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    How To Lower Your Cholesterol With Essential Oil
    How To Lower Your Cholesterol With Essential Oil
    How To Lower Your Cholesterol With Essential Oil
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    How To Lower Your Cholesterol With Essential Oil

    By Rebecca Park Totilo

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    NAHA Certified Aromatherapist and founder of Aroma Hut Institute, Rebecca Park Totilo, brings you another Essential Oils Guide, How to Lower Your Cholesterol with Essential Oil. Learn how to take healthy steps to control high cholesterol and its risk factors with essential oils.

    People with high cholesterol have twice the risk for heart disease according to the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. What’s worse, most folks aren’t even aware that they have atherosclerosis until they have a heart attack or stroke. This straightforward program can help you lower your LDL (“bad”) cholesterol in just a few weeks. Isn't it time for you to take control of your health—without the risks of statin drugs?

    Lowering your cholesterol with essential oils may slow, reduce, or even stop the buildup of dangerous plaque in your arteries causing blockage of blood flow which could result in a heart attack or stroke. Discover how essential oils help reduce LDL cholesterol in your bloodstream and keep plaque from building up in your arteries.

    In this indispensable guide, author Rebecca Park Totilo presents scientific research supporting the efficacy of certain essential oils for lowering cholesterol, an extensive essential oil and carrier oil directory, natural treatments with recipes, along with easy-to-follow methods of use via inhalation, topically, and ingestion.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherRebecca Park Totilo
    Release dateOct 26, 2017
    ISBN9780999186527
    How To Lower Your Cholesterol With Essential Oil
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    Rebecca Park Totilo

    Rebecca Park Totilo is an award-winning published author of over 55 books, including “Therapeutic Blending With Essential Oil," “Organic Beauty With Essential Oil," and "Heal With Essential Oil." Her credits include working as a contributor writer on two best-selling series ("Quiet Moments with God" and “Stories for the Teen’s Heart”) which sold over one million and five million copies respectively. She is also a freelance writer for several national magazines including Christian Parenting Today, Discipleship Journal, and Woman’s World. Rebecca's photography work has appeared in numerous national magazines such as Woman’s World, Sports Spectrum, Evangel, and Sharing the Victory. Truly, it's her grit and determination that makes her inspirational writings draw such a mass-market appeal.Rebecca is a Certified Clinical Aromatherapist instructor and offers online courses on essential oils at https://aromahut.com.Rebecca has been a homeschool mom for 30 years. In addition to all this, she is the president and publisher of Rebecca at the Well Foundation, a Judeo-Christian international organization that publishes literary works that prepare the Bride for the Messiah’s return and teach believers on an international basis about the Hebrew roots of the faith. Her understanding of the Scriptures richly woven with the tapestry of the ancient Hebrew customs makes her inspirational writings truly memorable.

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      How To Lower Your Cholesterol With Essential Oil - Rebecca Park Totilo

      Introduction

      Cholesterol is a natural function of the human body. In fact, all vertebrates need this waxy, fat-like substance that is found in all living cells in the body. It circulates throughout the blood to settle in body tissues and blood plasma in the form of fatty lipids (steroids) and alcohol. Cholesterol, therefore, is necessary to maintain and balance levels of hormones, vitamin D, and other substances to digest your food and the body has no problem making what it needs. However, the food we eat also contains cholesterol. The problem now is what happens to this additional or excess cholesterol that the body doesn’t need?

      Two kinds of lipoproteins carry cholesterol throughout the body: low-density lipoproteins (LDL) and high-density lipoproteins. The low-density lipoproteins or LDL is referred to as bad cholesterol that causes lipoproteins to act as the carrier molecules, and deposit LDL cholesterol on the walls of the arteries. It then thickens and hinders normal blood passage causing atherosclerosis. High-density lipoprotein, on the other hand, is considered good cholesterol because the HDL carries cholesterol from other parts of your body back to the liver where it is removed from your body. HDL cholesterol acts as an antioxidant, and helps to manufacture bile that aids to digest fats essential to the functions of fat-soluble vitamins A, D, E, and K. All these mentioned vitamins assist in the metabolism roles in the reproductive organs, from puberty developmental process until maturity, which also affects the estrogen level in the body.

      Primary Sources of Good Cholesterol

      Three-fourth (75%) of good cholesterol comes from within the body or is produced internally through results from synthesizing densely packed membranes like liver, central nervous system (spinal cord, includes brain), reproductive organs, adrenal gland, and atheroma. The degenerative changes in the atheroma result to the development of atherosclerotic plaques and coronary artery disease that affect the natural flow of the blood. When this happens it causes a sudden block of the in and outflow of blood from the heart; in most cases causing heart attacks, sometimes fatal.

      One-fourth (25%) of cholesterol comes from food intake (external source), and this is where you must be vigilant on what to take in your daily diet. Fats originated from animals are rich in cholesterol, like egg yolk, dairy, and meats, regardless of meat source. Diet plays an important part in maintaining a healthy balance.

      Coronary heart disease is the leading cause of death among people living in industrialized societies such as the United States. The increasing incidence of high cholesterol levels in people residing in this part of the world can often be contributed to a high saturated fat diet, smoking and leading a sedentary lifestyle.

      In 1951, a study was conducted by the US Government to find out about the importance of cholesterol and the impact it has on our health.

      Pathologists were sent to Korea to examine the bodies of servicemen who lost their lives during the Korean War. Autopsies were conducted on 2,000 soldiers.

      Their findings were shocking to the medical community. More than 75 percent of the soldier had yellow deposits of atherosclerotic plaque on their artery walls. With the average soldier begin 21 in age, this contradicted the assumption that artery deposits were only prevalent in older men. Before these autopsies performed during this study, doctors had no idea how early the degeneration of heart disease began.

      It wasn’t long after this discovery that a name was given to the major contributor to the buildup of plaque and to this heart disease risk – cholesterol.

      The good news is that more recent studies have shown that for every one percent drop in cholesterol levels, there is a two percent decrease in the risk of a heart attack.

      Since those original research findings, the risk of heart disease stemming from cholesterol has exploded. In 2002, it was estimated that 107 million American adults now have a blood cholesterol level high enough to require medical treatment. Unfortunately, the number of people with this condition keeps rising.

      Despite this epidemic problem, there is good news. If you suffer from high cholesterol, you will find this guide filled with simple solutions for this problem. In the next few pages, we’ll explore cholesterol in layman’s terms, the causes, effects and what you can do to reverse the negative impact it has on your health.

      What is Cholesterol?

      As stated earlier, cholesterol in and of itself is a natural function of the human body. By definition, cholesterol is a waxy, fat-like substance that presents itself naturally in cell walls and membranes everywhere in your body.

      Every living being requires a certain amount of fat to exist.

      Your body uses cholesterol to produce many hormones. It also uses it to produce vitamin D and the bile acids that help to digest fat.

      The processing of fat begins when it gets absorbed in the intestines. From there it heads to the liver. The fat requires a delivery system to the rest of the body so that it can be used immediately as well as stored in fat cells for future use.

      In order for the fat to enter the delivery system, while it is in the liver it is split into two different types of fat, cholesterol, and triglycerides.

      Once this transformation takes place, the two types of fat (cholesterol and triglycerides) are packed into vehicles called lipoproteins for carrying the fat to the fat cells throughout the body via the bloodstream.

      There are three types of lipoproteins:

      Very Low-Density Lipoproteins (VLDL)

      Low-Density Lipoproteins (LDL)

      High-Density Lipoproteins (HDL)

      Under normal circumstances, the bloodstream does a very efficient job of carrying the LDL and HDL Lipoproteins throughout the body. These packages are made of fat (lipid) on the inside and proteins on the outside. Having healthy levels of both types of lipoproteins is important.

      LDL cholesterol is often referred to as bad cholesterol. A high LDL level leads to a buildup of cholesterol in your arteries. (Arteries are blood vessels that carry blood from your heart to your body.)

      HDL cholesterol sometimes is called good cholesterol. This is because it carries cholesterol from other parts of your body back to your liver. Your liver is responsible for removing the cholesterol from your body.

      Like everything in nature, it only becomes a problem when there is an imbalance.

      Problems arise when there is an overabundance of cholesterol in your bloodstream. The cholesterol deposited by the LDL leads to a narrowing of the blood vessels.

      When this occurs, excess LDL cholesterol deposited in the arteries of the heart could result in a stroke or cardiovascular disease. This is called atherosclerosis. This is why LDL is known as bad cholesterol.

      High blood cholesterol is a condition in which you have too much cholesterol in your blood. By itself, the condition usually has no signs or symptoms. Thus, many people don’t know that their cholesterol levels are too high.

      People who have high blood cholesterol have a greater chance of getting coronary heart disease, also called coronary artery disease. The higher the level of LDL cholesterol in your blood, the GREATER your risk of developing heart disease. According to the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute the higher the level of HDL cholesterol in your blood, the LOWER your chance is of getting heart disease.

      Lowering your cholesterol may slow, reduce, or even stop the buildup of plaque in your arteries. It also may reduce the risk of plaque rupturing and cause dangerous blood clots. – NHLBI, NIH

      How Cholesterol Contributes to Heart Disease

      Cholesterol is not the only cause of heart disease, but it is a contributing factor. Here’s how it works.

      Cholesterol can only attach to the inner lining of the artery if it has been damaged.

      Once the lining of the artery is damaged, white blood cells rush to the site followed by cholesterol, calcium and cellular debris. The muscle cells around the artery are altered and accumulate cholesterol.

      The fatty streaks in the arteries continue to develop and bulge in the arteries. This cholesterol bulge is then covered by a scar that produces a hard coat or shell over the cholesterol and cell mixture. It is this collection of cholesterol that is then covered by a scar that is called plaque.

      The buildup of plaque narrows the space in the arteries through which blood can flow, decreasing the supply of oxygen and nutrients. This cuts down the supply of blood and oxygen to the tissues that are fed by that blood vessel.

      Over time, plaque hardens and narrows your coronary arteries. This limits the flow of oxygen-rich blood to the heart. – NHLBI, NIH

      The elasticity of the blood vessel is reduced, and the arteries’ ability to control blood pressure is compromised. If there is not enough oxygen-carrying blood passing through the narrowed arteries, the heart may feel compressed causing pain called angina.

      Angina is chest pain or discomfort. It may feel like pressure or squeezing in your chest. The pain also may occur in your shoulders, arms, neck, jaw, or back. Angina pain may even feel like indigestion. – NHLBI, NIH

      The pain usually happens when you exercise because at that time your heart requires more oxygen. Often, it is felt in the chest or the left arm and shoulder, although it can happen without any symptoms at all.

      Over time plaque can rupture (break open), causing a blood clot to form on the surface of the plaque. If the clot becomes large enough, it can mostly or completely block blood flow through a coronary artery.

      If the flow of oxygen-rich blood to your heart muscle is reduced or blocked, angina or heart attack may occur.

      Plaque can vary in size as well as shape. All through the coronary arteries, you can find many small plaques that cover less than half of an artery opening. Some of these plaques are completely invisible in the tests that doctors use to identify heart disease.

      Coronary heart disease is a condition in which plaque builds up inside the coronary (heart) arteries. Plaque is made up of cholesterol, fat, calcium, and other substances found in the blood. When plaque builds up in the arteries, the condition is called atherosclerosis. – NHLBI, NIH

      The medical community used to think that the primary concern was the larger plaques, due to their size and was more likely to cause a complete blockage of the coronary arteries.

      While it is true that the larger plaques are more likely to cause angina, it is the smaller plaques that are packed with cholesterol and covered by scars that are more dangerous. They are considered unstable and prone to ruptures or bursting, releasing their load of cholesterol into the bloodstream. This causes immediate clotting within the artery. If the blood clot blocks the artery entirely, it will stop the blood flow, and a heart attack occurs.

      The muscle on the farther side of the occurring clot fails to get the oxygen it needs and begins to die. This kind of damage can be permanent.

      A heart attack occurs if the flow of oxygen-rich blood to a section of heart muscle is cut off. If blood flow isn’t restored quickly, the section of heart muscle begins to die. Without quick treatment, a heart attack can lead to serious problems or death. – NHLBI, NIH

      How Do You Diagnose Problems With Your Cholesterol?

      Unfortunately, most people aren’t even aware they have atherosclerosis until they have a heart attack or stroke. It is possible to have up to 80 percent closure of the arteries without ever feeling a single symptom!

      Many people begin to develop cholesterol-driven atherosclerosis as children. It would be quite unusual to find an adult in the United States who does not have some degree of atherosclerosis.

      Diagnosing cholesterol levels require a simple blood test to determine the levels of LDL and HDL. Cholesterol tests can be tricky, however.

      In most cases, blood is drawn from a vein located on the inside of the elbow or the back of the hand. You may only have your total cholesterol level measured as the first test. This test may include measurement of your HDL cholesterol levels. If

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