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Cholesterol: Friend Or Foe?

If you know of anyone who is taking cholesterol drugs, they are going to want to read the article, Cholesterol: Friend Or Foe?, by Natasha Campbell-McBride, MD. She explains in detail how Big Medicine is completely pulling the wool over our eyes regarding cholesterol while they rake in their billions of dollars. If it’s you taking the cholesterol drugs, you might even want to show this article to your doctor after you are done reading. Check it out…

“In our modern world, cholesterol has become almost a swear word. Thanks to the promoters of the diet-heart hypothesis, everybody “knows” that cholesterol is “evil” and has to be fought at every turn. If you believe the popular media, you would think that there is simply no level of cholesterol low enough. If you are over a certain age, you are likely to be tested for how much cholesterol you have in your blood. If it is higher than about 200 mg/100ml (5.1 mol/l), you may be prescribed a “cholesterol pill.” Millions of people around the world take these pills, thinking that this way they are taking good care of their health. What these people don’t realize is just how far from the truth they are. The truth is that we humans cannot live without cholesterol. Let us see why.

Our bodies are made out of billions of cells. Almost every cell produces cholesterol all the time during all of our lives. Why? Because every cell of every organ has cholesterol as a part of its structure. Cholesterol is an integral and very important part of our cell membranes, the membranes that enclose each of our cells, and also of the membranes surrounding all the organelles inside the cell. What is cholesterol doing there? A number of things…….”

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