Grey Matters!!!
by Bob Reece
written to inform and inspire thought about issues of health, wealth and other grey matter...
“Bad” Cholesterol No Suc
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h thing.
I
t looks like the Food and Overlooked also was the
Drug Administration (FDA), basic fact that cholesterol has
in cahoots with the pharma- a vital function of transporting
ceutical industry (Big Pharma), food and the removal of waste
and America’s largest food com- from all the cells in the body.
panies, has done it to us once The brain consists primarily of
again. And this time it is almost cholesterol and the majority of
as scary as the problems with As- cholesterol is made in the liver.
partame, Splenda or Fluoride. Cholesterol is essential for nerve
Controlling cholesterol with cells to function and is the basis
drugs will not prevent a heart for the creation of all the steroid
attack, and cholesterol is not hormones, including estrogen,
the cause of heart disease. This testosterone and corticosteroids.
statement is the clear and long It is a necessary component of
standing belief of such noted every cell in your body.
research authors as Dr. Julian If your arteries should be-
Whitaker, Dr. Joseph Mercola, come damaged, the body will
Dr. Ron Rosedale, and Dr. Da- begin trying to heal the damage
vid Williams. by multiplying cells. Of course each of those cells needs cho-
The myth of bad cholesterol began just over 50 years ago lesterol, so the liver begins producing even more in order to
when several of America’s largest food companies felt they allow for release into the bloodstream. The reason for this is so
were not getting their fair share of the oil business (cooking that the damaged cells can be replaced with new ones.
oil). Some of you may recall all the talk about saturated fats, However, if your arteries continue to be damaged on a
trans fats, hydrogenated oils, and polyunsaturated oils. Also chronic basis, the cholesterol levels will remain elevated. This
the buzz became soybean oil, which had much less choles- is simply your body’s natural response to the healing process
terol, was much healthier, and was even grown in America by and means that the real problem is whatever is causing the
American farmers. damage in the first place.
Even better was the fact that we could reduce our depen- According to Dr. Mercola, by taking cholesterol-lowering
dence on foreign oil (coconut oil). Of little consequence was drugs instead of addressing the underlying problem, you are
the false fear being spread that natural, saturated animal fats not only shutting down the body’s natural healing process, but
were harmful to humans, despite the obvious fact that we had you are also exposing yourself to drugs that are loaded with
been digesting animal fats for roughly a half million years. side effects – the most important of which is depleting your
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