Cholesterol isn't the enemy—your body needs it for hormones, cell membranes, and brain health. High LDL and triglycerides are the problem, not cholesterol itself. Functional medicine finds what's actually causing the elevation instead of just lowering numbers with drugs.
Hello friends, cholesterol is such an important player in our health. Too much of that is bad, but you also need healthy level of cholesterol. Cholesterol has so many functions. Your hormonal system is driven by healthy cholesterol levels. Your cell membrane health, your blood-brain barrier, your mental health, your brain health. Cholesterol is important, right? Now, such an important issue that people are struggling with keeping the cholesterol healthy. Now there are certain cholesterol, certain lipids which are unhealthy, like LDL, triglycerides, VLDL. You don't want them to be too high. But there is a good player also which is called HDL. Now the thing is, you go to conventional medicine, right? You know, so many people are put on the cholesterol medicine. Fine, that's okay. You need to bring the cholesterol levels to a healthy range, but you also need to make sure and also find out why the cholesterol went high in the first place. Now, this is what we do. This is root cause medicine. This is what is called functional medicine. We go upstream, we find out why the cholesterol was high in the first place, right? So we bring it down. All right guys, I'll see you later.
