Cholesterol – look after it!

Posted on by

All
cholesterol molecules throughout the known universe are identical
in every respect. There
is no such thing as ‘good’
or ‘bad’ cholesterol. This
erroneous idea was ruthlessly exploited to market statins. The ‘good’
and ‘bad’ labels actually describe two classes of blood fats (lipids)
also known as HDL and LDL both of which are vital to our lipid
circulation of fatty nutrients.

We
now know that LDL supplies essential fatty nutrients to all organs of
the body. The HDL is in effect the smaller ’empties’ returning the
waste fats to the liver for disposal or recycling.

Excess
dietary sugars can damage the Lipid LDL marker making it unusable.
That damage can be measured (HbA1c is a useful surrogate test for
sugar-damage). When LDL is damaged it builds up in the blood and less
HDL is returned from the organs of the body. The organs are starved
of vital fatty nutrition.

Statins
reduce the symptom of LDL build up but do nothing to fix the problem
of organs not getting fat soluble nutrition. Ultimately statins will
just add to the harm caused by sugar-damage.

Leave a comment