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Cholesterol is not harming you. It is trying to make vitamin D.
Sunlight hits your skin. Cholesterol sitting in your skin cells gets converted into vitamin D3. That is the process. That is how your body has worked for hundreds of thousands of years.
Now look at what we do. We take statins to lower cholesterol. We put sunscreen on before we go outside. Then we test our vitamin D and act surprised when it is low.
We blocked the raw material. We blocked the sunlight. And we call the deficiency a mystery.
Vitamin D is not a vitamin. That name is a mistake that stuck. It is a secosteroid hormone. It acts on receptors in virtually every tissue in your body. Your immune system runs on it. Your mood depends on it. Your bones, your muscles, your ability to fight infection. All of it requires this one hormone that your body makes for free from cholesterol and sun.
I eat eggs, butter, meat, and liver. I go outside without sunscreen. My vitamin D is optimal. Because I stopped blocking the process my body was built to run.
The sun is not your enemy. Cholesterol is not your enemy. Forty years of bad advice is your enemy.
When did you last get your vitamin D tested?
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