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.
— Sparrow (@jeanpartington3) May 18, 2024
If that doesn't scare any man off statins, I don't know what will. pic.twitter.com/O0yEVHuPpH
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Saturday, May 18, 2024
According to the authors of The Great Cholesterol Myth, men on statins have between a 250-700% increase of impotence from the statins.
Monday, April 1, 2024
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.
Sunday, November 26, 2023
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
Sunday, August 13, 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
— Alan Watson (@DietHeartNews) August 13, 2023
[Eat a tablespoon butter, you may absorb 15 mg (tiny measure). Our bodies require 1200-1800 mg daily. Butter everything! pic.twitter.com/POaX6TFVE4
Sunday, April 30, 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
— Dr. Urso (@richardursomd) April 30, 2023
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
Wednesday, August 31, 2016
CHOLESTEROL REPAIRS BRAIN TISSUE
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.
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.
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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.
Monday, November 9, 2015
Thanks to Robert Wenzel
Cortisol stops all neurons from developing. Coritsol is that hormone that we produce when we're stressed out, injured, or cannot sleep. If your work situation is producing any of these and your coworkers enjoy watching you being stressed out, it's probably not a good idea to remain at that foul and fetid place. Stress decreases the hippocampus. Wow. So it literally shrinks your brain. That was interesting and horrible.
Saturday, August 29, 2015
CHOLESTEROL COMBATS INFLAMMATION & WORKS TO QUELL IT
"Cholesterol combats inflammation and works to quell it."
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Many practicing physicians have a healthy understanding of the current level of corruption and collusion among big pharmaceutical companies, governmental agencies such as the NIH and FDA, and major medical associations such as the American Heart Association, but the reader of this book will come away with the disturbing conclusion that it is even worse than imagined. Statins may be the perfect and most insidious human toxin in that adverse effects are often delayed by years and come about gradually. Further, statins frequently impair mental function to such a degree that by the time patients are in real trouble, they may lack the mental facilities to recognize the cause.
Supplements (all obtainable through Amazon):
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Omega-3 fatty acids: 425mg EPA, 270 mg DHA in Super EPA (Thorne)…….
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2
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Vitamin C: 1000 mg, Lyco-Spheric Vitamin C packets (LivOn Labs)……….
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2
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Vitamin E:
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Ultimate E—mixed tocopherols (Thorne)………………………
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2
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Unique E Tocotrienol (A.C. Grace)……………………………
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1
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Alpha lipoic acid: 100 mg, as R-Lipoic Acid (Thorne)………..……………
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3
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Coenzyme Q10: 100 mg, Q Best (Thorne)…………………….……
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2
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Magnesium: 135 mg, Magnesium Citramate (Thorne)………………
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3
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Selenium: 100 mcg in Pic Mins +
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Zinc: 15 mg in Pic Mins (Thorne)……..…………………………….
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2
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Curcumin: 500 mg in Meriva 500 (Thorne)………………………….
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4
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Quercetin: 250 mg, Quercetin Phytosome (Thorne)…………..……..
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3
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Gingko Biloba: 120 mg (Natrol)……………………………………………..
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2
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Vitamin D: 10,000 IU (Thorne)……..……………………………….
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Vitamin K2 (Menaquinone-7): 90 mcg (Jarrow Formulas)…….……..
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Resveratrol: 100 mg as Poly-Resveratrol-SR (Thorne)……..……….
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Omega-3 fatty acids: Among other things, the Omega-3 fatty acids EPA and DHA prevent heart disease (and cancer). EPA thins the blood. Both EPA and DHA regulate the expression of many genes involving antioxidant capacity, oxidative stress response, and ones that produce chemicals which reduce inflammation and improve blood flow through the coronary arteries.