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There seems to be a lot of misunderstanding regarding cholesterol among the general public. Very often people think that they have no way of controlling cholesterol, or that it’s “all bad”. That only sick people have cholesterol.

That is not quite correct though. Cholesterol is actually present in every healthy human body. It is a fatty substance produced by the liver, and is involved in the production of hormones and the distribution of fats from the liver to and from other organs.

The two kinds of cholesterol are: Low Density Lipoproteins and High Density Lipoproteins. The first, LDL, is frequently referred to as the bad guy. In a normal body, it deals with the distribution of fatty material from the liver to other areas in your body. This is not necessarily a bad thing – it only becomes a problem when our bodies don’t need that fat! HDL is usually seen as the “good” guy. That is due to its involvement in the process of getting excess fat back from the rest of the body to the liver to be dealt with.

Unfortunately in real life there are a couple of factor, both caused by ourselves or by circumstances outside our control, which disturb the normal balance between LDL and HDL, causing the system to malfunction, and fat to start building up in our arteries.

One of the major causes of dangerous cholesterol levels is simply eating too much, specifically eating too much fatty food. In our time we don’t normally get the same amount of exercise as our forefathers, therefore the body has now other way to copy with all this fat than to store it somewhere. This causes a buildup of LDL cholesterol in the bloodstream, which eventually causes something called plaque. This is similar to the plaque on teeth, but not the same. It can become brittle, break off and clog your arteries.

Another important contributing factor to cholesterol imbalance is smoking. Not many people know that cigarettes contain a highly toxic substance known as acrolein. This stuff is also present in pesticides and chemical weapons! It suppresses the normal functioning of LDL and HDL. One the one hand HDL no longer effectively carries excess fat from other areas of the body back to the liver to be destroyed or recycled, and LDL is oxidized in the whole process, changing it cellular structure and causing it to malfunction.

Something that not a lot of us know either, is the role of genetic factors in all of this. For a reason we don’t quite understand yet, about 70% of people suffer from a genetic disorder causing the production of good and bad cholesterol to become out of balance. Too much bad cholesterol – too little good cholesterol. And the system basically collapses.

In our hard-eating, hard-drinking, heavy-smoking, no-exercise society all the above factors often combine to form a deadly cocktail of cholesterol ending in heart disease and death. Cholesterol is in fact one of the major causes of death all over the world.

Would you like to learn more about natural treatment high cholesterol levels? Read other article at cholesterol diet

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