Surprising Truths About Cholesterol
Healthy cholesterol levels are critical to helping prevent cardiovascular disease, heart attack, and stroke. But if you’re like millions of men and women, this whole cholesterol thing can be confusing even maddening. For example, knowing what makes your cholesterol go up or down…which kind of cholesterol is good and which is bad…which foods you should or shouldn’t eat…why you need to be so concerned about triglycerides…or whether you should take a statin or try one of the new injectables to keep cholesterol in check can all be a challenge. That’s why you need Understanding Cholesterol: Simple steps for improving your cardiovascular health –a special report from BottomLine Personal.
One of the first things you need to know is that not all cholesterol is bad. In fact…
Without cholesterol you’d die because your body needs it to properly function.
A waxy, fat-soluble molecule, cholesterol resides in every cell of your body and supports the integrity of your cells. Cholesterol helps convert sunlight into vitamin D and is a building block for sex hormones. Given cholesterol’s bad reputation, that’s surprising right? As it turns out, your liver produces all the cholesterol you need to support these functions. When excess cholesterol isn’t soaked up by your cells, it heads back to the liver where it’s converted to bile salts or destroyed and expelled as waste.
Here’s where cholesterol goes bad…
It’s possible you were born with a tendency for high cholesterol—it’s just your genetics. Whether you were or weren’t, when you eat fatty foods like doughnuts or potato chips or you eat too much red meat, your liver cranks out more cholesterol than you need. As cholesterol builds up on the inner lining of the
blood vessels you can develop a condition called atherosclerosis. Over time, blood flow through the arteries gets restricted and plaques form on artery walls. Eventually these plaques calcify or harden which causes a blockage that can rupture and lead to heart attack or stroke.
What’s Inside
- Discover the real difference between good (HDL) cholesterol and bad (LDL)…
- Find out how to reverse high cholesterol even if it runs in your family…
- Learn which foods champion healthy cholesterol levels and which foods raise cholesterol…
- Discover why high triglycerides circulating in the bloodstream are dangerous…
- See why eggs are not a demon breakfast food! Find out how many you can eat without bumping up your cholesterol…
- Discover the differences in cholesterol between men and women…
Discover How To Lower Your Risk Of Heart Attack And Stroke As Much As 44%!
