Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Dietary Cholesterol Has Minimal Impact on Blood Cholesterol for Most People #shorts

2 Jun 2026 · 1 min

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Dr. Aaron Hartman says dietary cholesterol barely affects blood cholesterol in 75% of people. Refined sugars and carbs drive cholesterol levels instead, not dietary fat. Medical guidance since the late 1970s got this wrong, he argues, contributing to rising heart disease and obesity.

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Dietary cholesterol has almost no impact on your blood cholesterol. Let me repeat that again. The dietary cholesterol you consume has a minimal impact. Dietary cholesterol has relatively small or minimal impact on your blood cholesterol. Did you know that? And that was actually definitely put out in 2020, a study. But this study showed that dietary cholesterol had a minimal impact on the cholesterol for 75% of population. Blood cholesterol is primarily driven by refined sugars, refined carbohydrates that trigger your body's inflammatory systems and inflammatory process that results in your body making more cholesterol. Think about that. That came out, was published in 2020. This information's been out for quite some time. Physicians in any way of the world know this for quite some time, and yet our healthcare system gave us bad information about healthy fats, bad information about healthy cholesterol for half of a century. Think about that. '77 till now. That's a long, long time to get something wrong. What's been the, what's been the effect? Increased heart disease, increased obesity, increased cancer. So how can you protect yourself against these blind spots? We're going to talk about that a little bit more as we learn about more of these blind spots. We have a lot of resources on our website, educational tools, resources, food sourcing guides, a whole bunch of things. But if you want to avoid these blind spots, you really have to be educated. We'll also talk about blind spots. How dangerous are they? Find out soon.