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Cholesterol Isn’t Bad For You Anymore

New studies are suggesting that everything we knew about how dangerous cholesterol is yo your health is wrong

New studies are suggesting that everything we knew about how dangerous cholesterol is yo your health is wrong.

For long, cholesterol has been thought to be one of the main causes of heart disease and strokes, but scientists have found reason to believe that they aren’t.

For decades, people have been warned by nutritionists and doctors against eating fatty foods that contain high amounts of cholesterol, especially if you are over the age of 40. This has lead to many people dropping foods like eggs, shellfish, red meat and butter from their diets, to avoid getting heart disease.

According to new studies, only 20 percent of the cholesterol in your body comes from things you have eaten, and the rest is produced by your own body, meaning that you need it.

Now you have heard about good cholesterol and the bad one, but there’s more myth to that than fact. It has been tested that no matter what you eat, the levels in your blood remain relatively the same. Your body will make up for what you don’t eat.

The facts are that cholesterol is steroid lipid, a fatty substance that is found your blood and is the most abundant type of steroid in the human body. It is what makes cell membranes so flexible and helps them adapt, and is also the building blocks for hormones like testosterone and estrogen.

It is important for your body, because it is very essential to the production of hormones that control salts and sugars, and is essential for sexual health, libido and stamina.

While you can get it from fatty foods, it is in fact your liver that produces and regulates it in your body and releases it into your bloodstream.

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