10 Common Signs of High CHOLESTEROL You MUST NOT Ignore

Hello Health Champions. Today we're going to  talk about the top 10 signs and symptoms of high  

cholesterol. But quite frankly there aren't that  many real signs and symptoms of high cholesterol  

so most of what we'll talk about will be alleged  signs and symptoms and the real challenge ahead of  

us will be to unlearn and clarify the decades of  misinformation on this topic So this is one video  

where it's critical that you watch from beginning  to end so you understand how it really works sign  

number one is called a xanthoma that comes  from the word Xanthos which means yellow and  

oma which is a tumor or a growth or a swelling  so these are often benign fat tumors they're just  

like little lumps that sit under the skin and  you can find them in various places sometimes  

around elbows on the tendons or on the heel or  the knee and if you get it on the eyelid then it  

has a special name called xanthelasma these can  definitely be due to high cholesterol but it's  

usually not enough just to have high cholesterol  in the blood we also need to have some impaired  

fat processing fat metabolism so typically  triglycerides will be high and also there will  

often be some kind of immune involvement that we  have some white blood cells and the body is trying  

to sequester it's trying to seal off the fat for  some reason maybe because there's something in the  

fat like a toxin or a pathogen that we're trying  to close off but there's a tremendous amount of  

confusion and misinformation so here's something  I found and they call it six subtle signs of high  

cholesterol and the first subtle sign apparently  is a heart attack subtle very and the rest is  

pretty interesting it says as you no doubt know a  cholesterol problem will lead to heart problems so  

the first part as you no doubt know that says it  should be so ingrained in you that you should not  

have to think about this and the second part says  cholesterol problem so it's implying that high  

cholesterol in the blood is a cholesterol problem  and that may or may not be true then they say  

that high blood pressure diabetes chest pain or  angina stroke or pain while walking are also signs  

of high cholesterol so the problem is they're  all over the place with causes and associations  

but they also make no distinction between high  cholesterol in the blood and high cholesterol  

in a plaque and it's right here as they say as  you no doubt no we've been told so many times  

that they're the same thing that you shouldn't  think about it you should just accept this as a  

truth and be very afraid of cholesterol so this is  what we need to clear up as it turns out none of  

these are signs of high cholesterol and here's why  it's so critical that we understand the difference  

here's from PubMed says medication kill us it says  that prescriptions are the third leading cause  

of death after heart disease and cancer and how  about this half of those who die have taken their  

medication correctly the other half are medical  error but think about that half of them have done  

exactly what they're supposed to it's according to  the best known practices in the medical system but  

let me put this in perspective the vast majority  of prescription medication are for lifestyle  

problems it is blood sugar high blood pressure  it's metabolic disease about 80 percent of it and  

these are things that can be prevented but here's  what most people don't think about that when we  

treat a symptom when we suppress a symptom that  symptom happens for a reason there's something  

causing that and when we treat the symptom then  we're ignoring the root cause and the absolute  

worst thing I know is when a patient comes in and  they say oh I have diabetes but it's controlled by  

medication and there is no such thing they're not  handling the root cause they're just suppressing  

the body's adaptation to an imbalance but they're  allowing the imbalance to not only go on but to  

get worse and when that imbalance gets worse  now it becomes heart disease and cancer so if  

we figured that in I don't have any numbers but  you can make a really good case for prescriptions  

being the number one cause of death if you weigh  in the fact that when you treat symptoms you cause  

the other diseases and I don't know the exact word  for that but I think you could call it ignorance  

or Reckless or even criminal sign number two is  called arcus sinilis and this is where we get a  

yellowish whitish little ring around the cornea  on the outside of the colored portion of the eye  

and this is very very common in the elderly  they believe it's because the blood vessels  

get a little more permeable a little leaky at the  same time that as people get older they also get  

some impairment of their lipid metabolism but as  you know if you watch this channel that's not a  

normal thing that happens when you get older that  happens because your insulin resistance increases  

and you're moving toward diabetes which happens  to a majority of the population the good news  

is though that for most people this doesn't mean  a whole lot in itself the vision does not become  

affected and it doesn't have to mean that you have  another serious underlying condition however if  

you see this ring around the cornea and you're  under 40 to 45 years old that could indicate  

that you have familial hypercholesterolemia which  is a genetic predisposition that runs in families  

where you can have really really high cholesterol  and that again doesn't mean necessarily anything  

things serious but it does mean that you need  to really understand what's going on with your  

cholesterol you need to watch all the markers  and understand that if the high cholesterol  

is there then you need to control all the other  variables as perfectly as possible and there may  

be some that I missed but those are the only two  signs and symptoms I've come across so the rest  

of them are going to be alleged or misunderstood  signs and symptoms so first we need to understand  

what we're talking about high cholesterol is the  same thing as hypercholesterolemia that means  

high cholesterol a lot of cholesterol particles  in the blood floating around in the blood and  

according to Google which is absolutely correct  high cholesterol in the blood has no symptoms  

but right after saying no symptoms they go on to  say can have no symptoms but people may experience  

common symptoms such as aortic aneurysm heart  attack peripheral artery disease or stroke and  

here they fall in the same trap as everyone else  every video every article they don't distinguish  

between high cholesterol in the blood or in the  form of a plaque as if they were the same thing so  

what we're being told over and over and over again  is that high cholesterol automatically leads to  

plaques but the fact is that just as often you can  have high cholesterol with no plaques so if you  

have an artery then we have an artery with a thick  wall and here is the inside Lumen of the artery  

here is where the cholesterol and the red blood  cells and all the other particles and solutes  

Float around in the bloodstream and here this is  not a plaque this does not automatically become a  

plaque but if we have the right conditions of  inflammation and metabolic disease now we get  

an infiltration if the conditions are bad now some  of these particles get damaged and they get across  

the inside the intima of that blood vessel and  they start filling up but it doesn't just come  

across it requires damaged particles it requires  an immune response and it requires inflammation  

some misunderstood signs are frequent tingling in  hands and feet frequent severe headaches as well  

as cold hands and feet and this was supposedly  due to poor circulation due to high cholesterol  

levels in the blood and they seem to suggest  that if you had enough cholesterol in the  

bloodstream this would somehow cause friction  and congestion in the bloodstream and there is  

no way this can happen so think about it this  way most of the blood is red blood cells and  

cells are pretty small but compared to cholesterol  particles they're huge and this is about 45 of the  

volume of the total volume of the blood so in a  hundred grams of blood you're going to have about  

45 grams of red blood cell large particles almost  half of the total volume are these big particles  

and they are eight micrometers which again is  Tiny it's smaller than a human hair by far but  

compared to cholesterol particle that would be  so small it wouldn't even show up on the screen  

here in comparison an LDL particle for example is  one of the larger particles is 20 nanometers so  

micrometer is a millionth of a meter nanometer  is a billionth so the red blood cell is about  

400 times bigger in diameter and volume wise  we're talking about over 60 million times larger  

so there's no way that this tiny tiny particle  by itself or even will contribute when there is  

so many other large particles floating around  it would pretty much be like saying that when  

we have a traffic jam it's because the small air  molecules are interfering with the movement of the  

cars but then they're also suggesting that this  poor circulation could be due to plaquing and is  

there any truth to that well plaquing can reduce  circulation but it is not going to be causing any  

of these symptoms there can be some symptoms will  will come back to but that's not going to be at  

rest at rest these plaques cannot cause these  symptoms instead by far the most common cause  

of tingling and headaches and cold hands and  feet are going to be vasoconstriction when the  

blood flow is regulated by stress when we have  stress we tighten up the blood vessels to pull  

the blood closer to the core at the expense of  the extremities that's why they get cold another  

reason we get frequent tingling is going to be  called neuropathy and the most common cause by  

far for neuropathy is going to be metabolic  disease which is due to high blood glucose  

levels and high insulin levels they cause swelling  so we don't get the proper circulation and blood  

flow in the nerves they also say that if if you  have high cholesterol in your blood then you will  

have plaques on the brain and these plaques can  burst and cause a stroke so this is incorrect  

for several reasons again you can have high  cholesterol in the blood that does not necessarily  

mean that you have plaques but if they burst then  they don't usually come from the brain they come  

from somewhere else from a blood clot or a plaque  that bursts somewhere else in the body then it  

travels to the brain and causes a stroke and when  it happens that way it's called an embolic stroke  

and embolism is something that travels from one  place to the other and then one finds a small  

blood vessel in the brain where like a fork in the  road where you can't get through and it blocks it  

now we do have indeed a stroke but when they're  talking about a rupture in the brain that can  

happen but not from cholesterol and not from  plaquing this is when the blood vessel is self  

bursts and you get a bleed in the brain and this  is called a hemorrhagic stroke those are the most  

severe and unfortunately they're very often fatal  but the mechanism for that is very different it's  

usually from chronically very high blood pressure  in combination with a weak blood vessel wall very  

often because they're not straight if they curve  too much that causes excess friction and there's  

also some genetic predisposition to this but that  has really nothing to do with cholesterol the next  

one is pain when walking or pain with exertion  and there's some validity to this but not the  

way it's typically explained so high cholesterol  meaning floating in the blood cannot cause this  

type of pain what they're talking about here is  when circulation is blocked by a large plaque  

and you can have these in your femoral artery or  in their various different large arteries in the  

legs and now if the blood can't get through when  you have an exertion when you try to pump a lot  

of blood out there now the muscle doesn't get  the supply of oxygen and fuel that it needs and  

this is called claudication and the one caused  by plaques is called vascular claudication so  

if you're out walking and you're not getting the  blood flow very often you'll have a pain in the  

calf or in the thigh and it's kind of a cramping  pain where the muscle hurts and the technical  

name for this is peripheral artery disease or  pad when you have large blood vessels blocked  

by plaques where you don't have the opening as  large as it should be and then there's one other  

type of claudication though that has nothing to  do with plaques and that's called neurological  

claudication and this is when you have a narrowing  of your spinal cord when the bone has grown inward  

and it starts encroaching on the spinal cord now  you can get the same type of pain but it's not  

because the blood isn't going there it's because  the nerve signal isn't going there and when this  

situation happens in the heart now it's called  angina it's essentially the exact same thing  

except it doesn't happen for neurological reasons  because there's no impingement that will affect  

the heart that way but the same thing holds true  that it's not the cholesterol in the bloodstream  

it's if we have some condition some inflammation  and some disease that causes plaquing now with  

exertion we're going to get that type of pain in  the heart and if you have angina there's a natural  

product from standard process called Cataplex  E2 not just the regular vitamin E but the E2  

portion together with some synergists that can  act as a vasodilator and help that circulation  

in the heart and reduce the intensity of those  angina attacks I'll put a link down below if  

you need that alleged symptom number nine is sore  hands and feet they're saying that joint pain and  

hands and feet can be caused by high cholesterol  which is not true there's no way that cholesterol  

floating around in the blood can cause this and  furthermore there's no way that plaquing can cause  

this either instead what we're talking about is  inflammation a lot of osteoarthritis is caused by  

a low-grade inflammation that is caused by the  metabolic disease that we've talked about that  

also causes the plaquing and this of course is  caused by insulin resistance or type 2 diabetes  

and a lot of people have type 2 diabetes and  joint pain whether it's hands and feet or even  

knees they find that when they reverse their  insulin resistance the symptoms of joint pain  

go down or go away let me expand a little bit  on that because it's never about the cholesterol  

itself like we mentioned previously you could  have high cholesterol and you could have plaques  

or you could have high cholesterol and have no  plaques it's kind of like you're saying that  

some criminals drive a Mercedes therefore  people who dry Mercedes are criminals like  

we cannot make that conclusion we cannot draw  that conclusion some people have cholesterol  

have plaques and some don't right so before we  accuse someone of being a criminal we want to  

try to find some incriminating acts and here  is what those are when it comes to plaque so  

instead of measuring just cholesterol we want to  measure LDL size we also want to measure insulin  

we want to look at glucose and we want to measure  triglycerides now there's more than these but this  

is just a really good example so what you're going  to find if people have plaques they will have a  

reduction in LDL size they'll have an increase in  insulin an increase in glucose and an increase in  

triglycerides so they could have high cholesterol  and if they also have this they probably have  

plaques but if they have high cholesterol and  instead they have a large LDL size and a low level  

of insulin and low glucose and low triglycerides  then they probably don't have any plaque  

there's very unlikely that that they do so  measuring cholesterol itself it's sort of like a  

50 50 that they will or they won't whereas if we  measure the plaque we'll probably find a better  

than 90 percent correlation if we look at the LDL  size if they also have small LDL High insulin high  

glucose high triglycerides and the same is true on  the reverse it is probably less than 10 percent so  

if we're talking about the incriminating factors  before we jump to conclusions why don't we measure  

the stuff that actually matters and number 10  is blood tests this is the only true sign of  

high cholesterol it's when you run a blood test  and actually measure it but you cannot get much  

information from a standard blood test if all  you do is measure total cholesterol and LDL  

cholesterol on HDL it's better than nothing but  you're really not learning much you want to get  

some additional markers that will tell you about  your metabolic health because it's poor metabolic  

Health that will take the cholesterol from the  bloodstream and turn it into plaques so what you  

really want to find out is how insulin resistant  are you and you need to measure insulin as well  

as some other markers for that you need to measure  your LDL size because that is a very good measure  

of your degree of inflammation and how much damage  you have actually going on another one you want to  

measure is homocysteine which may be the strongest  individual risk factor for heart disease after  

LDL size and insulin resistance so if you get a  handful of the right markers and you understand  

what they mean now you can take control of your  metabolic situation you can understand where you  

are and what steps to take and most importantly  you can stop taking the wrong action and there is  

a time and a place for medication but you don't  want to get on medication for the wrong reasons  

and this is why I've created my blood Workhorse  for those who are interested in learning more  

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