Homeopathy For Healthy Cholesterol

Cholesterol is not as ‘bad’ as it is being increasingly highlighted in certain quarters. The best thing to do is not ‘stifle’ one’s cholesterol levels, with superfluous bravado, but aim at the underlying trigger — the likely cause of your cholesterol ‘upsurge’ — as homeopathy does… to restoring optimal health and well-being.

- Dr Rajgopal Nidamboor

You are taking good care of your heart health. That’s great. You are avoiding saturated fats and keeping your blood cholesterol levels low. You are happy and so is everyone else in the family — because, this is the key to good health and preventing heart disease.

If you are a vegetarian eating low-fat food and keeping dairy products at a distance, you are doing the best thing possible. Or, you don’t eat more than a few eggs, and you’ve kept red meat off your menu. Or, if you are taking prescription cholesterol-lowering drugs, you’d sure be feeling on top of the world. Put simply, you are convinced that you’re taking appropriate care of your heart health.

You may be wrong. Because, you would be amazed to learn that your key factors, or pointers, to good heart health are ‘flawed’ beliefs.

A growing body of research, today, evidences that the cholesterol-heart disease premise is more than questionable. In other words, the idea that high cholesterol is a fundamental risk factor for heart disease may be more than ‘orchestrated’ hard-sell.

THE CHOLESTEROL PARADOX 

The argument — there is no ‘rock-hard’ evidence that high cholesterol alone plays a role in heart disease, forget about the long history of the ‘cholesterol danger’ hypothesis. The fact is — saturated fats and cholesterol are, in point of fact, essential for good health and maintaining strong immune defence. However, while it is agreed that a consistently high level of low-density lipoproteins [LDL], or ‘bad’ cholesterol in the blood, is suggestive of an underlying health problem, what needs to be emphasised is that one should always address the ‘root cause’ of any given, or not given, illness, instead of keeping one’s blood cholesterol levels awfully low.