Statins are mainly prescribed to people over 50 years of age in all industrialized countries, which is equivalent to about 30% of the population. Today, an estimated 200 million people worldwide are on cholesterol-lowering therapy.

When we know that each clinical trial costs the pharmaceutical industry 500 million dollars and sometimes more. It is obvious that any commercial company that carries out this type of study will present results in its favor... According to Professor Philippe Even and Michel de Lorgeril, cardiologist and researcher at the CNRS, the harmfulness of cholesterol is legendary and based on an error in medical thinking that has been around since the 1950s. The trials are falsified on many levels and this is probably why the pharmaceutical industry refuses access to these records.

In fact, when we take a closer look at the essential roles that cholesterol plays in our body, we realize that suppressing it and lowering its level excessively can cause real health problems.

So what are the roles of cholesterol?

It constitutes a real structural element of life in the simple fact that it participates in the cell membrane. Cellular membranes are partly made up of soft, flowing fats, but what makes these membranes strong, robust and permanent are the cholesterol molecules. This structural role is particularly important in certain tissues: muscular and nervous.

In order to coordinate all the actions of the body, there must be communication between the different parts of the body. There is a real cellular language transmitted by hormones, neuromediators and nerve impulses. The information transmitted and the chemical messengers are captured by cellular receptors whatever the organ system (sexual, immunity, digestion, sleep, etc.).

Cholesterol is the foundation of these cell receptors, because they are not attached anywhere on the membrane, but where there is cholesterol. In short, cholesterol is responsible for anchoring membrane receptors. Cholesterol reforms the rafts on which the proteins that allow the cells to communicate with the outside world are attached.

The fats (fatty acids) that come from our food are insoluble in the blood, so they must be taken over by transporters, one of the best known of which is glycerol, which attaches 3 fatty acids and will form triglycerides. The second carrier is cholesterol, we speak of esterified cholesterol. It is he who will distribute the fatty acids in the different parts of the body (cold, muscles...) according to the needs. All of the body's energy comes from burning fat. All our cells need fatty acids.

All steroid hormones are derived from cholesterol. The cholesterol molecule is used for the synthesis of cortisone or cortisol, estrogen and progesterone in women and testosterone in men. These substances are also involved in the transmission of information.

In short, below one gram of cholesterol, life is impossible. Certain tissues are therefore particularly sensitive to cholesterol reduction. Too little cholesterol inevitably leads to muscle, brain and nerve problems. What is incredible is that all these data are in the biochemistry books of the first year medical studies, that all the essential and vital roles of this noble molecule that is cholesterol are listed.

And yet this magnificent and complex molecule, a true crystal of life, continues to be demonized for nearly 40 years by all official health organizations and by the medical system as a whole. Whereas simple scientific curiosity should change the mind of any sensible and intelligent doctor or cardiologist.