Cholesterol

     My patients have heard that eggs are no longer bad for them.  There has been Lots of confusion over this issue.  We do need cholesterol, children especially.  It coats all our nerve cells.  Our brain has to have lots of it to form properly. Cholesterol is also the building block for almost all other hormones that the body makes. It is so necessary, the liver makes it if need be.  What is wrong with eating animal products that all have 25 mg of cholesterol per ounce?  (Except for the yolk of an egg which has much more.)
     I heard an elegant little study that clarified things to  me.   There once were some bored graduate students, and a very good professor.  The graduate students asked if they could feed lab rats pure cholesterol, and their professor thought a moment and said, "Sure, I don't think that has been done before.  I have some in the closet back there.  Bring it to me."  When he looked at the cholesterol in this can that had been previously opened, he noticed that the cholesterol was a different color than when it was fresh.  The experiment took two weeks.  At the end of the time in which one group of rats ate only rat chow, and another group ate pure cholesterol, they were sacrificed and their coronary arteries were examined.  The rats that ate rat chow had clean coronaries.  The rats that ate only cholesterol had completely clogged coronaries.  The professor was very wise, and repeated the experiment with fresh cholesterol.  The result, both groups had completely clean coronaries.  The cholesterol in the first experiment was oxidized cholesterol.
    Adding air to animal products then is dangerous for us.  When is that encountered?  Anything with powdered egg or milk:  complete pancake mix for example.  Anything chopped and stirred a lot, perhaps ground meat is less healthy than sirloin steak.  Maybe the processed meats' known health risk has something to do with oxidized cholesterol, not only nitrosamines.  Another place would be powdered cheeses.  Uh-oh, hope you don't love parmesan.  Possibly whipped cream.
    I heard this study from Ned Nedley MD whose website is definitely worth checking out: www.drnedley.com  I wish there was more research to further clarify this.  Until then the use of at least 5 fruits plus vegetables a day (F+V) has been shown to reduce cardiovascular disease and stroke, so in part they are working as anti-oxidants.  As you know, I hope you will push that number up to 9 for the alkalinizing advantage.  I have even seen that some osteoporosis doctors are recommending 11.

dr.suz