The belief that high
levels of cholesterol in your body will kill you, is nothing but a myth and a
hoax! The conventional approach which knows little to nothing about nutrition,
will insist on this negative belief. But the functional medicine approach,
based on nutrition and on how each cell in the body utilizes food and nutrients
to produce energy and promote optimum functionality of all organs and tissues,
definitely knows better!
Cholesterol is a
natural compound created by the human body itself. If you decide to eat a
low-fat diet because your doctor has scared the heck out of you with the
nefarious effects eggs or red meat will have on your health, and you remove all
cholesterol from your meals to
comply with this apparently sane prescription, your own body will go bananas
without exogenous (dietary) cholesterol and will start producing its own
cholesterol at the liver. You see, each cell in the body has a receptor for
cholesterol meaning that cholesterol is absolutely essential for the proper
function of the whole body. If you deprive your system from foods naturally
high in cholesterol, like cheese, eggs, red meat, etc., your body will suffer!
In the absence of this fatty acid, your live will take over and will start
making cholesterol to compensate for its absence in your diet.
Whilst high levels of
cholesterol have been shown to be protective, if the ratio between high density
lipoproteins and total cholesterol is out of range, or your ratio of
triglycerides to high density lipoproteins is high, this is called dyslipidemia
and your cardio-vascular or cardio-metabolic health will be at risk.
In functional medicine we rebalance all
these metabolic abnormalities with advanced wellness strategies based primarily
on a healing diet, on targeted nutrients, on exercise, on yoga and on stress
management techniques. Our advanced wellness programs are individualised to you
and to you only. We don’t follow any medical book according to your symptoms.
We listen to your unique story, we investigate your biochemical imbalances with
functional lab tests, and out of the lab results we devise a unique and
individualised program to help your body enhance wellness and build optimum
health again.
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