Dr. Tabatha Barber explains that your body needs cholesterol for cell membranes, hormones, and tissue repair. When you avoid dietary cholesterol, your body makes more to compensate. Women in her infertility practice with premature ovarian insufficiency had total cholesterol around 100-150 mg/dL.
decide to eat an egg white omelet instead of the whole egg and you don't eat your cholesterol, your body's gonna ramp up that production because it's such a vital component of human health.
I mean, when we went to that low-fat, no-fat diet in the '90s, all of a sudden diabetes started skyrocketing and all these inflammatory diseases and infertility. And I would love to just share that I used to do case review for an infertility practice And when women had premature ovarian insufficiency or failure, meaning they just weren't ovulating anymore, they weren't able to get pregnant, time and time again, their cholesterol numbers were so low. They would have a total cholesterol of like 100, 150, and LDL in the 80s. And it would, it just blew my mind, but it all finally made sense when I understood the functional medicine piece of it. It's like, Your body needs cholesterol to make healthy cells, to have healthy hormone receptors, to make your hormones, to repair the inflammation and the damage. Like, it is vital, and your body is not going to try and get pregnant and create another human life if you don't have this vital piece of the puzzle, right?
