Dr. Elie Jarrouge challenged one of the most widely accepted beliefs in healthcare—that cholesterol is inherently harmful—arguing instead that it plays a vital and irreplaceable role in human physiology.
“Your liver makes 70–80% of your cholesterol because your body needs it to survive,” said Dr. Jarrouge in a post on X. “Your brain makes its own because cholesterol can’t cross the blood-brain barrier. It’s that essential.”
He pointed out that every cell in the human body relies on cholesterol for membrane structure and function. It’s also required for hormone production and neurological health. Jarrouge criticized the widespread use of statins to lower cholesterol, suggesting that doing so may impair these critical processes. “What happens when you block cholesterol synthesis with statins? Muscle pain. Memory loss. Hormone disruption.”
While statins have been shown to reduce cardiovascular risk in specific populations, Jarrouge argued that the current paradigm overemphasizes lowering cholesterol at the expense of understanding its biological necessity. He added, “You don’t mass-produce poison. You mass-produce what keeps you alive.”
Dr. Elie Jarrouge is a primary care physician focused on lifestyle medicine and root-cause approaches to chronic disease. He is an outspoken critic of conventional practices that prioritize pharmaceutical management over nutritional and metabolic health.
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