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Nobody tells you what it actually found.

1987 JAMA paper. 30-year follow-up. People whose cholesterol FELL had higher death rates. Not lower. Higher.

Each 1 mg/dL drop per year = 11% higher death rate. 14% higher cardiovascular death.

After 50, falling cholesterol didn’t save lives. It predicted who died next.

The researchers weren’t even sure why. They floated it might be hidden illness driving cholesterol down, not the other way round.

That uncertainty got dropped. The “get your cholesterol down” message did not.

The famous “healthy” targets everyone quotes? Never came from Framingham. They came later, from committees, then got glued onto the original study like it proved them.

It didn’t. It’s sitting in JAMA, public, unread, since 1987.

Go check it yourself before you argue about it with your centralized MDs or re**rd army.

One of the biggest nutrition myths I still hear is: "Salt is bad for you." It's a little more complicated than that. Your body was designed to need sodium. Every heartbeat, every nerve impulse, every muscle contraction depends on it. What often gets overlooked is that the type of salt and the overall dietary context matter. There is a difference between a home-cooked meal made with whole foods and a pinch of minimally processed sea salt... ...and a diet built around ultra-processed foods, where most Americans get the majority of their sodium. As a functional medicine physician, I encourage patients to think beyond a single nutrient and look at the whole picture. ✔️ What foods are providing the sodium? ✔️ Are you eating enough potassium- and magnesium-rich whole foods? ✔️ Are you sweating regularly? ✔️ Are you supporting your body's hydration and electrolyte balance? For many women in perimenopause and menopause, these questions become even more important as hormone changes affect hydration, exercise tolerance, and overall resilience. Health isn't about fearing food. It's about understanding it. I'd love to hear from you... 👇 Did you grow up believing all salt was unhealthy, or has your perspective changed? If this helped simplify a confusing topic... ❤️ Like this post 📌 Save it for future reference 📤 Share it with someone who's still afraid of the salt shaker ➕ Follow along as we continue through the 4 S's of Foundational Health—simple, evidence-informed habits that help your body thrive the way God designed it. Grace and peace, friends. 🤍 #FunctionalMedicine #RootCauseHealth #Perimenopause #AncestralHealth References National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine. Dietary Reference Intakes for Sodium and Potassium. 2019. DiNicolantonio JJ, O'Keefe JH. Sodium intake: not too much and not too little. Prog Cardiovasc Dis. 2016. Mattes RD, Donnelly D. Relative contributions of dietary sodium sources in the U.S. diet. J Am Coll Nutr. 1991. (Supported by more recent CDC and FDA analyses showing most sodium comes from processed and restaurant foods.) U.S. Food & Drug Administration. Sodium in

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How industrial oils (canola, cotton seed, soy, etc) negatively impact mitochondrial function.

A genetic predisposition to cancer can exist. However lifestyle choices determine whether those genes are expressed.

Cancer Not Genetic, Mitochondrial Metabolic Disease Says Dr Thomas Seyfried | Cate Shanahan MD posted on the topic | LinkedIn What is a carcinogen? A paper by Dr Thomas Seyfried, who works at Boston College, is about to come out that should make a lot of noise. He says cancer is not genetic. It is a mitochondrial metabolic disease, and he has already published a lot of his own studies showing this, so my guess is the new p...

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