ollie989898
Member
Can you explain how high cholesterol causes heart attacks? My Cardiologist couldn't give me a rational description. The advocates of the cholesterol hypothesis keep changing the claimed "mechanism" each time is proved wrong, hence the talk now of such crazy ideas as "fluffy LDL"...
Cholesterol is essential to life, an inconvenient fact for those now saying that we should all seem to reduce our cholesterol level regardless what it actually is.
Below 5 used to be considered normal.
My Cardiologist said I should be on full dose station if my LDL level exceeded 1.4!
Is the drug industry driving the cholesterol myth because they earn so much from it.
As I understand it, cholesterol doesn't cause heart attacks- it can't. Cholesterols are important molecules that are essential to life because they are a major constituent of cell membranes. The levels of these molecules in the blood vary from person to person. It's impossible to avoid consuming cholesterol as they are near ubiquitous molecules. It is true some foods contain different ratios but I don't know what the optimum is. I am sceptical of a lot of science that is in any way related to food as food production and manufacture is a big and highly lucrative industry and they know that any kind of health angle sells product.
I don't know if the full mechanism that causes atherosclerosis is properly understood. I know that it involves inflammation of the lining of the arteries and arterioles, and that in reality it is a calcium kind of build up in the arteries that causes them to narrow in a serious and potentially catastrophic way.