Cholesterol Is Your Body’s Most Powerful Defence Against Toxins and Free Radicals
At first glance the title of this article may seem stunning to you, shocking or even jolting.
You have been told all of your life that cholesterol is either “good” or “bad” !! 
You have been told that elevated cholesterol is the cause of heart disease !!
These concepts are absolutely 100% false.
It may be true that patients with heart disease have high LDL levels (low density lipo-protein) and even high total blood cholesterol values. However a critical distinction must be made between the cholesterol in your blood versus the cholesterol in your tissues.
LDL and cholesterol present in your tissues are there to protect your cells from the damaging effects of toxins, inflammatory fatty acids and free radical activity.
For heart disease patients, high levels of LDL may be on the “scene of the crime” but LDL does NOT “pull the heart disease trigger”.
Cholesterol and LDL (the so called “bad” cholesterol) are in effect the patsies … the fall guys for the real offenders are :
ultra pathological conjugated fatty acids such as the leukotrienes and virulent free radicals such as the hydroxyl.
Cholesterol and other sterols are better described as “anti-fatty acids”. Other “anti-fatty acids” include sex hormones and corticosteroids such as cortisol. Anti-fatty acids protect your cells from the potentially harmful and damaging effects of pro-inflammatory fatty acids, which can undergo lipid per-oxidation and can generate tremendous amounts of free radicals.
Cholesterol’s anti-free radical activity in fact neutralizes the damaging effects of fatty acids and free radicals in the tissues.
LDL & HDL Delivers Cholesterol To & From the Tissues
LDL is not cholesterol, and it certainly is NOT “bad” like you have been 
LDL delivers cholesterol from your liver to your tissues. HDL removes cholesterol from your tissues and brings it back to your liver.
LDL (the so called “bad” cholesterol) is essential in order for your cells to make steroidal hormones from cholesterol such as: pregnenolone, testosterone, cortisol, progesterone, estrogen and DHEA.
Your body is incapable of functioning without LDL!
Since cholesterol is a primary antioxidant and free radical scavenger, LDL levels will increase when toxins and free radical activity is present and elevated in your tissues.
The Lipidic Defense :
Cholesterol, fatty acids, triglycerides and steroid hormones are the major components of the “lipidic defense”. The lipidic defense is the response to:
- Toxins
- Free Radicals
- Excessive Conjugated Fatty Acids
- Abnormal Cells
- Inflammation
- Damaged Cells
- Infections
- Cancer
The lipidic defence is the mechanism by which the body attempts to resolve disease processes, illness, allergies, infections and pathogens. It works in concert with your immune system. The lipidic defence is first initiated by the fatty acids such as leukotrienes, thromboxanes and prostaglandins.
While these fatty acids are released in response to internal stressors, toxins, or inflammation, these fatty acids can also result in dangerous free radical activity themselves. These free radicals are at the root of disease processes, including cardiovascular disease. The purpose of fatty acids such as leukotrienes (released by leukocytes or white blood cells) is to initiate the inflammatory process. They are lipid mediators. Damaged tissues and cells are removed by the free radicals these oxidized lipids generate.
Because of their inflammatory nature, these fatty acids must be controlled and neutralized. Cholesterol and the other “anti-fatty acids” are responsible for this. The ring structured double bond and various side chains of cholesterol distinguishes its anti-fatty acid capabilities.
Problems arise when the lipidic defence malfunctions.
Send In The Cholesterol Captain Liver
The liver makes more cholesterol and LDL is its carrier. Out they go to the tissues to do exactly as they’re supposed to do: halt the catabolic disintegration of cells that is taking place at the sites of inflammation.
This is why LDL values will increase after a tooth extraction, surgery and any activity that involves the damage of cells, all of which are inflammatory and catabolic by nature.
If inflammation, toxicity, free radicals and lipid peroxidation are not resolved, cholesterol will continually be sent out to quell the fire. At the sites of inflammation in the body, the virulent free radicals can directly and indirectly cause cholesterol and LDL to become “oxidized”. When free radicals cause cholesterol to oxidise, this decreases the density of the lipo proteins, allows the oxidized particles to pass through the epithelium and irritate blood vessels.
Here you have a vicious cycle that takes place.
Excess tissue cholesterol can become a problem. It can prevent the proper use of oxygen. But understand the path that it took to get there.
Once again, high levels of LDL and blood cholesterol may be found with people who have cardiovascular disease, but LDL and cholesterol are part of the defence mechanism to inflammation, not the cause of inflammation.
Source for this article:
“Research in Physio-patholgy as Basis of Guided Chemotherapy with Special Application to Cancer”, Emanuel Revici, MD
New push to give statins to children
Cholesterol meds for children! It just doesn’t get any nuttier than that — but new guidelines from the American Academy of Pediatrics call on docs to give kids statins… starting in the FOURTH GRADE!
Under the new rules, every single child in the country is to be screened for cholesterol between the ages of 9 and 11, and again between 17 and 21 (not coincidentally right before they fall off their parents’ insurance policies).
Kids with “high” cholesterol are supposed to get pumped full of statins, putting them at risk for everything from debilitating muscle pain to serious kidney and liver damage.
If those side effects aren’t reason enough to keep kids off these meds, consider this: There’s not a single study that shows statins help children — and no research that shows “high” cholesterol is even harmful to a kid in the first place!
Even the statin slingers at the CDC, who’ve never met a kid they couldn’t drug or vaccinate, admit that cholesterol levels in children fall on their own over time with no treatment at all.
It’s not too hard to figure out why: Children, especially little kids, need fat and cholesterol even more than adults. It’s critical to growth and development, especially in the brain and the rest of the central nervous system.
So the very idea of trying to reverse high cholesterol in children is scientifically unproven, medically unsound, and widely acknowledged as completely unnecessary — and yet the nation’s “leading” pediatricians are behind it 100 percent.
On the other hand, this is the same group that just called for giving dangerous stimulant drugs off-label to 4-year-olds who supposedly have ADHD — so at least they’re consistent.
Folks, you don’t need a crystal ball to see where this is going. Just as guidelines for cholesterol, blood pressure, diabetes and more were expanded to get more adults on meds for those conditions, they’re being stretched even further to expand the pharmaceutical market to include children.
Forget snack time — elementary schools are going to have to start setting aside “pill time” instead.