Once upon a time you got a diagnosis of high cholesterol and you began making end of life preparations.  If you are one of those that has one of those diagnoses, then you know what I’m talking about. The sad situation today is that people have all been conditioned to believing that lower cholesterol is desirable.  New research, however, shows exactly the opposite is true. A recent study in Norway says women with high cholesterol live longer and suffer from fewer heart attacks and strokes than those with lower cholesterol.  But don’t expect to see this widely publicized.  Big pharma spends $30 billion or more per year suppressing this kind of information.

Can High Cholesterol Really Save Your Life?
Researchers at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology looked at 52,087 individuals between the ages of 20 and 74. After adjusting for factors like age, smoking and blood pressure, researchers found women with high cholesterol (a reading of more than 270) had a 28 percent lower mortality risk than women with low cholesterol (a reading under 193). The risk for heart disease, cardiac arrest and stroke also declined as cholesterol levels rose.

The researchers involved in the study admit this contradicts commonly accepted beliefs about cholesterol. They say current guideline information is misleading because the role of cholesterol in heart disease is overestimated.

These results are diametrically opposed to what most of us have been led to believe about cholesterol. Our misconceptions about cholesterol may, in fact, be endangering countless lives. For instance, millions of people are prescribed statin drugs to lower their cholesterol levels, believing that this will save their lives. Not only do statin drugs come with a plethora of dangerous side effects, but now the very reason for their existence is brought into question.

Our focus on lowering cholesterol to prevent heart disease and mortality is misplaced and misguided. It also fails to serve in the best interest of our personal health and wellness. In fact, I begin to wonder at what point does a “belief” cease to be a belief and start to become a “delusion”?  My English professor friend tells me that a delusion is defined as:  “the steadfast defense of an understanding, regardless of overwhelming evidence that suggests the material facts supporting the belief are either erroneous or contrived.”

We already know that big pharma pressured Harvard Medical school into pushing Dr. Kilmer McCully out of his job when McCully first discovered that it was not cholesterol, but rather homocysteine, that was the problem with heart disease.  The real question is, how much more of this kind of behavior are we going to tolerate from our public employees at the FDA and in congress?

You future is really in your hands.  Don’t be sitting on them when you should be voting someone out of office!

I read an article today from the Canadian CTV news network.  I found the article to be incredibly ignorant and irresponsible.  I started to think about it more and more as I went through my day.  It occurred to me that people really can’t be this stupid.  There has to be some sort of agenda at work here.  Take a look at what this reporter wrote:

Many Canadians try herbal medicines in a bid for a natural way to better health. But some of these products lack warnings that they can cause dangerous effects when mixed with pharmaceutical medications if not used properly.

The reporter has it exactly backwards!  Since when does the ship tell the lighthouse to get out of the way?  If people are consuming healthy natural food, it is not the responsibility of the food growers to warn people that horribly acidic pharmaceutical drugs might interact with their food!  It should be assumed that people are eating well to stay healthy.  Drug manufacturers should be forced to label their drugs as incompatible with certain healthy foods.  Consumers should not sit by and let mainstream media do the dirty work for Big Pharma.  We need to get on these people and set their heads straight.

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Spirulina (Arthrospira platensis)

An planetary research junket has been underway for over 20 years. Scientists in Japan, China, India, Europe, Russia and the USA – are discovering how and why spirulina is so effective for human and animal health. Hundreds of published scientific studies reveal how spirulina and its unique phytonutrients boost the immune system and improve health at the same time. No other algae has been the subject of such focussed research.

The following information is taken from an interview with Robert Henrikson, author of the book “Earth Food Spirulina: How this remarkable blue-green algae can transform your life and our planet”, in May 1998. It was featured on the spirulina website (http://www.spirulina.com/).

More than 25,000 species of algae live everywhere – in water, in soils, on rocks, on plants. They range in size from a single cell to giant kelp over 150 feet long. Macroalgae are large like seaweeds and they are microscopic. Ocean microalgae, called phytoplankton, are the basis for the ocean’s food chain.

Spirulina is the richest source of beta carotene, with a full spectrum of ten mixed carotenoids. About half of these are orange carotenes: alpha, beta and gamma and half are yellow xanthophylls. They work synergistically at different sites in our body to enhance antioxidant protection. Twenty years of research proves eating beta carotene rich fruits and vegetables gives us real anti-cancer protection. Synthetic beta carotene has not always shown these benefits.

In addition, it is believed that because of the role antioxidants play in the control of “free radicals” in our bodies, spirulina has the potential to mitigate damage caused by radiation leaks like the one the world has just been exposed to with Japan’s nuclear crisis.

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