Sentences with phrase «produces more cholesterol»

If you are deficient in Vitamin D your liver produces more cholesterol, which is needed for proper absorption, to grab whatever Vitamin D is available.

In others, the researchers altered a gene that regulates phospholipids, the primary type of fat in cell membranes, which spurred the cells into producing more cholesterol on their own.

The problem is eating high saturated fats and salt, these cause the body to produce more cholesterol.

Not exact matches

This type of cattle usually produces beef with less total fat, cholesterol and calories, as well as more vitamin E, beta - carotene, vitamin C and omega - 3 fatty acids.

Niacin also produces a modest reduction in low - density lipoprotein (LDL cholesterol) and a more substantial reduction in triglyceride levels, which might be expected to lower the risk of coronary heart disease, Lloyd - Jones notes in the article.

As a predictor of risk this was 40 % more effective than LDL cholesterol, which, in the corresponding groups of women, produced an increased risk only 1.5 times greater.

On the other hand, if you don't eat enough cholesterol, your body simply produces more since cholesterol has dozens of important vital functions in the body.

In addition, they also cause more trouble by reducing the amount of healthy, testosterone - producing HDL cholesterol.

One is that we need cholesterol to make hormones, so sometimes it's rising up like naturally to produce more hormones in this time.

That's because the liver is the manufacturer of cholesterol, producing about three times more of it than what you eat.

If malt sugar is put into the rice used to make red yeast rice, the red yeast produces about four times more of the cholesterol - lowering ingredient.

Does the human body produce its own cholesterol and if so, is there a need to supplement out bodies with more cholesterol through foods or do we manufacture enough?

As you age, your skin loses its ability to produce necessary nutrients to protect it from the damaging effects of the sun's UV rays, and adding berberine to your daily regimen can help in more ways than one; this plant compound has many beneficial medicinal purposes, such as helping to control blood sugar, cholesterol and even heart disease.

Some say its a numbers game, the more LDL particles crashing the walls of the arteries... some say the LDL is only a sign of vascular damage, but if my LDL goes down on a low fat diet, then that is bs, some say that it may be a problem metabolizing LDL, intake / production is outpacing LDL receptor activity, some say its not LDL but LDL that stays in the blood too long and oxidizes, some say about 20 % carbs (I was less than 5 %) will produce just enough insulin to help metabolize cholesterol, but the hard core low carb guys, say the whole cholesterol thing is a scam and cholesterol under 500, without insulin resistance is nothing to worry about.

«If food companies are encouraged to produce more foods that fit into a cholesterol - lowering diet, these diets would be much easier for ordinary people» to follow, Jenkins said.

Fat, particularly saturated fat is a substrate from which the liver produces cholesterol, so yes fat can turn into cholesterol... but the body still regulates this process on demand, so eating more fat (whilst eating the required amount of total calories) will not necessarily give you more blood cholesterol!

They compete with candida in the intestine, they suppress the growth of potentially harmful bacteria, they produce substances that can lower cholesterol, they enhance the protective barrier of the digestive tract, they help produce vitamin K, they improve immune function, they lower blood cholesterol in some people, they lower blood pressure in some people, they aid in the digestion of lactose, they prevent cavities, they decrease the passage of bacteria or antigens from the intestines to the blood stream, they fight pre-carcinogenic or mutagenic compounds, they lower the pH of intestinal contents, they utilize oxalate (oxalate contributes to kidney stones), they detoxify ingested carcinogens, they produce compounds that inhibit the growth of tumor cells, and more!

Besides the general health decline (cachexia) that tumors can produce, some of them cause normal body cells to take up more cholesterol (upregulation of LDL - receptors).