What You Need To Know About Cholesterol
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A lot of people is under the impression that cholesterol is something that does not occur in a normal body. That it’s caused by extraneous factors, and if you could get rid of those factors, you will no longer have any cholesterol in your body.
Technically this is not correct. In fact, cholesterol is completely normal. Every human body contains cholesterol. It is a substance manufactured by the liver. Its function is involved with the movement of fatty material from the liver to other organs and parts of the body, and back.
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.
The bad news is that there are several factors, both external and internal that could cause HDL to drop below an acceptable level, and LDL to rise to a dangerous level. We will look at a few of those below.
The biggest single cause of cholesterol imbalance is probably just eating wrong, and eating too much for your lifestyle. The body’s cholesterol system can not cope with all this excess fat, it ends up in the bloodstream, starts to clog your arteries, eventually breaks up and causes a heart attack.
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.
It has also been proven that genetic factors can play role in harmful cholesterol levels. In a process not yet completely understood, about 70% of people have an inherited risk that the balance between good HDL and bad LDL in their bodies will be disturbed, causing the whole system to malfunction. This often results in the build-up of fatty tissue in the arteries, because it is not dealt with properly by the liver.
Acting alone, a single one of the factors mentioned above might not be deadly. When they work in conjunction however, they form a lethal mix that results in the death of more people in America than anything else. Cholesterol is also one of the major causes of death world wide.
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