Posted on 04/19/2016 6:39:12 AM PDT by rickmichaels
http://www.drperlmutter.com/brain-needs-cholesterol/
Your Brain Needs Cholesterol
Cholesterol is vitally important for brain function. While your brain represents about 2-3% of your total body weight, 25% of the cholesterol in your body is found in your brain, where it plays important roles in such things as membrane function, acts as an antioxidant, and serves as the raw material from which we are able to make things like progesterone, estrogen, cortisol, testosterone and even vitamin D.
In fact, in a recent study available on the NIH Public Access site, researchers showed that in the elderly, the best memory function was observed in those with the highest levels of cholesterol. Low cholesterol is associated with an increased risk for depression and even death.
This understanding of the important role of cholesterol in brain function raises concern as we now see changes in recommendations for prescribing statin medication. Some estimates indicate that moving forward, the number of individuals taking statins to lower cholesterol in America may actually double! This presents a worrisome proposition for brain health.
The nutrition Gestapo did their “science” the way Global Warming partisans do now: pick the data to obtain the desired outcome.
I may go to back to whole milk.
That food pyramid is the result of an unholy alliance between the global-warming fools and the animal-rights fanatics.
What a bunch of BS!
When I was about seven, I convinced the babysitter that I was allowed to make popcorn in the popcorn popper. So, while she watched TV with my younger brothers, I went out to the kitchen to pop us some popcorn. Unfortunately, I couldn't find the cooking oil. But I did know that there was some mineral oil in the bathroom .. oil is oil, right?
One of the worst mistakes I ever made in my life.
Accepted science just cant be wrong. Tell me it isnt so.
Weve used pure butter for as long as I have been married. After 4 decades of marriage and more than 6 of living no problemo for either of us.
Royal Navy served a version (kye) to the watch-standers of hot chocolate with butter/coco butter added.
I sure do. I remember when Parkay in a tub was a new thing. I’ve never been a big user of butter or margarine. On the occasion I do order breakfast in a restaurant, I always get the toast dry. If I get a biscuit, it will be covered in gravy.
2 Things in this world, I can’t live without. One of them is butter.
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