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The drug companies make so many billions of dollars from treating “high cholesterol.”

With that much success, nobody can be seriously questioning the need to lower cholesterol levels.

It must be true that lower cholesterol levels lead to longer life and fewer heart attacks, right?

Actually, no.

High cholesterol may lead to longer life.

Let’s look at some of the evidence.

One of the most common heart diseases is called heart failure.

It’s not the same thing as cardiac arrest — it’s slightly less immediately dangerous.

The result of heart failure is that the heart does not beat efficiently.

It really should be called “waterlogged heart” because the heart becomes swollen and waterlogged.

This flooding causes the heart to beat very inefficiently.

Think of it like trying to run through the pool — it doesn’t work as efficiently as running on dry land.

Heart failure deaths are more common than cancer deaths or almost anything else.

Most doctors believe that heart failure is one of the things that happens when you have high cholestrol.

But this paper says something different.

This paper shows us that high levels of cholesterol are associated with better survival.

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Indeed, lower cholesterol rates lead to lower survival in people with heart failure.

This is the so-called “cholesterol paradox.”

But it’s only a paradox because the big drug companies have led the propaganda headlines.

They’ve led doctors and the rest of us to believe the cholesterol is somehow responsible for heart attacks, heart failure, other problems.

But cholesterol is falsely accused.

There are actually benefits to high cholesterol.

This Mayo Clinic study report shows the same thing we saw in the last study.

This time, it’s about rheumatoid arthritis.

People do better who have higher cholesterol levels than lower cholesterol levels.

It could not be clearer:

lower total cholesterol and LDL levels are associated with increased cardiovascular risk.

In fact, there is a much higher survival rate amongst people with high cholesterol, than among those with lower cholesterol.

It’s true of people with kidney disease, too.

People with kidney disease live longer and do better when they have high cholesterol.

Lower body mass index and lower plasma cholesterol have been shown to be risk factors for cardiovascular mortality in end-stage kidney disease.

In fact, everywhere you look, you find studies that are real, conclusive, and unassailable.

Higher cholesterol leads to a higher survival rate, a longer lifespan, and a greater resistance to disease and internal inflammation.

Atrial fibrillation will occur in 25% of all people.

But even here, higher cholesterol leads to better survival rates and better quality of life than low cholesterol.

A low HDL level was strongly associated with an increased risk of developing atrial fibrillation,
and  at the same time, the total cholesterol and LDL levels were
inversely associated with atrial fibrillation (meaning that higher cholesterol and higher LDL levels mean a LOWER chance of getting it).

The moral of the story is do your own homework.

Doctors will tell you that normal cholesterol level in blood should be under 200.

But I aim for a cholesterol level of over 200.

250 is even better.

In fact, I never check my cholesterol unless I’m getting a routine blood test, and I pay very little attention to it.

But I always try to raise my cholesterol not lower it.

The last thing I want to do is lower my cholesterol rate, and be more susceptible to a whole range of human diseases.

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