But let’s get back to food choice, and
science, and information – can a top-researcher like Stephanie Seneff prevail
in her saturated fats campaign?
Stephanie
Seneff
Stephanie Seneff walks in a number of
professional worlds – maintaining her senior research associate position at
MIT, but also speaking her mind, via her research, in any forum to which she is
invited. Her refereed journal articles are numerous – most of which, are in
computer science and engineering.
Naturally curious about food
– she has become uniquely qualified, especially with her experience at MIT, to
try and link electrical engineering to biochemistry in terms of proper cell
functioning. Eventually she would tackle cholesterol and vaccines, and obesity
and sulfur deficiency – claiming that many debilitating diseases result from a
lack of saturated fats in the diet, as well as Vitamin D, Calcium, an
cholesterol deficiencies. A lack of sun exposure (intimated in the production
of both choletsreola nd Vitamin D) doesn’t help.
Seneff’s research typically focuses on
artificial intelligence systems, and her journal articles number in the
hundreds. But it wasn’t until her husband was diagnosed with high blood
cholesterol and prescribed statins, that she started to dive into nutrition
again (she had minored in it in college) to investigate what statins’ effects
were on cholesterol, and whether we even needed the waxy, fat-like substance at
all. [1]
Basically, Seneff found that statin drugs
makes one age at an accelerated rate, primarily due to the absence of
cholesterol and other vital compounds whose production is impaired with statins
SS12.10.[2]
Seneff uses the language of biochemistry, and the practice of
hypothesis-forming regarding cell membrane dynamics (aided by her engineering
background) to hypothesize what happens when sufficient cholesterol sulfate (yet another area of research)
is not supplied in the diet.[3] She is an ardent supporter of cholesterol and
saturated fatty acids in the diet as a way to stave off many degenerative
diseases – something that would give low-fat advocates apoplexy. Her reasoning
explains the French paradox, as not a paradox at all – she claims that a diet
rich in saturated fat, and low in damaged and damaging fats from processed
foods is the answer to healing many debilitating diseases today, i.e., the path
to good health.
[1] What she found in a review of the
literature, was that statins indeed, could reduce a serum cholesterol of
300db/liter translated into a normal range xxx, say, below 70mg/dl within weeks
with an 80 mg dose (4x the standard) but
that the reported side effects were troublesome. The statins lower cholesterol (LDL) but at
what cost? Muscle pain and weakness can result from rhabdomyolysis (due to severe
muscle damage/breakdown) and the depletion of the cholesterol basically leads
to cell membrane dysfunction and ultimately, diabetes, MS, heart failure,
cancer, and even ALS (see 85 peer-reviewed articles). SS12,SS3.2,SS3.17.
[2] Her work shows that very few people who
are takings statin drugs benefit from them, institutions that see dollars over
devotion (the American pharmaceutical industry, say) market drugs that reduce
the concentration of a so-called undesirable substance – in this case,
circulating cholesterol. – in this case, Lipitor. Arguing that any benefits from fighting heart
disease are more than offset by increased risk of fetal damage, toxic
infection, and cancer.
[3] For example, the digestive organ of the
pancreas produces insulin to move sugars out of the blood stream and into cells
for energy. Cholesterol and fatty acids are critical to cell outer membranes of
the insulin-producing beta cells. Without sufficient cholesterol, the walls of
the mitochondria inside the beta cells are particularly vulnerable. The
antioxidant, Coenzyme Q [also depressed by statins] is not around to help stop
the damage to the cell wall. Without insulin, fats are released from both the
cell walls and the liver – the cells starve (glucose metabolism also is
compromised), and there is a breakdown of muscle tissue.
[4]NB: A cautionary note: If you’re still
eating plenty of sugar and hope to maintaion a svelte figure, shoring up on the
fats is not going to help.
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