High cholesterol is protective and helps people live longer

For decades conventional medicine has warned us about the dangers of having high cholesterol. It can kill us, they have repeated over and over again. This belief has permeated all planes of society and you can see its effects even in children’s canteens and street restaurants! Cholesterol will definitely kill you! Stay away from it! Eat a low fat diet or suffer the consequences! Their usual argument is that there thousands of studies that prove it, as well as the WHO guidelines that were created by the world’s greatest experts. This document argues that saturated fat raises cholesterol. 

But the main problem here, which these people have never questioned before, is that…. cholesterol is not a disease! So high level of it cannot be a disease either!

Do we really shorten our lifespan or develop a mortal cardiovascular disease by eating saturated fats?

To claim that saturated fat raises cholesterol is not enough and the theory or proposition that high cholesterol is a a risk factor for having a heart attack or a stroke is only a hypothesis. The evidence that proves these people wrong abounds in the scientific community but it has been silenced. Here’s some evidence that the cholesterol myth is a hoax and that saturated fat is not our enemy, but our friend!

Let’s start by saying that research has found that high cholesterol is advantageous.

More than 20 studies have shown that elderly people with high cholesterol live longer than elderly people with low cholesterol. 

The Maasai tribe from Kenya and Tanzania have the lowest cholesterol ever measured in healthy people. However, they have a diet based on raw red meat and animal blood and a whopping percentage of what they eat is high in saturated fat. 

Studies have revealed that the cholesterol of people who usually gorge on saturated fat is on average no higher than the cholesterol of people who avoid saturated fat. Can you believe this! This is true!

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Cholesterol: friend or foe? What if high cholesterol was not the problem?

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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Understanding the Need of Functional Medicine in Cardio-Vascular and other Health Imbalances

Cardio-vascular health is a reflection of diet and lifestyle. Some bacteria like H. Pylori can cause inflammation of the vessels, high blood pressure, and heart disease. All these factors are investigated in depth with the use of functional diagnostic tests before applying any therapy to the biochemical glitch. Each individual will present unique biochemical imbalances. So, each one of my prescriptions will be unique.

Metabolic markers of high triglycerides, high cholesterol, high or low cholesterol particles, blood sugar dysregulation, insulin resistance, and other, are closely investigated too. In functional medicine we know that insulin levels are more important to investigate than glucose levels when it comes to determine insulin resistance or diabetes type I. But we don’t stop there! We also investigate and address the myriad of cardio-metabolic issues that arise from this metabolic dysregulation of insulin that is caused by diet and lifestyle.

In functional medicine we look at the hormonal balance of all our patients / clients. High cortisol leads to insulin resistance and obesity, as well as to PCOs in women; or high blood pressure. Men with low testosterone will have high levels of estrogen which puts them at high risk of developing cancer of the prostate or even of the breast. Abnormal hormonal balance causes infertility in both men and women. And women in menopause and peri-menopause go through the toughest times of their lives when their levels of estrogen and progesterone decline naturally with age.

Whatsoever the health problem may be, functional medicine will have a deep impact than other approaches to find the various biochemical imbalance that cause the main symptoms through functional lab testing and address them with nutrients, healing foods, lifestyle prescriptions, and stress management.

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Understanding The Pillars of Optimum Health In Functional Medicine

Functional medicine is the new paradigm in health & disease that is taking the world of medicine by storm. Conventional medicine for chronic, degenerative disease focuses on symptoms only and on masking these symptoms with toxic chemicals that lead to undesirable side effects. Unlike this conventional approach, functional medicine focuses on investigating the root of the cause of the health imbalance or disease, and then, on rebalancing the biochemistry of the organ that is malfunctioning with a natural, and yet, 100% science-based approach. We focus on the “functionality” of the organ or tissue, not on superficial symptom like pain or inflammation only.

Because most diseases begin in the gut, investigating gut health is of primary importance in functional medicine. The functional medicine practitioner or consultant is a detective that investigates where the underlying root problem lies in the patient/ client’s body using state-of-the-art laboratory tests, called functional lab tests. To investigate gut health and rule out candida, Sibo, IBS, IBD, bacterial infections, viral infections, inflammation, dysbiosis, digestive insufficiency like insufficient bile secretion, or insufficient hydrochloric acid secretion, or insufficient pancreatic enzyme production, the functional medicine practitioner utilizes advanced gastro-intestinal functional lab tests. All digestive issues are directly related to diet, lifestyle, and factors like toxic load, liver detoxification pathways that are impaired, immune reactions to foods (food intolerances), overgrowth of bacteria, candida, yeast, or other microorganisms, and stress.

No matter what the health problem may be, functional medicine will dig deeper than other approaches to find the biochemical imbalance causing the main symptoms and address them with nutrients, healing foods, lifestyle prescriptions, and stress management.

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