Cholesterol, The Truth

Cholesterol, The Truth

If you had been cheated by American Drug companies, please read this real biochemistry.

Your body makes saturated fats and your body makes Cholesterol – about 2000 mg per day. In general, cholesterol that the average American absorbs from food amounts to about 100 mg per day. So, in theory, even reducing animal foods to zero will result in a mere 5% decrease in the total amount of cholesterol available to the blood and tissues. In practice, such a diet is likely to deprive the body of the substrates it needs to manufacture enough of this vital substance cholesterol.

Cholesterol, like saturated fats, stands unfairly accused.

It acts as a precursor to vital corticosteroid hormones that help us deal with stress and protect       the body against heart disease and cancer. It is a precursor to the sex hormones like androgen, testosterone, estrogen and progesterone. It is a precursor to vitamin D, a vital fat-soluble vitamin needed for healthy bones and nervous system, proper growth, mineral metabolism, muscle tone, insulin production, reproduction and immune system function. It is the precursor to bile salts, which are vital for digestion and assimilation of fats in the diet.

Recent research shows that cholesterol acts as an antioxidant. This is the likely explanation for the fact that cholesterol levels go up with age. As an antioxidant, cholesterol protects us against free radical damage that leads to heart disease and cancer. Cholesterol is the body's repair substance, manufactured in large amounts when the arteries are irritated or weak. Blaming heart disease on high serum cholesterol levels is like blaming firemen who have come to put out a fire and not the one for started the blaze.

Cholesterol is needed for proper function of serotonin receptors in the brain. Serotonin is the body's natural "Feel Good" chemical. This explains why low cholesterol levels have been linked to aggressive and violent behaviour, depression and suicidal tendencies.

Mother's milk is especially rich in cholesterol and contains a special enzyme that helps the baby utilize this nutrient. Babies and children need cholesterol rich foods throughout their growing years to ensure proper development of the brain and nervous system.

Reactions:

1. Cholesterol is a vital biochemical component

2. Body’s internal production far exceeds its dietary intake and independent of eating eggs.

3. Cholesterol is needed for proper function of serotonin receptors in the brain. Serotonin is the body's natural "Feel Good" chemical.

4. Its treatment with anti-cholesterol drugs causes Dementia which the American Heart Association and Drug Companies would like to hide.

5. Eating eggs is a healthy habit.

It is a class one protein in addition to supplementing vitamins.

6. Cholesterol lowering treatment causes confusion, domestic violence, suicide and even homicide.

7. Its a vital component in the brain.

8. Its secretion parallels cortisol, the vital stress hormone of the body. In other words it a secondary stress indicator and not a stress hormone.

9. The treatment lower cholesterol does not prolong life.

10.  Only Aspirin prolongs life in low dosage.

11. Treatment of hypertension does not prolong life but retards secondary organ damage (Heart Failure and Kidney Failure).

12. Human Growth Hormone is one that prolongs life. Unfortunately one cannot interfere with its production except regular and mild exercise.

13. Good sleep without pills is my best indicator of healthy life style. Have plenty of it but one can do that only in one’s retirement.

14. Meditation may be helpful but I have some caution about its impact on cholesterol metabolism.

Benefits of Meditation
There are many claims of benefit of meditation often poorly substantiated. Some of these benefit can be obtained without resort to meditation but simple change in life style.
Suppose a meditator changes his food habits drastically say to a vegetarian diet and practice meditation as a routine and finds that his blood cholesterol is lowered significantly, and then if he or she attributes it to the practice of meditation, there is a big flow in that argument.
One is not sure whether the change in diet did effect the blood cholesterol level or the practice of meditation or both did have independent or summation effect on the level of blood cholesterol. 

Unless one take a random sample and assess the partial correlation then only one can attribute combination or independent effects on a particular quantity tested.