Today, I would like to talk about some aspects of cholesterol that are not commonly discussed.
Did you know that:
1. Most of the cholesterol in your body is produced by the body and mainly in the liver?
2. Both HDL and LDL are vital to your health and well-being?
3. The cholesterol potentially blocking your arteries is oxidized LDL?
4. Regular blood test can’t tell you the level of LDL oxidation?
5. Heavy metal can also cause high LDL?
Let’s look at all these questions one by one.
1. Only about 20% of the cholesterol in your bloodstream comes from the food you eat.
2. From the above article， it says : ”The Harvard Special Health Report – Managing Your Cholesterol explains cholesterol as a waxy, whitish-yellow fat and a crucial building block in cell membranes. Cholesterol also is needed to make vitamin D, hormones (including testosterone and estrogen), and fat-dissolving bile acids“.
3. The cholesterol potentially blocking your arteries is LDL that’s oxidized
LDL oxidation by one-electron (free radicals) and two-electron oxidants dramatically increases LDL affinity to macrophage scavenger receptors, leading to rapid LDL uptake and fatty streak formation.
A routine lipid profile blood test can give you total cholesterol results, but it doesn’t test for oxidized cholesterol.
https://www.healthline.com/health/heart-disease/oxidized-cholesterol-what-you-should-know#prevention
Did your doctor send you for more tests before prescribing you with a cholesterol medication?
Heavy metal can also lead to high LDL
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/31797685/
Lead, mercury exposure raises cholesterol levels
https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/11/181105081733.htm
Heavy metal exposure may be raising your cholesterol (nutritionandhealing.com)
Apart from heavy metal, have you thought of why cholesterol level is high in the body?
Would it be because of low usage rate?
If yes, why is it not being used as desired?
Would it be because the machines that are supposed to make use it are faulty or even without power supply?
Instead of killing all LDL, would it be better to find out the reason first?
Would addressing the reason more important than killing the LDL that may also be resulted from the same reason that causes the other health issues of concern?
When looking at the importance of LDL, would killing it adversely affect the formation of cell membranes, production of vitamin D & hormones, and digestion?
📌 Whatever is the cause of high LDL, NMN can help remove most of such causes in the body.
Here’s a human study that sheds some lights. In this study, NMN improved both blood pressure and cholesterol level at the same time, without using any medication to hinder the production of cholesterol.
Highlights:
• A Daily 2,000 mg dose of nicotinamide nucleotide (NMN) for 28 days cuts body weight in overweight or obese middle-aged and older adults.
• NMN also lowers total blood cholesterol, including low-density lipoprotein (LDL) cholesterol, linked to blood vessel cholesterol buildup.
• Diastolic blood pressure is lowered by NMN, indicating that it can lower blood pressure.
Before I leave the topic, I would like to share the followings about cholesterol medication.
While high or low LDL level does not theoretically affect the brain because of the blood brain barrier, some cholesterol medication can. Brain health depends a lot on the presence of sufficient cholesterol. That would be detrimental if the balance is upset when cholesterol medication is introduced into the brain.
A lot of material already! Happy reading for now! I’ll come back with more shocking findings about cholesterol medications.