Functional Approach To Blood Pressure & Cholesterol

Conventional medicine has labeled high blood pressure and cholesterol as enemies to be fought with lifelong prescriptions—but what if they’re your body’s intelligent defense systems? In this episode of The Ask Dr. Ernst Show, Dr. Ernst reveals why elevated blood pressure and cholesterol can be protective, not dangerous. Discover five surprising truths about each and learn three powerful functional techniques to restore balance naturally—without drugs or side effects. If you’ve ever been told you’re“broken”because of your numbers, this show will change everything you thought you knew about heart health.

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Good afternoon, Happy Saturday. You're listening to the Ask Doctor
Earns Show. My name is Doctor Aaron Ernst. Hey, It's
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phenomenal show today that's going to dive deep into the
controversial topic. Ready for this blood pressure and cholesterol. Are
they as bad as they've been taught to you? Are
they really something you have to force down with prescriptions
and medications? Is it this idea that it actually connects
to cardiovascular health in a negative way? High blood pressure,

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high cholesterol, you're at risk for heart disease? Or let's
try to open up our minds. Is it possible that
high blood pressure and high cholesterol here it comes is
a good thing. And I know what you might be thinking, Oh,
I'm gonna tune out because that goes against everything I've
ever been told. But we're here today to raise some questions.

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Diving deep into a topic that most doctors unfortunately use
to scare their patients into compliance with prescriptions, the idea
of blood pressure elevations, cholesterol elevations, and your cardiovascular health.
So today's show is going to be broken into two segments,
first on blood pressure, and here's what I'm gonna do.
I'm gonna give you some reasons to think differently, five

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reasons your blood pressure elevation may be a good thing.
And then we're gonna talk about the top three things
you can do not to lower it, but to just
let it settle down to wherever it needs to go
by itself. We're not gonna force it down. We're gonna
ask your body, Hey, if I fix the underlying root
reasons for the elevation, will you the innate wisdom body

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that you have, will you reset yourself? And guys, often
it does. And then in the second half of the show,
we're gonna do the exact same thing for cholesterols. Why
is high cholesterol a good thing? What are some things
you can do to naturally reset your cholesterols? And so
we're gonna help you break free from the mantra of
the fear because I hear it every single day with patients,

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I work with the moment the reading comes back one
twenty over eighty. If it's anything higher than that, man
alarm bells go off, concerns starts to rise, and you're
told you need to start popping pills. The moment cholesterol
goes north of two hundred. Same thing. So let's focus
today on you becoming your own educated individual and opening

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up our minds to the concept what if high blood
pressure and cholesterol is a good thing? What are the
five reasons the elevation is helping you? And knowing this,
how do we fix those to let your body reset
by itself? And hey, because I haven't been on the
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on Saturday morning. It's at ten am, and it's for
those of you listening who are like, yep, that's me.
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and I wish there was another way there is, Or
maybe you're like, look, I'm sick and tired of taking
the blood pressure pills. I'm getting lightheaded and dizzy, I'm
getting symptoms. I wonder can I somehow reset my blood
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master class on the eighteenth of October. And now let's
get into it. Part number one of today's topic blood pressure.
And when it comes to blood pressure, it's one of

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the mis understood vital signs in all of modern healthcare.
In my opinion, doctors see it as a static number
that you have to force down into a very narrow
range one twenty over eighty or slightly less. But remember,
blood pressure is dynamic, meaning it changes all the time
based on activity, your stress, your posture, even the time

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of day. So to treat it as a snapshot of
a disease is not just unscientific, it can become dangerous
because there are moments where blood pressure elevations are a
good thing and that's what you want. Conventional medicine will
teach us the idea that high blood pressure is a
silent killer, a disease lurking in your veins. And because

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of that, the fear of what if something were to
go wrong, millions of people are prescribed a lifetime of
medications that force the numbers down, but never ever look
for the root cause of why why is it elevated
in the first place. It's like turning off the smoke
alarm while your kitchen fire is on. Well, the noise
is stopped, but the house is still burning down. And

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in this analogy, the house is your body. So today
again I want to open your eyes to this concept
of the reality that blood pressure may not necessarily be
a bad thing, and yes, you heard me right, it
might actually be protective, helping to save your life. In fact,
I'll show you three natural techniques that aren't going to
lower your blood pressure, but they're going to help to

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reset it so that you don't have to push so hard.
And by the end of the segment number one, the
first twenty five minutes, you're gonna be a master in
understanding what causes blood pressure to go up. So let's
talk about that reason number one. Almost always it's compensation
for lack of good circulation through your body. So if

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you think of your arteries like garden hoses carrying water
to all the flowers in your garden or all the
fruit and the vegetables that you're growing. The hoses should
be flexible and allow for an easy flow of water
so that your garden thrives. Think of it like an
eerie gation system. But what happens if the hoses become

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stiff or cracked or filled with debris, Well, the flow
slows down, and the flow that is feeding the garden,
the flowers, the vegetables, whatever you're growing, starts to suffer
and they begin to wither. So the only way to
get the water to them in this instance is you
can You would have to increase the pressure to try

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to push harder to keep the flow of water going
to the garden. So, if you understand the analogy, that's
exactly what your body's doing with blood pressure. When your
arteries are inflamed or stiff or partially blocked, blood flow weakens,
and so your heart, thanks to your brain and the
innate nervous system you have that regulates pressure, it will

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increase itself to make sure that oxygen and nutrients are
being provided to the tissues of your body. The fruit
and the vegetables, if you will, The organ are the
downstream effects of what you need to thrive and live.
So in this instance, an elevation in blood pressure is
not a malfunction. It's intelligent compensation given the environmental change.

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So if there's inflammation, if there's stiffness, if there's blockages,
it is normal for your blood pressure to go up
in this instance. Unfortunately, though, conventional physicians will say this
is hypertension or this is you know, arterial sclerosis. They'll say, yes,
we see the stiffening. But instead of figuring out why
are the arteries stiff, the prescriptions start to come down.

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And the idea is is it tricks the brain into
lowering the pressure down despite the fact that there's lack
of good blood flow. So the problem is lowering blood
pressure doesn't fix the underlying reason. If the arteries are
still stiff and the inflammation is still there. Now that
we've lowered the blood pressure, you're actually decreasing the flow

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of nutrients and oxygen. So imagine your brain is going
to say, wait a minute, I thought I elevated the
blood pressure. So what happens is it'll kick another signal
and blood pressure starts to elevate despite being on the
current medications. So functionally we look at it as this
elevated blood pressure is simply a cry for help by

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your body. Clean out the arteries, remove the inflammation, increase flexibility.
If you dig deeper into the signals of what's going on,
you can start looking for root causes and start fixing those.
The sad truth, unfortunately, is many of you have never
heard this. Instead, you're giving pills year after year and
circulation decreases, so the so called silent killer of high

(10:44):
blood pressure still shows up, which is why if you
guys don't know this, nearly as many people that are
taking medications for cholesterol and blood pressure still end up
with cardiovascular disease than those who don't, So it's almost
as if does it actually so, the real silent killer
isn't the blood pressure here comes ready, this is me now,

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it's the ignorance of what the number itself actually implies,
warning danger. Investigate the root cause. So the next time
you see a high reading, don't panic, but instead ask
your body what is it trying to compensate for. Could
it be that I have a shift in the blood
flow of my body, I'm losing profusion because of inflammation,

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And I'm here to tell you ninety nine percent of
the time that's what it is. The body is inflamed,
it is toxic, it has lost communication with the central
nervous system, and blood pressure goes up as a compensation. Okay,
reason number two why your blood pressure might be elevated, Well,
guess what. Your brain is one of the most energy

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hungry organs in your entire body. It uses twenty percent
of your oxygen even at rest, So even though it's
only two percent of your body weight, it takes literally
twenty percent of all the oxygen, all the energy out
of your blood to function. So if blood flow to
your brain drops even the slightest bit, this is dizziness.

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This is brain fog, This is fatigue, this is headaches,
this is brain congestion. So elevated blood pressure can often
be ready for this a way of making sure your
brain is getting enough oxygen and nutrients. So if the
vessels are narrowed or stiff, your body has no choice
but to push harder. Conventional medicine will see it again

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as a disease. Functionally, though, we look at it as hey,
it's just your body reacting. You're losing blood to your brain,
You're losing oxygen in your brain, and we need to
figure out why again, when you artificially lower blood pressure
with medications, your brain starts to suffer. And did you
know that research shows that people who take blood pressure
prescriptive medications have higher rates of dementia, cognitive decline, and

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even depression. And why is that? Because your brain literally
needs the fluids and the nutrients pushed to it. So
if you decrease the pressure, you decrease the flow, and
the brain starts to suffer. The irony is stunning. We're
told that high blood pressure causes dementia, but in reality,
lowering it with prescriptive medications also causes dementia. So your

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body's trying to keep your brain functional alive. So remember,
elevated blood pressure can also be a safeguard, a way
of your body saying, hey, we need the lights on upstairs,
we need more nutrients, we need more blood flow. The
pressure will go up and hopefully, if you're learned like
you are, and you are you guys are learning about this,
you wouldn't just jump straight to a pill to drop it.

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You would say, you know what, I need to get
an examination done to find out do I have good
blood flow to my brain? Am I losing blood flow
to my extremities and if you're looking for help out again.
The Heart Disease Heal thy Self ebook explains everything I'm
talking about, plus some at home tests you can do
that are more specific for cardiovascar disease. Then stress tests

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and all that sort of stuff. We have what's called
on page twenty an at home cardiac exam that's more
accurate than triglycerides and cholesterols. It's a fifty two dollars
test you can run at your house and it'll tell
you if you have cardiovascu disease more so than those others.
And we talk about the steps needed to get your
body back on track for lowering blood pressure and cholesterol

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the right way. Download the ebook now, it's completely free.
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zero ninety four. So the third reason your blood pressure

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might be elevated is that your body's trying to enhance
kidney filtration. This is a big deal for a lot
of us, because the average American over fifty today is
walking around with decreased kidney functionality. Not kidney disease, but
just your kidneys aren't filtering your blood efficiently. Toxins are
piling up. The EGFR is suffering creatines on a slight increase,

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and every day, if you didn't know this, your kidneys
filter fifty gallons of blood flowing through them, removing toxins,
balancing your electrolytes, keeping your body clean. This filtration system
depends very heavily on the pressure of your blood to
push these toxins through the tiny vessels of the kidney
so you can excrete them. So when the kidney itself

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becomes inflamed or scarred or there's a pressure increase, your
body says, you know what, in order to keep filtering,
I have to increase the pressure to compensate. If you didn't,
toxins would accumulate inside your body, leading to fatigue and
swelling and even kidney failure. So again, oftentimes physicians will say, well,
you know what, we recognize the kidneys aren't working because

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there's fluid retained. We'll give you a diuretic, an anti
hyperd intensive that forces fluids out of your body. This
can dehydrate you. This can stress your kidneys further, thus
making the real issue a bigger problem. So imagine trying
to clean a dirty filter by restricting the water flow
that goes to it. Does that make any sense? So

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instead it makes the filter useless. So this is often
what times the anti hypertensive diuretics do. Functionally. However, high
blood pressure is a signed that the kidneys are struggling
and they need support, not suppression. Again, high blood pressure
is our way of letting our body know, hey, my
kidneys are not fully functioning. I'm piling up with toxins

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to let the user, my driver of this body know,
I'm going to kick the pressure up to compensate, and
hopefully they pay attention and go get their kidneys assessed.
How do we do this Well, we have to restore minerals,
we have to reduce the toxic load. We need to
address inflammation, which is the root cause of all blood
pressu issues, and then start to help kidney functionality. Often

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it comes from dietary changes and doing some detoxifications of
your kidney, flushing it out for example. Just remember, elevated
blood pressure could be your body's way of keeping you
detoxifying so you stay healthy, not destructive. Reason number four,
it's a direct response to stress. Think about this. Stress

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is one of the most powerful drivers of high blood pressure.
When your body perceives something as a threat, no matter
if it's physical or emotional or even chemical, your adrenal
glands secrete a hormone that constricts your vessels and raise
your blood pressure. This isn't a mistake, this is survival.
You need high blood pressure to run away from some
sort of a predator, or to fight off something in danger,

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or to respond to a crisis. So elevated blood pressure
ready for this is simply your body's God is given
design to stress. And the problem with today is that
most people are living in chronics dates of stress. We're
not sprinting from tigers anymore. We're stuck in traffic, we're
glued to screens, We're being fed information that just triggers

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a dopaminergic response, and we're always constantly on the go.
We're juggling financial worries, we're dealing with spousal stresses and
relationships and work. So blood pressure can elevate not because
your body's broken, but because the stress you have never
turns off. And again, conventional medicine will see the number

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and they'll never ask the question of let's address your life. Okay,
why is your nervous system stressed out? So the answer
is generally discovering how do we calm down the nervous system.
This is where chiropractic adjustments are not just for neck pain,
back pain, headaches. They are literally designed to de stress
the master system of your body. When you receive a

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chiropractical adjustment, it resets the sympathetic and parasympathetic tone. It's
like tuning a fine instrument so that it sounds the
way it was designed, rather than sounding stressed. This is
why so many people they get chiropractic care often have
normal blood pressure because their body is under a tone
of healing and relaxation. You can also use things like

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meditation and prayer and detoxification. Just remember, elevated blood pressure
is your body's way of protecting you. So the real
issue is stress responses. Until you address the underlying root stressors,
your blood pressure is just doing its job. It's keeping
you alive in a modernly stressed out world. So what

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are some things we can do to reset the body
quickly and get your blood pressure back on track again. Well,
I lightly talk to you about it before chiropractic care.
I know what you're thinking is you're like, wait a minute,
how does my spine have anything to do with my
blood pressure? But when your spine is misaligned, especially in
the upper cervical vertebra, the vaguest nerve, which regulates the rhythm,
the rate, and the pressure of your heart, becomes distorted

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and the signal decreases. It's the vagus nerve is supposed
to slow everything down, decrease blood pressure, decrease heart rate,
decrease arrhythmias in all this stuff. Research from the University
of Chicago showed that a single chiropractic adjustment to your
upper cervical spine you ready for this lowered blood pressure
as much as seventeen points systolic top number and ten

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points diastolic bottom number. It would require two blood pressure
medications pharmaceutically to pull off the same effect. Think about that,
no chemicals, no side effects, just restoring communication of your
vagus nerve to your heart and allowing for your body
to say, slow down, calm down. How does this work?

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Chiropractic doesn't treat blood pressure. So I don't want you
to think I'm saying go to a chiropractor if you
have a blood pressure, your blood pressure, we reset. No.
Chiropractic care restores the interferences in your nervous system and
rebalances your tone the energy flowing through your spine. Most
of us are stuck in simple pathetic tone and it
sounds like a chaos parasympathetic tone. However, is that calming

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relaxational meditational? Oh right, When your parasympathetics are stimulated, your
body calms down. So what does chiropractic care to your
upracervical spine do? It stimulates your parasympathetics, thus calming your
body down. Can your blood pressure go down? Can your
cholesterol go down? Can your sugars go down as a result? Yes,

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but it's not a treatment for those. It's a treatment
for spinal nerve interference? Number two, Did you guys know
that nitric oxide? This is ways you can enhance your
blood pressure? Naturally, nitric oxide is a gas that your
body makes, but for many of you, you're missing the
nutrients you need to even make nitric oxide. Nitric Oxide

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is like WD fourty for your vascular system. It will
lubricate your tissues, relax your vessels, and allow your pressure
to come down. When nitric oxide levels are low, vessels stiffened,
pressure rises, and when you increase nitric oxide, arters relax
and blood pressure flows. So the best way to do
this ready for this is to recognize that beats, leafy greens,

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even those from beats, garlic, and pomegranates all contain a
nutrient that helps to stimulate nitric oxide production. So how
about having a pomegranate, leafy green beat juice and guess what,
nitric oxide levels start to go up and you'll see
blood pressure come down. Contrast that with a medical approach,

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which is to put a nitroglycerin tablet under your mouth,
which isn't nitric oxide, It just mimics it. It's a chemical.
But the best way to restore nitric oxide production is
to let your body do it by itself. Eat beats,
drink green vegetable juices, pomegranate juice. It all stimulates nitric

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oxide production and helps your body to relax. So the
beauty of a nitric oxide is that it balances your
nervous system. It helps to balance the vascular tone and
blood pressure goes down. Technique number three. I want you
to recognize something profound. As we lead up to a
commercial break. Blood pressure elevates because of a deficiency within

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your body. Remember we talked about lack of oxygen to
your brain, lack of good blood flow to the organs
of your body, lack of nitric oxygen, lack of good
neurological signaling between your brain and your body. But it
also can elevate because of lack of nutritional density. The
average hypertensive patient scores severely deficient in magnesium, potassium, and

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coq ten. I'm going to save them again. Magnesium, potassium,
coq ten. These nutrients are absolutely critical if you want
to relax your blood vessels. Without them, arteries constrict, inflammation rises,
blood pressure spikes, and I guarantee you your cardiologist is
not testing you for these nutrients. So if you restore magnesium,

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it calms of vascular tissues. Potassium helps to balance sodium
so you don't retain fluids, and coq ten physically energizes
your heart. There is a very simple way for you
to test yourself to find out these nutrients are deficients,
not complicated and if they are, you start supplementing with them.
So just imagine this. If you started increasing your magnesium

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potassium in COQ ten, you started drinking beat juice and
green vegetable juices to increase nitric oxide, you start going
to a chiropractor. Release the stress in your spine, which
by the way, is the main vessel that flows blood
into your brain. Oxygen increases, and the innate system of
your body says thank you. Blood pressure starts to come

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Welcome back. You're listening to the Ask Doctor Earns Show.
I'm your host, doctor Aaron Ernst. Hey, Yes, it's the
show where pounds are shed, disease is Dead, and where
you get to be set free of your health problems.
All during the top of the hour, we've been to
talking about what if blood pressure and cholesterol is actually
a good thing for you. What if everything you've been
told by your classic conventional physician is backwards and simply

(25:23):
based on the idea of trying to increase prescriptive reliance
on a medication that is actually making your condition be
covered up when the underlying root cause is still there.
The fire is still burning, and we want to go
after that. We spent the top of the hour discussing
why blood pressure could actually be a good thing. I

(25:44):
gave you five reasons for that, and we talked about
the top three techniques you can lower your blood pressure
by naturally letting your body reset itself. And now we're
going to shift gears into cholesterol, which in itself is
an entire show and it's going to ruffle some feathers.
But I want to give you some tool rules and
some free guides. The Heart Disease Heal they Self ebook

(26:04):
is yours free. Simply text the word heart plus your
name and email to seven oh four nine zero six
two zero nine four. Think of it as a functional
way for you to learn the real underlying triggers of
what causes cardiovascular health issues and what you can do
right now to reset those causes and allow cholesterol and

(26:24):
triglycerides and palpitations and arrhythmias and even blood pressure reset.
I'm also hosting a masterclass free live online if you're
somebody who wants to break free from the prescriptive reliances.
If you want a cardiovascular heart health issue to improve
and do it the natural way without adding prescriptions, join

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me on Saturday, October eighteenth. Again, it's completely free. You
just need to text the word heart plus your name
and email to seven oh four nine zero six two
zero nine four will send the e book to you,
will register you for the masterclass, and then we'll let
your bodies are to heal by itself. So we uncovered
how elevations and numbers aren't necessarily a disease, but rather

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a potential survival mechanism. Now I want to turn the
topic to cholesterol, perhaps the most vilified molecule in the
human body by modern medicine. It is labeled as a sticky,
artery clogging poison that must be driven down as low
as possible, otherwise you might end up with more cardiovascular

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disease according to conventional thoughts. For decades, we've told people
that cholesterol is the enemy. Entire generations have lived in
fear of butter and eggs and red meats because of
what I believe is outdated science that blames those things
for heart attacks. Statins have become the number one best

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selling class of pharmaceuticals in the history of ever, with
over two hundred million people worldwide taking them on a
daily BASEI Yet, despite this multi trillion dollar effect of
lowering cholesterol, heart disease still today remains the number one
killer in the United States, and it has been climbing.

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The rates are not going down. Guys. If you look
for the last seven, eight ten years, heart disease is
on an upswing. So if lowering cholesterol truly was going
to prevent heart related deaths, shouldn't we see a decline
back to where things were better than they were before.
The reality is simple. According to conventional medicine, cholesterol is

(28:38):
the enemy. According to functional medicine, cholesterol has a purpose.
Elevated cholesterol is not always a malfunction. It is always
a response. I know this is going to sound nuts,
but it's your body trying to heal and protect itself
and adapt to the inflammation, toxicity, or the imbalances that
are in place in your body. Just like high blood pressure,

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cholesterol is a messenger. So let's not shoot the messenger.
Let's try to understand what that messenger is telling us.
So I'm going to give you today five reasons that
elevated cholesterol is actually a good thing, and yes, I
know you heard me right, a good thing, and why
the reasons will contradict what classic conventional physician Rey tells us.

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I'm also going to give you the top three techniques
that I have seen that can help you to naturally
reset your cholesterols without lowering them. It's to reduce inflammation,
clean out your liver and your gallbladder, and restore the
nutrient deficiencies you have that the cholesterol is trying to repair.
So by the time we're finished with this second half today,
I hope that you will see cholesterol is not an enemy,

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not something need to be suppressed, but a messenger to
give you information as to what you should be doing
to get your body healthy so that your cholesterols naturally
reset themselves. You'll see why your body raises cholesterol for
a reason. You'll know how to correct this. And if
you start listening to what your cholesterol is telling you,

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you're gonna begin to see a change in your health drastically. Okay,
reason number one. Cholesterol is a band aid for vascular damage.
We have to break this down for you. An artery
wall on the inside when it becomes inflamed or injured,
either because of high blood sugar about eighty percent of
the time, oxidative stress from dietary toxins, and just inflammation

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from the foods you eat toxins themselves. Homocysteine is known
to cause damage to the interior parts of the vessels.
Ferretin is an inflammatory protein, mercury, led, aluminum, arsenic. All
these things we get inside of us can physically damage
the vessels and emotional stress. Of course, when this happens,
your body deploys cholesterol like a firefighter or a first responder.

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Cholesterol will form a protective patch over the damaged area,
thus stabilizing the wall and preventing leakage or rupture. This
process in the human body is known as plaque formation.
But here's the irony. Without cholesterol, the damage would rupture
or leak or there could be an immediate effect within

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the human body. So is cholesterol what's causing the problem? No,
we now know this. Read into books called the great
cholesterol myth or a great cholesterol con It's the idea
that we were telling people the first responder is the
cause of the problem. But now today twenty twenty five,

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we know whoops. Inflammation and the arterial damage is the
cause and the cholesterol is a response. If we keep
blaming cholesterol, you know, it's like blaming a firefighter for
the fire, blaming the paramedics for the car accident. Cholesterol
is not starting the fires, trying to put it out.

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This is why many patients that are put on cholesterol
lowering drugs still have heart disease and heart attacks down
the line, because the underlying true reason is not addressed.
If the arteries are irritated or inflamed, which happens almost
all the time because of either hormonal imbalance, elevated cholesterols,
or toxicities, the damage starts to take place on the

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inside of the vessels. Lowering cholesterols without fixing the inflammation
is like ripping a band aid off a wound that's
still bleeding. Yes, the numbers look better on your labs,
but is your body actually healthier as a result. In
functional medicine, we always say don't blame cholesterol. Instead say

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why is your vascular tissues being irritated in the first place?
Is it too much sugar, which it is for like
ninety nine percent of us? Is it too me toxins?
Again for the majority of us. Are your stress hormones
out of balance high? Is insulin high? These are all
things that actually inflame your vessels. Once you heal those

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vessel wall damage starts to go down, Cholesterol naturally steps
back because you don't need paramedics when there aren't car
accidents happening all the time. You don't need firefighters when
there's no fires. So it flips the script. Cholesterol is
not a disease marker. I know I said that, but
you guys are gonna think it's nuts. Cholesterol is a

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healing marker. Elevated cholesterol means your body is actively trying
to fix something and you must go chase it down.
Reason number two. Cholesterol is essential for hormone production. Every
single hormone in your body that keeps you alive is
made from cholesterol. Did you know that? So cortisol, the

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stress hormone, estrogen, progesterone, testosterone, all of these vitamin D,
et cetera are made from cholestert So without cholesterol, your
body would literally stop functioning. So if stress levels rise,
whether it's physical, emotional, chemical toxic, the demand for hormones increases,

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So your body intelligently raises cholesterol because it's the raw
material to convert into hormones. So consider what happens when
you artificially lower your cholesterol. You don't just lower the number,
you actually reduce your body's ability to make hormones. This
is why many times statins are associated with side effects

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like low energy, because we need hormones for energy, thyroid hormones, testosterone, estrogen,
muscle pain depression because the brain is physically made of cholesterol,
sexual dysfunctions because we need hormones imbalance for the body
to work in that aspect. From a functional perspective, we

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look at elevated cholesterols as a signal that your body
may be under hormonal stress. So the solution is not
to block the material that turns into hormones, it's to
find out what is going on hormonally. For many women
in perimenopause or menopause, and even for men as they
get older, cholesterol will rise to help balance the hormone production.

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That's going on. It's protective, not harmful. Trying to suppress
it is like ignoring the reason that is there in
the first place. When you realize that your cholesterol is
the backbone for your hormonal system and you get your
hormones tested to find out that they're out of balance,
balance your hormones and your cholesterols can start to naturally
reset by themselves. So what if your elevated cholesterol is

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just a sign that, for men, you're low in testosterone,
which happens almost all the time, and you think, all right,
I'll just put a testosterone pelle at my hip. No,
it's usually being converted inappropriately into either dihydroxy testosterone or
it's aromatizing into strogen, and we get elevations and estrogen
in men, and then cholesterol goes up to try to

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fix this, and there's the conundrum. Same thing for women progesterone,
estrogen extradiol balances. Same thing. Reason number three. Cholesterol is
trying to protect your brain. Your brain is sixty percent fat,
and cholesterol is one of the primary building blocks of
your brain. Every neuron in your brain is coded with

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something called a milin sheath. It's like an insulated wrappering.
Guess what it's made of cholesterol. Those milin sheaths allow
for signals to move quickly through your brain and your
nervous system. So without cholesterol, communication slows down, memory starts
to fall apart, mood deteriorates. Low cholesterol is extremely linked

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to depression, anxiety, memory loss, even aggressive behaviors. In fact,
several studies have found that people with low cholesterol have
higher rates of suicide. Cholesterol is not just important for
your brain health, but it's essential for our emotional stability.
Elevated cholesterol, therefore, could be your body's way of trying

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to defend your brain. If oxidative stress, inflammation toxicity is
threatening your neurons, cholesterol will rise to be protective, insulator
and in repair material. Saysn't random. This is the brilliant
design of the human body. Again, if you're taking statins,

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statins can cross the blend brain barrier, which means they
reduce cholesterol production in your brain. This is why most
people who are taking a statin will often say, like,
you know, ever since I started taking it, like I'm
having a hard time remembering things, I'm confused, I'm having
memory difficulties, and often you're told it's just a sign
of your age as normal as you're getting older. But

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the truth is it's your brain's starving for cholesterol. So
if your cholesterol is high, it might mean your brain
is saying I need help. It may be trying to
protect you against neurodegeneration and to preserve your memories. So
the iron knee is staggering. Cholesterol is painted as the

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dementia creating you know, thing in your body, I guess,
and in fact, if you take statins, it could be
creating more dementia. So when your cholesterol numbers rise, you
should ask yourself, hey, is my brain trying to protect myself?
Reason number four? Did you know that cholesterol actually is

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an immune booster? I don't think people realize this well enough.
Cholesterol plays a critical role in your immune system. Did
you know that cholesterol can bind and neutralized toxins. It
can actually get rid of viruses and bacteria in your bloodstream.
Cholesterol acts like a sponge, soaking up particles so that
your immune system can clear them out. Recent research is

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showing it even somewhat acts like a white blood cell,
where it attracts things to it. Binding them and allowing
for them to be excreted. So if an infection is
running subclinically, which it is for most people, or toxicity
is increasing like it is for most people, cholesterol will

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go up to help your immune system do its job
and clean you out. Not a sign of disease, but
a sign of defense. Often, unfortunately, conventional physicians ignore the
fact that cholesterol is a protective neutralizer of toxins, virus sines,
and bacteria. They see it again as the ability for
your card reach to be clogged, and you need to

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lower this as fast as you can. Functionally. However, high
cholesterol can be a canarian, a coal mine. It might
be your body saying hey, I'm here in an elevated
state because you are dealing with something that needs to
be addressed. You have an infection, you have a toxicity,
have weakness to your immune system. If you think about

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it in the context of the world we live in today,
we are bombarded by pesticides and heavy metals and microplastics
and mold, toxins and process chemicals in our food. So
no wonder cholesterol rises. It's responding to the chemical storm
of what you're putting in your body. Remember this, I
know it's profound. Without cholesterol, your immune system would not

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function properly. Many of you would not be able to
survive the toxic load of today unless your cholesterol elevates
to try to detox you out. So the solution is
to start addressing the toxicity of your body, clean your
body out, and watches your cholesterol level say well, I
don't need to be as high anymore, and they naturally

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come down. Reason number five Again, I don't think many
of you know this. Cholesterol by itself is an antioxidant.
It's an anti inflammatory responder. Cholesterol carries fat soluble vitamins.
This is very profound. I need you to hear this.
Vitamin E and coq tens specifically are carried by LDL cholesterol.

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If your body is under an inflammatory oxidative stress from
the toxins you're exposed to in food, water, air, and
chemicals you're using, to the inflammation you're getting from standard
dietary advice, standard American diet, high processed, packaged, et cetera,
or you have subclinical chronic infections with most of us

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have viruses running in our body bacteria. At low levels,
cholesterol will rise to give your immune system the vitamin
E and the coq tenant needs to decrease inflammation. So
this makes cholesterol actually an anti inflammatory molecule. It shows
up where free radical damage is. It reinforces the tissues

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and says, here are the nutrients you need to solve
this problem. Elevated cholesterol is like having a lot of
ambulances on the road during a disaster. Does that mean
the ambulances cause the disaster? Of course not, there a
response to the disaster. So what we would ask in
functional medicine is this, does your body need antioxidants? Have

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you ever been tested for coq ten, vitamin E, vitamin A,
vitamin D. Like all the nutrient antioxidants, Glutithione is a
master antioxidant that I beg you to start getting tested
because you're gonna find it's gonna come back low, especially
if your cholesterol is high. And if we elevate your antioxidants,
it helps your body not need to hyper secrete cholesterol

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to carry vitamin E and coq ten to your tissues.
So again, when you restore the balance by detoxifying, nourishing,
and reducing inflammation, your body starts to heal. Hey inside
the Heart Disease Heal Thy selfiebook. We have in the
very very back an entire list of the nutrients that
you need for cardiovascular function. They're listed for you, all

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the herbs for good heart health, the top five anti
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for yourself specifically how do we get you out of
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That's it, okay. The top three techniques that I have

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seen that helps to not lower but reset your cholesterol.
Number one, you must recognize that inflammation is the driving force.
The single biggest driver behind stra elevation is inflammation. When
your arteries are inflamed, when toxins are circulating, when blood
sugar is spiking, your body will call on cholesterol to

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be a repair system for the inflamation of your vessels.
Lowering cholesterol without lowering inflammation is basically like baling water
out of a boat without ever finding the leak. In
a functional perspective, reducing inflammation simply begins with reducing processed foods,

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removing refined sugars, get rid of the toxic seed oils
that inflame your arteries, replace them with whole foods and
healthy fats and anti inflammatory nutrients. All of what you
need is in the Heart Disease Held Thyself ebook, which
is why I recommend you get it now. Your name,
your email, the word heart seven O four nine zero
six two zero ninety four. When you lower inflammation, cholesterol

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does not need to be elevated. The patches, the shields,
the ambulances, and my analogies of today show they all
cut back because the crisis is now over and so
your body can normalize itself. Step number two clean out
your liver and your gall bladder. Listen. Your liver is
your central hub for cholesterol metabolism. It produces it, it

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packages it, and it even clears it through your bile.
Bile is what's stored in your gallbladder and releasing bile
into your digestive system is how you excrete fats and cholesterol.
So if your liver is congested and the gall bladder
is sluggish, cholesterol can't move out of you efficiently. Yes,

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you actually excrete cholesterol naturally as long as your liver
and your bile and gall bladder systems are functional. This
is why functional medicine puts so much emphasis on the
cleanliness and the function of your liver. Here are some
simple things you can use. Remember we talked about the
beat greens and the beat juice and the green veggie juices, themgranites, etc.

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Those are all things that help to flush a liver out.
Bitter greens, dandelion, milk, thistle, coffee, enemas, even castor oil
packs can help to stimulate the flow through your liver.
When your cholesterol has a clear exit, it doesn't have
to stay behind in your bloodstream. I have seen countless
of patients have their cholesterols normalize, not by taking medication,

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but by just simply cleaning out their liver and their gallbladder.
And you might be thinking to yourself, oh my gosh,
I don't have a gallbladder. I guess I'm out of luck. No,
your body still produces bile. It still has to go
into your digestive system. You need even more importantly to
make sure that your liver and your bile systems are clear.
It just means you can't hold bile anymore, but you

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still produce it and it still leaks into your digestive system.
If you don't have a gallbladder, you really need to
pay attention to this because often what we find is
even if you don't have a gall bladder, you still
have bile back up within your liver. Take a digestive
enzyme with ox bile if you do not have a
gall bladder. It's one of the number one things that

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can change your digestive health. Okay, Third, recognize that again,
cholesterol is there to deliver nutrients to your body. We
talked about how antioxidants are a key component. Fat soluble
vitamins a key component of cholesterol itself. So the omega three,
fatty acids, B vitamins, certain nutrients and minerals. When your

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body is low in COQ ten and vitamin E, your
cholesterol will elevate. These nutrients help cholesterol to do their
job and do it efficiently, so without them, cholesterol has
to work harder and often compensate and rise to pick
up the slack for your lack. Statin's never address this.
If anything, they further suppress cholesterol production, which leaves a

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deficiency uncorrected, so you'll end up often depleted in the
very things you'd need, which is why COQ ten is
the number one deficiency we find in people taking statins.
The drug itself depletes what your body was trying to
deliver to you. The functional solution easy boost your fatty

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proteins wild caught fish, grass, finished beef. Boost your antioxidants
specifically if you want to help your liver, neutralize the
elevations in cholesterol, Vitamin E, vitamin C, glutathione, and COQ ten.
I know what you're thinking, like, how am I gonna
remember all of this? It's in the Heart Disease held

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ay Self ebook. You should download it now seven o
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not just cholesterol and blood pressure. But arrhythmias, palpitations, anything

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that has to do with your heart. So as we
finish up today, let's recap two truths. Cholesterol and blood
pressure are not your enemy. They could be your body's
way of signaling you that you must pay attention to
what's going on the inside. When you reduce inflammation, clean
out your liver, address your neurological health, and restore your
nutritional deficiencies, you watch as your blood pressure and cholesterol

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start to settle by itself. There we go, it's the
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them to be blessed.