{"id":5159,"date":"2025-02-28T08:13:05","date_gmt":"2025-02-28T08:13:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5159"},"modified":"2025-02-28T08:13:05","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T08:13:05","slug":"how-to-help-lower-cholesterol-without-medication","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/?p=5159","title":{"rendered":"How to Help Lower Cholesterol Without Medication"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance found in every cell in your body that is required to maintain good health. When it is in the right amount, your body uses it to produce hormones and vitamin D while assisting digestion. However, too much cholesterol can pose a problem. At unhealthy levels, cholesterol can lead to high blood cholesterol (<em>BLOOD CHOLESTEROL<\/em>, 2022).<\/p>\n<div id=\"ad-anchor-34\"><\/div>\n<p>Cholesterol comes from two key sources: your liver, which manufactures all the cholesterol you need, and dietary animal sources, such as meat, poultry, eggs, and dairy products. These nutritional sources are typically higher in dietary fats: saturated and trans fats, which comprise the rest of the cholesterol in the body. These dietary fats can cause your liver to produce more cholesterol than needed. An overconsumption of animal products high in saturated fats from unhealthy eating patterns, combined with the genes you inherit from your parents, can lead some people to elevated harmful cholesterol levels (Lordan et al., 2018).<\/p>\n<h2 id=\"h-types-of-cholesterol-levels-nbsp\" class=\"wp-block-heading\"><strong>Types of Cholesterol Levels\u00a0<\/strong><\/h2>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image aligncenter size-full\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-180838\" src=\"https:\/\/theheartysoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/shutterstock_2252684313.jpg\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theheartysoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/shutterstock_2252684313.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/theheartysoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/shutterstock_2252684313-300x204.jpg 300w, https:\/\/theheartysoul.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/01\/shutterstock_2252684313-768x523.jpg 768w\" alt=\"Cubes form the word LDL to HDL. The concept of the word LDL to HDL for High is High Density Lipoprotein and LDL is the concept of Low Density Lipoprotein\n\" width=\"1000\" height=\"681\" \/><figcaption class=\"wp-element-caption\">Source: Shutterstock<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<h4 id=\"h-there-are-two-main-types-of-cholesterol-in-your-blood-that-the-lipoproteins-carry-and-also-subgroups-of-ldl-cholesterol-levels\" class=\"wp-block-heading\">There are two main types of cholesterol in your blood that the lipoproteins carry and also subgroups of LDL cholesterol levels:<\/h4>\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Low-density lipoprotein (LDL), sometimes called \u201cbad\u201d cholesterol.<\/li>\n<li>High-density lipoprotein (HDL), sometimes called \u201cgood\u201d cholesterol.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance found in every cell in your body that is required to maintain good health. When it is in the right amount, your body uses it to produce hormones and vitamin D while assisting digestion. However, too much cholesterol can pose a problem. At unhealthy levels, cholesterol can lead to [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2718,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5159","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-random-stuff"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5159"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5160,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5159\/revisions\/5160"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/2718"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5159"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5159"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/buzzfeednews.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5159"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}