So you know that high levels of LDL cholesterol is bad for you.
You’ve also been warned repeatedly by health experts, doctors, neighbors, and your mother-in-law that foods with saturated fats, a lack of physical activity, and your age all increase bad cholesterol levels.
What if you were told that there’s something else that causes bad cholesterol – something you never suspected? Hmm.
Bad weather, especially winters, can be a great source of inconvenience. But a new study shows that there is more to winters than just minor hassles. In fact, cholesterol levels, which fluctuate over the seasons, are said to be at the highest levels during the winter.
Data from nearly 2.8 million adults were analyzed in a massive study conducted at Johns Hopkins Ciccarone Center for the Prevention of Heart Disease. The cholesterol levels of the participants were analyzed from the period of 2006 to 2013.
The readings were categorized according to the time of the year when it was recorded and compared with other readings across different seasons. The study revealed that LDL cholesterol was 3.5 percent higher in men and 1.7 percent higher in women during the colder months.
They also discovered that HDL cholesterol, often called the ‘good cholesterol’ did not change markedly across the seasons.
A lot has to do with lifestyle issues. For instance, people might find themselves hesitating to go to the gym or outside to exercise. Similarly, due to lesser exposure to sunlight, a decrease in Vitamin D level is also observed. Vitamin D is helpful for reducing LDL cholesterol and its deficiency can result in accumulation of this type of cholesterol in the body.
More importantly, hardening of the arteries and even blockage can increase during the winter months. The researchers have also suggested that other risk factors for heart disease like high blood pressure and blood glucose levels also increase in the winters.
The best way to fight it is to choose a healthy nutritious diet and to take a firm resolve to exercise regularly no matter what!
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I think this is normal during winter a high LDL will appear because maybe cholesterol is needed to make hormones to be used maybe to protect us from cold weather,the thing we must watch is the VLDL,THE VERY LOW DENSITY LIPOPROTEIN AND TRIGLYCERIDES when they are high because they are the one who will stick to our arteries and cause atherosclerosis
I think you’re right Cristino that it’s the natures way to protect us against cold weather in some ways. Animals for example (and humans I think) tend to add on body fat in the fall when cold is coming. Same thing may be true for cholesterol.
Very strange. Maybe it has also something to do with that we don’t move around as much in the winter time.
This article is very informative and eye opening.would want more of this
Read the great cholesterol con and many other publications out there. Cholesterol is not the culprit in heart attack but happens to accompany other factors when a person is predisposed to heart attack. For example LDL is designed to increase as you get stressed to repair blood vessels and the HDL carries the excess away. Reducing cholesterol destroys your body’s ability to protect itself, and causes other problems like not allowing the fuel to activate things like sex drive. So you reduce cholesterol when up without looking at the root cause and you get mayhem. CRP (inflamation) caused by stress and poor diet are the villains. Sort these and cholesterol will look after itself. By the way, healthy cholesterol levels are a lot higher than published so that drug companies can make millions pushing their products on people. As we age increased cholesterol particularly in women actually reduces mortality.
Thanks for this very interesting article. Even though I have never experienced this problem, I know many who have. The facts that you have brought to light had never crossed my mind. Thanks a lot
I just got out of the hospital due to clogged arteries , not the large arteries but small arteries. Known as small vessel disease. They had to put a graft in my leg to get blood flow to my feet.Any one know anything about this ?
There are so many different opinions, especially the one from Mark. One does not know what to believe anymore. I agree that pharmaceutical companies are making billions by pushing medication, but some people don’t know what else to do. I take flax seed daily to keep my cholesterol balanced. I, too, heard that vitamin D is good for helping to lower HBP and cholesterol levels. I pray about everything. God, who made our bodies, knows what we should.do to keep them working properly. If we seek God’s wisdom in all matters, I’m sure He will lead and guide us into the truth concerning these things. May you all be blessed.
What if – like me – high levels of LDL is genetic?