Here is a classic example of the way Western medicine works. What I am about to tell you is true, but it is a symptom of so much of the way Western medicine thinks. Your cholesterol is used to make testosterone for men, and estrogen and progesterone for women. As you get older your production of these hormones begins to subside. When you do not need to make progesterone or testosterone, your cholesterol starts to climb because it is not being used. Finally you’re a middle-aged older man or woman making very little of the hormones and suffering with a high cholesterol. Western medicine solution? Put you on a medication to reduce your cholesterol levels, and then administer testosterone or progesterone to you to replace those hormones. What sounds like a better choice? Even non-doctors can figure this out. Find a way to cause your body to use the cholesterol to make these much-needed hormones. Yes. There are hormones (for example human chorionic gonadotropin) as well as follicle-stimulating hormone that can cause you to use your cholesterol to make testosterone or progesterone. But that is not the way Western medicine works. I do not maintain that it is deceptive on the part of human physicians or science, what I am trying to say is that it is linear, non-comprehensive thought. Literally just dealing with a great big blocks of these problems instead of looking at them as subsets of the big picture.
