mentioned when inflammation can be modulated by diet
and lifestyle?
What I hope you take away from this section, even if you’re
not currently on a statin drug, is a sense of how intricately
connected the systems of the body are. Though your
primary care doctor may prescribe a statin based on a report
of “high cholesterol” and send you on your way, drugs do
not work in isolation. Nor, as you’ve learned, do
compounds manufactured by our own bodies.
So, reduce carbohydrate and polyunsaturated fat
consumption—and eat all the coconut and omelets you want
—while you let your cholesterol continue to safely fulfill its
many important roles in your body. Up next, how to tap into
the universe’s most advanced hybrid fueling technology—
and I’m not talking about a car.
FIELD NOTES
Cholesterol is critical to an optimally functioning
brain and body, but its mode of transportation, the
LDL particle, is highly vulnerable to the insults of the
Western diet and lifestyle.
Avoid sugar, refined carbohydrates, and potential gut-
busting insults like chronic stress and a fiber-deficient
diet, which take a good thing (your healthy LDL
particles) and make it bad. Cholesterol, the passenger
on the LDL particle, is often simply an innocent
bystander.