Lowering Cholesterol May Be Bad for Your Health

On Tuesday, UltraWellness announced that a recent study published by The New England Journal of Medicine demonstrated that even when bad cholesterol (LDL) is under the uppermost "healthy" number of 70, statin drugs won't protect a person's health if, at the same time, one's good cholesterol levels (HDL) are also low.

Cholesterol is used by the body to build cell membranes, place coverings on nerve sheaths and much of the brain, and as a central building block for hormone production.

Adequate levels of testosterone, estrogen, progesterone, and cortisol would be unsustainable without cholesterol and death would result.

Ultrawellness points out that the biggest cause of abnormally high cholesterol is too much sugar, not the ingestion of fat. The company targets the ubiquitous high fructose corn syrup for being the underlying nutritional cause of abnormal cholesterol and most of the cholesterol issues that doctors see in their patients.

What's more, the type of fat ingested, not the amount, is the important factor surrounding that part of diet. Trans-fats (hydrogenated fats) and saturated fats promote abnormally high levels of cholesterol; on the other hand, omega-3 fats such as those found in abundance in seafood and monounsaturated fats-high-density lipoproteins or HDLs- act to improve the type and quantity of cholesterol that the body makes.

"If you're like most of the patients that I see in my practice, you're convinced that cholesterol is the evil that causes heart disease. However, cholesterol is only one of many factors that contribute to your risk of getting heart disease... Sugar drives good cholesterol levels down, causing pre-diabetes and most heart attacks." says Mark Hyman, M.D.

UltraWellness is Hyman's pioneering health and wellness system which uses systems biology and what he calls "functional medicine" to achieve greater vitality and longevity mentally as well as physically.

Other studies have recently shown that people with low levels of the healthy cholesterols can have increased risk of memory loss and high levels of disability when trying to recover from a stroke. Higher levels of HDLs and lover levels of the hydrogenated and saturated fats have also been demonstrated by studies to increase the efficiency of the lungs.

Some medical experts independent of Doctor Hyman have concluded from studies that doctors should spend more effort promoting the eating of HDLs and less refined sugars as heart disease and obesity preventive measures rather than writing prescriptions for the wide array of synthetic, side-effect-rife, and expensive statin pharmaceuticals being marketed with billions of dollars in advertising behind them. Statin pharmaceuticals are drugs that are used to lower the levels of "bad" cholesterol in the body.

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