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Tips to Lower Cholesterol Naturally

It’s important to realize that there’s a big difference between average and healthy cholesterol levels. It’s very similar to what we’re now seeing with vitamin D levels.

Today, however, with respect to cholesterol, the pendulum has shifted the opposite way with ever lower levels of cholesterol being recommended, primarily due to the significant influence of the drug industry.

Profit, Not Health, is the Driving Factor Behind Current Cholesterol Recommendations
Cholesterol is Not the Evil Villain You’ve Been Led to Believe

Cholesterol is essential and crucial for a wide variety of vital functions in your body.

It’s an integral part of your cell membranes, and it’s also the precursor
your body uses to make your steroid hormones – one of which is vitamin D. Your skin contains cholesterol, and when UVB rays from the sun hits your skin it converts that form of cholesterol to vitamin D3
Your body then further converts it into the active form of vitamin D.