Thank you, Professor Dr Andrew
Gomez,
Let me add to this gentleman
explanation about “bad” LDL and “good” HDL cholesterol.
My personal opinion is, none of
these two types of cholesterols is good or bad.
What is bad are the free radicals
present in the body, from the metabolic breakdown of food we eat and drugs
we take, from our stress hormones, and the intake of smoke from cigarettes.
The free radicals easily oxidize
the LDL cholesterol into a gummy, sticky by-products that stick on to the blood
corpuscles, fibrinogen and fibrin, calcium salts, dead cells in the blood and
other materials circulating in the blood stream to form complex atherosclerosis
and plagues.
These gummy substances stick
on to the intima of the coronary blood vessels to narrow them and clots in
those vessels to give us a heart attack or a stroke.
The high-density HD
lipoproteins are more resistant to oxidative stress by free radicals and hence
do not form sticky and gummy type of oxidized cholesterol and hence they do not
stick on to the inner lining of the blood vessels (intima) to cause plagues and
clots and stenosis (narrowing) of the coronaries,
It is not that the HDL are
the 'good' cholesterol, and the LDLs are the 'bad' ones. This kind of
information is chemically, nutritionally, and medically wrong.
We would not go into the
chemistry of how these cholesterols are oxidised. We shall also not go into the
pathways they take in their metabolism and how they are essential in the
synthesis of various cholesterol-dependent hormones.
All we need to know is,
cholesterol is found abundantly in eggs, brains, liver and other cholesterol
rich foods and neither these foods contain HDL nor LDL. They are just neutral
dietary cholesterol containing C27H46O in which the central sterol nucleus has
four hydrocarbon rings, which are arranged in a circular configuration which is
neither low nor high density cholesterol.
The high- and low-density
cholesterol is synthesised by our own liver. So, blame our liver, and not
goat's, cow's and monkey's brain we eat.
I ate goat's brain every day
for lunch for over one year in the 1970s, but my cholesterol was never high, in
fact lower than normal.
Please understand the chemistry
and biochemistry of cholesterol before linking cholesterol and heart disease.
They are not connected and
don't believe those Big Pharma drugs and statins are going to “solve" or
“cure” any of our dietary and lifestyle diseases.
Other animals do not suffer
from heart attacks except humans with our dietary, smoking, stress, sedentary
lifestyles among others. The statin drugs we take for hypercholesterolemia that
need to be titrated into higher and higher doses are not going to help us
if we are unwilling to change the way we live.
Please go further on my take
on cholesterol and heart disease published on Tuesday, August 17, 2021, here:
https://draft.blogger.com/u/1/blog/post/edit/5147710646665023010/3238482793102355023
Also, these two videos sent to me
today on Wednesday, 1 March, 2023 here:
1.
The truth about eggs, butter and cholesterol
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQPfYghxXQI
2.
Doctors Syndrome:
https://www.tiktok.com/@mohanaturoholistics/video/7202991888549350683
Thank you.
Ju-boo lim
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