>>>How can something that organism makes for itself be harmful? There may be some correlation, cholesterol may be organism's way of responding to a condition, as leukocytes are, but then fighting cholesterol would be exactly the wrong thing to do. Or the right thing, if you're a drug dealer. Ooops, scratch that, politically rectifying: if you're a pharmaceutical company.
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>LOL. I have no confidence in the body's magical ability to know what is best. Consider that the body is the source of its own cancer cells (apart from the ones that we now are sure are provoked by virus, such as cervical) as well as the blood clots that cause strokes and the autoantibodies that cause rheumatoid arthritis, Lupus, short and long sight, and so it goes on... to be honest, it's amazing that the thing operates as well and for as long as it does.

A woman in my AA group who I like a lot has lupus. It sounds like a nasty disease to have. Among other things she is in chronic pain. I wish I could magically make the pain go away.

She just marked 4 years sober. I think if I had her health issues I would be drinking like a fish. She is strong.