Hi All.
Paul Jaminet wrote a series of Blog Posts on Cholesterol on his Website "Perfect Health Diet" in which he argues that Cholesterol Carrying Lipoproteins HDL, LDL, etc., play a more important role as Infection Fighting Molecules than the role to which they are normally assigned importance, as carrier proteins which carry Cholesterol to your cells. This is a theory which your average Dr has little idea exists and I think Paul makes a compelling case. Ive linked his five posts on the topic below for anyone interested.
Paul makes a number of arguments in this series.
1. These Lipoproteins may be more important as immune supporting molecules that fight infections than as carriers of Cholesterol which is how these Lipoproteins are normally understood.
2. There is compelling evidence that Higher Cholesterol Numbers equate with reduced mortality not Higher mortality and compelling evidence that the reason for this is because these Lipoproteins are great infection fighters and high levels of these Lipoproteins in the blood equate with higher infection fighting capacity, and since much disease is caused by underlying infection (s) according to Pauls position, it would make sense that Higher Cholesterol numbers would equate with reduced overall mortality which he argues they do.
Paul would argue that High Cholesterol Numbers (really Lipoprotein numbers) in persons suffering from Chronic Illness such as CFS/ME may be due to the bodys attempt to fight infections in the host by upregulating Lipoprotein production, in which case, high Lipoprotien counts in ones blood are precisely a good thing and what you want your body to do. This goes directly against conventional medical wisdom and your Doctors advice to lower your lipoprotein levels.
Here are the links to Pauls Posts on the subject. They are not long posts FYI. Pauls Comments in the Comment Section add insight on occasion.
http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2011/06/blood-lipids-and-infectious-disease-part-i/
http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2011/07/blood-lipids-and-infectious-disease-part-ii/
http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2011/04/hdl-and-immunity/
http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2011/04/hdl-higher-is-good-but-is-highest-best/
http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2011/04/how-to-raise-hdl/
Paul Jaminet wrote a series of Blog Posts on Cholesterol on his Website "Perfect Health Diet" in which he argues that Cholesterol Carrying Lipoproteins HDL, LDL, etc., play a more important role as Infection Fighting Molecules than the role to which they are normally assigned importance, as carrier proteins which carry Cholesterol to your cells. This is a theory which your average Dr has little idea exists and I think Paul makes a compelling case. Ive linked his five posts on the topic below for anyone interested.
Paul makes a number of arguments in this series.
1. These Lipoproteins may be more important as immune supporting molecules that fight infections than as carriers of Cholesterol which is how these Lipoproteins are normally understood.
2. There is compelling evidence that Higher Cholesterol Numbers equate with reduced mortality not Higher mortality and compelling evidence that the reason for this is because these Lipoproteins are great infection fighters and high levels of these Lipoproteins in the blood equate with higher infection fighting capacity, and since much disease is caused by underlying infection (s) according to Pauls position, it would make sense that Higher Cholesterol numbers would equate with reduced overall mortality which he argues they do.
Paul would argue that High Cholesterol Numbers (really Lipoprotein numbers) in persons suffering from Chronic Illness such as CFS/ME may be due to the bodys attempt to fight infections in the host by upregulating Lipoprotein production, in which case, high Lipoprotien counts in ones blood are precisely a good thing and what you want your body to do. This goes directly against conventional medical wisdom and your Doctors advice to lower your lipoprotein levels.
Here are the links to Pauls Posts on the subject. They are not long posts FYI. Pauls Comments in the Comment Section add insight on occasion.
http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2011/06/blood-lipids-and-infectious-disease-part-i/
http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2011/07/blood-lipids-and-infectious-disease-part-ii/
http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2011/04/hdl-and-immunity/
http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2011/04/hdl-higher-is-good-but-is-highest-best/
http://perfecthealthdiet.com/2011/04/how-to-raise-hdl/
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