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Cholesterol is essential to our body.  Cholesterol in our body comes from two sources.  Cholesterol is generated from our livers and also comes from our mouth – from what we eat.  Our livers can generate enough cholesterol for our body’s needs, even if we don’t eat any foods with cholesterol.  If we have so-called “high bad cholesterol” and we can’t control our eating, our physicians will prescribe medicines to suppress our liver from generating cholesterol.

The liver provides multiple functions to our body.  One is generating cholesterol; another is storing extra serum glucose (sugar) from our blood stream.  In order to lower “bad cholesterol”, we take medicines to suppress our livers from generating cholesterol.  When we say to suppress, it means we intend to disturb our liver’s generating function.  This is the reason why we need to have a blood test every three months to make sure our livers are still healthy if we take medicines to lower bad cholesterol.

Once the generating function of the liver is disturbed, will its storing function also be disturbed?  Most diabetic patients have high bad cholesterol.  Diabetes is the problem of storing blood glucose from blood stream into our body (livers are the important organ to store glucose). To control high bad cholesterol and high blood glucose, most physicians will prescribe two medicines for their patients, one for cholesterol, and one for blood glucose.  If liver function is disturbed in order to lower cholesterol, what happens to the blood glucose?  That is why the result of taking medicines is hardly satisfactory and the patients are suffering.

Since diabetes and high bad cholesterol are related to diet, how to eat right is one of the crucial solutions to reducing bad cholesterol.  Maintaining a proper exercise routine will also benefit the diabetes and high bad cholesterol.  I stopped taking medicines for diabetes and high bad cholesterol three years ago.

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