Cholesterol Imbalance

Description

Cholesterol is essential for life. Without it you would die.

Despite many misconceptions about cholesterol these 2 facts are true. Cholesterol has major effects on your level of fitness and your longevity. It is critical for your body to produce hormones, particularly the sex hormones progesterone and testosterone.

Statistics

Many studies have been performed to try to estimate the enormity of cholesterol imbalances and excessively high cholesterol throughout the world. Results show us that not only is the problem already huge in Western society, but that percentages continue to escalate globally.

High cholesterol is more prevalent in Northern Europe and Asia than in Southern Europe.

Causes

People are often misled by claims that the amount of cholesterol in your bloodstream is directly related to your diet. Although your cholesterol levels can be influenced by diet it is much less relevant than people think.

In actual fact only 20% of your total cholesterol comes from your diet, a tiny amount. Your body produces more than 80% of your cholesterol naturally. This means that correcting imbalances and excess amounts of cholesterol needs to be tackled internally much more than externally.

Diagnosis

You may not initially realise that your blood cholesterol is too high or detrimental to your health as the condition itself does not cause any actual symptoms.

Whether you are young, middle aged, or older, a woman or a man, in good health or not, finding out and monitoring your cholesterol levels will enable you to determine what risks there may be to your health. This allows you to decide on any action you need to take to prevent disease and increase your protection against heart disease and heart attacks.

Signs & Symptoms

High cholesterol levels do not cause any symptoms.  The first sign you may notice is usually from the development of a major, potentially fatal condition such as atherosclerosis and cardiovascular disease.  This is why it is so important to keep a check on your cholesterol levels, even if you are in good health.

Treatments

It is very important to take steps to control your cholesterol levels, particularly if you have other high risk factors.  We have already mentioned the possible consequences of heart disease and strokes if left untreated.

Of course a good general diet is essential and can help in reducing your cholesterol to some extent where it has an Conventional Treatments

Prescription medications concentrate only on helping to combat high cholesterol and bring levels down. The main group of medicines for doing this are known as ‘statins’.

Examples of statin drugs include Fluvastatin (Lescol), Lovastatin (Mevacor), Simvastatin (Zocor), Atorvastatin (Natural Treatments

We know that improving your blood cholesterol levels reduces your risk of heart disease. Natural science also knows that it is possible to get your cholesterol levels under control naturally…here’s how…

In addition to making sensible lifestyle choices, to lower your cholesterol naturally you must tackle the problem in 6 ways... For More Information Click Here