The common belief is that high cholesterol is the cause of blockage of the arteries, leading to heart problems, among other things.
And the common solution is to prescribe a cholesterol-lowering drug, statins.
In other words, cholesterol is seen as a problem that needs to be solved.
While it makes more sense to see high cholesterol as a symptom and work on the cause.
When my mother was 87 she broke her first hip, because she fell off her bike. Three years later she fell out of bed and broke the other one. Until her first hip fracture, my mother never used any medication or supplements.
I am not even sure her food was varied enough after my father passed away years earlier. Maybe she had a Calcium deficit, I don’t know.
It made me study the benefits of Calcium thoroughly because the healing process and the aftermath were difficult. And if I can prevent that happening to me, all the better. When you are aging, osteoporosis (bone loss or bone weakening) is a huge risk, especially for women.