Cholesterol is like cake, good in moderation. It’s misleading to call cholesterol an evil or an artery-clogging fat because cholesterol performs a lot of important functions. The idea that too much animal fat and high cholesterol are dangerous to your heart and vessels is nothing but a myth.
Do you still shun eggs, butter and other nutrient dense because they contain cholesterol? You’re depriving yourself needlessly, because cholesterol is not a villain to your diet or heart health as you have been led to believe. Your body needs cholesterol. Your liver makes about three-quarters or more of your body’s cholesterol – that’s how important it is.
Cholesterol is a wax like fatty substance found in almost every cell of your body. You need cholesterol to make hormones and vitamin D, digest your food, protect your nerves and for the production of cell membranes. Levels of cholesterol are not higher in fatty meats or lower in lean meats. Like your body cells, the cells of all mammals contain cholesterol. Understanding your cholesterol ratios is more important than looking at a single number.
High cholesterol can be dangerous, but cholesterol itself is essential to various bodily processes, from insulating nerve cells in the brain to providing structure for cell membranes.
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