Aaron Hartman, MDFunctional Medicine Specialist | Clinical Researcher

Dr Pamela Smith | Cholesterol_ Essential, Not Evil!

21 Nov 2024 · 1 min

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Dr Pamela Smith argues cholesterol isn't the problem, inflammation is. When cholesterol becomes inflamed, it causes heart disease. Statins work by reducing inflammation, not lowering cholesterol, and inflammation drives most disease after age 42.

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After the age of 42.

180.

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Is inflammation of cholesterol that causes heart disease. And statin drugs working by decreasing inflammation, because inflammation does cause most disease after the age of 42. So it's not evil to have cholesterol. Your cell membranes are made of cholesterol. We just don't want them to be inflamed. But ideally, 140 to 160, 140, 180, certainly I'm 70, so the perfect level for me, per a functional medicine cardiologist, would be 180, not inflamed.

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