As I wrote earlier, high serum cholesterol levels are not simply a matter of high dietary cholesterol. Cholesterol levels are also a function of one's stress levels. Eating sugar, drinking coffee and alcohol are all stresssful to the adrenal glands. Chinese medicine would say that coffee and alcohol release a lot of yang qi. Since the body's inclination is to keep things in balance its response is to secrete more yin substance. Cholesterol is one such yin substance. When excessive, it becomes a pathogenic yin substance composed of dampness and phlegm. Therefore, the key to keeping it under control is to keep yang from being overly stressed and yin from being overly generated by avoiding the over consumption of simple sugars and animal products.
Lifestyle and dietary modification along with the appropriately prescribed Chinese herbal formulas is a great way to not only lower cholesterol levels but to improve one's overall health and well being.
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