Cholesterol
How interesting. I’ve thought for years that the so called ‘good cholesterol numbers’ were good for big Pharma’s profits but not for people. First it was the Honolulu Heart Program back in 2001 that showed that all cause mortality in the elderly increased when they had lower total cholesterol levels. The elderly with levels of around 220-240 total cholesterol lived longer than their peers with lower levels. (1)
Now here we are again, rinse and repeat. A new study published in the journal Nature found levels of cholesterol between 210-249 were the most protective and that cholesterol lower than 150 was more dangerous than levels over 300! Wowzee! (2)
Now we’re talking Total Cholesterol levels. Knowing your HDL and LDL levels is very important. Higher HDL numbers are very protective. Higher LDL numbers can be dangerous and cause atherosclerosis.
Everything in balance! Which is why this morning I chose to focus on the Balance Cholesterol number.
Some more thoughts:
Your Brain is your biggest consumer of cholesterol at around 20%.
If you are taking a stain drug, please, please take co-enzyme q10. There is a chemical pathway that your body uses to make both cholesterol and co-q10. Statin drugs block this chemical pathway at the same junction as co-q10. So your body’s ability to make co-q10 is inhibited. Co-q10 is very important for your muscles which explains why a side effect of statins is muscle pain.
Co-Enzyme Q10 33363942464953
Co-Enzyme Q10 4856394449485251
In a past blog post I wrote about the awesomeness of Chlorella. Well here is some more awesomeness…chlorella can normalize serum cholesterol numbers! Yay Team Chlorella! (3)
Cholesterol is essential for your body to produce Vitamin D. We all have learned lately how important Vitamin D is for your immune system.
So maybe Cholesterol is not the Bogeyman that it has been made out to be. And with that, I’m off to eat a delicious egg fried in butter.
Thanks for reading!
Hugs,
~Christine
(1) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/11502313/
(2) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30733566/
(3) https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/6948086/
