Any doctor who thinks dietary cholesterol is the major contributor to “high” cholesterol levels is not very bright. Every cell in your body NEEDS cholesterol; your body makes it, even in the absence of any dietary intake. The problem is genetic, not dietary... you are either not regulating how much cholesterol your body makes, OR you are not regulating that rate at which you dispose of excess. The body’s natural response to too much of anything is to eliminate the excess. Let someone with poor genetics do the same thing as this student, and they will have high cholesterol. But the dietary intake isn’t the problem... you are.
That’s what I tell my doctor...........
Yet some physicians have told their patients with high cholesterol levels not to eat shrimp. Some are still warning their patients. I have a relative who loves shrimp but still refuses to eat any. He refuses to listen to anybody except his PCP who apparently hasn’t read the literature for years.
The entire push for Statins is based on the bald face lie by Big Medicine and Big Pharma, that increased intake of dietary cholesterol leads directly to increased blood cholesterol, as if the liver doesn’t buffer blood cholesterol levels.
It is the same Big Lie as, increased dietary fat intake causes increased body fat.
I have lost all trust in the American Medical system for a long time when I realized that the official food pyramid made no sense for me as an American office worker, carb loading as if I was a professional athlete who burned off all those carbs in intense excercise.
Don’t even get me started with Covid. My skepticism of Big Medicine and Big Pharma turned to cynicism. I now do my own due dilegence. There is nothing my doctor could tell me that I would not research thoroughly on my own before I accept his recommendations.