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Hypercholesterolaemia and its management

BMJ 2008; 337 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.a993 (Published 21 August 2008) Cite this as: BMJ 2008;337:a993

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Keep the cholesterol up and carbohydrates down

20 years ago the normal values of cholesterol was between 4.4 and 8.8
according to my lab’s reference values. Cholesterol is necessary for
survival, brain function, membrane stabilizing, infection protection among
other things. Why should we change the natures own millennii old research?

Why is animal fat dangerous? Didn’t you drink your mother’s milk with
56 E% animal fat during the first months of your life? How can a nutrient
tested for very many generations be bad for you? If animal fat would be
bad for us, all mammals should have been extinct eons ago.

Why does a cow have four stomachs? Because she eats cellulose and
need those four stomachs to break down cellulose to glucose. The glucose
is transformed via acetic acid to fat and protein. So the cow is a very
good converter of carbohydrates to protein and fat. And, the cow collects
all vitamins and minerals she needs to be OK.

If you eat corn, the corn will exit the other way seemingly complete,
you can not digest one single molecule of cellulose. But you can eat meat
from the cow and you don’t need anything more but salt and water. Humans
have been hunters since at least 10 000 generations. We hunters just have
to eat meat, fish, egg and fat to stay healthy.

Also, how did we treat a diabetic 87 years ago? Well, in Sweden we
used fat pork and heavy cream stewed cabbage. The diabetic did not have
any symptoms of his disease, lived as long as any nondiabetic. And we had
more than a hundred years of experience.

Today we order diabetics to eat 60 % of all energy to be
carbohydrates, And then those poor diabetics need a lot of drugs including
insulin to try to keep the blood glucose level down. Why do we need 60 E%
carbohydrates when carbohydrates are nonessential? Protein and fat are
essential, that’s why we need them but we don’t need to eat one single
molecule of carbohydrates.

The world is inverted today. We eat carbohydrates which are
nonessential, we don’t eat fat which is essential, as well as protein.
We’ve better start thinking instead of doing what others tell us to do.

Competing interests:
Senior citizen and can tell the truth without being hit economically

Competing interests: No competing interests

08 September 2008
Björn Hammarskjöld
M.D., Ph.D.
SWE79291