The whole cholesterol thing is a hoax

There is no such thing as bad cholesterol

Dr. Martin on his own number:

Triglycerides TG and always get your number. Understand what your triglyceride numbers are. And I I love looking at triglycerides, but never independent of the other. For example, HDL, your cholesterol number. Medicine tries to lower your cholesterol. I'm trying to increase your cholesterol because I don't believe there's any such thing as bad cholesterol. That's me. I don't believe it. As a matter of fact, I'll give you another study just came out yesterday that I read. Okay, this is on the Minnesota let me read it to you, PubMed Minnesota coronary study, 22% higher risk of death for every 30 mg-dl drop in serum cholesterol. So, here's here's what the study said. Serum cholesterol goes down cardiac death goes up.

Dr. Martin, The Doctor Is In, Episode 1829, watch him say it

Cholesterol is your Amazon trucks

Dr. Martin on what cholesterol actually does:

The liver gets full, what happens? It sends triglycerides out of it into the bloodstream. Plus, now the triglycerides because there's no room in the liver. Your liver produces cholesterol. 85% of the cholesterol you make is made in your liver. Do you think it's important? You bet your boots. Because cholesterol is your Amazon trucks. It's it's sending out your hormones. What? Yeah. Even your thyroid hormones T4 is converted to T3 where mostly liver. And those hormones, men, your testosterone, ladies, your estrogen progesterone, they go through the highways and byways of your blood vessels off to your tissue.

Dr. Martin, The Doctor Is In, Episode 1727, watch him say it

Why they picked on LDL

Dr. Martin on 1987:

Where do you think cholesterol belongs? It belongs in your blood vessels. Why? Well, they're Amazon trucks. They're FedEx trucks. They're delivering they're delivering your hormones. You can't live without cholesterol. And I know it's hard to change the psyche of people. They've been so ingrained in medical school in nursing, in all of the healthc care field. I was trained even back in the 70s on cholesterol. That was before they even invented statin drugs. But we had guys around like Dr. Anel Keys saying cholesterol was at the root of heart disease. I didn't buy it. All I could think of is cholesterol. How can you live without it? Your your your brain is made up of cholesterol. Your your eyeballs got cholesterol. Every cell in your body's got cholesterol. Why? Why is that bad? Well, if it's H no, LDL. Why did they pick on LDL? Well, what year was it? 87 or 88? They got statin drugs and they could lower LDL. So, guess why they picked on LDL?

Dr. Martin, The Doctor Is In, Episode 1571, watch him say it

They made cholesterol a boogeyman

Dr. Martin on where the story started:

Oh, science never changes. Yeah, it does. And they made cholesterol a boogeyman. His name was Anel Keys. He was on the cover of Time magazine in 1962. And the whole cholesterol, don't eat eggs, you got cholesterol. Don't have butter, you got cholesterol. Don't eat red meat. They they just got cholesterol. Don't eat bacon because it's got cholesterol. Let's have our cereals instead. And the cereal companies the big food companies. And then the pharmaceutical industry found a medication called statin drugs that lower LDL cholesterol. And the rest is history, guys. Every cardiologist every physician since that time has been trained. I even got trained in my nutritional courses. I got trained.

Dr. Martin, The Doctor Is In, Episode 1825, watch him say it

Your brain is made up of cholesterol

Dr. Martin on the brain and hormones:

Because you're giving your brain the fuel it needs. You're giving your brain the cholesterol it needs. You're now delivering more hormones. And by the way, it's twofold. Hormones are twofold. Okay? Hormones are twofold because remember what I said, the higher your cholesterol, the more FedEx, Canada Post, Amazon trucks, whatever on the highways and byways delivering your hormones, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, and men.

Dr. Martin, The Doctor Is In, Episode 1554, watch him say it

I never bought that eggs were bad for you

Dr. Martin on what he was taught:

It was just starting the cholesterol hoax. But I didn't buy it. I never bought that steak was bad for you. I didn't buy it. I never bought for one minute that eggs were bad for you. I never bought it. I I to me it didn't make any sense that an egg which is full of nutrients which is you know one nature's perfect food while steak is better. I I never bought it. I was told it. Well, look at the fat in an egg. Look at the cholesterol in an egg. Yeah, it's good for you. That was me. Okay. And you must understand, I was taught differently.

Dr. Martin, The Doctor Is In, Episode 1575, watch him say it