High Cholesterol does NOT Cause Heart Disease!

High Cholesterol does NOT Cause Heart Disease!

High Cholesterol & Heart Disease: Video Overview

In this discussion of high cholesterol and heart disease, Amandha Vollmer (ADV) challenges conventional interpretations of cholesterol and explains the holistic framework she uses when thinking about cardiovascular health. She presents cholesterol as an important substance involved in hormones, tissue repair and other physiological functions, and argues that elevated cholesterol should be considered alongside inflammation, oxidation, vessel injury, nutrition and lifestyle rather than viewed as an isolated problem.

Amandha strongly criticizes statin use and discusses the nutrient depletions, cognitive effects and other adverse effects she associates with these medications. She also discusses atherosclerosis, LDL and HDL, oxidized cholesterol, CoQ10, magnesium, vitamins, flax and omega-3 oils, turmeric and ginkgo. The presentation includes viewer comments and a personal story about her father’s high-cholesterol diagnosis. These therapeutic and causal statements remain Amandha’s perspectives from the recording.

The video closes with discussion of eggs, salt, tap water and self-directed health research. Amandha also cites the 1981 Serum Cholesterol and Mortality: the Yugoslavia Cardiovascular Disease Study as part of the research she uses to support her interpretation of cholesterol and mortality.

High Cholesterol & Heart Disease: What You’ll Learn

  • How Amandha describes the physiological roles of cholesterol in hormones, tissues and repair
  • Why she interprets elevated cholesterol through inflammation, oxidation and vessel injury
  • Amandha’s criticism of statins and the nutrient depletions she associates with their use
  • Her perspective on LDL, HDL and the distinction she makes between oxidized and non-oxidized cholesterol
  • How she describes atherosclerosis and the relationship between plaque, damaged vessels and cardiovascular events
  • The nutrient and lifestyle strategies she discusses, including CoQ10, magnesium, vitamins, omega-3s, flax and turmeric
  • Reported cognitive and other statin side effects discussed during the presentation
  • The cholesterol and mortality research Amandha references at the end of the video

Important Context & Safety

Educational context: This video presents Amandha Vollmer’s perspectives, personal experience and interpretation of cholesterol, statins, atherosclerosis, inflammation, nutrition and the research she cites. The recording contains strong claims about high cholesterol, cardiovascular disease and statin harms. These statements remain Amandha’s statements from the original presentation and should not be interpreted as individualized medical advice.

The video explicitly tells viewers taking statins to dispose of their medication and later discusses supplement amounts, cognitive symptoms, cardiovascular disease and pregnancy. Medication decisions are higher-risk and should not be made from this recording alone. Anyone taking a statin or another prescription cardiovascular medication should review medication changes with an appropriately qualified prescriber or pharmacist.

Medical emergencies: Information in this video should not be used to delay emergency assessment or treatment for symptoms of stroke, heart attack, serious head injury or another medical emergency.

Full Video Transcript

Transcript note: This transcript has been lightly edited for punctuation, spelling and readability while preserving the speakers’ meaning and conversational format.

Introduction: Cholesterol, Mortality, and Statins

Amandha: So I wanna do a little live Facebook chat that I will put on YouTube after the fact. And I wanna talk about cholesterol and, yeah, isn’t it, wild what I just said, not only does cholesterol not cause heart disease, but people with high cholesterol actually live the longest Uh-huh you heard me so the people who die younger have the lowest cholesterol.

Amandha: Now, this is 15 studies following thousands of people with low cholesterol who died young. I can link that study for you. I can link one of the studies, and then all the information I’m talking about here, I will have papers and studies that back it up. Okay? So at least 15 studies exist that, in my interpretation, show low cholesterol increases mortality rate.

Amandha: So then you gotta go, oh, wait a second. All these statins I went to my doctor and I had high cholesterol and they gave me a statin. So then if they’re giving me a statin and they would know this information. I mean, this is literature that is studied. You can go find it at will. It’s not hard to find.

Amandha: There’s a great book called The Cholesterol Myth Out there, you could read. All the studies are in there. I mean, the data is evident. It’s there, it’s readily available to all who wish to just do a little search, right? So that means maybe there’s an actual agenda to kill off our elderly population with these statins, because that’s exactly what they’re doing.

Amandha: So if you are on a statin right now, walk over to your medicine cabinet, take it off the shelf put it in your purse or your pocket and walk or drive over to your nearest pharmacy and give it to them and say, please dispose of this absolutely toxic poison responsibly. Have a nice day that’s the best advice I can give you for your health.

Amandha: And I’m going to now talk about what cholesterol is all about. What’s the big idea with this sudden myth of having to lower cholesterol? I don’t have too much time, so I’m going to try to cram everything in, and then talk about what to do about it. How can we actually balance out our blood and become healthy and not have these issues?

Amandha: Okay. Alright. So, and again, this information I will post for you and where I got it from. I’m not new, like this information’s not new. I’m not. Just making this up or whatever, like I’m just taking existing information and presenting it to you. That’s really all I’m doing, you know, as a service, I guess as, and also I’m kind of in shock continuously when I just hear the stories of people and the stuff that they’re getting put on from their doctors and I’m just, I’m quite stunned.

Amandha: So obviously there needs to be more outreach going on in this field to dispel some of these myths. I mean, statins should be pulled. They should be pulled from the market. They’re doing far more harm than good. If there’s any good, that’s debatable. They’re killing people.

Amandha: Literally, they’re causing heart disease. Uh-huh,, they’re causing heart disease. So that’s ironic. They are leading to Alzheimer’s neurodegenerative disorders all types of depression and anxiety nevermind the depletions that they cause in the body. So they cause CoQ10 to deplete. Vitamin D is not readily absorbed by the sun.

Amandha: If you’re on a statin, you actually can’t, you go out to the sun, you’re not gonna absorb vitamin D from the sun. Yeah. Did your doctor tell you that when you walked out? I don’t think so. You know, it depletes vitamin C I mean, there’s three B vitamins that now are more required because the homocysteine levels are never dealt with, which is usually cause of a lot.

Amandha: The challenges in the first place. So that’s B6, B12, and folate. They’re not giving you those. And the other thing is, this is years old. For me in the medical profession, I knew that. I had a book that showed each drug and what nutrients it depleted.

Amandha: Okay. This is well established; this is well-known information. So if you’re going to a doctor and they are prescribing something for you and they’re not telling you that it depletes certain nutrients, I would say that’s grounds for a lawsuit, don’t you think? I mean, they’re setting you up to be nutritionally deficient.

Amandha: And with statins, it’s CoQ10. There’s more. There’s vitamin E as well; it depletes vitamin E. But CoQ10, if you go too low in CoQ10, which is ubiquinol, it’s part of your electron transport chain, which keeps your ATP production going. You could die for real, you know? So they should go, ‘Oh, here, by the way, here’s also CoQ10.’ I like this one.

Amandha: Genestra CoQ10 100. Sorry, the lighting’s not good here today. Anyway, I’ll put everything in the description, the supplements that I recommend. They should be here. Here’s your CoQ10. Oh, you’re on this stupid retarded statin. Here’s your CoQ10, because it depletes that and could actually give you a heart attack.

Cholesterol, Inflammation, and Atherosclerosis

Amandha: Yeah. Okay. So cholesterol does not cause heart disease. Cholesterol is like a backbone for your hormones. For a lot of your enzyme systems. Your body like lives and needs cholesterol for many functions. It rebuilds tissues that way. Like if you cut yourself and you get a scar, you actually bake cholesterol in the scar tissue.

Amandha: Like if you were to take that and assay it and figure what’s in. There’s cholesterol in that. Cholesterol is like your patch for your wounds, for healing. Now what is the crisis going on here of health? What’s really going on with heart attacks and strokes and, well, it’s pretty simple actually.

Amandha: It’s diseases of inflammation and diseases of oxidation. Okay? It can really be boiled down to that. And then the rest of the diseases fall under diseases of the immune system, and then you have genetic disorders. Okay? But that’s the main stuff. So you’ve got an inflamed — not just, ‘I’m inflamed right now.’

Amandha: I’m so angry you have that, but you, but I’m talking like The body is under an inflammatory process that it can’t corral, it can’t come back down from, and so we’re obviously stressed, not sleeping right. under lots of different pressures. Drinking coffee, smoking cigarettes, you know, all kinds of alcohol, pop, fast foods, trans fats, like it’s pretty clear what the epidemic really is.

Amandha: And popping a pill like that, like a statin, is not gonna solve that. It’s not gonna take that away, so it’s never being addressed. So really the issues around the heart and so is chronic inflammation. So then when we see cholesterol rising we, what’s understood as far as holistic medicine and principles and holds true in the field and experience is that you have an intima or you have a vessel that is damaged.

Amandha: So it’s either calcific, calcified, so it’s rigid and not able to pump properly and move. Then you have particles or other things, or infections. Chronic infections also cause inflammation — chronic inflammation — floating around in the blood, nicking the walls, embedding in the walls of the vessels, causing micro-abrasions and injury.

Amandha: Okay, so the micro-abrasions are basically bleeding from the inside. Now, what could we have in the body that’s kind of like a Band-Aid, that could come along and prevent our vessels from blowing out into a vascular stroke? Oh, wait, cholesterol does that. Fancy — that amazing cholesterol coming in to help us not die.

Amandha: Oh man. And then here we go to the doctor and then they give you, oh, or your cholesterol’s pretty high. I think we should lower that down. Actually, doctor, my cholesterol is high because I’m inflamed chronically by a subclinical infection, stress, or a malnutrition.

Amandha: And other issues going on in my lifestyle that maybe need to be addressed.

LDL, HDL, Oxidation, and Dietary Fats

Amandha: That’s why I have cholesterol through the roof. And anyway, there are different kinds of cholesterol. Most of it’s bunk, like the LDL, the HDL, all these little categories. Mostly it’s all made up by the Heart and Stroke Foundation and their cronies in the big business world.

Amandha: To make you all confused. But really, it’s a difference between: do you have oxidized cholesterol or non-oxidized cholesterol? Okay? So that’s really the difference. Are you eating trans, crappy fats and all that? All that type of food is causing homocysteine levels through the roof and creating a lack of antioxidants running through your blood.

Amandha: Yeah. Okay. You’re going to have the crappy kind of cholesterol, and guess what? Low, high, anything — if you’ve got that, that’s not good. That’s not your helpful kind of cholesterol. But if you take flax oil — the one I like, again, it might not be able to see it very well — the one I like is this Panaseeda one.

Amandha: It’s in Miron glass, which is this beautiful purple glass that helps keep the product from going rancid. This is beautiful organic flax. If the flax is in plastic, or it’s the stuff you get on the shelf at the grocery store, most of the time the second you open it, it’s rancid within a couple of days, and you really don’t want rancid oils.

Amandha: So this is the one I like. It’s actually not cold-pressed; it’s another method that’s even better than cold-pressed, and it’s organic and all that. It’s a wonderful oil. Even if you open it and close it, it’s not going to oxidize very much anyway.

Amandha: So flax oil, fish oil, omega-3s, those are the things that help your cholesterol become more into the antioxidant side of the category.

Amandha: So again, I’m going to post the information for this so you can go and do your own follow-up research if you want to learn more about it. So that’s really the difference here between the good and the bad cholesterol. We’re talking about oxidized versus non-oxidized. Okay? Inflammation is rampant.

Amandha: And here we have these people never dealing with inflammation and they’re just drugging themselves and they’re dying young and dementia. And then one drug leads to the other and off they go. I mean I think it’s kind of like eugenics or something really. It’s got to be because this this is not coming from truth.

Amandha: If doctors and the industry were really doing their work and like looking at these studies,, they would be like, they’d be like, they would have a council, they would have like a round table. They’d be like, we gotta stop this nonsense. And this is still going on. I mean, I felt like this 10 years ago, and it’s still happening.

Cholesterol Ratios, Viewer Comments, and Statin Concerns

Amandha: People are still being thrown on statins. Oh my gosh. It’s absolutely mind-boggling. I’m just going to quickly look. I see there are some comments here. I just wanted to see if I missed anything. ‘Your brain needs cholesterol.’ Absolutely. Yeah. The LDL/HDL — I don’t know if I have time.

Amandha: But the LDL HDL difference, again, they’re just, they’re looking at ratios and they’re looking at, like the liver controls and produces the cholesterol. Right. So, and it’s funny, when I was studying it in naturopathic college, I didn’t quite like, you know, when something feels like it’s not right, it was one of those things for me, like I could never get it.

Amandha: You know what I mean? Like I’m smart. I was like, okay, I can understand these things. These make sense. This is logical. This is very black and white. The way it’s explained, the cholesterol stuff. I was like, why do I have to do these weird ratios and these cutoff marks and you know, it’s just a ploy.

Amandha: It was just a design that was made that said, well, this is an acceptable amount because this is the level in which we can drug these people. So when it came down to it, it didn’t really make a lot of sense, which the high and the high being, you know, you’re better in the, you know, your low LDL, you didn’t want, you know, it was the bad, the good versus bad cholesterols.

Amandha: And then there were the other the minor cholesterols or the minor fats, which is really their fat based. And it was all done in a calculation, and then that calculation based on your weight and your age and things were also implicated. So it was more of a design system made for cutoffs for people, whether they were considered higher, low risk based on all kinds of parameters and science that really don’t hold water.

Amandha: For me, I was like, this is just something where I’m going to scare the crap out of someone if I say, ‘Oh, this is pretty high, but this one’s low. So the LDL is okay. It’s not too bad, but we should really monitor that and we should…’ It’s just all bullshit.

Amandha: Like, I really just don’t find the validity in it.

Amandha: And to be quite honest, I haven’t even, it felt so wrong to as a reality. I didn’t even reinvestigate it more than a few more times after. It just didn’t, it just didn’t sit with me as even helpful. I wasn’t helping anybody. Right? So what was helping people was me going, holy crap, you’re inflamed.

Amandha: Your liver’s congested, your kidneys are under-functioning, you’re malnourished, you don’t have enough magnesium, you don’t have enough iodine, you don’t have enough B vitamins, you’re vitamin C deficient. And then supply those things and they get better. Change the diet, work with the diet, cleanse them of parasites.

Amandha: You have a healthy person. It’s really not that difficult, honestly. Okay. Yes. You have to know things. Sure. Great. Okay. I get it. But I mean, in and of itself, these things are not this complicated. And the LDL HDL story was just, it was too convolute. It just felt like if I can’t grasp it as a practitioner, like really deep down, like when I delve down into that’s not really holding water for me.

Amandha: I don’t think I’m feeling right about that, using that on patients. Right? So, okay, another comment: ‘Statin medications are bad drugs and so many folks are wrongfully placed on them. Crestor precipitated a condition of short-term memory loss.’ Ah. In this particular person speaking, that did not reverse when they stopped the drug.

Amandha: Yes. And that and good point. Cause I read in the article, I’ll post for you exactly that, that some people, when they stop the drug, they revert, they’re fine. Like they don’t have side effects anymore. And some people continue to have the side effects even after they stop the drug. And that is alarming.

Amandha: If you cannot reverse, you know, a drug. That’s very scary. And again, you’re not getting told this in the doctor’s office, that if you stop this drug it, you know, if you have a side effect that could be permanent or that could be something you’re really gonna struggle with for many years down the road, they just don’t prepare people for what’s actually happening when they do this.

Amandha: It’s really disappointing. It’s really disappointing that there are that many amoral doctors that just don’t care. This is a field that is supposed to be called healthcare, and really the health is missing and the care is missing. So, another post: it’s a really great little four-pager on Beyond Health.

Amandha: It’s on BeyondHealth.com, and it’s just a little summary of The Cholesterol Myth by Raymond Francis. Excellent work, talking about the studies and so forth; talking about how the French have the highest average cholesterol in Europe — they’re around the 250 mark — but they actually have the lowest incidence of heart disease and about half the heart attacks seen elsewhere.

Amandha: And they’re just not seeing the correlation. They’re not seeing the heart attack, high cholesterol correlation with the heart attacks. It’s just not happening. So, and actually half of all heart attacks happen in people that have normal cholesterol levels. So lowering cholesterol just, it doesn’t improve health outcomes at all.

Amandha: So it really is just a, an agenda pushing kind of drug. It only harms and doesn’t help. And so it really should be finished. It should be. Someone needs to do a lawsuit or something and just get it off the market. But there’s like 20 million Americans, and I don’t even know where Canada sits in this.

Amandha: Taking a statin drug, that’s a, that’s big business. 20 million. 20 million people on a fraud. Wow. That’s embarrassing. Embarrassing to healthcare. Embarrassing to anyone who knows anything about health. I mean, if I knew that and I didn’t, you know, if I was a doctor and I found that out, I would be making waves.

Amandha: But of course they can’t because they’re licensed and they’re gagged, and if they say anything they’ll be pulled, they’ll be stripped, they’ll be life-threatened or whatever. I mean, it’s ridiculous. We have these big pharma goons running around, bossing everyone around and trying to own everything. What a mess.

Atherosclerosis, Inflammation, and Nutrient Support

Amandha: What a mess. Right now we have atherosclerosis, and that’s the main cause of heart attacks and strokes. Now that’s accumulation of the fatty plaque that I was just talking about, right? So we have fatty plaque. Because you have the nicking in the walls and that’s coming over to try to stop these, the blood, you know, from bleeding out and so forth.

Amandha: But then what can happen over time, if that’s not addressed, it can actually narrow the walls. So this is where we get into to problem. This is when someone has chronic inflammation and the fat’s laying down you’re going to get actual artery blockage, and that’s gonna lead to heart attack or stroke in that regard.

Amandha: So of course you, you want to deal with that problem, but that’s not cholesterol’s fault. You see? So getting rid of the cholesterol isn’t getting rid of the problem, okay? It’s not the root cause of what’s going on. So see, what the fools did is they go, oh look, this person had a heart attack. They have all this fat around their heart.

Amandha: Let’s look at that. Let’s assess what that is. Oh it’s made of cholesterol. Oh, then it’s cholesterol’s fault that this person had a heart attack that has atherosclerosis and died. Yeah. That, and that’s where the cholesterol theory came from, and was this kind of lack of clear thinking and follow through and lack of science and rigorous study.

Amandha: What a bunch of crap. Right. And did you know that cholesterol, you know, is a true antioxidant? Meaning it, it rules the body as an antioxidant. So it’s a healing molecule. So, so they couldn’t go, oh wait, there’s like chronic inflammation in this person. They ate like crap and they had stressful diets and all this stuff, and they had issues in their blood viscosity and they had calcifications in their walls or their arteries and oh, maybe that could have been what led to the cholesterol, which came in as a rescue.

Amandha: To try to save this person. Maybe it’s a good guy and not a bad guy. Maybe we’ve got to just think a little bit more here, right? Maybe this is just a normal, natural response to tissue damage. Right? It’s just so blind. It’s actually quite simplistic thinking to think that just because you find cholesterol in the area, that’s what’s at fault.

Amandha: You know what I mean? It’s like okay, that sometimes it’s really obvious like that. Like, oh I walk into a scene and I see like crayons on the floor and I see a bunch of you know, paper and mess. Yeah. I think my daughter was in here, you know, drawing with crayons and making a mess. I could probably deduce that by the evidence that I’m witnessing.

Amandha: But then there are things that are just not so obvious that require a little more Sherlock kind of thinking. That’s why the smart people are supposed to be in healthcare, right?? Yeah. Okay. So inflammation, oxidation if you get that under control, you will naturally lower cholesterol. Like that’s your goal.

Amandha: So if your doctor’s freaking out and saying, ‘Okay, well, I’ve got to get my inflammation and oxidation under control, and here’s how I’m going to.’ I’m going to use topical magnesium because magnesium helps to control the calcification issue that’s inside my blood-vessel walls and inside the tissues and arteries.

Amandha: It’s hardening them. I’m going to balance that out with topical magnesium because if I ingest magnesium, I’m not going to absorb very much, so I’d better put it on my skin, which absorbs almost a hundred percent, and I don’t get the runs. Okay, good. I’m going to up my other antioxidants like vitamin E, vitamin D, vitamin C. For someone like that, I’d probably high-dose vitamin C, maybe even nine grams, do up to bowel tolerance and then back off a gram, and that’s their daily dose.

Amandha: I like The Right C because it’s reduced and buffered. It’s sodium ascorbate. And don’t worry — actually, my next video I’m going to talk about hypertension, because that’s another big one full of myths and mistakes and so forth. So we’re going to talk about that next time.

Amandha: I thought about [unclear], but I didn’t want to mix everything up. And then vitamin D — this one, I was saying I like the drops. I prefer powders and liquids to pills if I can because the absorption is better. The B complex, because you want to get your homocysteine levels under control, and that’s how you do it with B6, B12, and folate.

Amandha: So get them all. You get energy out of that one in the morning, and then here’s your CoQ10. So take care of your heart; you then have your CoQ10 going. And the other thing they found that helps the most of anything was turmeric, you know, for atherosclerosis and preventing heart disease and the whole antioxidant aspect.

Amandha: You know, the flax, like I showed you, and turmeric — these are the things that should be handed out in a prescription. If a prescription is required, that should be given out like that. Now, the other thing is, this is a billion-dollar industry.

Amandha: Yeah.

Statin Side Effects and Cognitive Concerns

Amandha: So they want pretty much everyone on a statin. That’s a, that’s good money maker for them. And some people don’t get side effects right away. It takes a few years. So they can kind of get, they love that they can get away with things. You know, you give a vaccine or give a drug and they don’t react right away.

Amandha: And then, you know, like years down the road, they’re sick from it. But because they can’t, they won’t make the correlation. They just say it must have been something else, or whatever kind of bullshit. They like to talk. They don’t want any responsibility, of course. So cognitive problems will affect about 15% of statin users.

Amandha: They will get something called transient global amnesia, or TGA, and that’s a temporary amnesia. That’s pretty scary. So, you’re driving your car, you’ve been on statins for, I don’t know, six months, and then you get a TGA: ‘Where am I? I don’t know. How do I drive? I don’t know.’ Yeah, that’s not dangerous to other people and them, right?

Amandha: Statins also have an adverse effect on what’s called tau. It’s a protein made by your brain cells, and it actually helps brain cells maintain their structure. You would be so surprised to hear that abnormal tau proteins are linked with neurodegenerative disease like Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, ALS.

Amandha: Right. They cause cognitive decline on all levels, mild to severe. And violence. And violence. Yeah. They incite violence. Yeah. That’s great. That’s awesome. I can give people tremors and vertigo. Peripheral neuropathy, that’s what, you know, the ends of the nerves aren’t getting fed by. So, you know, obviously the blood’s being negatively affected not flowing properly.

Amandha: So you have it not running to the brain, running to the fingers, running to the toes. The other one I wanted to show you that I really like, that I take every day, is ginkgo biloba. You can take it as a tea or take it as a capsule. I just like the capsule. It’s fast, and I use it because it increases blood flow to the periphery.

Amandha: So, to fingers, to toes. If you have the cold-hands-and-feet sort of syndrome, that’s why it helps thinking and cognition, because it actually brings blood to the brain, right? So I really like ginkgo a lot. The standardized one is the one I use there from Genestra. I like professional supplements. Those are the ones I carry.

Amandha: Okay. So anyway, back to the wonderful effects of statins. Oh, the list goes on. Yes. So we have cancer — they cause cancer; they cause cataracts and optic-nerve problems. They suppress the immune system. Yay. There you go. Obviously they cause liver damage. Almost every drug causes liver damage, impotence, and loss of libido.

Amandha: So forget about having any other stress reducing activities in your life. Hypersensitivity reactions, obviously because. You know, your immune system’s all haywire and so it can lead to lupus, which is like what? Okay. Lupus birth defects. So if pregnant women are taking it, it can cause birth defects can actually cause them so severe that they won’t grow proper limbs.

Amandha: The babies won’t grow proper limbs. It’s kind of like thalidomide. That’s how bad it is for pregnant women. Any type of skin rash imaginable, hair loss, gastrointestinal problems, insomnia, pancreatic problems — la-di-da. Isn’t it marvelous? And really, what’s the solution? You know what, I’ll talk about my dad for a second, because my dad came to me.

Amandha’s Family Story, Diet, and Eggs

Amandha: Oh man. When was this? This was years ago. This was like, maybe my dad will comment. This was like, I was not, was I in school yet? I think I was I think I was in naturopathic college. I think I was just in first year though. And he went to the doctor, got the blood work up, was told he was, he had high cholesterol.

Amandha: He has to go on his statin.

Amandha: And he came to tell me that his, I love this. And people say this all the time, I have to go on a statin. My doctor said I have high cholesterol, but just the terminology, the languaging I have to what, so is your doctor, your parents, like, what do you mean you have to.

Amandha: Who said you have to

Amandha: You don’t have to do anything that anybody freaking tells you to do. Why are you ha I’d have to okay, no, actually stop saying that you don’t at all. You don’t have to do any of this bullshit. And so he kept saying, no, I have to get my cholesterol down and dah. And I remember, I think I like grabbed him or something.

Amandha: I was like, ‘You’re not taking the drug.’ And he was like, ‘Oh, okay. She’s really serious about that.’ I mean, yeah. So I think it was pretty soon after — his next appointment — he was normal. We changed his diet; we added some supplements.

Amandha: We got him out of inflammation and he healed everything.

Amandha: Balanced out, you know, I mean, and I love this as the doctors won’t go, oh wow. Like, you know, what did you do there? Like, that’s amazing that you were able to balance your cholesterol in such a great way. Like what did you do? I’m really curious. So I can tell my other patients, you know what you did.

Amandha: Instead, they’ll go, oh, well we must have made a mistake on our paperwork.

Amandha: You probably didn’t have it at all in the first place, so whatever,, right? Like, that’s what they’re more likely to do. And actually go, oh, I’m really curious about what you did. Right. It’s absurd. Absolute absurdity. Anyway, so, yeah and eggs don’t cause high cholesterol. Eggs aren’t bad. I mean, yeah, eggs are bad.

Amandha: If you get them from somewhere the poor chickens have been tortured, injected with antibiotics, sprayed and hosed down with pesticides and all this stuff, yeah. But my local little farmer here — I can go pet the little chickens — they’re organically fed.

Amandha: And there’s nothing wrong with that, with eating an egg.

Amandha: I mean, I’m talking about physical health. I’m not talking about ethical stuff or vegan stuff. I’m just saying there’s not a cholesterol problem with eating cholesterol. Actually, when you eat food — any food — your body will make three times as much cholesterol for that food. Yeah. So actually, if you starve yourself, your body will make more cholesterol.

Amandha: So just, it just doesn’t correlate guys none of that stuff. It’s just all myth. And the thing is, once it’s involved in the the discussion, like once it’s just perpetuated by like the, you know, the media which is bought by the big pharma companies, which is all owned by all the same people who control what you hear, they’re just gonna keep say the same thing again.

Amandha: Cholesterol highs, bad cholesterol highs. You know, they’re not gonna be like, oh shit, we were so wrong for like all this time. We found that actually, yeah, high cholesterol is giving longevity. Oh, whoopsy, Doy. No, they’re not gonna go and like expose those studies. Why the hell would they do that? Because they like losing billions of dollars.

Health Sovereignty, Salt, and Tap Water

Amandha: So you see the problem we have here and why we have to be ourselves, why we have to do the research ourselves, why we have to go to people who are trusted, why we have to take matters into our own hands and fire these quacks. Really. I mean, if your doctor is pushing a statin, he is misinformed.

Amandha: Period. Why would we, why would you trust him on anything else, him or her? I’m saying him as a generalization, but you know what I’m saying. Why do you, why, what benefit are they conferring into your life other than fear mongering? other than pushing a drug on you or a surgery or something, that’s just not going to help your life.

Amandha: So, you know, my role or what I feel like I’m here to do is just like help empower people to be their own doctors. To, you know, ask the right questions to, you know, get themselves in a regime that’s life serving, right? So they’re not damaging themselves and eating crap all day long, and then expecting health so they don’t even set themselves up to have to go to the doctor, you know?

Amandha: So, okay, I think I’ve got a few minutes left. I went through something super fast, but when I do this in the YouTube video — if you’re on the YouTube video — please do the like, subscribe, little bell-dinghy thing, because I’m supposed to say that.

Amandha: Yeah, you tell my marketing skills are really awesome.

Amandha: But whatever, do the thing that you’re supposed to do to get more of these things or whatever. I don’t really care. See, I think differently than a lot of people. I’m not really out for profit. What I want is an empowered populace that’s awake, that knows what’s going on, that can make healthy decisions and support one another.

Amandha: I mean, that’s my ideal. Can we achieve that? I don’t know. I have my hopeless days. But I really feel like us having and holding this knowledge, and then sharing that knowledge with other people who are caught up in the myth of it all, really can make a difference because now we’re having the conversation a little bit more, you know?

Amandha: So. Okay. Let’s see if I missed anything. I’ll just quickly look at the comments and then I’m gonna wrap up. So table salt is, Glass with a little salt. Yeah. Cholesterol repairs. Arteries cut by glass. Really well said. That is very accurate. Cuz table salt is, yeah, it’s glass. I love that. It’s so true.

Amandha: It’s literally sharp shards in your blood. It’s bleached out, full of fillers and anti-caking agents, and it looks all pretty and white. But it’s absolute garbage, poison crap. And when I talk about blood pressure, I’m going to talk about the salt thing.

Amandha: And yes, we need salt though. That’s what’s so crazy. But we need the healthy salt. So yeah, the pink salts, the, there’s gray salts, there’s natural salts that come from the earth. That will give you minerals that will balance out the blood and will assist absorption of water and nutrients and so forth and run our electrical systems in our cells, you know, and in our brain.

Amandha: So yeah, pink salt or Celtic salt are the healthy ones with the minerals. Thank you for that comment. Okay, so, ‘Thanks for the information.’ You’re very welcome. And that’s correct. Eat all the eggs you want. Eggs are a total food. They’re a whole protein, so you would get all the amino acids from that. I’m glad I’m making some people laugh, but truthfully, you’ve got to laugh about it.

Amandha: I mean, if not, it’s just too depressing. You have to lighten it up a little bit. Yeah, it’s a real jungle out there of misinformation and it’s really hard to navigate sometimes. But for the most part, there’s not really a drug that I know that exists, other than a couple of them in very rare circumstances, that are actually helpful.

Amandha: So we’re really talking about putting back the nutrients inside the body, giving it the constituents it needs to repair, helping it become strong and resilient by avoiding heavy metals. And the other thing I wanted to mention before I lead off is tap water. You have high cholesterol? Stop drinking tap water.

Amandha: Tap water is full of chlorine. Chlorine is an oxidant, so it’s causing inflammation. So you can’t be drinking tap water. Your doctor’s not going to go, ‘Oh, well, before we start you on the statin, why don’t you just stop drinking tap water for a couple weeks? Let’s see if your cholesterol regulates.’

Amandha: Right? I’m not gonna say anything like that, but chlorine does damage the, or cause inflammation and damages the vessels as well. so anyway, I just wanted to talk about that and or touch on that rather. So I think I’ve touched on what I want to in this little brief talk just to sort of get your bearings, and again, I’ll post the links to further reading to the studies.

Yugoslavia Cardiovascular Disease Study and Closing Remarks

Amandha: The one study I’m going to post for you is called Serum Cholesterol and Mortality, which is the Yugoslavia Cardiovascular Disease Study. This one was done in 1981. There were 15 studies done in total that I know of, and I think there’s been more since. This one included 11,121 Yugoslav males aged 35 to 62 years, and they examined their serum cholesterol.

Amandha: They followed their cholesterol basically, so they got a baseline from them, and then it was a seven year incidence of death from all causes and from specific causes in this cohort. And so what they found was those with a lower cholesterol experienced a higher mortality than those with a higher cholesterol.

Amandha: The negative relationship was significant and remained significant after adjusting for obesity, systolic blood pressure, cigarette smoking age, history of intestinal parasitism.

Amandha: And socioeconomic status, which was they measured by years of education. I mean, that is profound information as far as I’m concerned.

Amandha: So I’ll post that, plus some more cholesterol myths. It’s in just a little cute list, and then you can click on that and go to some of the things. That’s by Uffe Ravnskov. He’s an MD and a PhD, so he’s well aware. Anyway, I really appreciate your time, and I’m glad you stopped in, and we’ll talk again soon.

Amandha: Probably cholesterol will be the — or sorry, hypertension will be my next topic. And if there are any other topics you want me to cover, or you’re interested in learning about, then just message me. Or you can email me at healthydoseoftruth@gmail.com. You can email me there, or you can just leave a comment or something like that and I’ll pick it up and see if there’s enough time for me to do that.

Amandha: Well, I’ll put it on my list, I guess, if there’s something you want me to cover that I haven’t before, and okay. Well, thank you very much and we’ll talk again soon. Bye for now.

Related Cholesterol, Blood & Cardiovascular Health Resources

Cholesterol Lowering Statin Drugs: Morbidity & Mortality: https://yummy.doctor/blog/cholesterol-lowering-statin-drugs-morbidity-mortality/

Blood Cleansing, How to Begin: https://yummy.doctor/video-list/blood-cleansing-how-to-begin/

Regulating Blood Pressure Naturally Part 2 of 3: https://yummy.doctor/video-list/regulating-blood-pressure-naturally-part-2-of-3/

FREE Webinar: Discover the Power of DMSO + Safe Use for Healing and Emergency Care: https://yummy.doctor/video-list/discover-the-power-of-dmso-safe-use-for-healing-and-emergency-care/

Diabetes: Causes and Cures by Amandha Vollmer (ADV): https://yummy.doctor/video-list/diabetes-causes-and-cures-by-amandha-vollmer-adv/

Learning About DMSO: A Beginner Class with Amandha Vollmer (ADV): https://yummy.doctor/video-list/learning-about-dmso-a-beginner-class-with-amandha-vollmer-adv/

Related Links

The Cholesterol Myth PDF (Beyond Health): http://beyondhealth.com/media/wysiwyg/kadro/articles/TheCholesterolMyth.pdf

Serum Cholesterol and Mortality: the Yugoslavia Cardiovascular Disease Study: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/7246527/

The Cholesterol Myths — Uffe Ravnskov: https://www.ravnskov.nu/cholesterol/

Publication/Update Information

Originally published September 11, 2017
Transcript and educational resources updated September 2026

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