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let’s talk about cholesterol menopause and  aging as we get older our cholesterol does go up  

typically men have higher cholesterol than women  but during menopause there usually is a spike in  

cholesterol in women now before i get too much  into that i just want to let you know that the  

body does make cholesterol it makes a lot in fact  75 to 80 percent of all the cholesterol in your  

body is made by your own body why because all of  your cell membranes need it also cholesterol is  

required to make bile vitamin d and sex hormones  estrogen progesterone testosterone cortisol and  

there’s several other hormones but the question  is why would a female going through menopause  

have an increased amount of cholesterol well it  has to do with this hormone right here estrogen  

as the estrogen decreases during menopause  which happens dramatically and significantly  

you’re going to get an increase in cholesterol  because estrogen acts as an antioxidant and as  

we have less antioxidants we’re more susceptible  to getting damage in the arteries in different  

parts of the body and so you really want to look  at cholesterol as the firemen to put up the fire  

so cholesterol is really a band-aid to come in  there with the help of calcium and some protein to  

seal the lesion or the inflamed damaged artery and  so to understand cholesterol very simply you have  

two types you have ldl hdl these are proteins that  are transporting the cholesterol in and out of  

the liver so the ldl which is considered the bad  cholesterol is really transporting the cholesterol  

from the liver to the cell and the hdl which  is considered the good is transporting it back  

from the cell back to the liver for recycling  so as long as we have an exchange there  

we’re totally fine now i’ve done videos on this  recently when you have high ldl what you have to  

realize is there’s two types of ldl one is a bad  one is a good and so i recently released a video  

on my wife’s cholesterol which was high as well  as the ldl but if you look deeper and you take  

an advanced lipid profile you’ll notice if the  person’s on a low carb diet and they’re eating  

healthy that the type of ldl is actually the large  buoyant it’s not the small dense and so it’s not  

the bad type of ldl but my wife actually has  gone through menopause she has decreased estrogen  

and so she has less antioxidants and so one of  the things she does is she eats a lot of food with  

antioxidants which i recommend to everyone and so  the significance of this video is this if you are  

going through menopause if you’re getting older  okay you’re going to have less of these right here  

so that means that you have to eat cleaner you  have to have less sugar and less refined carbs  

and that will keep this from creating damage and  you won’t need the firemen to come in to patch  

anything up and secondly at the same time  you want to make sure you’re having enough  

food high in antioxidants to  counter any effect of a drop in  

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