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www.newellstrength.com www.unlockingyourinnerstrength.com I am a serious student of human physiology and thus, I have been become quite good at reading blood work and pinpointing the real issues. I have had people come to me wanting to crash testosterone levels so that they could get a prescription that their insurance would cover. I have had people come to me needing to get into a certain range of cholesterol for life insurance reasons and the list goes on. Yes, I was able to guide them to manipulating their cholesterol levels exactly as they had hoped. The reason I am telling you this is because I understand one simple fact that most people don’t know; cholesterol is the main building block of the ‘sex’ hormones in the body and it is critical for brain function and nearly every metabolic function in the body. For 95% of the population, cholesterol in the diet has virtually no effect on cholesterol in the blood. Read that again… We need to go back to where this whole myth started. Russian scientists had shown that when you fed rabbits large amounts of cholesterol and then dissected them later on, their arteries were filled with cholesterol-containing plaque and looked a lot like the arteries of people who died of heart disease. Never mind the inconvenient fact that rabbits are herbivores. The amount of cholesterol they normally get in their diet is pretty close to zero. Dr. Keys himself even stated in 1