Welcome to the Dr. Berg's Healthy Keto and Interminute Fasting Podcast, where Dr. Berg we get older, our cholesterol does go up. Typically, men have

higher cholesterol than women, but during menopause, there usually is a spike in cholesterol in women.

Now, before I get too much into that, I just want to let

you know that the body does make cholesterol. It makes a lot. In fact, 75 to 80% of all the cholesterol

in your body is made by your own body. Why? Because all of your cell membranes need it. Also,

cholesterol is required to make bile, vitamin D,

and sex hormones, estrogen, progestrone, testosterone, cortisol, and there's several other hormones.

But the question is, why would a female going through menopause have an increased

amount of cholesterol? Well, it has to do with this hormone right here, estrogen. As the

estrogen decreases during menopause, which happens dramatically and significantly,

you're going to get an increase in cholesterol because estrogen acts as an antioxidant.

And as we have less antioxidants, we're more susceptible to getting damage in the arteries, in different parts of the body.

And so you really want to look at cholesterol as the firemen to put up the fire. So cholesterol is really a

band-aid to come in there with the help of calcium and some protein to seal the lesion or the

inflamed damaged artery. And so to understand cholesterol very simply, you have two types.

You have LDL, HDL. These are proteins that are transporting the cholesterol in and out of the liver. So the LDL, which is considered the bad cholesterol,

is really transporting the cholesterol from the liver to the cell. And the HDL, which is considered

the good, is transporting it back from the cell back to the liver to the cell. And the HDL, which is considered the good, is transporting it back

from the cell back to the liver for recycling. So as long as we have an exchange there, we're

totally fine. Now, I've done videos on this recently when you have high LDL. What you have to

realize is there's two types of LDL. One is a bad, one is a good. And so I recently

released a video on my wife's cholesterol, which was high as well as the LDL. But if you look

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