What is Cholesterol, anyways?

Lets Talk about the MOST IMPORTANT article of the entire website – this is 1 that took me weeks to research & write – for everything else on this website is based on this – why would we fight or lower or be biased towards something we know hardly anything about – & even what little we think we know is incorrect, because we have been lied to…

What is Cholesterol, anyways?

Cholesterol is not a Fat (even though it looks “similar”), it is actually a Sterol – which makes it a type or foam of Steroid that is Hydrophobic (Hydro=water ; Phobic=Avoiding) – which means it CANNOT travel in the Bloodstream directly by itself.

Cholesterol is carried in the blood (which is a watery medium) by a large protective capsule (think of a submarine or a boat) called a “Lipoprotein” – NOW this “boat” doesn’t ONLY carry Cholesterol, it also carries other ESSENTIAL components like Proteins & Triglycerides.

We interchange the names Cholesterol = Lipoprotein, but this is not true, REMEMBER, Cholesterol is carried BY Lipoproteins (aka, Boats) which is just a of a few items these “boats” carry…

But wait, you get different types of Lipoproteins called – Low-Density Lipoprotein (LDL) / High Density Lipoprotein (HDL) / Very Low-Density Lipoprotein (VLDL) / Intermediate Density Lipoprotein (IDL) – to mention a few of minimum 13 types that scientists/researchers have discovered so far (Yet not even most doctor knows this, even they think that there’s only 2 or 3 types)

Cholesterol is so VITAL that almost every cell in the body is capable of making it (besides neurones) , without it, there would be NO LIFE. One of the main purposes of your Liver is to make around 80% of the cholesterol that your body needs to function (we consume / other cells help make the rest of the 20%). The more cholesterol we eat, the less our liver makes & vise-versa – our body balances itself, so you can eat as much Cholesterol fill foods as you like & it wont spike our cholesterol levels & this is true for approx 99.4% of the world population. (The other 0.4% have a condition called Familial Hypercholesterolemia, including guess who? Me of course. But this is another linked article here out of the scope of this article)

Benefits/Functions of Cholesterol:

1. Most importantly, Cholesterol is part of the Myelin Sheath – similar described as the coating on copper wire, this ensures the brain functions correctly by helping with the pasage of electrical impulses – aka, Brain Synapses (ie, the links/connections between nerve cells in the brain & elsewhere) are made almost entirely of Cholesterol. If we lower Cholesterol then this DIRECTLY affects our Focus & Our Memory

2. Helps the Liver & Gall-Bladder Produce Bile Acids – Cholesterol is the key component in Bile . Bile is used for Food Digestion & Digestions of Fats & ridding the body of waste.

3. Vitamin D – Everybody “knows” that the sun on our body/skin gives us one of the most powerful vitamins known to man – yet , this is ACTUALLY produced from Cholesterol by the Action of SUNLIGHT on our body – its one of the main vitamins for healthy humans but you can read about the benefits here)

4. Is used to produce certain Steriods and Hormones…You remember, the BIG 3 – Testosterone / Estrogen / Cortisone – also ncluding sex hormones – the body uses cholesterol to produce all these hormones

5. Stabilizes Cell Membranes – Cholesterol acts to interlock “Lipid Molecules” which stabilizes cell membranes – without this, all bodily tissues would disintergrate, therefore cholesterol is a Vital building block for all cells. (Just imagine that a house represents your body & the cement mix between each bricks, the cholesterol, no imagine if somehow you started to remove all the cement, yes, your house would collapse)

6. Benefits the Immune System – Cholesterol has massive beneficial effects on the immune system – Men with high cholesterol (like me) have stronger immune systems than those with lower cholesterol – as seen by the fact that they have more Lymphocytes / Total T-cells / Helper T-cells / CD8+ cells. Further many strains of bacteria which cause us to get sick, are almost totally inactivated by LDL Cholesterol (Hint on why I named this website Cholesterol-Warriors)

Ignoring all the benefits of Cholesterol, Skeptics / Pharmaceutical Industry / most doctors will still hold strong on the idea – most because it benefits their pockets, not their patients health or that simply most mean well but don’t know the Truth about Cholesterol….

(Read this article on what actually happens when you lower you cholesterol…)

Life would be too fragile & uncertain if we had to rely only on our food source to supply it – since is mostly in dairy & saturated fats, what would happen to example Vegetarians / Vegans if our body didn’t synthesize its own cholesterol?

On a different note – why do you think that an EGG YOLK is FULL of Cholesterol?

“Because it takes on hell of a lot of cholesterol to build a healthy chicken…” Let me explain: in Mammalian Fetuses (example, Humans) whos blood supply, ie, Cholesterol supply, is linked directly to the mother, Birds & reptiles must grow & develop entirely dependant on the nutrients contained IN THE EGG. Because as you have above, but I will repeat, Cholesterol is one of the most important elements for growth & development, therefore its abundantly present in Egg Yolks, & the whites are mostly protein…thats why eggs are SO HEALTHY for you to consume

Are you still NOT convinced? Do you still want to lower your cholesterol even with the above Information I have given you, then please read my other Blog articles or have a Look at my reference page for Further Reading Books…