Elevated Cholesterol

Elevated levels of cholesterol in the blood, also called high cholesterol or hypercholesterolemia, is a condition where cholesterol, a type of lipid (fat), is above what is considered to be the normal range. Cholesterol is a waxy substance that helps build and maintain your arteries, cells, hormones, neurotransmitters and some vitamins. High cholesterol can indeed be harmful for your health, as it increases the risk of heart disease and stroke by forming plaques that narrow arteries, a process called atherosclerosis.  HDL is considered “good cholesterol” whereas LDL is considered “bad cholesterol”. However, contrary to what we are told LDL is not bad cholesterol and is needed by the body for health. The oxidized portion of LDL is the unhealthy cholesterol and is indeed harmful.

 Symptoms

High cholesterol typically doesn’t cause any symptoms. In most cases, it only causes emergency events.

For instance, a heart attack or stroke can result from the damage caused by high cholesterol. These events typically don’t occur until high cholesterol leads to the formation of plaque in your arteries.

 

 Root causes
  • Genetics
  • Dietary choices
  • Lack of Exercise
  • Stress including emotional distress
  • Diminished Liver and Gallbladder function
  • Hormonal issues including thyroid issues

Cigarette smoking:

Smoking cigarettes is another possible cause of a spike in cholesterol levels. This is due to nicotine, the main ingredient in tobacco products such as cigarettes. According to a 2021 article, during cigarette smoking, high amounts of nicotine enter the bloodstream via the lungs. This causes the body to release neurotransmitters called catecholamines. The rise in catecholamines increases lipolysis, or lipid breakdown, which increases LDL cholesterol production. The rise in LDL cholesterol also reduces levels of HDL cholesterol, or “good” cholesterol. The best way to reduce the risk of smoking-induced high cholesterol is to avoid cigarette smoke.


Certain Medications:

Some medications might have a cholesterol raising effect on the body. This includes prescription drugs such as:

  • antihypertensive drugs, beta-blockers, danazol, retinoids, antipsychotics, anticonvulsants, immunosuppressants, antiviral drugs and interferons

In general, these medications increase blood cholesterol levels by altering lipid metabolism. Certain
medications, such as antipsychotics, might also increase cholesterol by promoting weight gain.


Pregnancy:

During pregnancy, it’s natural for blood cholesterol to increase by 30% to 40%. That’s because cholesterol is essential for healthy fetal growth and development.

According to a 2021 scientific article, high cholesterol levels during pregnancy are related to increased levels of estrogen and progesterone, placental lactogen, insulin resistance. It’s possible for cholesterol to increase too much during pregnancy. This is called gestational hypercholesterolemia or maternal hypercholesterolemia. To manage this condition one should make dietary changes.

Rapid weight loss:

LDL cholesterol can temporarily spike before dropping to normal levels. According to the researchers,
this might be related to changes in metabolism.

 

 Nutritional Support Items

VERY IMPORTANT:

  • Calcium (NS Coral Calcium): To prevent hypocalcemia, or low calcium levels. Use s natural form of calcium form. Take up to 2,000 mg daily.
  • Policosanal and red yeast rice extract (NS Cardio Support): Has cholesterol-lowering properties. Take Take as directed on the label.
  • Chromium picolinate (EQ Chromium Picolinate): Lowers total cholesterol levels and improves HDL-to-LDL ratio. Take 400–600 mcg daily.
  • Coenzyme Q10 (EQ CoQ10 or FGF CoMega): Coenzyme Q10 improves circulation. Coenzyme Q10 helps to streamline metabolism, process fats, remove toxins from the body, and boost the immune system. For coenzyme Q10, take 60 mg daily. 
  • Fiber (NS Ultra Colon Cleanse 4-6 caps with 8 ozs of warm to hot water before bed or NS Fiber Plus 2-3 caps at bedtime): Helps to lower cholesterol. Take as directed on label, ½ hour before the first meal of the day. Take separately from other supplements and medications.
  • Garlic (NS Cardiovascular Formula): Lowers cholesterol levels and blood pressure. Take 2 capsules 3 times daily.
  •  L-carnitine (EQ L Carnitine): Studies conducted using 4 grams of carnitine daily for 12 months showed lowered death rates and lowered cholesterol levels in people who had had heart attacks. Take as directed on label.
  •  Lecithin granules or capsules (NS Liposomal Vitamin C 1 cap 2 times daily): Lowers cholesterol. A fat emulsifier. For granules, take 1 tbsp 3 times daily, before meals. For capsules, take 1,200 mg 3 times daily, before meals.
  • Lipotropic factors (EQ HepaDetox): Substances that prevent fat deposits (as in atherosclerosis). Take as directed on label.
  • Vitamin A with mixed carotenoids (BL Total Nutrition Plus NS Liver Support): If you are taking cholesterol lowering drugs, your lycopene levels will be reduced. Lycopene boosts the immune system. Take up to 3,000 mcg (10,000 IU) daily. If you are pregnant, do not exceed 3,000 mcg (10,000 IU) daily.
  • Vitamin B complex, and vitamin B3 (niacin) (EQ B Complex or FGF CoMega): B vitamins work best when taken together. Vitamin B3 (niacin) lowers cholesterol. Caution: Do not take niacin if you have a liver disorder, gout, or high blood pressure. For vitamin B complex, take as directed on label. Do not exceed 35 mg niacin, 100 mg vitamin B6, and 1,000 mcg folate daily. For vitamin B3 (niacin), do not use a sustained-release formula,  Do not exceed 35 mg of niacin daily.
  • Vitamin C with bioflavonoids (NS Liposomal Vitamin C): Lowers cholesterol. Take up to 2,000 mg daily, in divided doses.
  • Vitamin E (EQ Initial E): Improves circulation. Take 90 mg (200 IU) daily or 180 mg (400 IU) every other day.
  • Lipase Enzymes (TE Lypo): Helps maintain normal blood lipids and designed to digest fats

HELPFUL:

  • Essential fatty acids (NS Omega Complete 1-2 capsules daily, EQ Primrose Oil 1-3 caps daily): Thins the blood. Take as directed on label. Take with vitamin E as recommended above.
  • Proteolytic enzymes (NS Proteolytic Enzymes 2 caps 3 times daily): Aids in digestion and metabolic clean up. Caution: Do not give this supplement to a child. Take as directed on label. Take with meals and between meals.
  • Selenium (AI Selenium): Deficiency has been linked to heart disease. Take 200 mcg daily.
  • Shiitake extract or reishi extract (NS Liver Spleen Kidney):  Helps to control and lower cholesterol levels. For either, take as directed on label.

 

Supplements
NS - Natural Solutions |  EQ - Energique | BL - Bio Light | AI - Alive Innovations | TE - Transformation Enzymes
If thyroid related NS Thyroid Max

 

 Whole Food Sources and Spices
  • Broccoli
  • Spinach
  • Oats
  • Barley and other whole grains
  • Beans
  • Eggplant and Okra
  • Nuts
  • Flax Seeds
  • Using liquid vegetable oils such as canola, sunflower, safflower, and others in place of butter, lard, or shortening when cooking or at the table helps lower LDL.
  • Apples, grapes, strawberries and other citrus fruits
  • Foods fortified with sterols and stanols. (Sterols and stanols extracted from plants gum up the body’s ability to absorb cholesterol from food. Companies are adding them to foods ranging from margarine and granola bars to orange juice and chocolate.
  • They are also available as supplements. Getting 2 grams of plant sterols or stanols a day can lower LDL cholesterol by about 10%.)
  • Soy
  • Fatty Fish

 

Juicing Recipes

Controlling Cholesterol:

Ingredients:

  • 2 red grapefruits
  • 1 orange
  • 1 pear
  • 6 strawberries

Directions:

  • Remove the outer skin of grapefruit, keeping as much white pith as possible. Cut into halves or quarters.
  • Remove the hard wooden stem from pear. Juice whole or cut in half if too big to fit into the wide chute.
  • Remove the orange skin leaving as much white pith as possible. Juice whole or cut in half if too big to fit into the wide chute.
  • Pull off the small green leaves of the strawberries.
  • Start juicing with the pear. Add it to the juicer and wait for it to completely press through before adding more ingredients. The harder the pear the better they press in the juicer.
  • Add the strawberries all at once.
  • Add the orange.
  • Finish with the grapefruit halves adding them one piece at a time.

 

 Gemstones and Crystals
  • Magnesite
  • Cat’s Eye
  • Yellow Fluorite
  • Red Aventurine
  • Carnelian
  • Magnesite has been shown to help lower cholesterol levels. Cat’s Eye can also regulate blood sugar and cholesterol levels.  Yellow Fluorite helps with detoxification, weight loss, and managing cholesterol. Red Aventurine helps to balance blood pressure, lower cholesterol and burn fat. Carnelian and Bloodstone are both detoxifying and purifying when it comes to issues involving blood, and would both be excellent at helping to lower cholesterol levels.

 

 Herbs
  • Fenugreek
  • Astragalus
  • Flax seed
  • Turmeric
  • Rosemary
  • Holy Basil
  • Hawthorn
  • Red Yeast Rice
  • Garlic
  • Citrus Bergamot
  • Berberine

 

 Homeopathy
  • Allium Sativum
  • Aurum Metallicum
  • Calcarea Carbonica
  • Nux vomica
  • Strophanthus Hispidus

 

 Beneficial Techniques and Modalities

Ion Footbath detoxification

Rife frequency Therapy

 

 Home Remedies
Get adequate, quality sleep
Stress Management
Consume coconut oil
Consume olive oil

 

 Essential Oils and Aromatherapy
  • Cinnamon essential oil
  • Basil essential oil
  • Lemongrass essential oil
  • Clove essential oil
  • Lavender essential oil
  • Ginger essential oil
  • Oregano essential oil
HOW TO USE ESSENTIAL OILS FOR HIGH CHOLESTEROL
  • To treat high cholesterol, you should only use oils available in the form of capsules, the oils should be labeled ‘standardized extract’ meaning they have been diluted and made safe for internal use.
  • Makes sure that you read the manufacturer’s instructions carefully.
  • Rotating the use of your essential oils may be more effective. Try changing oils every few weeks.
  • Monitor your progress by getting your cholesterol levels checked every few months.
  • Make sure that you only take essential oils internally under the guidance of a health professional.

 

Acupuncture

LI-11

ST-40

CV-12

 

Reflexology
Start by massaging these reflex spots:
  1. Pituitary gland
  2. Pineal gland
  3. Thyroid & parathyroid gland
  4. Thymus gland
  5. Adrenal gland
  6. Pancreas gland

 

      Massage the organs responsible for Fat metabolism

  1. Stomach - fat food landing place
  2. Small intestine - absorbs fat from food
  3. Liver - Glycogen & Fat storage and production

    If you feel pain, numbness in these areas, then you should give special attention to those areas. A different sensation indicates some minor problem with that specific organ. If that particular point shows any positive change after a massage, then increases the frequency of massage to that location, otherwise, discard that reflex point.

    Massage the organs at risk due to high cholesterol

    1. Heart (to prevent heart attack)
    2. Brain (to prevent stroke)

    Massaging these reflex points will help to avoid any risk or complications such as plaque formation in the arteries, atherosclerosis, and heart diseases or stroke due to long-term high-cholesterol levels.

       

 

Bio-Energetic Balancing Remedies Suggestions

Run a Liver/Gallbladder Scan and possibly a Thyroid Scan.  Use the Search Criteria to add symptoms and then while in the Search Criteria add the above listed homeopathics.  You can imprint the hold tank into a correlating homeopathic.  Imprint the laser and during an Ionic Footbath Session target the Liver.

Diet plays a huge part in lowering cholesterol.  You may want to take Lipase enzymes when eating fats.  This will assist in the proper breakdown of fats.  Also consider the medications an individual is taking.  Many times certain medications like birth control pills, anti-depressants, beta blockers etc. can cause an increase in bad cholesterol.   Conditions that can contribute to high cholesterol are Kidney Disease, Diabetes, PCOS, Pregnancy, Hypothyroidism, Menopause, Obesity and Smoking.  Through questioning the client and reviewing their intake form and the comprehensive you can determine if any of these are a factor and take corrective measures.


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