For almost 60 years, the treatment of cholesterol by traditional medicine has been based on a false premise.

By finding cholesterol deposits in the arteries of some people who have suffered heart attacks, scientists have established a cause and effect relationship without any proof or certified study.

Our organism is programmed to be able to repair a damaged tissue

We all know because it is visible the healing of the skin, but everywhere in our body there are similar repair mechanisms. The repair of a tissue inevitably passes through a transient inflammatory process that allows the establishment and delivery of repairing elements to the traumatized area. Thus, when an artery is damaged, the inflammatory process triggered for repair involves cholesterol.

Our heart, which pulses at about 60 to 80 beats per minute, is a very powerful pump that pumps blood into the aorta

The blood always hits the same spots that eventually develop micro-cracks. These micro-traumas will be repaired through an inflammatory process in which cholesterol is involved. It is thus under the scar of these repairs that the researchers found this diabolic molecule. It should be noted that in the 1950s, cholesterol was one of the only circulatory parameters that could be measured easily, i.e. by taking blood samples. Thus, the link between cholesterol and possible heart problems has been established without any scientific basis.

The synthesis of cholesterol by our body requires 36 biochemical steps

According to Professor Philippe Even, it is the most complex molecule in our body and the most difficult to manufacture to the point that it is never destroyed. This true indestructible diamond is a unique case in human physiology since all other molecules are destroyed after use.

The cholesterol constitutes a structural element essential to life for the simple reason that it constitutes a part of all cell membranes; yet without cell membranes there is no life possible. This structural role is particularly important for muscle cells, for example, which undergo strong physical constraints (contraction-stretching), but also for cells of the nervous system, the neurons, since they conduct all the information of the body. The second essential role played by cholesterol is its participation in the synthesis of hormones and neuromediators, but also in their membrane receptors. Without hormones, there is no life possible either.

In view of the essential roles that the cholesterol molecule fulfills, it is understandable that it should not be destroyed by chemical molecules such as statins except in cases of congenital hypercholesterolemia. This condition is rare and sufferers have cholesterol levels that can be as high as 10 g.

Such high cholesterol levels can obviously cause health problems. In this case, of course, statins are useful and even recommended.