Why you need cholesterol and you are not "statin deficient"

Cholesterol, Blood Pressure & the Truth About Why Meds Aren’t Fixing the Real Problem

If you’ve ever been told your cholesterol is “too high” or your blood pressure is “dangerous,” you probably felt that familiar panic that sends people straight to medication.
But here’s the part nobody is talking about:

High cholesterol is not the enemy.
And for many people, taking meds for cholesterol or blood pressure does nothing to fix the underlying reason the numbers changed in the first place.

In fact, in most cases, these numbers shift because the body is trying to protect you.

Let me explain…

Your Body Never Makes a “Mistake” — It Adapts

When labs look “off,” instead of asking why, most doctors try to force the body back into range with a prescription. But your labs don’t tell you why something is off—they only describe the effect, not the cause.

And when it comes to cholesterol, the real story is almost the opposite of what you’ve been told.

Cholesterol: One of the Most Misunderstood Parts of Your Health

For decades, cholesterol has been painted as this villain lurking in your bloodstream ready to clog your arteries. But the research tells a completely different story.

We cannot live without cholesterol. It makes up nearly half of the cell membrane in many cells and gives your tissues structure and integrity. Without cholesterol, your cells would literally collapse.

Cholesterol is also what helps:

• Your brain function

• Your nerves fire

• Your hormones regulate

• Your immune system defend you

• Your tissues repair

The brain alone contains 25% of your cholesterol. You literally think with cholesterol.

Trying to lower cholesterol without understanding why the body raised it is like covering the “check engine” light with a sticker and hoping the car magically fixes itself.

The Truth: People With High Cholesterol Often Live Longer

This one shocks people, but it’s right there in the medical literature.
Multiple studies show that older adults with higher cholesterol live longer than those with low cholesterol.

As Weston A. Price Foundation research notes:

• In elderly adults, high cholesterol is not a risk factor for heart disease

• People with low cholesterol died twice as often from heart attacks compared to those with high cholesterol

• Total mortality is often lower for people with high LDL and high total cholesterol

Let that sink in.

LDL (“Bad Cholesterol”) Is One of Your Body’s Immune Defenders

This part should be front-page news, yet almost nobody hears it:

LDL binds to and neutralizes toxins—including some of the most dangerous bacterial toxins known.

Research shows:

LDL-cholesterol directly binds and inactivates dangerous bacterial toxins, preventing them from doing damage.
People with high cholesterol are four times less likely to contract AIDS, rarely get common colds, and recover faster from infections.

LDL protects your red blood cells from being destroyed by toxins like the MRSA-related Staphylococcus aureus toxin.

So when LDL rises, it may not be a “problem”—it may be your body stepping in to protect you.

Why on earth would we medicate that away without asking why it showed up?

What About Blood Pressure?

Blood pressure works the same way as cholesterol—your body adjusts it for a reason.

If your body is under stress, inflamed, overloaded with toxins, or fighting pathogens, blood pressure often rises as an adaptive response. It’s your body trying to maintain circulation, oxygen, and organ stability.

Lowering it artificially doesn’t remove the reason your body raised it.
It just forces the number down while the real issue keeps simmering underneath.

And yes—blood pressure meds can contribute to symptoms like depression, anxiety, fatigue, and electrolyte imbalance (including through calcium-blocking). That’s why so many people feel worse on these meds than before they started.

Statin Drugs: Why Lowering Cholesterol Creates Its Own Problems

Statins block an enzyme your liver uses to make cholesterol—something your body does constantly because it needs it to survive.

According to Weston A. Price Foundation research:

• Statins lower CoQ10, which your heart desperately needs

• Memory loss and brain fog are widely reported

• They increase risk for muscle weakness

• They’ve been linked to higher cancer rates in rodent studies

• Heart failure rates doubled in the statin era

And none of that fixes the real cause of your symptoms.

So Why Do Cholesterol & Blood Pressure Go Up?

Here’s where the mystery-illness perspective matters.

Your body doesn’t just “randomly” break.

It goes through 5 Layers to Illness, and cholesterol or BP changes are adaptations that happen way down the line:

1. Toxicity builds → inflammation rises

Your immune function gets overwhelmed.

2. Digestion gets compromised

You stop absorbing nutrients properly, including those needed for vascular health.

3. Allergic / inflamed immune response

The body becomes reactive and stressed.

4. Pathogens take advantage

Your body can’t fight bacteria/virus/fungus/parasites effectively. This is where LDL often rises to protect you.

5. Disease shows up in labs

Blood pressure shifts. Cholesterol changes. Hormones go off. Organs struggle.

By the time your numbers change, you are already in layer 4 or 5.

Your labs aren’t the origin. They’re the outcome.

Meds don’t eliminate:

• Toxicity

• Poor digestion

• Immune overwhelm

• Pathogens

• Inflammation

• Nutrient deficiencies

• Nervous system “blocking” or “switching” that prevents healing

They simply force your numbers into a range that looks “better” on paper while the actual problem keeps brewing underneath.

This is why people end up on more and more meds over time, feeling worse, with new symptoms nobody connects back to the original prescription.

So What Should You Do Instead?

You address the reason your body made the change.

You support its ability to:

• Fight infections

• Lower inflammation

• Detox properly

• Absorb nutrients

• Repair tissue

• Balance your immune system again

And when you fix the thing that pushed your numbers off, your labs usually normalize on their own—without needing to chase them.

I see this over and over:

People get off their BP meds.
People stop needing statins.
Their numbers improve because their body is no longer overwhelmed.

That’s what happens when you treat the source instead of the symptom.

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