HDL vs. LDL
- Having a diet high in processed foods, such as simple sugars, and unhealthy saturated fat, especially from commercially fed animals.
- Excess weight, or “skinny fat”, otherwise known as metabolically obese.
- Lack of physical activity.
- Smoking or heavy metal toxicity from environmental sources..
- Age and gender: your cholesterol levels may raise as you get older. Women have lower cholesterol levels than men but can increase due to menopause. These changes are often due to disruption of the hormone balance. Specific hormonal issues such as hypothalamus-pituitary-adrenal (HPA) axis dysfunction play a powerful role, and so is the thyroid health.
- Genetics. A very complex topic to be addressed in the series of future posts.
- Inflammatory and metabolically disruptive medical conditions (kidney disease, HIV/AIDS, diabetes).
- Ongoing chronic inflammation, either due to a specific disease (such as autoimmune diseases or those mentioned above) or due to disrupted metabolic and hormonal balance.
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