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Hi, Doctor Osborne
with Web Wellness University.
Last time we talked about statins
and how statins blocked cholesterol. It's a drug that they use, doctors will
prescribe to lower cholesterol to reduce the risk of heart disease.
So the last time we talked about how statins can cause CoQ10 deficiency
and then subsequently lead to other forms of heart disease.
And this video, I want to talk a little bit more in depth about cholesterol
and the whole concept of lowering cholesterol.
So the goal here is if we lower cholesterol, theoretically, that would reduce our risk of heart disease.
But what you need to be aware of is that the original research that was done on
cholesterol was really kind of iffy research.
In essence, what was concluded is that fifty percent of patients that have high cholesterol
have an issue with stroke and heart attack
and fifty percent of patients that have an issue with high cholesterol don't
have a stroke or heart attack. So in essence it was that flip of a coin.
In other words your odds of developing heart disease or stroke as a result of
having cholesterol was fifty fifty which kind of puts a kink
in the whole theory that elevated cholesterol contributes to an increased
risk for cardiovascular disease.
But let's look at some of the facts about cholesterol.
The first fact that we know about cholesterol
is in your body makes cholesterol, one,
to help carry nutrients.
So cholesterol is not just as evil molecule that flows from the blood and
does damage to the blood vessels. Cholesterol is a carrier for vitamins,
and specifically it helps to carry fat soluble vitamins, vitamins like vitamin D
and vitamin E, vitamin A and vitamin K.
So it helps carry these nutrients through the blood stream. It helps deliver
these nutrients to your tissue.
So that's one of the benefits of actually having cholesterol.
Second benefit of cholesterol
and actually a nobel prize in medicine was given to cholesterol with this
discovery about ten years ago. Cholesterol is a substance necessary
to form brain synapses. So what does that mean? Brain synapses
or a ?? synapses are
these little gaps between your sells and your brain. A layer helps brain to communicate.
Cholestrol is very important for your brain to form
the synapses and so other times when you cholesterol is too low, when this is happening,
is one of the side effects of statin drug when cholesterol is too low, is poor
memory, lack of focus, mental lethargy brain fog. Those are some of the symptoms.
Again cholesteroles are important performing brings synapses.
Number three, cholesterol makes
all these different sex steroids. Now, you've probably seen the commercials
here lately, specially men,
on testosterone is a lot of different medical clinics opening updater expertise
in four months and so. What they're trying to do is give men testosterone
increase testosterone so that they don't have
a number of the different problems associated with that, like low libido et cetera.
Cholesterol makes
your sex steroids, so for women that would be estrogen progesterone and for
men that would be testosterone.
So when we have cholesterol being blocked
and a lot of cardiologists go really super aggressive on lowering cholesterol.
The number is supposed to be below two hundred, that your total cholesterol.
But in actuality those values, those numbers that are
recommended are based on: "a group of doctors getting together
saying this is what it should be".
But they're saying this is what it should be and they're being paid by the same companies
that create these types of drugs. So American Pfizer and these are the
companies that produce statin medications
actually have these doctors on the payroll and these doctors are the ones
who lowered the original value of cholesterol was 250. Then went down
to 220 and now the recommendation is 200.
And now they've even gone so bold as to say
eight-year-olds need to be on statin medications to lower cholestrol. So you
can see that the proverbially speaking the foxes in the hen house. We have to
take those recommendations with a grain of salt,
because if doctors are on the payroll for the companies that are basically
stand to make a profit over it, then we have to say is 200 really
an accurate number, is two hundred really a dangerous number?
So what we have here again is we have statins
balking cholesterol. Cholesterols important to carry nutrients to the body
it's important to form brain synapses, it's important to make sex steroids like
testosterone estrogen progesterone.
That's all Folks...