01/10/2026
I was so brainwashed in my education to be a nurse and a nurse practitioner. Low fat was the push and personally I obeyed. I had a physician that I worked with who questioned why I never ate any egg yolks. Duh, "that is where all the cholesterol is". Then she said something that stopped me in my tracks. "Your brain is made up of mostly cholesterol, your body needs it". How could that be? I learned that eggs were bad for the body and should be limited. This DO physician was telling me the complete opposite. What was I to believe?
So when my body was unable to clear HPV and I underwent a hysterectomy, I decided the best thing for my body was to go vegan. Seriously, I was that brainwashed! I ended up having to add in dairy since I was dropping weight I didn't have to lose. I stayed vegetarian for quite some time until my body was so depleted I was the sickest I had ever been.
Thankfully, my eyes were opened around the time that I started eating meat again. And boy did my body crave it. I am still very picky with meat. I never really liked it as a kid or young adult so it has taken some time for me to eat different cuts of meat and actually enjoy it.
The food pyramid has been flawed for a long time. Our bodies need cholesterol for our brains and for the production of every hormone in the body. Cholesterol is not the enemy! Eating a highly refined diet full of seed oils, sugar and high carbohydrates is the enemy. We have to retrain our brain on what is actually healthy for our bodies and what is not. Society tells us what is healthy. Stop listening to the lies. There is not one valid study showing an increased risk of heart attack/stroke in a person who is eating a high animal diet. Actually, an increase in heart attacks started when the "experts" started telling people to stop eating butter and beef tallow and switch to seed oils. Some research actually show longer life expectancy in those with higher cholesterol levels. The normal cholesterol panel done in every clinic in America does not show us actual risk. What I look at when I order a lipid panel are the triglycerides. If those are elevated (>100), there is insulin resistance and a higher risk of cardiovascular disease. Not from the cholesterol, but from the insulin resistance in the body.
I am happy to see some changes to the recommendations of what we put in our bodies. This is a good first step. There will be pushback, but hopefully we keep trending in the right direction.