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The Million-Dollar Molecule: Why Your Body Pays a Fortune for Cholesterol

Peter Megdal PhD — Mon, 04 May 2026 15:12:38 +0000

If your body were a blockbuster movie, cholesterol would be the character everyone loves to hate. We usually hear about it as the "villain" of the story—the bad guy responsible for heart trouble and clogged pipes. But if cholesterol is so truly "bad," why is it found in every single cell of your body? Why does your body work so hard to keep it around?

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The Big Cholesterol Lie: Uncovering the Diet Industry’s Organized Denial

Peter Megdal PhD — Tue, 21 Apr 2026 13:10:52 +0000

Imagine a doctor sitting in a dark room, peering through a powerful microscope at a tiny blob of yellow fat. For almost a hundred years, doctors looked at these blobs and thought they had found the "bad guy" causing heart disease. They called it cholesterol, and they believed that simply having too much of this "yellow grease" in your blood was the reason pipes in the body got clogged.

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Why Your ‘Normal’ Cholesterol is Actually a Warning Sign

Peter Megdal PhD — Fri, 17 Apr 2026 14:52:52 +0000

For decades, we have been told that a "normal" cholesterol level is the golden ticket to a healthy heart. But modern science has revealed a startling truth: what we once called "normal" was never actually healthy. In the 1960s, a total cholesterol level of 240 mg/dL was considered a standard, acceptable baseline for an adult. Today, a doctor would view that same number as an urgent health crisis.

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