Dr. Alan Bradford (@abnd)

Modern medicine has spent over 60 years telling us that cholesterol is a toxic mistake of human biology that must be medicated down to zero. Over 90 million Americans are on statins, yet heart disease, metabolic burnout, and cognitive decline are at all-time highs. Where did the war on fat and cholesterol actually start? It didn’t start with sound science. It started with Ancel Keys cherry-picking data to fit his agenda, and the sugar lobby literally paying off Harvard researchers in the 1960s (Project 226) to blame fat and hide the destructive truth about sugar. In this week’s episode of Think Well, Do Well, we’re cutting through the medical BS: • The Outdated Math: Why your basic lab panel uses a flawed 1970s formula (the Friedewald calculation) that artificially inflates LDL in healthy, lean people. • The Real Threat: Why excess sugar—not dietary fat—creates high triglycerides, fatty liver, and visceral gut fat. • God Didn’t Make a Mistake: Why your body requires cholesterol to synthesize Vitamin D, produce testosterone/estrogen, build brain tissue, and run cellular communication (lipid rafts). • The Actionable Tip: A simple ratio you can calculate at home using your current blood work to evaluate your real metabolic risk. Don’t just take my word for it. Test the research, check the studies, and watch the full video: https://youtu.be/PKGDIwKMOE8