The cholesterol theory on heart disease is now an old wives tale....

The cholesterol theory on heart disease is now an old wives tale. We have been lowering cholesterol for about 35 years now, and heart disease marches on unabated. If the populations had never latched onto the belief that cholesterol causes heart disease, statin drugs would have never been developed. After all, if there is no market for it, why develop it? But we ( including myself) believed that cholesterol was an evil villain ready to strike us dead if we didn't control serum levels of this deadly substance. WE WERE WRONG! Cholesterol is very important in maintaining proper nerve and muscle function. Cholesterol plays an important role in the production of steroid hormones including testosterone.