Is high cholesterol just an important symptom of Vitamin D deficiency? Are we looking at the wrong end of the equation? As an ND I have been trained to see and respect the inherent body wisdom that 40,000 generations have created as we interacted with our environment. How could humans both utterly rely on cholesterol as a vital building block while it is a supposedly ticking time bomb lying in wait to clog our arteries?
How vital is cholesterol? We need it to make ALL HORMONES (including Vitamin D), for nerve transmission and repair, immune system function and it composes 25% of the brain. Pretty vital.
Putting persons with genetic defects that cause huge rises in cholesterol at an early age to the side for now, is it a fair generalization to wonder if the dramatic rise of cholesterol in the last generation and the widespread Vitamin D deficiency in the same population might be connected? The building block is not being converted and is itself “building up”.
