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So, about the way Cholesterol guy ...improved his “mental clarity.”

I had a cardiac event in 2010, recovered fine with a bunch of meds, but found that I felt substantially diminished mental reasoning.
I went through a pile of tests, MRI, expert neurologists and cognitive testing, which all amounted to "you're pretty smart", but I just couldn't think like I used to.

In 2018 I got a new general practitioner and mentioned this, and she instantly suggested my cholesterol was too low, that the brain needs a level of cholesterol to function well and she'd seen it repeatedly before that cardiologists "overcook" cholesterol management.

Over a few months she reduced my lipid dosage to a quarter of what it had been, with fairly immediate mental improvements and cholesterol readings still in safe bounds.

I'm pleased to have my brain back despite the experts missing it all, and now I know I can go on the "nine pounds of cheese" diet for a brain boost...