Chapter 2 - Cholesterol, Facts and FictionWant More Diabetes Info? Search HERE
immediately decided to discontinue the medication. Within days of quitting, he told me that his mental function had become "amazingly clearer” and he has reported no lack of mental clarity for more than two years now. Cholesterol is what gives skin its ability to shed water. It’s the precursor (building material) for your body to make vitamin D, an essential component for healthy bone density and for fighting osteoporosis. It’s a key element for your body to be able to grow and to repair itself. Every cell in your body needs cholesterol to perform its normal functions and to reproduce new cells. Cholesterol is obviously NOT the villain that so many portray it to be! If your cholesterol level is too low, you actually increase your risk of death from health conditions other than heart disease, conditions like strokes or cancer. In fact, falling cholesterol levels are a distinct marker for cancer! It may be true that the lower your cholesterol levels are, the lower your risk of heart attack, but once it falls below a certain point (a number that may shock you), you run an increased risk of death from other causes, such as stroke and cancer. In Sheldon Verdon’s book, he refers to The Lancet, 1974, 1, 523 Rose, G., et. al. stating that “31 studies including Framington, 7 countries studies and the giant multiple risk factor intervention trial (MRFIT) reported higher cancer or total death rates with subjects who have lower cholesterol levels. … The majority of studies lean toward a negative correlation, suggesting that low cholesterol levels may facilitate the growth of cancers or other diseases.” So what’s the ideal level of cholesterol? Drs. Michael and Mary Dan Eades suggest it’s about 190 and that the ideal and safest range is actually between 180 and 200. According to this paradigm, your risk of death from too little cholesterol is actually about the same at 140 as it is from too much cholesterol at 240! So despite the urgings of doctors and the drug manufacturers to reduce your cholesterol to very low levels, lowering it below 180 is a foolhardy and dangerous thing to do! For every number increment you lower your serum
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