A New LDL-Cholesterol Theory Coming to a Doctor Near You

Lets discuss a new LDL cholesterol Hypothesis...

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00:45 LDL's link with atherosclerosis is nuanced.

 02:30 Initial damage to the arterial wall makes LDL levels problematic.

03:45 Increases risk of arterial wall damage: elevated blood pressure, insulin resistance/diabetes, smoking/vaping, obesity, elevated blood viscosity, consuming oxidizableoils.

08:40 High LDL and high triglycerides suggest insulin resistance and increased cardiovascular risk.

09:50 Start with diet and exercise together.

11:20 Statins have concerning side effects.

13:15 Plaque formation begins early in life.

13:50 High LDL is found in centenarians.

14:44 Centenarians are metabolically healthy.

15:40 Your liver makes LDL cholesterol.

16:10 Every cell in your body requires cholesterol.

18:00  Diets high in seed oils make your LDL more likely to be oxidized.

20:55 30-50% of people who have heart attacks have optimal serum cholesterol.

[aleksandrazimpel]

15 years ago my older brother had heart attack in the hospital while he went there with his wife-doctor specialist in diabetes. My brother was experiencing pain in his chest and trouble breathing so she decided to visit hospital with him. After they left the ER department where they declared him healthy and sent him for an X ray for pain in his shoulder he collapsed on the stairs and almost died. Defibrillator didn’t resuscitated him at all, one of doctors hit him in the chest with his fist and this brought my poor bro back to life. His cholesterol and LDL was normal. Now after years on statins and filled with stents his cholesterol is extremely low, his life miserable and he and her, the wife believe statins saved his life. Hard to not to agree with them 😂. I’m carnivore for 6 years my cholesterol is high, always was (stoped going to doctors after you know what so don’t know my current 🎉numbers) I never took statins in my life although I was pushed by my doctor since I was 60! And I love my fatty T-bone steaks! My younger brother 70, has 8 stents and he’s plant eating because red meat is the way to graveyard 😂 he’s also on statins. My third brother 72, drinks heavily all his life but since few years he is eating more meat and he’s more or less ok. He took 3 shots though and now he started to age rapidly. He never had heart problem and now is on statins, brainwashig working! All of my other brothers fully vaxxed and supporters of current things. I’m 73 healthy and strong with good muscles

[willemvanriet]

Dr Berg started using a very apt analogy. They keep blaming the fire men for fires because they are always present at a fire.

[JMK-vopv]

Mike, you say that we should show our doctors this research about LDL not CAUSING atherosclerosis. That's exactly what I did with my long time cardiologist. What did he do when I handed him several articles on this topic? He belittled me and then he terminated me from his practice. And there lies the PROBLEM!!!

[michaelcrain]

Interesting term “trapped LDL”. LDL, in the atherosclerotic process, is a repair mechanism. It’s supposed to be there in an attempt to repair the endothelial damage, which occurs in specific, more turbulent, areas of the arteries. As a result of doing what LDL is supposed to be doing, “repair”, it ends up being part of plaque formation; surprisingly, comprising only 1/10 of 1% of the total plaque. The only reason LDL continues to get any attention is because of the continued messaging that it is causal. Atherosclerosis is due to chronically elevated blood pressure, primarily caused by, but not limited to, inflammation due to a poor diet. Thank you for spreading the word on this.

[UnknwnGuy]

I'm reading a book called The Clot Thickens, and he describes the cause of Plaque isn't from LDL but from damage to the artery wall. When the wall is damaged, a clot is formed, and then the wall grows over the clot. LDL is not the cause, but particles of LDL can be found in the area but not the cause. Anyone else read it? I'm not done but it's fascinating. Not sure if it's true or not?

[jeffreyorlikowski]

I have always believed that cholesterol was a balm to soothe inflammation. Inflammation is caused by sugars, omega 6 fats, trans fats, and other highly processed foods, stress, and poor living habits. Your vid is right on. Thanks.

[wlo]

LDL is a transport mechanism of cholesterol and serves a useful purpose. It's the damaged LDL due to factors like diabetes and other oxidative stresses, and especially combined with hypertension, diabetes, and smoking that promotes plaque formation from damaged LDL. It's kind of like trying to mitigate fatalities from car accidents by getting rid of all the cars rather than reduce causes like drunk driving. They're not focusing on the causes.... the vid is spot on.

[jan]

In my humble opinion HDL and LDL are not cholesterol.
It’s better to talk about High and low density lipoprotein.
The HDL and LDL are just transporters from the cholesterol. The HDL deliver the cholesterol in all the places in our body where it’s needed. And the LDL brings it back to the liver.
Thanks for the video from Thailand.

[livelearnandteach]

Vessel wall damage is the root cause but they will always focus on the thing they can create a drug for.

[holistic-hannah]

I’m a doctor working in internal medicine & I’ve made a video discussing dietary fat and cholesterol!!

Don’t know when doctors will start using their brain.

They will NEVER let go of LDL-cholesterol because drug companies just want to create more and more drugs.

[UnknownUser-scjx]

70% of people who have a heart attack have normal or low cholesterol. The study shows these people had low cholesterol at least a year before their heart attack, it's not cholesterol but diabetes, blood clotting issues and smoking.

[EvilMonkey]

Thanks Mike. With papers like this maybe finally my parents to listen to me, about how cholesterol itself isn't the underlying problem with cardiovascular disease. It's nice to see studies like these catching up to what many of us knew years ago. Maybe in another 10 years the mainstream will recognize how blood sugar is more of an issue with blood pressure than having salty food.

[c]

I have had high cholesterol since my first blood test at 30, I am 60 and have never taken statins. My blood pressure was always 130/77 and the doctor always told me I was fine. Now that I am a carnivore and fast for approximately 16 hours on average, my blood pressure is 110/65. I have always done a lot of sports, even at 60 I continue to play soccer competitively. My VO2 MAX is 47.

[yuvallevi]

You're a good lad Mike!
You genuinely care.

I can hear it in your voice
"Stop smoking! What are you doing??"

[gerard]

A step in the right direction. But, when is a study going to be published on how the body repairs the damage caused by smoking, diabetes or high blood pressure?

[CriticalLinker]

One of the underlying causes that seems to get little mention nowadays is chronic stress. High cortisol levels cause hypertension, and there is some interesting research indicating that cortisol may also damage the endothelium of coronary arteries.

[llMeatMinerll]

Any “study” you find that says “May cause” you probably need to replace it with “May Not”.

[privateerburrows]

Okay, if blood pressure is what causes atherosclerosis, then we should stop using mouth-wash. The most common cause of blood pressure is inability to produce NO2. And the most common cause of reduced production of NO2 is excessive fluoride consumption. If you already avoid using mouth-wash, and yet have a blood pressure problem, the second most common cause of insufficient NO2 production is arginine deficiency. Either supplement with arginine or citroulline, which we can convert to arginine; or eat a cupfull of watermelon every day.
Another thing: If you are past 40 or 45 and you have arterial damage, your body cannot repair the damage due to minimal production of collagen. Taking collagen supplements will not help, because ingested collagen gets digested down to amino-acids and small peptides; so to re-constitute those nutrients back into collagen you need a ton of vitamin C, plus the amino-acid lysine.
The only way to restore production of collagen after 50 is to follow the Pauli protocol, which is basically 6 grams of vitamin C and 3 grams of lysine per day. That is the MINIMUM; personally I take
10 to 12 grams a day of vitamin C per day. Before you think of the word "mega-dose", consider that humans and orangutans are the only animals that are not capable of producing their own vitamin C. Your dog produces about 17 grams of vitamin C per day. A cow produces more than 100 grams of vitamin C per day. And you might ask why don't we produce it too? We lost the ability. We still have the gene for vitamin C production, but the gene is not getting activated; nobody knows why. Anyways, back in prehistory we did not need to consume vitamin C as citrus fruits or as supplements, simply because we hunted animals for food, and ate them raw. Raw meat has enormous amounts of vitamin C. Cooking, however, destroys it. And no, I am not advocating eating raw meat; that's dangerous nowadays. I'm just saying all that because people have such naive perspectives on nutrition you have to write a whole paragraph to explain each word you write. 99% of people are completely incapable of taking in eve a small piece of info, like the importance of the Pauli protocol to reactivate collagen synthesis. 99% of people just don't click.
Another thing is the gradual clotting of blood as we age, which increases viscosity. There is one simple solution to that: Japanese natto. Consume it, and your blood will quickly go back to the fluidity of a 20 year old's blood. Just eat one square package of natto every other day; the enzyme nattokinase present in it, dissolves blood clots. Natto smells and tastes awful to our western taste, but so, what I do is I fry the natto together with onion, garlic and ginger, and after 15 minutes of frying I throw in a couple of eggs, and make it an omelette or scramble.

[nelsontang]

Mike, so well said, thanks for emphasis of the "other factors" ie. what insults the inside of walls of blood vessels, HTN smoking/vaping, high blood sugar damage iron overload....excellent work Mike.thanks

[nbrown]

Well they need to go deeper because you know damn well there are folks living to a ripe old age with a high LDL, Low LDL is dangerous too! Maybe some folks are affected but certainly not all. Yes type 2 diabetes and obesity are risk factors for so many problems!