我几乎对“专家”告诉我的每件事都做相反的选择。

我每天吃鸡蛋。我吃肥腻的红肉和培根。我用真正的黄油做饭。我在食物里加盐。我吃肝脏。我避免使用种子油。我不买低脂产品。我不计算卡路里。我吃到饱为止。我不吃零食。

是的，我的LDL胆固醇很高。

显然，单凭这一点就应该吓到我。

别管我的甘油三酯很低。或者我的HDL很高。而且我的血糖比我遵循“均衡饮食”建议时更好。

一个数字上升，突然我就被当作定时炸弹对待。

这种逻辑在我越深入研究胆固醇，就越让我觉得荒谬。

LDL不是“坏胆固醇”。你的身体故意制造胆固醇。

它利用LDL在体内运输能量、激素、脂溶性营养素和修复材料。

当你低碳水饮食并更多燃烧脂肪作为燃料时，脂质运输就会发生变化。当然会的。

但人们不是去问LDL为什么改变，整个讨论就变成了恐惧。

他汀类药物。低脂饮食。多吃碳水。避免红肉。

与此同时，遵循官方建议的人比以往任何时候都更超重、更糖尿病、更炎症、更依赖药物。

这应该引发比我的LDL数字更多的疑问。

我真心认为，人们被告知的胆固醇故事是有史以来卖给公众的最大健康恐慌之一。

你最近检查过LDL和甘油三酯吗？

I do the opposite of almost everything the “experts” tell me.

I eat eggs every day.I eat fatty red meat and bacon.I cook with real butter.I salt my food.I eat liver.I avoid seed oils.I don’t buy low fat products.I don’t count calories.I eat until I’m full.I don’t snack.

And yes, my LDL cholesterol is high.

Apparently that alone is supposed to terrify me.

Never mind that my triglycerides are low.Or that my HDL is high.And my blood sugar is better than when I followed the “balanced diet” advice.

One number goes up and suddenly I’m treated like a ticking time bomb.

That logic makes less sense to me the deeper I look into cholesterol.

LDL is not “bad cholesterol.”Your body literally makes cholesterol on purpose.

It uses LDL to transport energy, hormones, fat soluble nutrients and repair materials around the body.

When you eat low carb and burn more fat for fuel, lipid transport changes. Of course it does.

But instead of asking why LDL changed, the entire conversation becomes fear.

Statin.Low fat diet.Eat the carbs.Avoid the red meat.

Meanwhile people following the official advice are more overweight, more diabetic, more inflamed and more medicated than ever before.

That should raise more questions than my LDL number.

I genuinely think the cholesterol story people were given is one of the biggest health scares ever sold to the public.

Have you had your LDL and triglycerides checked lately?