Latest reduce high cholesterol news - The Thins Versus the Fats
Ok so 3 more posts today that I’ve dug up - I’m an information JUNKIE on this stuff lately. Give em a browse and let me know what ya reckon. They’re just from a few different sites I’ve been surfing lately that are generally good for information like this…
Changing sedentary, high-cholesterol, high blood pressure, high blood sugar fat people into more active, low-cholesterol, normal blood pressure, … Read More…
The benefits of a high-fiber diet
It can be found in abundance in foods like apples, psylium, and oats and may help to reduce cholesterol and glucose levels. Insoluble fiber, on the other … Read More…
The list of reasons why chronic high stress is bad for us seems never ending: It can lead to depression, high cholesterol, and weight gain, to name a few. … Read More…
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The Great Cholesterol Lie: Why Inflammation Kills And The Real Cure For Heart Disease
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Why do Eskimos, who typically eat a diet loaded with animal fat, have very low rates of heart disease?
The answer is that high cholesterol isn’t the cause of heart disease - oxidised cholesterol is. That’s the opinion of many alternative physicians including Philip Lee Miller MD, founder and director of the Los Gatos Longevity Institute in California. ‘ I’m one of those people who have been saying for 30 years that cholesterol does not cause heart disease,’ he says. ‘It’s a recruit in the process, like a soldier is a recruit in a war, but it does not cause the war.’
Dr Miller, like the majority of medical professionals, recognises that the lowering of LDL cholesterol plays a critical role in preventing hardening of the arteries. He knows that excess cholesterol in the bloodstream can be subjected to oxidation (the same oxygen-sparked, cell destroying process that rusts iron or turns an apple brown after it has been cut).
The destructive process of oxidation is literally inflammatory - it’s like a fire in the body. ‘The immune system, your body’s fire service, rushes foam cells to the area to douse the blaze. But just as firemen sometimes have to axe down a door to get into a burning building, the anti-inflammatory process can damage the lining of the artery. This roughened, injured area is a perfect foundation for the build-up of plaque, the truly evil plug that clogs arteries and triggers heart attacks’.
‘Oxidized LDL starts an inflammatory reaction that the body tries to heal, but the healing causes more problems than it resolves, ‘ says Dr Miller. The best way to prevent this heart-hurting process, he says, is to prevent the oxidation of LDL cholesterol - and the best way to do that, he adds, is to make sure you get enough of the antioxidants vitamin E, vitamin C, and glutathione.
Antioxidants work by calming unstable oxygen molecules called free radicals, which are responsible for oxidising cells. When antioxidants neutralise free radicals, they are on a type of suicide mission. The antioxidants themselves are oxidised or, in chemical terms, reduced.
Fortunately, the body has a system to help ensure that there are always plenty of antioxidants available, Dr Miller says. When vitamin C is oxidised, vitamin E comes to the rescue, donating some of its molecules to restore the vitamin C to its full antioxidant status. In the process, the vitamin E is reduced, but the glutathione replenishes it. That’s why you need all three nutrients, says Dr Miller.