Max Lugavere on low-fat, cholesterol-phobic dietary dogma: warns against

Max Lugavere challenges the stigma around cholesterol, saying dietary cholesterol plays a crucial role in brain health. In his September 2026 appearance on Dr. Will Cole’s show, he said “a saturated fat is not a saturated fat,” arguing that dairy fat should not be lumped together with processed-meat fat.

His stated reasoning is that the low-fat dietary guidance of recent decades was misguided — particularly as it demonized foods he considers brain-essential, like eggs and full-fat dairy — and that he framed the 2026 dietary guidelines’ full-fat dairy “comeback” as vindication. These are his claims and interpretations, not a settled scientific consensus.

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