What Is A Safe Level Of Cholesterol And At What Level Does It Start Getting Dangerous?
May 29th, 2009 | 
Author: My mum just had a blood test and her cholesterol level was 8.3. Is that dangerously high?
Posted in 
Tags:
ALL studies show that women will live longer with high cholesterol, up to 400, than they will with cholesterol in the normal range.
This from Weston A Price foundation.
Cholesterol is not the cause of heart disease but rather a potent antioxidant weapon against free radicals in the blood, and a repair substance that helps heal arterial damage (although the arterial plaques themselves contain very little cholesterol.) However, like fats, cholesterol may be damaged by exposure to heat and oxygen. This damaged or oxidized cholesterol seems to promote both injury to the arterial cells as well as a pathological buildup of plaque in the arteries.50 Damaged cholesterol is found in powdered eggs, in powdered milk (added to reduced-fat milks to give them body) and in meats and fats that have been heated to high temperatures in frying and other high-temperature processes.
High serum cholesterol levels often indicate that the body needs cholesterol to protect itself from high levels of altered, free-radical-containing fats. Just as a large police force is needed in a locality where crime occurs frequently, so cholesterol is needed in a poorly nourished body to protect the individual from a tendency to heart disease and cancer. Blaming coronary heart disease on cholesterol is like blaming the police for murder and theft in a high crime area.
Poor thyroid function (hypothyroidism) will often result in high cholesterol levels. When thyroid function is poor, usually due to a diet high in sugar and low in usable iodine, fat-soluble vitamins and other nutrients, the body floods the blood with cholesterol as an adaptive and protective mechanism, providing a superabundance of materials needed to heal tissues and produce protective steroids. Hypothyroid individuals are particularly susceptible to infections, heart disease and cancer.51
Pharmacist who’s life was almost ruined by Lipitor
Thats reasonably high…if your mum has other health issues like heart disease then she will probably be prescribed a medicine that will lower her cholesterol and she will be advised to start eating a low cholesterol diet which basically means eating healthy foods.
It could already be at dangerous levels. If bits of this cholesterol break off and clog her arteries she could have a heart attack. She needs to take this seriously and start on a program now toget her levels lowered.
I was put on cholesterol medicine and it worked really well for me. I already have athrosclerosis (cholesterol buildup in arteries) and have had open heart surgery too…so it was very important to get my numbers lower immediately.
Good luck to your mum, it can be a bit scary but its not hard to fix…she will be fine as long as she attends to this now.
The good thing about Mums is they can function quite well with very high levels of cholesterol that is until they reach menopause and stop producing estrogen. Unfortunately for women they don’t get the same response from the medical services as men and often end up not getting to use the cardiac services until its to late. Cholesterol levels can be managed well with Lipitor and other similar stuff 8.3 is high.
About safe level of cholesterol
Total cholesterol:
-Desirable under 200 mg/dl
-Borderline 200-239 border line
LDL cholesterol
-Optimal will below 100mg/dl
-Near optimal 100-129
-Borderline high 130-159
Your HDL the good cholesterol doesn’t below 40mg/dl.
between 2 and 5 is classed as normal