08/06/2025
What’s your cholesterol levels?
Are you confident in your cholesterol numbers?
I don’t want to spoil your confidence, but that blood report might not give you the true picture!
Cholesterol is necessary. It’s needed for various essential functions in the body. The body makes its own cholesterol, so there’s no need to supplement with foods that contain cholesterol.
Also, cholesterol in foods like eggs or shrimp doesn’t significantly impact the blood cholesterol levels for most people.
As a health marker, high cholesterol is not as bad as once thought. You still want to keep an eye on your LDL levels, as high levels can lead to a dangerous buildup of plaque in arteries, which can ultimately result in heart attacks and strokes. But keep reading, because not all LDL is the same! 🫣
👉 There’s a couple of reasons why total cholesterol is not a great health marker.
1️⃣ You want your HDL to be high, because it helps to remove LDL cholesterol. And high HDL levels will increase your total cholesterol.
2️⃣ Your LDL cholesterol consists of two types, Pattern A and Pattern B. Pattern A takes up 80 % of your LDL cholesterol. It’s the type that is increased by dietary fat consumption. This is also the type that is lowered by eating low fat, and taking statins. The thing is, type A is cardiovascularly neutral-meaning it’s not driving the accumulation of plaque in your arteries. 🤯 The less common type B on the other hand is predictive of heart disease. The problem is that statins don’t do anything to lower type B, and neither does a low-fat diet. 😱
As you see, your total cholesterol can be very deceiving. You can eat a low fat diet, and lower your total cholesterol, but you’re not making any difference to the actual dangerous type B LDL-C.
✨ Type B LDL-C cholesterol responds to refined carbohydrates and sugar consumption. 50% of people who end up in the emergency room with heart attacks have normal cholesterol. But they have higher type B LDL-C cholesterol, which is caused by insulin resistance.
They still don’t measure insulin on a regular physical blood test, only fasted glucose. Insulin can be elevated for up to 15 years before detected in your glucose levels.
👉 How do you become insulin sensitive?
🔥 I thought you’d never ask…👇
✅ Eat whole foods.
✅ Avoid added sugars and refined carbohydrates.
✅ Stop snacking.
✅ Start intermittent fasting.
✅ Pay attention to what order you eat your foods to avoid glucose spikes.
✅ Exercise!
I teach you all these steps in my “16-Week Midlife Reset”.
To get a preview of what I teach in my program, join my FREE training this Thursday 8/6 @ 6pm EST.
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