Absolute Psychos Want To Genetically Lower Your Cholesterol Production

The news media gleefully reporting that scientists have used CRSPR gene editing technology to cut cholesterol and triglyceride production by 50%. https://www.cnn.com/2025/11/08/health/cholesterol-gene-edit-wellness Of course everyone knows that cholesterol is bad for us, right? So this is worth celebrating, right? RIGHT? The part of this which is most disturbing is that scientists should know that cholesterol is not only the precursor to hormones and steroids that are required by the body for us to live, but also that every cell in the body has a cholesterol lattice which makes up part of the cellular membrane and is also required for cells to function normally. Cholesterol is also required to produce bile, which is in turn required to digest fats. Do any of thes sound like something you would want to cut by 50%? Absolutely fucking not.

For many, many years the medical profession has recognized the problem of atherosclerosis, which is a cardiovascular disease that occurs from cholesterol buildup in the bloodstream and eventually creates blockages which can cause heart attack and other problems. Typical, stupid, human observational fallacy in the medical profession then leads doctors and pharmaceutical companies to think that eliminating the cholesterol, or triglycerides, or other factors which are elevated during these conditions will then solve the problem. But young and healthy people do not have atherosclerosis, yet they can have as much or more production of cholesterol than older people or ill people which, because cholesterol is the precursor to hormones, bile, and cellular function then results in an abundance of health. The body requires the fatty nutrients which are packaged into cholesterol, triglycerides, and other transport mechanisms regardless if those structures are working properly, and will even simply release fatty acids into the bloodstream freely if it cannot effectively make healthy cholesterol, and this is the same reason that triglycerides rise too during disease, as the body still requires fatty acids to survive, and so will simply release them into circulation. So guess what will happen if you actually change a person’s genes to stop production of cholesterol? Yes, they will simply continue to get sick, and likely die due to malnutrition.

The medical profession already has a treatment that effectively accomplishes this problem. When I was in my early thirties and trying to figure what what was wrong with my health a doctor told me that I had elevated triglycerides, then prescribed me a tub of prescription fish oil which she said would lower them. I took them for a while but they seemed to make me feel even worse and stopped soon into treatment. A year or so later when I discovered the work of biologist Ray Peat also found that prescription fish oil functions to lower triglycerides by destroying the part of your liver which produces them. This is consistent with much of modern medicine’s attitude that parts of the body are discardable, but in fact each of our organs have evolved for a reason and destroying or cutting them out has absolutely catastrophic consequences later on, such as for those who have their thyroid removed or their gall bladder.

Statins too function by lowering cholesterol, and are widely prescribed by the medical industry for supposed treatment of heart disease, but because cholesterol is required for us to be healthy these similarly come with serious side effects such as neurological deterioration, worsening of diabetes, hypothyroidism, muscle weakness and pain, liver damage, fatigue, depression (because of lowered hormones). Even more damning, ONE PERSON DIED DURING THEIR STUDY, and the study authors brush it off as if it was the cardiovascular disease which killed him rather than the therapy, but those with the worst disease likely have the least cholesterol making it to vital organs, so even a small dose of the therapy would have been enough to finish him off by reducing the supply of necessary cholesterol below that which was the threshold for death.

Tonsils can regrow, and while losing the appendix can be a problem it’s not the most devastating as gut bacteria can still be acquired from the environment and other humans (the appendix serves as a reservoir for gut bacteria). But using technology to alter our actual gene function is an absolutely psychotic proposition, because if you are wrong you may very well end up killing yourself before anything can be done to reverse the danger. Instead, if you have heart disease, cholesterol problems, and hormone problems you need to read my book to understand human biology to reverse these problems which not even the medical profession yet understands how to do safely and effectively.