The ABC’s Of Cholesterol Part V – Keep Levels Healthy With Quality All Natural Supplements

Author: Dr.Gregory

At this point, many may be thinking that cholesterol is not the bad guy and statins may not necessarily be the best solution. The question still remains: What precisely causes cholesterol to elevate? Also, what is causing the arteries to clog?

With that in mind, we will take a cursory review of some of the more critical components that are at the root of each of these questions. First, we will review the primary causes of the all too common “high cholesterol level”.

So what causes the “Bad” cholesterol to become a problem?

In one word – us. For many people that have unhealthy cholesterol levels, most often these are caused by our personal choices. This may be a tough idea to adjust to, but here are the predominate factors in high levels of our cholesterol.

• Poor dietary habits
• Smoking
• Inadequate exercise or a lack of physical activity
• Excess weight or obesity
• Diabetes or poorly controlled diabetes
• Family history of unhealthy cholesterol or heart disease
• Increasing Age

As a result of other standard cholesterol tests, most doctors may recommend diet and exercise changes as well as cholesterol lowering medication to alter elevated levels of cholesterol and triglycerides. However, is this always the best option to employ? At this point, let us review what we have determined to this point.

What You Should Know About Cholesterol

A great point to remember is that there is no such thing as good or bad cholesterol. Cholesterol is Cholesterol.

Cholesterol in our blood is just like pouring oil into water. In order to move the cholesterol [oil] through the body, our body attaches a protein – hence the term lipoprotein. HDL and LDL for example, are lipoproteins.

Application of a statin drug serves to inhibit the essential production of cholesterol by reducing or inhibiting the very essential enzymes required for the production of cholesterol and other critical hormones. Least we forget that cholesterol is essential to the body because it is used for so many other biological requirements. By interfering with the enzyme pathway that generates our cholesterol you will also compromise a host of other normal liver enzyme functions. This will result in multiple side effects that are recognizable, well established in medical reports, and very serious.

Some of these side effects are muscle damage, nerve damage, and impaired memory. Remember, statins have a negative side effect on muscles, and your heart is a muscle. So one of the side effects of the statin is to compromise the very muscle [the heart] they are prescribed to protect. It is worth mentioning again that the side effects of the statins compromise the very biochemical processes that our body requires to stay alive.

Lowering cholesterol to the new recommended levels is very dangerous. All of the required steroid hormones in the body will be compromised and this new low level correlates with dying – especially from cancer.

What we are faced with from the medical arena is confusion between the terms ‘correlation and cause.’ For example, there is a distant correlation between cholesterol and CVD, but cholesterol is not the cause. Simply stated, cholesterol does not cause CVD.

For example, there is a correlation but not a cause between aging and gaining weight. In general, by becoming older we might obtain extra and unwanted weight gain. Regardless, if you were to lose the weight as many do, you don’t become any younger! Again, correlation but not the cause.

The correlation between cholesterol and CVD is weak at best. Jumping head first into using a statin as the ‘quick fix’ remedy is to ignore the cause of the health concern and the consequences to your future health.

In many cases, if it is not specifically the cholesterol, then what is it that creates the cardiovascular disease issues? The primary focus of Part VI is to illuminate the underlying issues of cardiovascular concerns that are all to often attributed to cholesterol.

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