Perhaps most frightening of all, however, is the message from the pharmaceutical and medical communities about how more people “need” to take statin drugs to control the growing "epidemic" of high cholesterol. There is no denying that high cholesterol is a major risk factor for cardiovascular disease, including coronary heart disease, stroke, and myocardial infarction. The World Health Organization estimates that nearly 20 percent of all strokes and more than 50 percent of all heart attacks can be linked to high cholesterol.

Dzugan Method acknowledges the seriousness of cholesterol, but we also turn conventional “wisdom” on its head by stating that high cholesterol is not caused by eating too much high-cholesterol food or by a liver that is producing high amounts of the fat: we believe the cause of excess cholesterol is a multi-hormone deficiency.

How can we make that statement? Take a look at the figure above. Did you notice how many of your hormones, pregnenolone, DHEA, cortisol, testosterone, progesterone, and estrogens are made from cholesterol? When we are deficient in these hormones, as eventually happens in most people after the age of 35, our body responds by overproducing cholesterol in an attempt to restore a healthy hormone balance.

The result? High cholesterol.