In today’s episode we’re getting into all things cholesterol. Listen in as I answer all of your cholesterol questions, like: Is eating cholesterol a problem? What does cholesterol do in the body? What even IS cholesterol? Is sugar the real problem? What is the connection between gut health & heart disease?

In this episode:

-Is eating cholesterol a problem?

-What Cholesterol does in the body

-Problems with low cholesterol

-Underlying Reasons for High Cholesterol

-Hormones + Cholesterol

-How to support healthy Cholesterol levels

-Intervention for high LDL and Total cholesterol

-Other markers for heart disease risk factors:

-Root cause of cardiovascular disease

-Is sugar the real problem?

-Gut health + heart disease

-Statins: the good, the bad, the ugly

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Why this nutritionist would never buy Isagenix Super Smoothie for my kid: https://www.erinholthealth.com/erin-holt-health-1/2019/10/15/why-i-would-never-buy-isagenix-isakids-super-smoothie-for-my-kid

Meta-analysis of prospective cohort studies evaluating the association of saturated fat with cardiovascular disease. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20071648

Is the use of cholesterol in mortality risk algorithms in clinical guidelines valid? Ten years prospective data from the Norwegian HUNT 2 study https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3303886/

Serum cholesterol levels and in-hospital mortality in the elderly https://www.amjmed.com/article/S0002-9343(03)00354-1/abstract

Low serum cholesterol and external-cause mortality: Potential implications for research and surveillance https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0022395608002525?cc%3Dy

Plasma cholesterol and depressive symptoms in older men https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/0140673693925569

High total cholesterol levels in late life associated with a reduced risk of dementia https://n.neurology.org/content/64/10/1689.abstract

Nutrition and Alzheimer's disease: The detrimental role of a high carbohydrate diet https://people.csail.mit.edu/seneff/EJIM_PUBLISHED.pdf

Women’s cholesterol levels vary with phase of menstrual cycle https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/womens-cholesterol-levels-vary-phase-menstrual-cycle

The Questionable Role of Saturated and Polyunsaturated Fatty Acids in Cardiovascular Disease https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S0895435698000183

High cholesterol may protect against infections and atherosclerosis https://academic.oup.com/qjmed/article/96/12/927/1533176

Is atherosclerosis caused by high cholesterol? https://academic.oup.com/qjmed/article/95/6/397/1559536

Lipopolysaccharide Is Transferred from High-Density to Low-Density Lipoproteins by Lipopolysaccharide-Binding Protein and Phospholipid Transfer Protein https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1087464/

Low Density Lipoproteins Inhibit Endotoxin Activation of Monocytes https://www.ahajournals.org/doi/pdf/10.1161/01.ATV.12.3.341

Role of Helicobacter pylori infection in pathogenesis of atherosclerosis https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4365310/