22 Cholesterol Confusion 5 Cholesterol Is Necessary for Life

Cholesterol confusionist and Weston Price Foundation blogger Chris Masterjohn wants you to believe that if you don't eat fatty animal foods you'll be cholesterol-deficient and suffer serious health problems as a result. This is nonsense. Your body can easily make whatever cholesterol it needs. But Masterjohn's disingenuous argument does raise an interesting question: How low can cholesterol go before problems arise? In this video, you'll see that the people whose genes give them extraordinarily low cholester-ol levels mostly manage just fine. Your cells are very good at regulating how much cholesterol they take in. They need to be. Too much cholesterol would be toxic for them.

[steveberger]

Your videos opened my eyes. I'm ashamed to have trusted the likes of Kresser, Masterjohn, Wolf, and Sisson and these con artists will never receive another ounce of my support.

[paulm]

Thank you so much for these important videos. Keep up the good work.

[matrix]

This video is absolutely hilarious - the sarcasm is so real. I love it!

[roseypollen]

Thank you for producing these YouTube videos. I have learned so much from listening. So glad I found you and subscribed.

[PrimitiveNutrition]

Thank you! I hope you'll share them so others aren't deceived, too.

[johanwallstrom]

"Are you keeping track of the layers of idiocy?" 
Omg, that's hilarious ^^

[screennamerequired]

It sure is a shame that more people don't know about this Chris kresser. Perhaps they need to start a cholesterol lowering awareness campaign. They can start by putting warning labels on lentils and oats.

[PrimitiveNutrition]

This reminds me how important Dr. Greger and the HSUS are.

[progrocker]

I dunno, but for some reason when I listen to Masterjohn and friends talk, I can just as easily imagine them in an episode of South Park screaming, "rabble rabble rabble!" and "DEY TEK UR JERBS!!"

Maybe someday soon they'll have reason to.

[AbattoirDream]

Dr. Greger is my favourite for good research, as well as you of course lol.. thanks for your work!!! its brilliant.

[PrimitiveNutrition]

I'm glad you can see that. Good luck.

[PeanutChoco]

"Cholesterol is a Janus-faced molecule. The very property that makes it useful in cell membranes, namely its absolute insolubility in water, also makes it lethal.”

- Michael Brown and Joseph Goldstein

[PrimitiveNutrition]

From the WAPF site: "Chris Masterjohn is currently pursuing a PhD in Nutritional Sciences with a concentration in Biochemical and Molecular Nutrition at the University of Connecticut."

[AntiCarnist]

Masterjohn just did an interview with Mercola where he claims that eggs and cheese will protect against heart disease. And this guy has a PhD. Ridiculous.

[Probabalisticplane]

Im embarrassed to call Chris Masterjohn a fellow graduate of my Alma Mater.

[vegasaurusrex]

"Now the discussion is about to get really dumb. Chris Kresser is about to speak."

Redundant statement.

[PoliticalWeekly]

Possibly an MD/PhD and a few nice awards.

[davidmoss]

Chris Kresser has a post attacking Daniel Steinberg for encouraging kids to eat low fat, low cholesterol diets. What a punk. This is the guy who encourages people to eat nitrate-laden processed meats, which have been linked to childhood brain cancer and leukemia. And he repeats the ignorant "your brain is made of cholesterol" meme.

[HopyHop]

grr, I can't believe that so many people take these guys seriously. Thank you Plant Positve for taking the time to debunk the gibberish of these clowns. I didn't realize that to many people these sort of talks are well reasoned and have no flaws in them. At least the vitamin O scam didn't cause atherosclerosis to the people who believed the ads for it.

[PrimitiveNutrition]

Thank you! Yeah, he's my favorite, too. :-)