Artificially cutting high cholesterol levels is like killing the astronauts to solve a CO2 buildup.
E.g. low LDL, which is an anti-toxant to certain bacterial toxins, leads to a higher risks of sepsis.
In general just lowering _any_ cholesterol without understanding _all_ the cons and pros won't cut it. https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC8886946/
There’s plenty of people that have degenerative diseases with no perceivable benefit that are “evolutionary” favored due to genetics just working out that way. What does Huntington’s disease provide? Its a dominant gene, doesn’t typically effect people until they’re 30 or 40 past their prime child years.
> In general just lowering _any_ cholesterol without understanding _all_ the cons and pros won't cut it.
Pros: it significantly decreases long term of risk of cardiovascular disease later in life
Cons: the medications have to be taken daily forever, I guess.
This is just an argument from nature. If you have very high cholesterol, there’s no good reason to not lower it to sub-problematic levels.
High cholesterol could be from high glucose/insulin damaging arteries
Or could also be from weight loss
Simplest fixes are
- eat low carb
- don't eat all day intermittent fasting
- walk after eating to lower spike
- eat olives which protects lining of veins and arteries
- avoid seed oils
- pick antiinflammatory foods and supplements
- take l-arginine and similar supplements, sunlight, green veggies, no mouth wash, exercise to increase nitrogen oxide production... Breath through nose as well
- exercise to increase good cholesterol
- sleep well and keep cortisol low (stress)
Cholesterol is needed for hormones, brain, everything... I believe statin are linked to Alzheimer