Cholesterol

We can help you with cholesterol at our Chagrin Falls clinic.

The Effect of Excess Insulin levels on Your Health

Most people are aware that insulin is a hormone made by the pancreas that takes sugar out of the blood stream and places it into our cells for energy.  But far beyond that, insulin can be called the master hormone of human metabolism.  Its many functions include the regulation of blood pressure, the storage of fat, and the production of cholesterol and triglycerides.  Insulin levels become chromically high (hyperinsulinemia) after years of eating high carbohydrate meals and lead to many health problems including: elevated blood pressure, elevated cholesterol and triglycerides, diabetes and obesity.  These conditions have become rampant in recent years due to a vast increase in the consumption of sugar and white flour.  Did you know?  At the turn of the century, the average American ate one pound of sugar per year.  Today the average person eats close to one pound per day! 

To prevent excess insulin levels in our body one must avoid all refined sugar, white flour and excessive consumption of high starch foods(bread, pasta, rice, potatoes, etc.).  A diet rich in protein and low starch, water-rich vegetables and fruit, preferably organic, along with real butter and natural plant oils will keep insulin levels at bay.

Although many in mainstream medicine claim that foods like eggs, butter and red meat will raise cholesterol levels, basic physiology leads us to the fact that it is quite the opposite.  We do not get high cholesterol or triglycerides from consuming cholesterol...we get it from years of eating refined, processed, high carbohydrate foods along with hydrogenated(man-made) fats.  

Did you know?  Over 80% of the cholesterol burbling along in your blood vessels was made by your own body?  Very little comes from outside food.  

Once again, consuming butter, red meat and egg yolks does not raise your cholesterol.  Ingesting high amounts of sugar, processed foods and high carbohydrate meals can raise cholesterol by way of provoking a release of insulin which stimulates the body to produce excessive amounts of cholesterol.

Listed below are the health issues that occur with excess insulin production:

  • Stimulates excessive fat storage.

  • Stimulates the liver to make cholesterol

  • Stimulates thickening of the artery walls, making them less pliable

  • Causes excessive inflammation through the entire body

  • Blocks sex hormone production

  • Increases lactic acid production in the muscles with associated pain

  • Makes the kidneys retain excess salt and fluid, thus increasing blood volume.  This increases blood pressure

  • Depletes the body of thiamine(B1), which is needed to break down sugar.  This sugar is fuel to the brain, and when we don't get the fuel we get depressed.

  • Increases adrenaline-like substances that raise the heart rate and constrict the blood vessels causing hypertension.

  • Decreases one's life span

For an effective drug-free approach to lowering high cholesterol, please call our office to schedule an appointment 440.893.0348.

 

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