The Great Cholesterol Myth: Why Lowering Your Cholesterol Won't Prevent Heart Disease--and the Statin-Free Plan that Will

by Jonny Bowden

Erectile dysfunction affects more than half of all men between the ages of forty and seventy years.13 We’ve already seen how lowering cholesterol can have serious consequences for memory, thinking, and mood. Just as the brain needs cholesterol for neurotransmitters to properly function, the gonads need it to produce the hormonal fuel to keep our sex lives humming. All the major sex hormones—testosterone, progesterone, and estrogen—come from cholesterol. It’s utterly preposterous to assume that lowering cholesterol, which is tantamount to downsizing your body’s own sex hormone factory, is not going to have a profound effect on sexual functioning. Of course it is. And it does.