The Cholesterol-Dogma is at Odds
with Key Phenomena in Cardiology
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Moreover, the following phenomena of cardiology fundamentally question the cholesterol-lowering dogma:
- Essentially all plaques in the human blood vessel system develop in the arterial system (arteriosclerosis). Plaques in veins - or venosclerosis - are unknown.
If high cholesterol levels would damage the blood vessel walls and thereby causing plaques, the veins and arteries must develop plaques at the same rate. This is not the case. - More than 90% of the plaques develop in the coronary arteries of the heart, a segment making up only one millionth (!) of the total length of the 80.000 mile long blood vessel system of our body.
A plumber knows: Bad water quality deteriorates the walls of the pipeline along its entire length, not just at a minute fraction of the system. - Animals – with few exceptions - don’t get heart attacks, while this disease is the number one killer in the industrialized world. Even in hibernating animals like bears cholesterol levels rise to more than three times of the average human blood levels – yet no hibernating species became extinct from an epidemic of heart attacks.
