Walk into any doctor’s office with a cholesterol level over 300, and they’ll wheel you out on a stretcher, shove you in an ambulance, and rush you to the hospital.
But, let me tell you something about cholesterol: As long as your HDL is high enough, you’re at little to no risk of heart disease.
Even if your total cholesterol is 305.1
Here’s the bottom line: You and everyone in this country has been coerced into believing that high cholesterol means you have one foot in the grave.
I’ve been going on about this since I was in med school, and still the myth is believed as fact. Wherever I go, I hear people talking about this.
Just the other day, I was standing in line at the grocery store and overheard two people sharing stories about which cholesterol-lowering drug they were taking and how high their cholesterol was at their last doctor’s appointment.
Let me say this again: Cholesterol is a fallacy. It’s a red herring. And this “high cholesterol myth” was supported with billions of dollars by drug companies when they patented drugs that lowered cholesterol.
Here’s something else: 75% of the people who have heart attacks have “normal” cholesterol.2
The fact that high cholesterol is safe and normal people are having heart attacks isn’t some kind of fantasy. I didn’t pull these numbers out of thin air. They come from the Framingham Heart Study.
This landmark study, which has been ongoing since the 1940s, is considered the most reliable data on heart disease. Why? Because it has no interference from drug companies.
In a time when drug companies sponsor, pay for, and manipulate clinical studies to prop up their best-selling drugs, the Framingham Study is untouched by corporate hands.
But there’s this one, little problem. The data that doesn’t support their cholesterol theory gets ignored, blackballed, or driven into oblivion. But the numbers are there for anyone to see.
I can’t even tell you how many heart patients I’ve seen. It’s in the thousands. And for decades, I’ve been the “go to” doctor for people who instinctively believe the mainstream is wrong.
Have you ever tried to challenge your doctor on cholesterol?
They’re so adamant about treating “high cholesterol,” they’ll refuse to see you as a patient if you don’t buy into their propaganda.
That’s why people come to me.
These heart health rebels who “dropped out” with other doctors because they refused to lower their cholesterol have always had the last laugh. Out of all my patients, they’re the ones who have the fewest heart attacks.
They’re also the happiest.
They don’t waste their time with low-fat diets, prescription drugs, or scare tactics designed to make you feel guilty, weak, and helpless.
When I wrote The Doctor’s Heart Cure, I had these folks in mind. I wanted to give them a real alternative to the drug-fueled culture of fear we’re exposed to everyday.
I wanted to empower them to make choices based in fact, not in a well-orchestrated tragedy.
If your doctor is still pressuring you to get your cholesterol lower and lower… or if you’re already taking cholesterol drugs and starting to feel the fatigue, muscle pain, and depression that comes with them, let me make a recommendation.
Arm yourself against the myth masquerading as fact.
I’ll show you how to build a disease-proof heart WITHOUT drugs, crazy diets, or boring gym routines.
Even if your cholesterol is 305.
- Castiglioni A, Neuman WR. “HDL Cholesterol: What Is Its True Clinical Significance?” Emergency Medicine, January 2003:pp 30-42.
- Castelli WP. “Cholesterol and lipids in the risk of coronary artery disease – the Framingham Heart Study.” Canadian Journal of Cardiology. 1998 July; 4 Suppl A:5A-10A.