Sex, Lies and Cholesterol

What you have not been told.

    I have been studying health and wellness since 1995. I have conducted thousands of office visits and helped hundreds of people restore purity and sufficiency to their bodies, resulting in amazing health, but I am amazed at the number of sick people still walking around. It’s actually abnormal in today’s society to be healthy. How can everyone be so sick?
    After years of studying, I have discovered some startling findings on my quest to determine why we keep getting sicker and sicker. It just did not make any sense to me. How can we be the wealthiest country in the world, have the most hospitals, drugs and technology and be one of the sickest countries? Something is seriously wrong and we need to take action quickly before it’s too late.
The major problems are…
    We have been taught to live (eat, think and move) incongruently with how our genes were programmed for health. You see 85% of your genes respond to the environment in which they are surrounded, and only 15% of the genes make permanent changes. For example, we are not going to change your eye from blue to brown with diet changes and lifestyle interventions. Thus all the research shows that our Paleolithic ancestor had virtually none of the diseases that plague our modern times, so I ask you what is the missing link that has lead to the disease of today? It is our lifestyle and the environment that surrounds our cells. Heart Disease is the number one killer in the United States and has been for some time, and I promise you it is not a Lipitor (statin drug) deficiency.
    Cholesterol is just one example of this. We have been led to believe that cholesterol is some raging disease and that you can’t do anything about it. Why? Like most “dis-ease” in our country it’s blamed on genetics. You see, if you can be convinced that cholesterol is bad and genetics is the cause, then you can’t do anything about it, except take a drug…and be on that drug for life. Here are some stats for you; 13 million Americans take a statin drug such as Lipitor, 1/500 Americans have Familial Hypercholesterolemia (genetically high cholesterol), so translates into 12,974,000 Americans on Statin drugs for lifestyle issues.
    Being on a drug for life will make some people very, very rich but probably not you. They’re actually recommending that KIDS take cholesterol medications now! What for? So we can have an even sicker generation than the one we have now. How much more money will “they” make from this?
Here’s the truth about cholesterol.
1. Cholesterol is only “bad” when it is oxidized…oxidation makes it sticky.
a. “Oxidation leads to inflammation and plaque formation within the arteries no matter what your cholesterol level is. In fact, the majority of people dying of heart disease have NORMAL LDL cholesterol levels! The reason: because their LDL cholesterol and arteries are oxidized.” (Dr. Ladd McNamara, M.D. The Cholesterol Conspiracy 2nd Edition)
 

Here is a great example:
This is a water pipe with accumulated rust (oxidized mineral deposits)
 

Here is an artery in the body with Oxidized Cholesterol…notice how much of the vessel is blocked.

See why Oxidized cholesterol is so bad, what do you think this looks like after many years?
 

2. People with normal or low cholesterol are just as likely to die as those with high levels. (remember it’s about oxidation, not your total cholesterol)
a. Over 13 million Americans take drugs to control their cholesterol. However 50% of people with normal cholesterol still have heart attacks.
i. American Journal of Cardiology 2003, August 1; (92) 3)

3. High Cholesterol is genetic…genetics plays only a very, very small part…not even close to explaining the true number we’re seeing (24,000 genetics/ 12,974,000 lifestyle issues).
a. Familial hypercholesterol is 1/500 or 0.2%
i. Am J Epidemiol 2004 Sep 1; 160(5):408-420

    The truth is you need cholesterol for many normal and required body functions, especially to make sex and stress hormones. What do you think happens if you have a stressful job requiring your body to make more cholesterol (resulting in higher levels so you can produce the necessary stress hormones for a adequate stress response) and you artificially reduce it with a drug? Say hello to depression…more to come on that in a later newsletter…

After all, this is about sex and cholesterol

    What you may not know, or have not been told is that 80% of cholesterol is mainly produced in the liver and is a direct component of your sex hormones (testosterone, estrogen, progesterone). The major roll of LDL, you know the “bad” cholesterol is to transport cholesterol from the liver to the gonads to make your sex hormones.

What do you think happens when you take a statin drug, like Lipitor, to block LDL production? Now you can’t transport cholesterol to the gonads to make sex hormones. Say hello to Erectile Dysfunction.

So what do you think the number two selling drug of the leading statin maker is? Viagra, another example of the endless symptom chasing that result from taking drugs.

You need your cholesterol but you must keep your oxidative stress under control so your LDL does not become sticky. Oxidative stress comes from pore diet, environmental pollutants, drugs, radiation and other life style issues.

A poor diet, especially ones high in processed grains, breads, whole wheat, low fat foods and sugars will cause your cholesterol and oxidation to rise making your cholesterol dangerous and sticky.

Cholesterol production is insulin driven so that must be addressed first. The number one intervention is always diet and exercise to control insulin levels and slow oxidation in your body. The only side effect of healthier diet and more exercise is a better feeling body, lower oxidation, increases libido and you have the ability to do something about it…without a drug or the possibility of blindness.

Eat Well, Think Well, Move Well

Dr. Ryan E. Bentley

P.S. The diet recommendations I’m talking about are not available in any fad diet books or programs, it is about eating the foods God created for us to eat (no Twinkies are not in that category). For more information on the Food recommendations or Functional Medicine Testing (Click Here) please feel free to email me at rbentley@questchiro.com or call our office at 812-330-1234.