09/04/2026
If you or a loved one has ever been told by a doctor that your cholesterol is “too high” and were handed a statin prescription, you need to watch this. 🩺
For decades, we’ve been told that dietary fat and cholesterol are public enemy #1 for your heart. But when you dig into the actual history and biochemistry, that narrative completely falls apart.
In the latest episode of Think Well, Do Well, I’m breaking down what your doctor might not be telling you about your cholesterol labs:
👉 The Harvard Sugar Payoff: How the sugar industry in the 1960s funded secret reviews to pin the blame on fat while letting sugar off the hook.
👉 The Lab Calculation Flaw: Why standard lipid panels don’t even measure your LDL—they use an outdated mathematical estimate that can give false alarms to healthy people eating low-carb diets.
👉 What Cholesterol Actually Does: It’s the essential building block for your s*x hormones (testosterone, estrogen, progesterone), Vitamin D production, brain cells, and cellular signaling.
👉 The Real Culprit: Why excess dietary sugar and processed carbs driving high triglycerides are the real drivers of fatty liver and metabolic stress.
I also share a simple math check you can do at home with your latest blood work (the Triglyceride-to-HDL ratio) to see where your metabolic health really stands.
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