Further Reading

Sunday 9 October 2011

Cholesterol Is Your Body's Most Powerful Defense Against Toxins & Free Radicals

At first glance the title of this article may seem stunning to you, shocking or jolting even. You have been told all of your life that cholesterol is either "good" or "bad". You have been told that elevated cholesterol is the cause of heart disease.These concepts are absolutely 100% false. It may be true that patients with heart disease have high LDL levels (low density lipo-protein) and even high total blood cholesterol values. However a critical distinction must be made between the cholesterol in your blood versus the cholesterol in your tissues. LDL and cholesterol present in your tissues are there to protect your cells from the damaging effects of toxins, inflammatory fatty acids and free radical activity. For heart disease patients, high levels of LDL may be on the "scene of the crime" but LDL does NOT "pull the heart disease trigger". Cholesterol and LDL (the so called "bad" cholesterol) are in effect the patsies, the fall guys for the real offenders: ultra pathological conjugated fatty acids such as the leukotrienes and virulent free radicals such as the hydroxyl....read more>>>...