My long term goal is to set up a farm using Permaculture methods, in the process of getting a DA to build a low energy (low running cost) home. Aim to be food self sufficient by 2018.
What people think a high cholesterol result means:
- There is fat in your blood
- It came from the eggs and the butter
- It is clogging your arteries as you read this
- Higher is worse, always, at every age
- The number is a measurement of your risk
- A doctor found something
What the test actually measured:
- Cholesterol your liver made on purpose, about a gram a day, more if you ate less of it
- A calculated estimate. LDL is arithmetic, not a count
- The taxi, not the passenger. LDL carries fat-soluble vitamins to every cell you own
- Over sixty, the highest number on the panel travels with the longest life in most cohorts anyone has studied
- A threshold set by a committee, lowered every decade, never once by a trial
- A well person, turned into a patient by a printout
Your body defends that number. The guideline attacks it. One of them has been running for two million years.
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