 Cholesterol is good for you. It has so many vital, crucial functions in our bodies, it makes you wonder, why are we so afraid of it? The origin of the lipid hypothesis, the idea that cholesterol is bad for us, was hypothesized by Ansel Keys. And let's be clear, people think this lipid hypothesis is a fact, but a hypothesis is never proven. The media, doctors, dietitians have instilled us with fear. We appeal to the authority of these people blindly. In 1914, a Russian scientist showed that rabbits which were fed cholesterol developed deposits in their arteries, similar to the deposits we see in humans. Ansel Keys took this data and ran with it, composed the seven countries study, showing the correlation between cholesterol and heart disease. But this study wasn't actually done on seven countries. It was done on 22 countries, but they had to exclude those countries because it did not fit his hypothesis. So why do we need to debunk cholesterol on a nearly monthly basis? Because statin drugs make too much money, sick people make too much money, or well, we make too much money off of sick people. The real cause of heart disease is vegetable seed oils, high omega 6 fat diets. But those make a lot of money too. It's crazy that all of this was based off of injecting cholesterol into rabbits who are herbivores and don't process that food. Ironically, we fed meat-based product to a herbivore and we saw issues. Now we're consuming plant-based product as omnivores and we're seeing health issues. Here is an excellent study that debunks the lipid hypothesis. For half a century, a high level of total cholesterol or low density lipoprotein cholesterol, LDL, has been considered to be the major cause of atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease. And statin treatment has been widely promoted for cardiovascular prevention. However, there is an increasing understanding that the mechanisms are more complicated and that statin treatment, in particular when used as primary prevention, is of doubtful benefit. The authors of three large reviews recently published by statin advocates have attempted to validate the current dogma. This article delineates the serious errors in these three reviews as well as other obvious falsifications of the cholesterol hypothesis. Our search for falsifications of the cholesterol hypothesis confirms that it is unable to satisfy any of the Bradford Hill criteria for causality and that the conclusions of the authors of the three reviews are based on misleading statistics, exclusion of unsuccessful trials and by ignoring numerous contradictory observations. This is the general summary. I can go through dozens and dozens of studies showing that people with high cholesterol live longer, that the real cause of heart disease is plant fats as opposed to saturated fat, but let's focus on the positive. Why we need cholesterol. Cholesterol is an essential structural component of animal cell membranes. Every cell in your body requires cholesterol, therefore it's involved in pretty much every single metabolic function. Cholesterol is traveling through your body to repair tissue and we are afraid of it. Cholesterol is an anti-inflammatory cell that we are treating as an inflammatory cell. HDL brings cholesterol back to the liver, viewed as good. LDL brings it to cells viewed as bad. How can we say a cell that naturally occurs in our body is bad for us? I mean cancer, certain degenerative diseases cause cell mutations but that's not what naturally occurs in our body. Having this perspective is like saying that we should be mad at firefighters for driving to fires because they're supposed to be in the firehouse. Absolutely, zero sets. Cholesterol is also required for every single hormone in your body, adrenal hormones, sexual hormones. This is why most vegans report hormone levels in their blood being in the dumpster. Whether it's aldosterone, estrogen, testosterone, we need cholesterol. It's needed for the production of bile which is required to absorb nutrients, especially fat soluble vitamins. A lot of people think that the body can produce enough cholesterol but the cholesterol, the animal fats have to be present in the stomach to optimally absorb these vitamins. More importantly, we need cholesterol for vitamin D3 which is a hormone, not just a vitamin. This study shows that vitamin D3 levels after sun exposure correlated directly with cholesterol levels, the higher the better. The synthesis of vitamin D starts in the bowel epithelial with the oxidation of cholesterol from food or bile to pro vitamin D3 which is then transported to the skin, mainly the epidermis, wherein it is isomerized to pre vitamin D3 by UVB radiation. You need cholesterol in your stomach, you need to consume animal foods as only animal foods contain cholesterol. So we know we've been lied to about cholesterol and that cholesterol has many important functions in the body but do our bodies actually produce enough cholesterol on its own without cholesterol from the diet? No, not nearly enough and I will cover this in depth in another video. If you don't consume cholesterol from animal foods, your body will not produce adequate hormone levels, you cannot digest vitamins and various nutrients and your body cannot synthesize vitamin D3. People need to understand this. I mean there's so many modern issues caused by a lack of animal foods in our diets that this argument why cholesterol is good for you is just explaining some aspects of that. We did mention statins in that trial. I will also be doing a separate video on statins so look forward to those two video guys. How our bodies produce cholesterol as well as statins. Thank you guys for joining me. If you could please like the video, subscribe, hit that bell icon, share the video if you can. If you guys would like to support me further, check out frankiesfreerangemeat.com. High quality nutrient-dense animal foods at the most affordable price. You can also go to frankiesnaturals.com. Minimal ingredients, minimally processed, pollution free, hygiene and cosmetic products. Thank you so much for joining me today guys and enjoy the rest of your day. Why do I look like I'm carved out of fucking steel because I eat cholesterol.