Cholesterol Does NOT Need to be an Issue
Cholesterol is a substance the body needs in order to complete some of its functions like creating cell tissues, protecting nerves and creating hormones. Cholesterol is produced by the liver but aliments like eggs and meat contain it too and by eating them we bring this cholesterol to out body.
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The Cholesterol Myth
by: Ray Gebauer
Cholesterol. What images come to mind when you see this word? Is it positive or negative? Is it health, or is it heart disease?
If what came to mind was negative, as something to avoid, and heart disease, then the pharmaceutical companies food industries have been successful in getting you to believe a fabricated myth!
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High cholesterol has been linked with the likelihood of cardiovascular disease, which makes the connections between when you buy Zoloft and high cholesterol that much more disconcerting. Cardiovascular disease is often acknowledged as the cause of heart attacks, stroke and peripheral vascular disease. All of these things are extremely dangerous and in some cases life-threatening. If you or your family has a tendency towards heart disease, you owe it to yourself to become very well educated before you buy Zoloft because the result may not be those desired.
A Little History
In 1991, the Pfizer Corporation commercially introduced Sertraline hydrochloride which is commonly known as Zoloft. Today it has become one of the most prescribed antidepressants in America. When you buy Zoloft, although it is commonly prescribed for people suffering from clinical depression, it can have several applications including the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorders, panic attacks and social anxiety disorders.
Although the side effects are much less severe than those of other antidepressants on the market such as Prozac it may easily produce results much different than just controlling depression. On the lower end of the side effect scale are things like nausea, insomnia, diarrhea and certain sexual side effects.
While the well-known side effects when you buy Zoloft are relatively mild compared to the usefulness of the drug, there is one other side effect that has begun to get widespread exposure. Zoloft has now been found to be a cause of high cholesterol. Zoloft and its competitors make a habit of spelling out the most noticeable side effects in explicit details, but they have neglected to mention a side effect that many people won’t notice immediately. Indeed, the only people who will notice Zoloft’s effect on their cholesterol are the ones to whom it matters most.
Zoloft and high cholesterol is a combination that people should avoid at all costs. The risks and harmful effects that high cholesterol represents are well documented, but Zoloft’s role in this trend is fairly new. If you are going to buy Zoloft you owe it to yourself to determine whether the risk of heightened cholesterol offsets the benefits of the antidepressant because the introduction of a life threatening situation could be more depressing than what has created the need to buy Zoloft in the first place.
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What Is Cholesterol and Why Is It Bad?
Simply put it is a naturally occurring substance much like wax that is produced by the liver. Logic would indicate that if the liver produces it there must be a reason and that reason should be for our benefit not detriment. If left alone the liver should maintain an optimum cholesterol level. So what’s the problem, this alone should have the great cholesterol myth busted apart but let’s dig a little deeper.
The question really isn’t what is cholesterol; it is what does cholesterol do? Why does the liver even make the stuff if it’s going to cause heart disease and arteriosclerosis and cause strokes and such? Well it turns out that it is essential to the production of vitamin D, it helps build cell walls and creates bile salts that aid in the digestion of fats.
That sounds pretty helpful to maintaining good health, doesn’t it? Cholesterol is necessary to help carry excess fat in the blood back to the liver to be processed and expelled. A closer look reveals that what we are led to believe as bad is really only a half truth. Cholesterol is carried through the blood stream by a substance called lipoproteins. The lipoproteins come in two general variety high-density and low-density. As we ingest saturated fats and trans fats the liver gets the signal to produce more cholesterol to deal with these fats. Since the high-density lipoproteins are the ones that should deal with the cholesterol laden with fats and more cholesterol then normal has been produced they get over burdened. The low-density lipoproteins step in and take over which is not really their job. They get bogged down and tend to cling to the walls of the blood vessel and a plaque is created.
Note that this is not the result of cholesterol but of saturated and trans-fats being ingested (i.e. eaten) and low-density lipoproteins having to do something they were not designed to do. Yet what we are told time and again is to take drugs that directly affect our cholesterol level and the way to do that is by manipulating the liver. Doesn’t that sound wise? The great cholesterol myth busted.
So if it really isn’t the cholesterol that is causing the problem what is? The saturated fats and the trans fats that are used in the preparation of our foods and in the preparation of the foods that feed the animals that we eat. Whole grains, vegetables and fruits have no saturated fats or trans-fats unless they are cooked in them. So if we are really interested in dealing with what is called high cholesterol we would deal with the use of saturated and trans-fats in the preparation of our foods rather than developing drugs to manipulate a substance that doesn’t need to be manipulated.
Understand that this is simply our opinion; we are not experts in this field but are simply looking at it with our logic. If you are relying on our opinion to make a decision which could affect your health that would be a real mistake but from where we stand we say to the great cholesterol myth busted.
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