482: Overcome Your Fear Of Cholesterol
Wise Traditions
Weston A. Price Foundation
4.7 • 2.2K Ratings
🗓️ 8 July 2024
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
When was cholesterol chosen to be the villain of good health? What is the history behind the campaign against cholesterol? Dr. Cate Shanahan, the author of "Deep Nutrition" and "Dark Calories", reviews the dark history of the misunderstanding related to this important nutrient. She discusses cholesterol's true (and important) role in hormone regulation and reducing oxidative stress.
Cholesterol is so important, actually, that Cate suggests that we should celebrate when our cholesterol levels are high!
Cate also answers the question: If cholesterol doesn't cause heart attacks, what does?
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| 0:00.0 | From the Westin A Price Foundation, welcome to the Wise Traditions podcast for |
| 0:10.4 | Wise Traditions in Food, farming, and the healing arts. |
| 0:14.0 | We are your source for scientific knowledge and traditional wisdom to help you achieve optimal health. |
| 0:20.0 | And now here is our host and producer Hilda LaBrautagore. |
| 0:27.0 | Hey, Hilda here. |
| 0:30.0 | Cholesterol actually functions as an antioxidant in the body. |
| 0:35.0 | Did you know that? |
| 0:36.0 | It is a critical building block for our cells as well. |
| 0:40.0 | It is on our side. |
| 0:42.0 | So why do we fear it? What's the history behind our |
| 0:46.0 | misunderstanding of cholesterol? This is episode 482 and our guest today is |
| 0:51.5 | Dr. Kate is the author of Deep Nutrition and her |
| 0:55.8 | latest book is Dark Calories. Today Kate reviews the history about our collective |
| 1:00.8 | fear instill by the campaign against cholesterol initiated in the 1950s. |
| 1:07.3 | As men in their prime, as she puts it, began to suffer heart attacks, investigations began, and cholesterol was fingered as the culprit. |
| 1:16.0 | Kate explains today what she believes was leading to the heart attacks in the first |
| 1:20.3 | place and how cholesterol is actually a hero in the body not the villain. |
| 1:26.8 | She goes into detail about its role in the body and why we should even celebrate when our |
| 1:31.7 | cholesterol levels rise. This is the third episode in a three-part |
| 1:36.2 | series on cholesterol. If you didn't get to hear the other two, check out the previous |
| 1:41.0 | two episodes recently published with Sally, |
| 1:43.2 | Fallon, and Dr. Tom Cowan on the subject. |
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