The Myth of Cholesterol- Robert Carlson, MD,FACS

- The Myth of Cholesterol
Robert Carlson, MD, FACS
Chances are if you’re over 30, your doctor wanted to put you on a statin drug to lower your cholesterol. He probably filled you with terror about your elevated levels (and probably didn’t give you your HDL AND LDL numbers.) Please read this twice: Statin drugs are not your friends! They are dangerous and cause more health problems than they help (and they don’t even do that very well!)
Cholesterol is not evil and it’s probably not going to kill you. Cholesterol is actually the foundation for all of those hormones that bring you back to feeling good. It helps build Vitamin D. It keeps your digestion working better, and it allows you to remember where you put your car keys. It’s NOT the bad guy! The secret bad guy that no one talks about is inflammation. Inflammation causes cancer, heart disease, pain and agony.
So why are we so focused on cholesterol? Why is the threshold for cholesterol being “too high” dropping every year? Because statin drugs made the pharmaceutical companies 32 billion dollars last year! Because it made the insurance companies millions of dollars referring to people with elevated cholesterol, as high risk heart patients and therefore increasing their premiums.
If you don’t really understand the biochemical underpinnings of the body, cholesterol is an easy fall guy. It really comes down to money; cholesterol drugs (and all the other drugs to combat their side effects) are a big business and YOU are the one being screwed. It’s time to take on the real culprit and you’ve got proven, inexpensive resources right at your fingertips: Omega -3 fish oils, resveratrol, policosanol,coQ10, and other natural remedies fight the true bad guy called inflammation. There’s not a lot of big money to be made in natural products – you can’t patent them and set your own market price. There aren’t any fish oil reps showing up at your doctor’s office like the highly paid pharma reps that visit him or her regularly.(but now they are…) But the research is available, the simple and natural solution is at your corner store, and there are some doctors who are willing to go out on a limb and expose the truth.