Start Lowering Your Cholesterol Naturally Within 48 Hours! Dr. Mandell

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Brief Summary

This video by motivationaldoc discusses quick and effective ways to lower cholesterol levels. The key takeaways include reducing refined sugars and saturated fats, increasing physical activity, maintaining a healthy weight, and incorporating soluble fiber into your diet. Soluble fiber helps trap cholesterol and bile acids, leading to their excretion and ultimately lowering LDL cholesterol levels.

  • Reduce refined and processed sugars.
  • Increase soluble fiber intake.
  • Stay physically active to raise HDL (good) cholesterol.

Introduction to Cholesterol

The video starts by acknowledging that high cholesterol can be problematic, but also highlights that cholesterol is essential for the body in the right amounts. It supports cell membranes, brain cells, hormones, and the digestive system. The video promises to share the quickest ways to lower cholesterol levels.

Dietary Changes to Lower Cholesterol

To lower cholesterol, one should eliminate refined and processed sugars found in packaged foods, sodas, candies, cakes, and breads. Excessive sugar intake raises insulin levels, leading to fat storage. If the sugar isn't burned off, it converts to fats, primarily triglycerides, which can cause metabolic syndrome, blood pressure issues, cardiovascular problems, and diabetes. Reducing saturated and trans fats is also important, focusing instead on unsaturated fats from nuts, seeds, avocados, and fatty fish.

Lifestyle Adjustments for Healthy Cholesterol

Regular physical activity is crucial as it raises HDL (good) cholesterol and lowers LDL (bad) cholesterol and triglycerides. Maintaining a healthy weight also helps lower overall cholesterol levels. Avoiding smoking and limiting alcohol consumption can positively affect cholesterol levels.

The Power of Soluble Fiber

Adding soluble fiber to your diet can significantly improve your body's chemistry. Good sources of soluble fiber include oats, oat bran, legumes (beans, lentils, peas), fruits (apples, oranges, pears, berries, avocados), vegetables, nuts, and seeds like flax and chia seeds, as well as psyllium husks. Chia seeds, for example, swell up to 12 times their original size when soaked in water due to their soluble fiber content.

How Soluble Fiber Lowers Cholesterol

Soluble fiber lowers cholesterol by dissolving in water in the small intestine, forming a viscous gel-like substance. This gel traps cholesterol and bile acids, preventing their reabsorption into the bloodstream. The trapped cholesterol and bile are then excreted from the body in feces. This process forces the liver to use more cholesterol from the blood to produce new bile acids, thus lowering LDL cholesterol levels.

Additional Benefits of Soluble Fiber

Soluble fiber acts as a prebiotic, feeding the probiotics in your gut. This leads to the secretion of short-chain fatty acids, which reduce inflammation, a major contributor to cardiovascular problems. Soluble fiber also promotes satiety, slows down digestion, and limits insulin spikes, allowing glucose to enter cells slowly and preventing excessive fat storage.

Recap and Simple Steps

To lower cholesterol, increase soluble fiber intake while also reducing processed sugars and packaged foods. Opt for more polyunsaturated and unsaturated fats, increase exercise, get enough sleep, and drink plenty of water. Soluble fiber binds to bile acids in the small intestine, preventing their re-circulation and prompting the liver to pull more cholesterol from the bloodstream to create more bile acids.

The Role of Exercise and HDL Cholesterol

Exercise raises HDL (good) cholesterol levels. HDL cholesterol travels through the bloodstream, seeking out LDL (bad) cholesterol that causes plaque and clogging in arteries. It latches onto the LDL and transports it back to the liver for excretion. High cholesterol often correlates with high triglycerides and low HDL levels, but following the strategies outlined can improve these levels.

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0:02 high cholesterol can be a problem although cholesterol is extremely healthy for our body in the right amounts it supports all the cell membranes in our body our brain cells our hormones our bio that's used to break down fats in our small intestines it affects our immune system as well as many many other things but I want to share with you the quickest way that you can lower your cholesterol levels the first thing you need to do is quit those refined and processed sugars that means those foods that are in the packages your sodas your candies your cakes your breads you get the hint too much sugar kicks up insulin levels insulin means

0:49 your body is ready to store more fat so what happens is if you don't burn the sugar off it gets store those glycogen in the liver as well as the muscles and the excess sugars get converted to fats primarily triglycerides too many high triglycerides can lead to metabolic syndrome problems with blood pressure cardiovascular diabetes as well as other systemic diseases you need to reduce the excessive saturated fats as well as trans fats you want to focus on unsaturated fats that are found in nuts seeds avocados and fatty fish and you want to stay Physically Active because regular physical activity will raise your HDL cholesterol which is a good cholesterol and lower your bad cholesterol called the LDL cholesterol as well as your triglycerides and you also want to maintain a healthy weight

1:35 because as you lose weight your cholesterol's overall will continue to go down you must avoid smoking and limit your alcohol because that has positive effects on cholesterol levels but there's one main thing that I can promise you that will make tremendous changes in your body's chemistry is just by adding one thing your soluble fiber your soluble fiber foods are your oats and oat Brands this is the richest source of soluble fiber specifically betag glucans your legumes your beans lentils and peas your fruits your apples oranges pears berries and avocados many of your vegetables as well as nuts and seeds particularly flax seeds and chia seeds as well as psyllium husks and when you look here you take a tablespoon of

2:20 Chia seed and put it in water look what happens those chia seeds start to swell about 12 times the size of what they originally were that soluble fiber so let me share with you the main reasons how this soluble fiber lowers your cholesterol levels when soluble fiber is ingested it dissolves in the water present in the small intestine and this forms that viscous gel likee substance and that gel traps cholesterol and bile acids within the small intestine bile acids which contain cholesterol are released into the small intestine from the gallbladder and normally these Bol AES are reabsorbed back in the bloodstream from the small intestine and res cycled by the liver however in the presence of soluble fiber this interferes with this process the Trap

3:06 cholesterol and bile is then carried through the digestive tract and ultimately excreted from the body in feces so when bile acids are excreted the liver must use more cholesterol from the blood to produce new bile acids which helps lower our LDL cholesterol levels which is our bad cholesterol you see soluble fibers a Prebiotic we've heard of prebiotics and probiotics our probiotics is what flourishes our microbiome that keeps us healthy it helps build our immune system but those probiotics in your gut eat those prebiotics which is soluble fiber and you start secreting short chain fatty acids within the gut those short chain fatty acids reduces inflammation and inflammation is a big big killer when it

3:52 comes to cardiovascular problems the soluble fiber will keep you full will keep you satiated the soluble fiber will SL slow digestion down the soluble fiber will limit that insulin Spike allowing glucose to get into the cells slowly so you don't get tired after your meal and this keeps insulin from rising your body will not store excessive fats so let me make it real simple for you if you want to lower your cholesterol levels the easiest way increase your soluble fiber along with the other things that are important getting rid of excessive process refined sugars get rid of the p packaged Foods the breads lower your saturated fats more more polyunsaturated unsaturated fats are more healthier you

4:39 want to increase a little more exercise get your sleep drink your water but the key thing is when you put soluble fiber in your gut the bile acids that's coming from the gallbladder originally from the liver that's designed to digest the fats there's cholesterol in those bile acids the body needs cholesterol to make those bile acids so what happens is that cholesterol that's already in your intestine along with those bile acids in the small intestine it latches onto it and it pulls it out of the system right out of your waist out of your system so now that cholesterol as well as those bio salts cannot be recirculated so liver says wow I need more cholesterol to make more bio salt so you can do what needs

5:24 to be done inside your body to digest those fats so the liver search for the bloodstream looking for that cholesterol and pulls more out what happens it lowers your cholesterol levels no-brainer remember that a little exercise is so important because what that does is that raises your good cholesterol levels called the hdls and hdl's function is to go to the bloodstream through the blood vessels and search for those ldls the dangerous cholesterol that's the cholesterol that plaques that causes clogging within the arteries it grabs on on to it latches back to it it takes it back to the liver so it can be excreted out of the body but remember when you have high cholesterol you're usually going to have high triglycerides and you're usually going to have low hdls which is your

6:11 good cholesterol but if you start following this simple strategy I know you'll do great please share this video with your friends and family leave your comments below and most important make it a great day I'm Dr Alan Mandel e

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