is nothing more than thinly disguised advertising masquerading as research—with the end goal of medicating the patient, sometimes to death.
Dr. John Ioannidis, one of the world’s foremost experts in pharmaceutical data manipulation, spent his career challenging his peers by exposing their bad science. When asked, “Are drug companies manipulating published research to make their drugs look good?” he concluded that, “90% of the published medical information that doctors rely on is flawed.”
If you need more proof that Big Pharma favors marketing over research, heed the warning of Dr. Marcia Angell, former editor in chief of The New England Journal of Medicine. After two decades of pouring over journal articles, she confessed, “It is simply no longer possible to believe much of the clinical research that is published, or to rely on the judgment of trusted physicians or authoritative medical guidelines.”
Speaking directly to the deceitful practices of selling cholesterol-lowering drugs, biochemist Maryanne Demasi, PhD, highlighted where the actual definition of “high cholesterol” was birthed—from a committee assembled and paid for by Big Pharma! Eight out of the nine total members were hand selected and paid for by Big Pharma to become The US National Cholesterol Education Program (NCEP).”
That committee singlehandedly revised the definition of ‘high cholesterol’ by dramatically lowering the threshold. It meant that virtually overnight, millions more people would be eligible for statins. Including healthy people. It wasn’t based on any new scientific data, but rather—the increasingly popular notion that ‘less is best’ when it came to cholesterol.
Poor Health Outcomes of Cholesterol Lowering Drugs
Cholesterol-lowering drugs have a long history of destruction. Although they’re derived from nature, they’ve been well studied in the sterile halls of Big Pharma labs. Whether they come from a garden or are manmade, anything that lowers your cholesterol attacks the mind and body!
Every class of cholesterol-lowering drugs have proven to induce muscular aches and weakness, kidney disease, liver failure, hepatitis, heart failure, dementia, Alzheimer’s disease, and cancer. In the largest survey ever conducted among users of cholesterol-lowering drugs, the National Lipid Association observed that roughly 30% of patients reported muscle pain and weakness, and 57% stopped using the drugs altogether.
For me, skipping cholesterol meds has also saved me from cancer. To examine the association of cholesterol-lowering drugs and the risks of common cancers, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Adverse Event Reporting System (FAERS)—a large and useful spontaneous database of adverse event reports—showed a significant rise in colorectal and pancreatic cancer among all users.
Reports of cancer damage became so frequent, the FDA also noted that, “Patients taking simvastatin 80 mg daily have an increased risk of myopathy…The most serious form of myopathy, called rhabdomyolysis, can damage the kidneys and lead to kidney failure which can be fatal.”
The FDA has warned consumers of the risks. In 2012, so-called health regulators added warning labels to all widely used cholesterol-lowering drugs, including Lipitor, saying these drugs may raise levels of blood sugar and thus cause diabetes and potentially memory loss.
Doctors shove these incidents under the Big Pharma rug by insisting that rapid decline in health comes from age, not drugs. It’s the greatest modern medicine cover-up of all time.
Fact is, there’s no such thing as “low cholesterol.” There is only cholesterol. Stop trying to lower it just to please Big Pharma.
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The People's Chemist
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