Cholesterol is not the problem. It powers every key hormone and is needed by every single cell in your body. Cholesterol is an essential nutrient, yet Big Pharma has spent decades demonizing it in order to profit from cholesterol-lowering medications.
Here is what you need to know about cholesterol:
🥚 Dietary cholesterol is good for you.
🥚 Dietary cholesterol will hardly affect your blood cholesterol levels.
🥚 Low cholesterol levels are dangerous.
🥚 High cholesterol levels are linked to a lower risk of cancer and death.
🥚 Cholesterol is so vital that your liver produces more of it when intake is low.
🥚 LDL cholesterol is not necessarily “bad” cholesterol.
🥚 The majority of heart disease patients have “normal” cholesterol levels.
So stop fearing meat, eggs, and dairy. There’s a reason why the world’s most nutrient-dense foods are rich in cholesterol. Cholesterol is ESSENTIAL for survival. We simply cannot live without it.
1. Big Pharma Brainwashed You into Fearing Cholesterol
The “cholesterol scare” is one of the most successful marketing campaigns in history. Billions of dollars were poured into convincing the public that cholesterol is deadly, despite it being one of the body’s most vital molecules. Instead of educating people on inflammation, metabolic health, and processed food, medicine turned cholesterol into the villain because it created an endless market for cholesterol-lowering drugs.
2. Lie Number One: You Should Stop Eating Cholesterol
The truth is that dietary cholesterol barely impacts blood cholesterol levels. Your body tightly regulates cholesterol by adjusting production in the liver. When you eat less, your liver makes more. When you eat more, your liver makes less. Telling people to avoid eggs, shrimp, and steak was never backed by strong evidence—it was driven by industry influence, not science.
3. Lie Number Two: High Cholesterol Will Give You a Heart Attack
For decades, people were told that high cholesterol clogs arteries and causes heart disease. But large studies have repeatedly shown weak or nonexistent links. In fact, most heart attack patients show up with “normal” cholesterol levels. The real drivers of cardiovascular disease are inflammation, oxidative stress, high sugar consumption, and processed seed oils—not cholesterol.
4. Lie Number Three: Statins Are a Good Way to Lower Cholesterol
Statins are promoted as life-saving drugs, yet they come with a laundry list of side effects: muscle pain, memory loss, diabetes risk, and lowered hormone production. Worse, they often don’t improve all-cause mortality in otherwise healthy people. But statins remain a goldmine for pharmaceutical companies, which is why they are prescribed so aggressively.
5. Lie Number Four: Low Cholesterol Is Always Better
Low cholesterol is actually dangerous. Cholesterol plays a key role in producing sex hormones, vitamin D, and bile acids for digestion. Low levels are associated with depression, fatigue, infertility, and even increased cancer risk. Stripping your body of cholesterol in the name of “heart health” often does more harm than good.
6. Lie Number Five: LDL Is “Bad”
LDL has been mislabeled as “bad cholesterol,” but that’s far too simplistic. LDL carries cholesterol to tissues where it is needed for repair and hormone production. Problems arise only when LDL becomes oxidized due to inflammation, sugar, or seed oil intake. LDL itself is not the villain—it is part of a much larger picture of metabolic health.
7. Lie Number Six: Saturated Fat Raises Dangerous Cholesterol
Saturated fat has been vilified for decades, but modern research shows it does not increase cardiovascular risk. Instead, saturated fat raises HDL (the so-called “good” cholesterol) and supports a healthy balance of larger, more buoyant LDL particles, which are far less harmful than the small, dense LDL particles driven by high sugar and seed oil diets.
8. Lie Number Seven: All Cholesterol Is Unhealthy
There is no such thing as “bad cholesterol” in the way it’s been sold to the public. Cholesterol is essential for brain function, immune support, and cellular structure. Labeling it as dangerous is like calling oxygen a toxin because too much of it can be harmful. Without cholesterol, human life would not exist.
9. Statins Have Generated $1.2 Trillion Since the 1980s…
And that’s the real reason cholesterol is demonized. A trillion-dollar industry depends on people believing that cholesterol is the root cause of heart disease. It’s not about health—it’s about profit. Pharmaceutical companies don’t want the narrative to change because it would end one of the most lucrative scams in medical history.
Conclusion
Big Pharma’s war on cholesterol has been a masterclass in manipulation. Decades of fear campaigns and misleading studies convinced people to cut out eggs and butter while swallowing billions of dollars’ worth of statins. The result? Declining health, rising chronic disease, and a population too afraid to eat the very foods that nourish them best. The truth is simple: cholesterol is not your enemy. It is one of the most important molecules in your body. Eat your steak, crack your eggs, and stop buying the lies.
References
- Carter, Paul, et al. "Egg consumption and risk of cardiovascular disease: three large prospective US cohort studies, systematic review, and updated meta-analysis." The BMJ 368 (2020): m513.
👉 Found no significant association between moderate egg consumption and cardiovascular disease risk. - De Souza, Russell J., et al. "Saturated and trans fatty acids and risk of all cause mortality, cardiovascular disease, and type 2 diabetes: systematic review and meta-analysis of observational studies." The BMJ 351 (2015): h3978.
👉 Reported no clear association between saturated fat intake and increased all-cause mortality, CHD, stroke, or type 2 diabetes. - Ravnskov, Uffe, et al. "Lack of an association or an inverse association between low-density-lipoprotein cholesterol and mortality in the elderly: a systematic review." BMJ Open 6.6 (2016): e010401.
👉 Showed that in most elderly cohorts, higher LDL-C was not associated with increased mortality, and in many studies it was inversely associated. - Malhotra, Aseem, Rita F. Redberg, and Pascal Meier. "Saturated fat does not clog the arteries: coronary heart disease is a chronic inflammatory condition, the risk of which can be effectively reduced from healthy lifestyle interventions." British Journal of Sports Medicine 51.15 (2017): 1111–1112.
👉 Argued that the “clogged pipe” cholesterol hypothesis is outdated, and emphasized inflammation as the driver of heart disease. - Diamond, David M., and Uffe Ravnskov. "How statistical deception created the appearance that statins are safe and effective in primary and secondary prevention of cardiovascular disease." Expert Review of Clinical Pharmacology 8.2 (2015): 201–210.
👉 Demonstrated that statin benefits are overstated and statistical manipulation made them look more effective than they are.