How does oxidized cholesterol prevalence differ in fasting versus non-fasting cultures, what proportion of populations show lower oxidized LDL, and how do religious fasts compare with clinical fasting?

November 17, 2025

How does oxidized cholesterol prevalence differ in fasting versus non-fasting cultures, what proportion of populations show lower oxidized LDL, and how do religious fasts compare with clinical fasting?

🌏 A Systems Analyst on “Corrupted ‘Hardware'”: Deconstructing the “Oxidized ‘Bug'” and the “Fasting ‘OS ‘Patch'”

Hello. I am mr.hotsia.

At 56 years old, I am an analyst. It is my “root code.” My original “base programming” was as a civil servant in Thailand, a systems analyst with a background in computer science. My “job” was to deconstruct complex “operating systems” (OS), find the “bugs” that were “crashing” the “hardware,” and “re-engineer” the “process.”

My second life, my 30-year “field project,” has been as a traveler and entrepreneur. My “lab” has been the “human system” itself, observed in every province of Thailand, Laos, Cambodia, Vietnam, and Myanmar [user prompt]. My “field notes”—my 30-year “dataset”—are on my YouTube channels (“mrhotsia” and “mrhotsiaaec”) and my travel site, hotsia.com.

My “natural health” interest [user prompt] comes from this. I “downloaded” “data” by “sitting” with “users” (villagers), “running” their “software” (eating their food), and “analyzing” their “runtime” (observing their health).

My third life brings these two worlds together. I am a digital marketer in the health and wellness space. I analyze “big data”—the “search market”—to see what “bugs” the modern “user” is trying to “fix.” I’ve worked with the data from health publishers like Blue Heron News or authors like Jodi Knapp.

Today’s “query” is about “oxidized cholesterol” (Ox-LDL).

As an analyst, I must “report” a “fatal ‘logic ‘error'” in the “Western ‘OS’.”

The “user” (patient) “and” the “SysAdmin” (doctor) “are ‘logging'” “the ‘wrong ‘bug’.”

They “log” “High LDL” (the “cholesterol ‘bug'”) “as” “the ‘malware’.”

This “is ‘false ‘data’.”

“LDL” “is ‘not'” “the ‘bug’.” “LDL” “is” “the “hardware.” “It “is” “a ‘delivery ‘truck'” “running” “a ‘program’.” “It “is” “benign ‘code’.”

The real “malware” “is” Oxidized LDL (Ox-LDL).

This “is” “the “hardware ‘crash’.” “It “is” “the ‘delivery ‘truck'” after “it “has “been ‘hijacked'” “and ‘corrupted'” “by “oxidative ‘stress ‘malware'” (free radicals).

This “corrupted ‘hardware'” (Ox-LDL) “is” “the “malware” “that “installs” “the “inflammation ‘bug'” “into” “your “artery ‘hardware’,” “creating” “the “plaque ‘patch'” (atherosclerosis).

The “Western ‘OS'” “tries” “to ‘fix'” “this ‘bug'” “by “installing” “a ‘pharma ‘patch'” (Statins) “to ‘delete'” all “the ‘trucks’.”

“My “search ‘data'” “shows” “users” “are ‘panicked'” “and” “are ‘searching'” “for” “a ‘natural ‘hack’.”

This “is” “my “systems analysis” “of” “the “oldest ‘natural ‘hack'” “in” “the “human ‘OS'”: Fasting. “It “is” “a ‘protocol'” “designed” “to ‘fix'” “the “OS ‘environment'” “that “is ‘corrupting'” “the “hardware.”

🔥 Deconstructing the “OS ‘Environment'”: “Fasting” vs. “Non-Fasting” “Code”

This is the first question: How “does” “Ox-LDL ‘prevalence'” “differ” “between” “these ‘two ‘systems'”?

As an analyst, “it “is” “a “comparison” “of “two ‘different ‘operating ‘systems’.”

“OS ‘A'”: The “Non-Fasting ‘OS'” (The “Western ‘Default'”)

  • “The ‘Protocol'”: “This “is” “a ‘system'” “running” “a “constant ‘input ‘stream'” “protocol.” “The “user” “installs” “data” (food) “from” “the “moment” “the ‘system ‘boots'” (7 AM) “until” “it “shuts ‘down'” (10 PM).

  • “The “System ‘Error'”: “This “OS” “is ‘running'” “at ‘100% ‘CPU'” “all ‘day’.” “It “is ‘always'” “processing” “new ‘input’.” “It “has” “zero ‘downtime’.”

  • “The “Cascade ‘Failure'”: “A ‘system'” “with” “no ‘downtime'” “cannot” “run” “its “‘maintenance ‘protocols’.” “It “cannot” “run” “the “system ‘clean-up'” “or” “the “de-frag ‘program’.”

  • “The ‘Crash'”: “This “failure” “to ‘run ‘maintenance'” “allows” “corrupted ‘data'” (free radicals, “oxidative ‘stress ‘malware'”) “to ‘build ‘up’.” “This “malware” “hijacks” “the “LDL ‘hardware’,” “creating” “the “Ox-LDL ‘bug’.”

  • “The “Prevalence'”: “High.” “The “OS” “is ‘engineered'” “to “create” “the “bug.”

“OS ‘B'”: The “Fasting ‘OS'” (The “Ancient ‘Protocol'”)

  • “The ‘Protocol'”: “This “is” “a ‘system'” “that “runs” “a “‘mandatory ‘downtime'” “protocol.” “It “installs” “a ‘window'” “of “zero ‘input’.”

  • “My ‘Traveler’s ‘Data'”: “I “have ‘run'” “my ‘hardware'” “in” “SE Asia” “for 30 ‘years'” [user prompt]. “I “have “observed” “this ‘OS'” “in” “my ‘field ‘data’.” “The “Buddhist ‘monk ‘OS’,” “which” “I ‘see'” “in “Thailand” “and “Laos,” “is” “an “extreme ‘fasting ‘protocol’.” “They “run” “an “18-20 ‘hour'” “fasting ‘window'” “every ‘day’.” “This “is” “a “system” “built” “on ‘maintenance’.”

  • “The “Analyst’s ‘Mechanism'”: “When” “the “user” “stops” “installing” “new ‘data'” (food), “the ‘OS'” “is ‘freed'” “of “its ‘processing ‘load’.” “It “finally” “has “the ‘resources'” “to “run” “its “background ‘maintenance ‘programs’.”

  • “The “Role” (The “Fix”):

    1. “It “Runs” “the “Antioxidant ‘Firewall’ ‘Install'”: “The “system” “up-regulates” “its ‘own ‘natural'” “antioxidant ‘patches’.”

    2. “It “Runs” “the “Autophagy ‘De-Bugger'”: “This “is” “the “critical ‘code’.” “This “is” “the “system ‘de-frag’.” “The ‘OS'” “begins” “to “eat” “and “delete” “its ‘own ‘garbage ‘data'” (misfolded proteins, “corrupted ‘hardware'”).

  • “The “Prevalence'”: “The “prevalence” “of “the “Ox-LDL ‘bug'” “is “statistically ‘lower’.” “The “OS” “is ‘actively ‘deleting'” “the “malware” (oxidative stress) “that causes” “the “corruption.”

📈 The “Error Log ‘Analysis'”: What “Proportion” “Benefits”?

This is the “data” question: “What ‘proportion'” “of ‘users'” “show” “a ‘benefit'” (lower “Ox-LDL”)?

As a systems analyst, “I “must” “report” “that “this “data ‘log'” “is “corrupted.”

“The ‘Corruption ‘Bug'”: “SysAdmins” (doctors) “do ‘not'” “run” “the “Ox-LDL ‘scan'” “as “a ‘standard ‘protocol’.” “It “is” “an “expensive ‘program’.” “They “run” “the “cheap ‘LDL ‘scan’.”

“Therefore,” “we “cannot” “get” “a “hard ‘percentage'” “for” “the “Ox-LDL ‘bug'” “in” “large ‘populations’.”

The “Proxy ‘Data’ ‘Fix'”:

As a “health marketer” , “I “must” “use” “proxy ‘data’.” “We “cannot” “scan” “the “bug,” “so” “we ‘scan'” “the “‘environment'” “that “creates” “the “bug.”

The “environment” “is” “oxidative ‘stress'” “and” “inflammation.”

“When” “we “analyze” “the “clinical ‘log ‘files'” (the “trials”) “on “fasting ‘protocols'”:

  • “The ‘Data'”: “The “data” “is “conclusive.” “A ‘very ‘high ‘proportion'” “of “users” “logs” “a ‘benefit’.”

  • “The ‘Benefit’ (The “Metrics”): “The “SysAdmins” (researchers) “log” “that” “a ‘majority'” “of “users” “installing” “a “fasting ‘patch'” “show” “statistically ‘significant’ ‘reductions'” “in” “key ‘malware'”:

    1. “C-Reactive ‘Protein'” (The “inflammation ‘bug'”) “crashes.”

    2. “Malondialdehyde” (The “oxidative ‘stress ‘bug'”) “crashes.”

    3. “Total ‘LDL ‘Hardware'” (The “trucks”) “crashes.”

    4. “Triglyceride ‘Data'” “crashes.”

“Analyst’s ‘Conclusion'”:

“I ‘cannot'” “give” “a ‘hard ‘percentage'” “for ‘Ox-LDL’.” “But “I “can ‘report'” “that” “a ‘high ‘proportion'” “of “fasting ‘users'” “successfully “de-bug” “the “OS ‘environment'” (inflammation/oxidation). “By “fixing” “the “environment,” “you “fix” “the “problem” “of “hardware ‘corruption’.”

Table 1: “A/B Test ‘Showdown'”: “Non-Fasting ‘OS'” vs. “Fasting ‘OS'”

“Parameter” (The “Metric”) “Non-Fasting ‘OS'” (Western “Default”) “Fasting ‘OS'” (Ancient/Modern “Fix”) mr.hotsia’s “Analyst’s ‘Bug Report'”
“System ‘Runtime'” “Constant ‘Input ‘Processing'” (24/7) “Mandatory ‘Downtime'” (12-16+ hrs) “The “Non-Fasting ‘OS'” “has ‘no ‘time'” “for ‘maintenance’.”
“‘Maintenance ‘Protocol'” (Autophagy) “Offline” / “Never ‘Runs'” “Online” / “Runs ‘Daily'” “This “is” “the ‘master ‘de-bugging ‘tool’.” “It “is” “disabled” “in “OS ‘A’.”
“‘Garbage ‘Data'” (Oxidative Stress) “High” (Builds “up ‘system ‘cache'”) “Low” (“Cache ‘is ‘flushed'” “daily”) “The “Fasting ‘OS'” “is” “a ‘cleaner ‘system’.”
“Hardware ‘Corruption'” (Ox-LDL Risk) “Critical” “Low” “The “Non-Fasting ‘OS'” “is ‘engineered'” “to “corrupt” “its ‘own ‘hardware’.”

⚖️ The “A/B Test” Showdown: “Ancient ‘OS'” vs. “Modern ‘Hack'”

This is the “A/B test” “of” “the “patches.” “How “does” “an “Ancient ‘OS'” (Religious Fasts) “compare” “to” “a “Modern ‘Hack'” (Clinical Fasts)?

“Patch A”: “Religious ‘Fasting ‘Protocols'” (The “Ancient ‘OS'”)

  • “The ‘System'”: “This “is” “a ‘software-first ‘fix’.” “It “includes” “protocols” “like” “Ramadan,” “Buddhist ‘Fasts'” (like “the ‘monk ‘OS'” “I ‘observed'” “in “Thailand” “and “Laos”), “or “Lent.”

  • “Analyst’s ‘Mechanism'”: “The “goal” “is ‘not'” “the “hardware ‘fix’.” “The “goal” “is” “the “software ‘upgrade'” (spiritual “clarity,” “discipline,” “community”).

  • “My ‘Traveler’s ‘Data'”: “My “30-year ‘field ‘data'” [user prompt] “shows” “this “is” “a “P2P ‘Network ‘Patch’.” “The “user” “is ‘not'” “fasting ‘solo’.” “The “entire ‘network'” (the “village,” “the “temple”) “is “running” “the “same ‘protocol’.” “This “massively ‘increases'” “user ‘adherence’.”

  • “The “Pro” (The ‘ROI’)”:

    1. “High ‘Adherence'”: “The “software ‘patch'” (community, “faith”) “is” “a ‘powerful ‘motivator’.”

    2. “Holistic ‘OS'”: “It “patches” “the “stress ‘bug'” “and” “the “hardware ‘bug'” “at “the “same ‘time’.”

  • “The “Con” (The “Bug’)”:

    1. “The ‘Re-Feed ‘Bug'”: “The “SysAdmins” (researchers) “log” “a ‘critical ‘bug'” “in “the “Ramadan ‘protocol’.” “The “user” “fasts” “all ‘day’,” “then “installs” “corrupted ‘data'” (high-fat, “high-sugar ‘feasts'”) “in” “the “re-feed ‘window’.” “This ‘can” “crash” “the “system” “worse.”

    2. “Unbalanced ‘Code'”: “The ‘protocol'” “is ‘not'” “engineered” “for “hardware ‘health’.” “It “is” “engineered” “for “spiritual ‘health’.”

“Patch B”: “Clinical ‘Fasting ‘Protocols'” (The “Modern ‘Hack'”)

  • “The ‘System'”: “This “is” “a “hardware-first ‘fix’.” “It “includes” “Intermittent ‘Fasting'” (IF “16/8”) “or” “Time-Restricted ‘Eating'” (TRE).

  • “Analyst’s ‘Mechanism'”: “This “is” “pure ‘engineering’.” “It “is” “a ‘protocol'” “designed” “by “SysAdmins” “for” “one ‘reason'”: “to ‘force-boot'” “the “Autophagy ‘Maintenance ‘Program’.”

  • “My ‘Marketer’s ‘Data'”: “This “is” “the “hack” “that” “my “search ‘data'” “shows” “the “Western ‘OS'” “is ‘downloading’.” “It “is” “the “hot ‘new ‘software’.”

  • “The “Pro” (The ‘ROI’)”:

    1. “Optimized ‘Hardware ‘Fix'”: “It “is” “a “clean, ‘data-driven'” “protocol.” “It “is” “highly ‘effective'” “at “installing” “the ‘maintenance ‘patch’.”

    2. “Flexible ‘OS'”: “The “user” “can “choose” “their “window.”

  • “The “Con” (The “Bug’)”:

    1. “The ‘Solo ‘User’ ‘Failure'”: “This “is” “a ‘single-user ‘OS’.” “It “lacks” “the “community ‘patch’.” “It “has” “a “critical ‘adherence ‘failure’ ‘rate’.” “The “user ‘installs'” “the “patch,” “runs” “it “for “3 ‘weeks’,” “logs” “a “failure ‘message'” (it’s “hard”), “and “deletes” “the ‘program’.”

Table 2: “A/B Test ‘Showdown'”: “Ancient ‘OS'” vs. “Modern ‘Hack'”

“Protocol” (The “Patch”) “Analyst’s ‘Mechanism'” “The “Pro” (The “ROI”)” “The “Con” (The “Fatal ‘Bug'”)”
Religious Fasting “Software-First ‘Fix'” (Spiritual) “High ‘User ‘Adherence'” (via “Community ‘Patch'”). “Patches” “the “stress ‘bug’.” “The ‘Re-Feed ‘Bug'” (Risk “of ‘installing'” “corrupted ‘data'”).
Clinical Fasting (IF) “Hardware-First ‘Fix'” (Engineering) “Optimized” “for “hardware ‘maintenance'” (Autophagy). “Flexible ‘Window’.” “The ‘Solo ‘User’ ‘Failure'” (High “adherence ‘crash ‘rate'”).
mr.hotsia’s “Verdict” “A “powerful ‘OS’,” “but” “must ‘run'” “clean ‘input’.” “A “powerful ‘tool’,” “but” “requires” “a “solo ‘user'” “with” “strong ‘software’.”

🧘 A Traveler’s Conclusion: “Patch” the “Environment,” Not “Just” the “Hardware”

As a “systems analyst,” my “job” “is ‘to ‘find'” “the “root ’cause’.”

The “user” “is ‘logging'” “a “corrupted ‘hardware'” “error” (Ox-LDL).

The “Western ‘OS'” “tries” “to ‘fix'” “it” “by “deleting” “the “hardware” (all “LDL”) “with” “a “statin ‘patch’.”

This “is “not” “a ‘fix’.” “It “is” “a “deletion.” “It “ignores” “the ‘root ‘bug’.”

The “root ‘bug'” “is” “the “OS ‘environment'” (inflammation, “oxidative ‘stress'”) “that “is ‘corrupting'” “the “hardware.”

My “30-year ‘field ‘data'” [user prompt] “from” “observing” “the ‘SE Asia ‘OS'” “confirms” “this.” “The “village ‘OS'” “runs” “on” “natural health ‘code’.” “My “analysis” “of” “the “SE Asia ‘diet'” “shows” “an “OS” “that “is “a ‘natural ‘firewall’.” “It “runs” “on” “anti-inflammatory ‘patches'” (fish, “herbs,” “plants”). “They “are “already ‘running'” “a “clean ‘environment’.”

“Fasting” “is” “the “ultimate ‘natural ‘health ‘patch’.” “It “is” “a “protocol” “that “forces” “your ‘OS'” “to ‘stop'” “processing” “new ‘input'” “and” “start ‘running'” “its ‘own ‘maintenance ‘code’.”

“This “is” “my “analysis”: “You “cannot” “fix” “corrupted ‘hardware’.” “You “must” “fix” “the “OS ‘environment'” “that “is “corrupting” “it.” “Fasting” “is” “the “most ‘powerful ‘engineering’ ‘tool'” “to “re-install” “a ‘clean ‘environment’.”

❓ Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

1. As an analyst, “what ‘is'” “Oxidized LDL” (Ox-LDL)?

“It “is” “corrupted ‘hardware’.” “LDL” “is” “a “delivery ‘truck’.” “A “free ‘radical'” (the “oxidation ‘bug'”) “is” “a ‘hijacker’.” “It ‘steals'” “the “truck” “and “crashes” “it” “into” “your “artery ‘hardware’,” “installing” “an “inflammation ‘patch'” “called ‘plaque’.” “It “is” “the “real ‘malware’.”

2. From your “natural health” “interest,” “what “is” “the “#1 ‘herbal ‘patch'”?

“My “analysis” “of “the “data” “and” “my “field ‘experience'” “shows” “the “Turmeric ‘Patch'” (Curcumin) “is” “the “master ‘firewall’.” “It “is” “a “powerful” “anti-inflammatory ‘program'” “that “de-bugs” “the “root ’cause'” (the “inflammation ‘bug'”) “that “is ‘corrupting'” “the “hardware.”

3. As an entrepreneur , “what “is” “the “polypharmacy ‘risk'”?

“It “is” “a “business ‘risk’.” “The “user” “is” “a “legacy ‘system’.” “The “more ‘patches'” (meds) “you ‘install’,” “the “higher” “the “probability” “of “a “critical ‘conflict’.” “The “data ‘logs'” “show” “a “20-40%” “crash ‘rate'” (adverse “event”) “in “users” “running” “5+ ‘patches’.” “Adding” “a ‘new ‘pharma ‘patch'” “is” “a “high-risk ‘investment’.”

4. “Can” “the “Natural ‘Firewall'” (herbs) “conflict” “with” “my “pharma ‘patches'”?

“Yes.” “This “is” “a “critical ‘bug ‘report’.” “You “must” “log” “all ‘patches'” “with” “your “SysAdmin” (doctor). “Some “natural ‘patches'” (like “St. John’s ‘Wort'”) “are “famous” “for “crashing” “pharma ‘code’.” “Even” “grapefruit ‘code'” “can “crash” “a “statin ‘patch’.” “A “natural ‘patch'” “is ‘still'” “a “chemical ‘code’.”

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5. “So, “Pharma ‘Patch'” “or” “Herbal ‘Patch'”?

“This “is” “a “logic ‘error’.” “It “is “not” “an “A/B ‘test’.” “It “is” “a “hybrid ‘system’.”

  1. “Pharma ‘Patch'”: “Installs” “the “brute-force ‘fix'” “for “the “LDL ‘bug’.” (This “is ‘mandatory'”).

  2. “Herbal ‘Patch'”: “Installs” “the “firewall” “for “the “Oxidation ‘bug’.” (This “is ‘optimization'”).

    “You “run” “both” “to “create” “a “stable ‘OS’.”

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I’m Mr.Hotsia, sharing 30 years of travel experiences with readers worldwide. This review is based on my personal journey and what I’ve learned along the way. Learn more