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031: Understanding Cholesterol - Seven Health: Eating Disorder Recovery and Anti Diet Nutritionist

Episode 031: On this week’s show it’s a solo episode with me talking about cholesterol.


Mar 17.2016


Mar 17.2016

Just hearing the word for most people makes them think of cardiovascular disease or has negative connotations. But this is a very narrow understanding what cholesterol is really about. On today’s show I cover what cholesterol is, what it does In the body, what HDL and LDL are, the connection between cholesterol and cardiovascular disease and then the reasons someone can have high cholesterol or low cholesterol.

Here’s what we talk about in this podcast episode:

00:01:20

What is cholesterol

00:01:45

Where does it come from

00:03:00

What are its functions in the body

00:09:00

What is HDL and LDL

00:11:25

What is atherosclerosis and how is it created

00:14:10

What is the link between LDL and atherosclerosis

00:18:20

Why could cholesterol be high

00:31:00

Why could cholesterol be low

00:39:35

Finding middle ground in all the cholesterol noise

00:40:55

Cholesterol levels fluctuate significantly


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