Cholesterol is an essential substance. We can’t live without it. It is a constituent of every cell in the body, particularly the cell membrane. It is needed to make the bile acids (needed for fat digestion) and the steroid hormones, which comprise the sex hormones and the stress hormones of testosterone, adrenalin and cortisone (technical name Cortisol). Around 70 per cent of all the body’s cholesterol is made in the liver and every cell of the body has enzymes that enable it to make its own cholesterol should the levels begin to fall. Only 30 per cent of the body’s cholesterol is obtained from the diet and changes in the diet can bring about moderate falls in cholesterol levels.
There is significant evidence to link high blood cholesterol levels to blood vessel wall deterioration and heart attacks, though heart attacks occur in those with normal cholesterol levels as well.
To date, dietary restriction and drug therapy have been major vehicles of blood cholesterol lowering. However, there is more to it than that. Any textbook of pathology states that blood cholesterol levels rise (1) when there is a deficiency in thyroid hormones in the blood, (2) when the body is under stress and (3) when late onset diabetes is present.
The highest concentrations of cholesterol in the body are to be found in the adrenal glands. Habitually stressed people use vast quantities of stress hormones. The liver has to keep making the cholesterol to satisfy this demand. The high cholesterol reading in stressed people is the measure of cholesterol traveling from the liver to the adrenal glands to make stress hormones.
Stress further aggravates blood cholesterol levels because cortisone breaks down tissue to be burned for energy. The breakdown of body cells releases their cholesterol content into the blood. This is how crash diets and fasting help raise the cholesterol levels. Prolonged stress puts inordinate demands on the thyroid gland as it labours to keep the body’s energy level up. In time it tires and produces less thyroid hormones and the cholesterol levels go still higher. (See any good physiology or pathology text for details of thyroid hormone influence on cholesterol.)
To try and keep the energy levels of an over-stressed body up, the adrenal glands produce more adrenalin, which requires still more cholesterol. The body is now running on false energy. Instead of relying on normal cell respiration for its energy supplies, it’s relying on the stimulation of adrenalin. Many hard-charging, over-achiever types rely on this ‘adrenal buzz’ to get them through every day. They get so used to living on it they consider it normal and cannot understand why they have high cholesterol levels. In extreme cases their cholesterol levels resist dietary measures to lower them which can lead to ever stricter diets to achieve the desired results. If the diets become too restrictive they become a stress in themselves and a vicious downward spiral is born. Seriously restrictive diets are short of the mineral chromium which leads to late onset diabetes and still higher cholesterol levels. Stress-based high cholesterol levels often give way to diabetes-based high cholesterol as the hard-charger reaches mid-life and beyond.
The Metabolism-Balancing Program is designed to maximise body energy levels by providing ample nutrition to all the cells including those of the thyroid gland. Co-related with sensible work loads, exercise loads and socialising loads the body maintains high energy levels and the cholesterol levels normalise. The deep breathing exercises help keep us calm and relaxed as well as vital. This helps prevent anxiety which is also a cholesterol raiser. The mental relaxation exercises are excellent for ‘talking down’ cholesterol levels and have worked wonders with many of my patients. The more you practise the exercises, the more proficient you’ll become at lowering, and keeping low, your cholesterol levels.
Because high cholesterol is essentially a metabolic problem the answer is easy. Balance the metabolism and you balance the cholesterol levels. By following the Metabolism-Balancing Program and doing the breathing and relaxation exercises your cholesterol levels will normalise without recourse to the drastic diets and toxic drugs so often used. Many people become so miserable on these drastic diets they go off them with a vengeance and binge eat on all the high fat foods (cakes, chocolates, desserts) which only sees their cholesterol levels rise again. Drastic diets don’t work for people in the early stages of late onset diabetes. Diabetes can be fully corrected by the Metabolism-Balancing Program only. When the diabetes is corrected the cholesterol levels automatically balance out.
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