Many readers have contacted me and asked about my own cholesterol numbers. They ask, "How did you achieve LDL cholesterol of 67 without using prescription drugs?" I'm glad to see these questions. Readers should be skeptical of anyone who talks about health, and they should demand that people who teach health be healthy! It doesn’t make sense to get your health information from a person who isn't healthy. The credibility that really counts is the ability to demonstrate an outstanding level of health in your own life.

If you know anything about cholesterol, you know that what really matters is the ratio of LDL-cholesterol to HDL-cholesterol. LDL stands for Low Density Lipoprotein, and HDL stands for High Density Lipoprotein. LDL is the so-called 'bad cholesterol' and HDL is the so-called 'good cholesterol.' If you have 10 times as much LDL as HDL, then you’re at very high risk of a heart attack as well as other cardiovascular disorders.

A person with a moderate risk of heart attack might have a ratio of around 7.1. The range for what is considered average risk is 4.4-7.1. People with low risk measure between 3.3 and 4.4. With that in mind, you might wonder if I'm in the high risk, medium risk or low risk category.

My ratio of LDL to HDL cholesterol, as verified by Sonora Quest Laboratories in Tucson, AZ, is 1.08. That is almost a one-to-one ratio of LDL to HDL cholesterol. It's the kind of number that causes doctors to drop their jaws in utter shock, simply because they've almost never seen these kinds of numbers before. The medical textbooks might describe a human in perfect health as having such a ratio, but to actually see it in practice is very unusual.