It Starts With Food: Discover the Whole30 and Change Your Life in Unexpected Ways

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STATIN DRUGS


Many    physicians  will    recommend
statin drugs for elevated blood
cholesterol levels. Statin drugs
work to reduce cholesterol, but
how do they work? They interfere
with cholesterol synthesis ... and
reduce systemic inflammation! Of
course, reducing systemic
inflammation is something you
can do simply by changing your
eating habits, thus eliminating the
need to take medications with
serious side effects for the rest of
your life. That sounds like a
better option to us too.

In addition, cholesterol is not evil—it’s a
necessary part of our hormonal production
and cellular structure. You need cholesterol
for the production of hormones like cortisol,

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