Cholesterol

Let me give you an example; Eggs contain a thing called Lecithin. It helps your body digest cholesterol and break it down. Yes, the egg has something in it that actually helps your body break down and recycle cholesterol, including the cholesterol in the egg itself. Just like I talked about earlier, if you eat something like it is found in nature, it comes with what it needs.

Just because you eat cholesterol, does not mean your cholesterol levels go up. It is like saying if you eat more fish, you will be more fish like. If you eat more pepperoni, you will be more pepperonish. It is silly. Our body digests the food we eat; it breaks it down to basic parts, and then absorbs the parts. The body then puts these basic building blocks together as human parts. Not fish, or egg, or cow parts, but human parts. Same goes for cholesterol. The body breaks down the animal and plant cholesterol into basic parts. And then, if the body wants, makes it into human cholesterol.

One of cholesterol�s primary job is to carry glucose (sugar) around the blood stream. You need an equal number of cholesterol units as you have sugar molecules in your blood. So if you have 3000 sugar molecules in your blood, you need 3,000 cholesterol molecules to carry them. The actual numbers are much, much higher than this, but you get the point.

The more glucose or sugar molecules you have in your blood, the more cholesterol you need to carry them.

So what affects your blood sugar levels? Mostly what you eat like refined carbohydrates. When you eat refined carbohydrates, they get digested and absorbed into the blood stream very quickly. Your body then very quickly converts the refined carbohydrates into glucose. This causes a spike in your blood glucose levels.

Everyone has witnessed this. Ever see a kid after they eat a bunch of sugar? They are bouncing off the walls, because all of that sugar gets turned into glucose in the blood very quickly. So they have tons of energy, because glucose is one of the things your muscles use for energy.

The same thing happens to you when you eat sugar and other refined carbohydrates. Your body quickly converts them into glucose in the blood. And if you have a high amount of glucose in the blood, what do you need again? That is right; you need lots of cholesterol to carry those glucose guys around.

Your body is smart. It learns from the past. If you are constantly having high amounts of glucose because of the food you eat, your body prepares. Your body prepares for the next time that you eat refined carbohydrates. It prepares by having lots of cholesterol on reserves to deal with the certain increase in glucose levels that are inevitably going to happen.

Your blood sugar levels are constantly changing. Your body is always trying to keep your blood sugar levels with in a normal range for you. But after years of abuse from you, your body does not always do such a good job.

So if you eat refined carbohydrates often (daily) your body prepares by keeping lots of cholesterol on reserve to deal with this. This is one of the biggest reasons why so many people have high cholesterol levels. Your body is smart, and it is preparing for the inevitable of your blood glucose levels going way up from eating refined carbohydrates.

Like I said, your body is smart. It is a very quick learner. If you quit eating food that makes your blood sugar levels high, your body will get rid of the excess of cholesterol levels in your blood. That is why, often with in weeks, your cholesterol levels drop significantly, often 50 or 100 or more points, when you quit eating refined carbohydrates.

Now, the trick comes with, what is �refined carbohydrates�. Refined carbohydrates are things that are mostly calories from carbohydrates that have been refined from how they are found in nature including most sugars. Great, what does that mean? Things like breads, crackers, pastas, sugar (in most forms), and grains are refined carbohydrates.

Why do refined carbohydrates raise my blood sugar levels so much? Good question. In the process of refining the carbohydrates, they are taking away part of the product. They are removing part of what comes with the grain or plant as it is found in nature. Now the funny part about the perfection of nature. We and the things in nature are perfectly designed for each other. When we eat food whole, as it is found in nature, it is almost never ever bad for us. When we eat grains and sugar cane, and sugar beets, as they are in nature, whole, there is no problem with how our body responds to them.

You see, all the nutrients that are needed to digest a piece of fruit, are found in the fruit. All the things needed to digest grains, are found in whole grains, like in nature. All the things needed to digest milk, are found in whole raw milk. It is just when we come along and change it by heating it, and putting chemicals in it, and making it �better� that problems occur.

See, fruit sugar is fine for the body. It does not really cause an increase in your blood sugar levels, as long as it is eaten with the fruit it comes in. They refine fruit sugar out of fruit, to use as sweeteners in some products, and this refined fruit sugar can cause problems as well. Because all the stuff that comes naturally with the sugar in the fruit, is now not there.

When they refine grains to make most breads, and pasta, and crackers and stuff, the part they take away is the part that keeps the grain from increasing our blood sugar levels. The part they remove to make white flour is the part that helps keep our blood sugar levels normal when eaten whole.

So when they take part of the food away, it leaves the food in a way that causes your blood sugar levels to increase. You quit eating those foods, and there is no need for lots of cholesterol in the body. So the body then lowers your cholesterol levels.

To safely, significantly lower your cholesterol level with in weeks, quit eating refined carbohydrates. It is that simple. And again, don�t take my word for it. Do it yourself, and measure your cholesterol levels before and after, and you will see for yourself. If you cut refined carbohydrates out completely, you will notice the 50-100 point drops with in weeks. If you still eat refined carbohydrates, you will notice a decrease, but not as quickly. And the amount your cholesterol drops will be in direct proportion to how much refined carbohydrates you quit eating. The less you eat, the more it will drop. It really is that simple.

NOTE: It is easy to follow what Dr. Fettig is trying to explain regarding cholesterol and the human body relationship. I totally agree that if you would eliminate or at least greatly reduce your processed refined carbohydrates from your diet your cholesterol levels would approach more normal values. But, will people do that? In our fast pace society, probably not. Did you know 80 percent of all gall stones located in the gallbladder are made of cholesterol? Since we have mentioned normal values for cholesterol level, what should be the normal value found within the body? I remember twenty-five years ago, the normal value for cholesterol was 250. Over the years that number has drop to around 125. I guess only the drug companies know what our normal levels should be. Of course, the lower the number, would not affect the bottom line of how much they would make in profits, do you think?

Drug companies are probably the most lucrative source of funding for research at universities. With the normal value for cholesterol recommendations today, one would think that we would have less cardiovascular diseases. Yet, I see more people treated today with drugs for high cholesterol and the numbers keep rising for cardiovascular disease. What is even more apparent is that many of those people taking cholesterol reducing drugs now are taking additional drugs, because additional health problems begin to start showing up from the side effects of the cholesterol drugs. Is it just me or is there something wrong with people, when they are provided with knowledge and still allow themselves to be poisoned to the point that they are dying from the treatment of a condition. Should we not search deeper to find what the true cause of our cholesterol problem is and look for possible alternatives for treatment that doesn't threaten our longevity and quality of health?

Lets go back to what I have presented throughout this web site. If we could totally accept Dr. Fettig's statements, then why do almost all children today not have high levels of cholesterol in their blood? I think it is safe to say, that most of us can agree that they eat more processed refined carbohydrates than adults do, unless a parent could be watching them all the time. So, why are they doing better than adults, when it comes to cholesterol levels in the body?

IT'S SO SIMPLE

They have more systemic enzymes reserves in their bodies than adults do.

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