Bingo.
#1 there 5 different kinds of LDL chloresterol and only the small dense small particle is one of any demerit.
#2 The HDL and triglyceride count is a much more accurate picture of blood health.
#3 Chloresterol was a non factor before the 70's when Big Pharma found a way to lower LDL chloresterol (the larger fluffier benign kind). Now the AMA and every doctor is a sales rep for Pfizer to sell statins.
#4 Smoking, obesity chronic inflamation (from 2 diabetes and metabolic syndrome and hypertension are much more risk factors for Cardiac problems than chloresterol.
Associate research is the lowest level of research and one cannot reliably base a prognosis or any conclusion on it alone.
I agree. I just finished reading two books on cholesterol: “The Cholesterol Myth”and The Cholesterol Hoax.” Very eye-opening. As you stated, the problem is inflammation and also too much sugar intake.
Every hormone we have is derived from cholesterol. Does it really make sense to reduce the amount of the mother of our hormones? That, to me, flies in the face of all of the cholesterol existential lies we have been inundated with for the last 50 years or so.
My doctor wants me to go on a statin, but I have refused to do that so far, and will refuse to do that in the future. My cholesterol has been between 250 and 300 for years. I am 72 years old, and am in excellent health. You would have thought with that high of a level I would have been dead long ago.
Another interesting thing that was in the second book was the discussion of statin use and diabetes. As it turns out a statin will force your liver to push sugar into your bloodstream. So now you are essentially diabetic. So you go to your doctor, and the doctor wants to put you on a diabetic drug. So now you are on two drugs instead of just one. It is pretty much downhill from there.
Bingo.