DR. ANTHONY CHAFFEE: The hundreds of millions, billions of people that they've affected and damaged and killed prematurely because of that terrible, terrible lie.

Here is a direct link.

The cholesterol model and theory of heart disease was put out by the sugar companies.  They paid off a number of different professors, three from Harvard at least.  Ancel Keys famously who came up with that model.  They were on the payroll for the sugar companies and they did not tell anybody.  And that's illegal.  They were bought and paid for.  And we have documentation of that. That was published in the Journal of the American Medical Association in 2016. That's a matter of historical record.  That happened.  Clear documentation.  We even have their contracts. We know how much they got paid.  These guys got paid $6,500 back in the '60s.  That's the equivalent of $55,000 today.  So selling out your health and your parents' health and having your parents and grandparents die early and die of dementia, that's what the health of your family and your children was worth to them.  Truly, those are crimes against humanity.  The hundreds of millions, billions of people that they've affected and damaged and killed prematurely because of that terrible, terrible lie. 

SAMA HOOLE: Every memory you form needs [cholesterol] to build the synapse that keeps the memory. Your brain is sixty percent fat, most of it cholesterol.

Testosterone is made from cholesterol.

Oestrogen is made from cholesterol.

Cortisol is made from cholesterol.

Vitamin D is made from cholesterol.

The bile acids that digest your dinner are made from cholesterol.

Progesterone, which holds a pregnancy together, is made from…

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) July 29, 2026

Testosterone is made from cholesterol.

Oestrogen is made from cholesterol. Cortisol is made from cholesterol. Vitamin D is made from cholesterol. The bile acids that digest your dinner are made from cholesterol. Progesterone, which holds a pregnancy together, is made from cholesterol. Every cell membrane in your body is built with it. Every nerve is insulated by myelin, which is mostly it. Every memory you form needs it to build the synapse that keeps the memory. Your brain is sixty percent fat, most of it cholesterol. Breast milk is loaded with it, because no infant brain grows without it. Handed the job of designing the first food a human ever eats, nature put cholesterol at the heart of it. Eat less, and the liver makes more. Because the body will not run without it. In 1977, we declared war on it. Male testosterone has fallen ever since. Vitamin D deficiency went from rare to routine. One adult in three over fifty now takes a daily pill to strip out the one thing every cell above is fighting to keep. The war is going beautifully.

SAMA HOOLE: What cholesterol actually does: Fills your brain (a quarter of your cholesterol sits there); Insulates your nerves (no cholesterol, no signal); Repairs every cell you have (it stiffens the walls)

Your liver makes around 1,000mg a day on purpose, because you cannot run without it. 

They named the most vital molecule you produce the villain, then sold you a pill to lower it. --Sama Hoole  

What people think cholesterol does:

- Clogs arteries

What cholesterol actually does:

- Fills your brain (a quarter of your cholesterol sits there)
- Insulates your nerves (no cholesterol, no signal)
- Builds your sex hormones (testosterone and oestrogen, straight from it)
-…

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) July 22, 2026

What people think cholesterol does: - Clogs arteries What cholesterol actually does:

- Fills your brain (a quarter of your cholesterol sits there) - Insulates your nerves (no cholesterol, no signal) - Builds your sex hormones (testosterone and oestrogen, straight from it) - Becomes vitamin D (sunlight turns it into the hormone in your skin) - Makes the bile that digests your fat (and unlocks vitamins A, D, E, K) - Runs your stress response (cortisol is built from it too) - Repairs every cell you have (it stiffens the walls)

Your liver makes around 1,000mg a day on purpose, because you cannot run without it.

They named the most vital molecule you produce the villain, then sold you a pill to lower it. 

What Statins Really Do To Your Brain #shorts https://t.co/FezLyEx0Qe via @YouTube

— Mike Walgenbach (@Walgenbach82743) July 20, 2026

And this is why the FDA has required warning labels on statins saying that it can cause memory issue cognition and other sorts of neurological conditions as well statins have been shown to be iatrogenic meaning that they are man-made medical based cause of harm

SAMA HOOLE: Testosterone is made from cholesterol. Oestrogen is made from cholesterol. Cortisol is made from cholesterol. Vitamin D is made from cholesterol. Bile acids that digest fat are made from cholesterol.

Testosterone is made from cholesterol.

Oestrogen is made from cholesterol.

Cortisol is made from cholesterol.

Vitamin D is made from cholesterol.

Bile acids that digest fat are made from cholesterol.

Progesterone, which sustains pregnancy, is made from cholesterol.

Every…

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) May 17, 2026

Testosterone is made from cholesterol. Oestrogen is made from cholesterol. Cortisol is made from cholesterol. Vitamin D is made from cholesterol. Bile acids that digest fat are made from cholesterol. Progesterone, which sustains pregnancy, is made from cholesterol. Every cell membrane in your body contains cholesterol. Every nerve is insulated by myelin, which is largely cholesterol. Every memory you form requires cholesterol to build the synapse that holds it. Your brain is 60% fat, mostly cholesterol. Breast milk is rich in cholesterol because infant brains cannot develop without it. Nature, given the job of designing the perfect first food, put cholesterol in it. When you eat less of it, the liver makes more. Because the body knows it cannot function without it. We declared war on cholesterol in 1977. Testosterone in men has dropped 25%. Vitamin D deficiency is now endemic. One in three adults over fifty is on a statin lowering the cholesterol the body is desperately trying to maintain. Depression rates have tripled. Infertility rates have doubled.

The war is going well. 

SAMA HOOLE: But the cholesterol hypothesis needed a villain. Just saying "cholesterol" wasn't working because cholesterol is essential for life. Solution: Rebrand LDL as "bad cholesterol" and HDL as "good cholesterol." This is marketing, not science.

Before 1980: Cholesterol was just cholesterol. Doctors measured total cholesterol.

1980s: Researchers discover LDL and HDL particles that transport cholesterol.

LDL takes cholesterol to tissues. HDL brings it back to liver. Both are essential transport mechanisms.

But the…

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) December 9, 2025

Before 1980: Cholesterol was just cholesterol. Doctors measured total cholesterol. 1980s: Researchers discover LDL and HDL particles that transport cholesterol. LDL takes cholesterol to tissues. HDL brings it back to liver. Both are essential transport mechanisms. But the cholesterol hypothesis needed a villain. Just saying "cholesterol" wasn't working because cholesterol is essential for life. Solution: Rebrand LDL as "bad cholesterol" and HDL as "good cholesterol." This is marketing, not science. LDL isn't bad. It's a transport vehicle your body requires for delivering cholesterol to cells that need it for membranes, hormones, and repair. But "bad cholesterol" sounds dangerous. It gave the hypothesis a villain that people could understand. The media ran with it: "Bad cholesterol clogs arteries!" "Lower your bad cholesterol!" "Good cholesterol protects you!" Simple narrative. Memorable. Wrong. What actually matters isn't LDL level. It's: - LDL particle size (small dense particles are concerning, large fluffy are benign) - Oxidation status (oxidized LDL causes inflammation, native LDL doesn't) - Inflammatory markers (CRP, IL-6) - Triglyceride/HDL ratio (better predictor than LDL) But explaining that requires nuance. "Bad cholesterol" requires no nuance. The rebrand was so successful that doctors still say "bad cholesterol" and patients understand it as inherently harmful. Half of heart attack patients have normal LDL. Half of people with high LDL never have heart attacks. If LDL was actually "bad" and caused heart disease, this wouldn't be true. But once you've branded something "bad," evidence doesn't matter. The label sticks. "Bad cholesterol" is marketing language that became medical terminology. Your body doesn't have "bad cholesterol." It has LDL particles performing essential transport functions. Calling them "bad" is like calling delivery trucks "bad" because sometimes they're involved in accidents. The truck isn't the problem. What it's carrying and how it's driving matter.

But "bad truck" sells more fear than "check your particle size and oxidation status." 

SAMA HOOLE: People with the lowest cholesterol have 1) Higher rates of depression, 2) Increased suicide risk, 3) More violent behavior, . . .

People with the lowest cholesterol have:
- Higher rates of depression
- Increased suicide risk
- More violent behavior
- Greater cancer mortality
- Worse cognitive function

But at least their imaginary heart disease risk went down 0.3%, right?

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) October 20, 2025

SAMA HOOLE: The rabbits...herbivores that have no business ingesting cholesterol...developed arterial plaques. This became the foundation for telling humans...animals that evolved eating meat...to avoid cholesterol.

In 1913, Nikolai Anichkov fed rabbits massive doses of pure cholesterol dissolved in sunflower oil.

The rabbits...herbivores that have no business ingesting cholesterol...developed arterial plaques.

This became the foundation for telling humans...animals that evolved eating… pic.twitter.com/bD4sWVAWiU

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) October 16, 2025

SAMA HOOLE: LOW TESTOSTERONE 🥚MYTH: Meat lowers Testosterone. REALITY: Testosterone is made from cholesterol. Carnivore provides the raw material in spades. – Plant-heavy diets? Often linked to lower testosterone.

1. Scurvy 🍊

Myth: “No plants = scurvy.”

Reality:

– Meat has vitamin C (esp. fresh cuts & organs).
– Without carbs, your vitamin C needs drop massively (glucose competes for uptake).
– Inuit thrived for millennia. Sailors on dry biscuits? Didn’t end well.

— Sama Hoole (@SamaHoole) August 16, 2025

Thank to Wejolyn for the tip and reference to Sama Hoole, for it was she who reposted one of his articles that I liked a couple of weeks ago and that I have enjoyed since.   

DR. JACK KRUSE: Did you know your cholesterol level is predictive of your risk of melanoma? The higher your LDL cholesterol the lower your risk of melanoma and the higher your overall longevity.

Did you know your cholesterol level is predictive of your risk of melanoma? The higher your LDL cholesterol the lower your risk of melanoma and the higher your overall longevity. Everything you've been told is a lie. When you get no sun, your cholesterol levels also predict… https://t.co/BKmmFbO3yr pic.twitter.com/V1drt9rpUG

— ☣️ Pleb Kruse = BTC foundationalist in exile 🟩🔆 (@DrJackKruse) June 26, 2025

NINA TEICHOLZ: The more the men lowered their cholesterol, the more likely they were to die of a heart attack.

Another example of the cholesterol myths, folks. "The more the men lowered their cholesterol, the more likely they were to die of a heart attack." — Nina Teicholz

Nina @bigfatsurprise will return to our Wise Traditions conference to present this year! Join us in Salt Lake City,… pic.twitter.com/vq9V2zsh32

— Weston A. Price Foundation (@WestonAPrice) June 3, 2025

The best feeling is plaque building in your arteries!!

The best feeling is plaque building in your arteries!!

Source: @carnivoreray_ pic.twitter.com/zILpfpSmH9

— Dr Shawn Baker 🥩 (@SBakerMD) May 15, 2025

WESTON A. PRICE FOUNDATION: The life insurance company doesn't care what your cholesterol levels are!

Has the tide started to turn on the cholesterol myth? Tom Fraiser reports that he applied for life insurance recently and they didn't require him have his cholesterol tested because they found those numbers don't predict all-cause mortality. The life insurance company doesn't… pic.twitter.com/q9mZy8GMsI

— Weston A. Price Foundation (@WestonAPrice) April 26, 2025

DR. BARBARA O'NEILL: People with high cholesterol don't get Alzheimer's. Do you need a moment of silence to digest that one?

OMG they lied to us about cholesterol levels too? pic.twitter.com/6nmxEIFCRT

— Bruce Porter Jr.  (@NetworksManager) August 2, 2024

The brain is the fattiest organ in the body.  If you start taking anti-cholesterol medicines, like statins, you're risking dementia.  Good luck with that one, sparky. 

According to the authors of The Great Cholesterol Myth, men on statins have between a 250-700% increase of impotence from the statins.

If you see him again, you might mention that according to the authors of The Great Cholesterol Myth, men on statins have between a 250-700% increase of impotence from the statins.

If that doesn't scare any man off statins, I don't know what will. pic.twitter.com/O0yEVHuPpH

— Sparrow (@jeanpartington3) May 18, 2024

The Great Cholesterol Myth, Revised and Expanded: Why Lowering Your Cholesterol Won't Prevent Heart Disease--and the Statin-Free Plan that Will, Johnny Bowden and Stephen T. Sinatra, 2020.

Bears hibernate for around 6 months and live on their own body fat for those 6 months. Their cholesterol during that period of time goes up over 400 mg per decimeter, but they never get cardiovascular disease . . .

Why is our glucose demand high in the context of exercise?  We see that our cells need a lot of energy.  We're running from a bear or something like that we're not sitting there going,  "Oh, I better slow down because my glucose is high."  No.  We are running for our lives so there is a reason for glucose to be high so that we have that immediate fuel available to us for that particular situation.  --Dr. Shawn Baker

WHY you have high cholesterol may be very important!!! pic.twitter.com/I7MrBC5vED

— Dr Shawn Baker 🥩 (@SBakerMD) March 24, 2024

Blood glucose from the last week, March 18th to 24, 2024.  Throughout most of the day, it's running high 70s, low 80s and there is this period of time when it gets up slightly over a hundred.  Again this is an average over 7 days.  

Can anyone guess what time of day I have been working out? #carnivore #cgm pic.twitter.com/be5lTv00LK

— Dr Shawn Baker 🥩 (@SBakerMD) March 24, 2024

Why is it up over 100?  What's going on there?  I will tell you that's when I exercise, and when I exercise my blood glucose goes up.  Is that a bad thing, right, because we have often been told that we want to keep our blood glucose relatively low, and if it goes up during exercise is that problematic or is there a reason for that.  In fact, we know that, for instance, world class athletes will see, and this has been recorded now is CGM data, that world class athletes during intense competition will sometimes see their blood glucose reach in excess of 400 milligrams per deciliter, astronomically high glucose levels.  And yet they tend to be very healthy right they tend to not be diseased or have diabetes or anything like that so there is a reason for blood glucose to be elevated. For example, when you're sick, when you have stress, your blood glucose will elevate.  There's a flight or fight response: there is a reason for your blood glucose to be elevated.  When we're sick, the elevation of blood glucose actually can have a beneficial role in that it simulates certain immune cell that are more efficient in that high glucose environment at least temporarily. 

Why is our glucose demand high in the context of exercise?  We see that our cells need a lot of energy.  We're running from a bear or something like that we're not sitting there going.  "Oh, I better slow down because my glucose is high."  No.  We are running for our lives so there is a reason for glucose to be high so that we have that immediate fuel available to us for that particular situation.  There are good reasons now for situationally higher blood glucose levels.

So let's look at lipids, blood lipids, things like free fatty acids.  One thing that we notice is that when lipids are high that cholesterol will be high.  Very often they run together because they traffic in often the same molecules or the same lipoproteins.  Again let's use the bear as an example.  Bears hibernate for around 6 months, five to seven months on average.  What are bears eating during hibernation?  Well, they're sleeping, so they're not eating anything; well they're eating their own body fat.  What do they do before hibernation?  They eat a bunch of food.  They eat a lot of fruit and fish.  They get big and fat, then they live on their own body fat for the next 6 months.  And what happens to their cholesterol during that period of time well it goes up high it goes up over 400 mg per decimeter.  Believe it or not, they went into a bear's den and tested hibernating bears and they found that they have super high cholesterol the entire 6 months.  Why is that?  They break down body fat that is then recycled through the liver and sent back to the other tissues that need it--the muscles, the brain, the heart, the lungs, the intestines, and so forth.  So they're transferring high amounts of energy but it's coming from the peripheral fat and then being processed through the liver and with this high cholesterol guess what, do bears develop cardiovascular disease?  No, there's never been a case of bears developing cardiovascular disease.  They just don't get heart disease.  

We see similar things going on in humans.  A good example would be when I'm not consuming carbohydrates, but I am storing body fat and then transiently using it right away on a low-carb diet where I'm relatively lean, my cells require energy so we're just trafficking more fat.  These are examples where high blood glucose levels may not be pathologic.

04:18. Where this may not be pathologic you know less contrast let's contrast that to another situation where I'm full my cells are stuffed full of glycogen their stuff full of triglycerides fatty acids they're stuffed to the brim and then when I eat there's literally no more room to show anymore it hangs out in the blood.  So we have high energy in the blood glucose, perhaps fats and cholesterol.  In that situation, then we start to see pathology.  Again somewhat speculative in this but I think it makes sense it matches the observations remember we see in the low carb cohort population there is a meta-analysis of randomized control trials 41 randomized control trials showing that lean people on low-carb diets traffic more fat in their blood.  Now, again the real question is going to be is this going to be pathological?  My suspicion is that it will be found to not be.  

Cholesterol is required everywhere in the brain as an antioxidant, an electrical insulator (in order to prevent ion leakage)

Cholesterol is required everywhere in the brain as an antioxidant, an electrical insulator (in order to prevent ion leakage), --Marion Holman

3/3 in the brain. If your Doctor wants to prescribe Statins to you or anyone you care about, then I recommend you change your doctor! If you believe that Nature would create a natural substance for humans called 'bad cholesterol' then with the greatest of respect you are deluded. pic.twitter.com/zhh9WWLrKg

— Marion Holman (@holmanm) November 26, 2023

Eat a tablespoon butter, you may absorb 15 mg (tiny measure). Our bodies require 1200-1800 mg daily. Butter everything!

“Absorption of cholesterol is slower, less complete than that of other lipids; about ½ of the cholesterol is lost…” -- Michael Gurr, PhD, lipid biochemist
[Eat a tablespoon butter, you may absorb 15 mg (tiny measure). Our bodies require 1200-1800 mg daily. Butter everything! pic.twitter.com/POaX6TFVE4

— Alan Watson (@DietHeartNews) August 13, 2023

"Women with cholesterol between 190 and 300, outlive women with lower cholesterol"

Woman with cholesterol between 190 and 300, outlive woman with lower cholesterol

I recognized the cholesterol lie in 1971. Why would God put cholesterol in every cell in the body and it would be bad for us??

Answer. It makes no sense, another Pharma fallacy!! https://t.co/ScsMeNBNBi

— Dr. Urso (@richardursomd) April 30, 2023

CHOLESTEROL REPAIRS BRAIN TISSUE

I don't know all the details involved in why damaged tissue responds so well to cholesterol, but the findings so far are extremely interesting.  My one concern is that if someone begins consuming large amounts or larger amounts of certain kinds of cholesterol, will that produce kidney stones or gallstones? Therein lies at least one caveat.  But it does seem to be the case that a high intake of cholesterol foods is excellent for repairing the brain and other tissue. When we think of the brain, it's important to remember the layers of tissue, the substructure so to speak of the net of neurons and dendrites.  For these to have a place to implant themselves, the brain tissue not only has to be intact but it has to have the necessary building blocks for the nerves, brain tissue, dendrites, myelin sheath, and so forth.  One report on Alzheimer's brain repair says

Cholesterol acts to interlock 'lipid molecules,' which stabilize cell membranes," writes Shane Ellison, M.S., in his book Health Myths Exposed.  "Cholesterol is a vital building block for all bodily tissues.  Lowering such a vital molecule is absurdity.  To illustrate, imagine that your house represents your body and the nails holding it together cholesterol.  Now start pulling each and every nail out of  the houes.  What happens?  The house turns to a pile of rubble.  The same is true for the human body." 

Again, my biggest problem with popular health and nutrition literature is its literacy and wording to the point of absurdity and meaninglessness.  When the above writer offers the analogy of "imagine that your house represents your body and the nails holding it together cholesterol," that is such a terrible analogy because nails don't contain any biological chemistry that interacts with the cells, fluids, or hormones.  It only seems to have the effect of reducing the importance of cholesterol.  It doesn't inspire; it only redirects and diverts meaningful results and conclusions.  It's only when he ends his point by saying "The same is true for the human body" that leaves me only shaking my head.  I've never read such a bad analogy.  I mean that was absolutely bush league, 3rd-grade stuff.  Terrible.  "The same is true for the human body"?  Aside from the appalling lack of high school vocabulary, the logic is missing.  Disappointing.  

Lots of questions.  One, which food that is high in cholesterol should one consume?  Any food high in cholesterol?  Doubtful about that.  Shrimp is high in cholesterol.  Seafood in general has a fortifying effect.  Is this why?  Perhaps.  A nice halibut or salmon fillet will fix people right up.  But is this all?  Or does a person need another supplement with it, say, like Vitamin C or Vitamin B? Do these nutrients exist in some small quantity in a piece of fish, say, from the plankton?  Anyway, cholesterol is necessary, perhaps even vital for tissue repair.  So if you're into contact sports or your son is, be sure to feed him fish.  Regularly.  So that his muscles and organs repair in good fashion.  

So, we know that cholesterol is important for health and strength. Knowing this, how can anyone be on a steady prescription of statins that breaks down cholesterol and the tissues that it supports? 

What this all means for statin drugs, which mainstream medicine has ridiculously dubbed 'miracle drugs,' is that their cholesterol inhibiting properties can cause serious health problems down the road.  By interfering with the liver's natural function of producing cholesterol, statin drugs can actually strip the body of much-needed cholesterol, and cause serious nervous system and cognitive damage.  

CHOLESTEROL & STRUCTURAL INTEGRITY

You would expect the folks at Weston A. Price to defend the use of cholesterol in the repair of the brain or any other tissue in the body. And so they do; in this case, Natasha Campbell-McBride points to the role of structural integrity that cholesterol plays in your body,

First of all, saturated fats and cholesterol make the membranes of the cells firm—without them the cells would become flabby and fluid. If we humans didn’t have cholesterol and saturated fats in the membranes of our cells, we would look like giant worms or slugs. And we are not talking about a few molecules of cholesterol here and there. In many cells, almost half of the cell membrane is made from cholesterol. Different kinds of cells in the body need different amounts of cholesterol, depending on their function and purpose. If the cell is part of a protective barrier, it will have a lot of cholesterol in it to make it strong, sturdy and resistant to any invasion. If a cell or an organelle inside the cell needs to be soft and fluid, it will have less cholesterol in its structure.

This ability of cholesterol and saturated fats to firm up and reinforce the tissues in the body is used by our blood vessels, particularly those that have to withstand the high pressure and turbulence of the blood flow. These are usually large or medium arteries in places where they divide or bend. The flow of blood pounding through these arteries forces them to incorporate a layer of cholesterol and saturated fat in the membranes, which makes it stronger, tougher and more rigid. These layers of cholesterol and fat are called fatty streaks. They are completely normal and form in all of us, starting from birth and sometimes even before we are born. Various indigenous populations around the world, who never suffer from heart disease, have plenty of fatty streaks in their blood vessels in old and young, including children. Fatty streaks are not indicative of the disease called atherosclerosis.  

A couple of good points here.  One, "Different kinds of cells in the body need different amounts of cholesterol, depending on their function and purpose."  That's important.  It's an important defense against the more sweeping "cholesterol is bad for you arguments" that we are used to hearing.  Two, it makes us aware that different organs and tissues in our body use cholesterol differently and in different amounts.  So don't worry about cholesterol.  In fact, cholesterol should be thought of as your friend.  The other point I liked was that cholesterol and saturated fats . . . firm up and reinforce . . . tissues in the body."  That bodes well for repair, don't you think? 

MYELIN: VITAL BRAIN MATTER?

Fascinating stuff. 

One of the most abundant materials in the brain and the rest of our nervous system is a fatty substance called myelin. Myelin coats every nerve cell and every nerve fiber like the insulating cover around electric wires. Apart from insulation, it provides nourishment and protection for every tiny structure in our brain and the rest of the nervous system. People who start losing their myelin develop a condition called multiple sclerosis. Well, 20 percent of myelin is cholesterol. If you start interfering with the body’s ability to produce cholesterol, you put the very structure of the brain and the rest of the nervous system under threat.

The synthesis of myelin in the brain is tightly connected with the synthesis of cholesterol. In my clinical experience, foods with high cholesterol and high animal fat content are an essential medicine for a person with multiple sclerosis. One of the most wonderful abilities we humans are blessed with is the ability to remember things—our human memory. How do we form memories? By our brain cells establishing connections with each other, called synapses. The more healthy synapses a person’s brain can make, the more mentally able and intelligent that person is. Scientists have discovered that synapse formation is almost entirely dependent on cholesterol, which is produced by the brain cells in a form called apolipoprotein E. Without the presence of this factor we cannot form synapses, and hence we would not be able to learn or remember anything. Memory loss is one of the side effects of cholesterol-lowering drugs.

In my clinic, I see growing numbers of people with memory loss who have been taking cholesterol- lowering pills. Dr Duane Graveline, MD, former NASA scientist and astronaut, suffered such memory loss while taking his cholesterol pill. He managed to save his memory by stopping the pill and eating lots of cholesterol-rich foods. Since then he has described his experience in his book, Lipitor: Thief of Memory, Statin Drugs and the Misguided War on Cholesterol. Dietary cholesterol in fresh eggs and other cholesterol-rich foods has been shown in scientific trials to improve memory in the elderly. In my clinical experience, any person with memory loss or learning problems needs to have plenty of these foods every single day in order to recover.

Finding the right foods, and by right I mean healthy foods, that are also high in cholesterol can be a challenge.  I just searched online and the sites that show up early in a Google search were mixed, combining all foods that are high in cholesterol whether good or bad.  For example, I saw chocolate chip cookies and baked muffins in the same article on foods high in cholesterol with beef liver and shellfish, both of which are good for you if your goal is tissue repair.  Not all high-cholesterol foods are created equal.  It also had hamburgers, macaroni and cheese, and fried chicken.  Well, there are benefits and detriments to each food.  I would stay away from the fried chicken, especially commercially fried chicken like Kentucky, Church's, Popeye's, and others.  Chicken fried at home not so bad.  Chicken is good.  You get meat that comes with its own bones.  The nutrients in the bones are good.  Think homemade chicken soup.  

FOODS HIGH IN CHOLESTEROL
1.  Eggs.
2.  Shrimp.
3.  Raw Cow's Butter.
4. 

Functions of Cholesterol

Cholesterol is the mortar used to fortify cell membranes. It provides the stiffness and stability they need to work.

Our hormones are made from cholesterol. Estrogen, testosterone and a host of other hormones necessary for function are produced from cholesterol. Corticosteroids, the hormones that protect the body from stress and protect the functioning of the immune system, are made from cholesterol.

The brain and nervous system depend upon cholesterol for both the creation of neurotransmitters like serotonin and dopamine and their ability to attach to receptors.

Cholesterol is necessary to produce vitamin D–low levels of which have been linked to depression and heart disease.

Bile salts, necessary for the breakdown of carbohydrates, fats, and protein, are created with cholesterol.

Cholesterol helps maintain the intestinal wall, protecting the body from inflammation and exaggerated immune response.

Mother’s breast milk is 60% cholesterol. It is necessary for the development of the infant’s brain and nervous system. Recommendations to limit fat and cholesterol in the diets of young children resulted in increased infant mortality.

Cholesterol is the cavalry of the immune system. When damage and inflammation occur in blood vessels, cholesterol rushes to the site to make repairs and protect membranes. Cholesterol acts as an antioxidant to protect cells and tissue from free radical damage.