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Cholesterol Home Remedies and Low Cholesterol Treatment |
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By Mr. Parveen
 However cholesterol though harmful at elevated levels, contributes too many biological functions and is undeserving of such an infamous reputation. The body manufactures cholesterol internally in the liver, and from the foods we eat and, as a necessary lipid (fatlike substance), is used as a building component for all of the body's cells.
Cholesterol is found in all cell wall in your body and plays a critical role in maintain cell integrity without it your cells would not be able to maintain their spherical shape. Many hormones in your body are made from cholesterol. Lowering cholesterol with statin drugs has been linked to depressionprobably because of a corresponding disruption of hormonal balance.
Few people recognize cholesterol as a natural and necessary part of our body. Too many it's something that should be avoided completely and people go to great lengths to avoid foods that contain it. But our body wants cholesterol to digest foods produced hormones and to protect our cells. Confusion about cholesterol exists because many people don't realize there is a difference between blood cholesterol and dietary cholesterol.
Cholesterols name originates from the Greek word choler and stereos due to researchers originally finding it in gallstones in a solid form. It circulates in the blood and is used as a building product for all the body's cells cholesterol can be found in high concentrations in the muscles, brain and liver and many sex hormones.
In one-third of individuals who go through from the heart disease the first symptom is death. Since heart disease is often asymptomatic until it claims ones life screening for the disease is important. Current management of heart disease risk involves screening for and controlling risk factors including blood pressure, cholesterol, blood sugar, homocysteine, and obesity.
As mentioned above, cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease. Cholesterol can however, be a useful marker of an underlying provocative condition or loss of metabolic control. The following guidelines will help you to decide rather or not your cholesterol is indicating such a condition. In the next section I will discuss the root causes of the inflammatory condition, and how to address it naturally.
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