Should you eat cholesterol lowering foods?

The short answer: No, absolutely not. You’ll find no lack of conversations, however, that tell you to consume more oatmeal, nuts, garlic or soy to reduce total and LDL cholesterol, perhaps thereby avoiding statin drugs. Or add more fiber to your diet or take red yeast rice. These foods and supplements do indeed reduce total and LDL cholesterol . . . but who cares? Don’t waste your time and energy on this useless exercise, especially efforts to reduce the absurd, outdated, imprecise calculated LDL cholesterol. But doesn’t reducing LDL cholesterol, the “bad,” in particular reduce risk for cardiovascular events? It does to a minor degree, not to the degree doctors and Big Pharma tell you, wildly exaggerated benefits that are misleading statistical manipulations. But that is not the right question to ask. A better question to ask: How can you reduce or eliminate risk for cardiovascular events? Answer: By quantifying, then correcting the factors that cause heart disease such as small LDL particles, excessive very low-density lipoprotein (VLDL) particles, postprandial (after-meal) lipoproteins, inflammatory factors, small intestinal bacterial overgrowth and the accompanying inflammation, insulin resistance, endogenous glycation, vitamin D deficiency, omega-3 fatty acid deficiency, iodine deficiency, and others. All of these factors can be quantified, then corrected—NONE require prescription drugs to do so. If, for example, a person’s LDL ch...
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