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"Lower your cholesterol and prevent heart disease (atherosclerosis)!"

Medical Doctors, drug manufacturers and nutritional supplement companies make billions of dollars browbeating us to believe this statement. Despite the exuberance with which it is made, this statement is a health myth. The redundancy of this myth has handicapped health logic among some of the most respected health experts in the world.

Most people insist that because their new statin drug (i.e. Lipitor, Pravachol, Crestor) or nutritional supplement (i.e. red yeast rice, policosanol) plummeted their total cholesterol level from 225 to 180 mg/dL they are safe from the pandemic killer heart disease. Never mind their sugar addiction, insulin resistance (pre-diabetic state) and excess fat.

Good news is that these cholesterol lowering worshipers have health insurance. Low cholesterol does not prevent heart disease and can lead to a myriad of problems. In accordance with science, the higher the cholesterol, the longer we live.[1] The cholesterol lowering myth is proof that "when everyone is thinking the same thing, nobody is thinking."[2]