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You have heard of LDL – the so-called \u201cbad cholesterol\u201d. And HDL \u2013 often called \u201cgood cholesterol\u201d.<\/p>\nYou have heard of LDL – the so-called \u201cbad cholesterol\u201d. And HDL \u2013 often called \u201cgood cholesterol\u201d.<\/p>\n
And then we, of course, have Triglycerides.<\/p>\n
But there is a third type of cholesterol, one that you probably have never even heard of. And this type was found to be the most dangerous type by far.<\/p>\n
Ironically, this third type of cholesterol is also the one easiest to eliminate.<\/p>\n
This new discovery by the University of Illinois was presented at the 63rd Biophysical Society Annual Meeting. <\/p>\n
The researchers divided their mice into two groups: one group that received a well-balanced diet and the other that received a diet based on the number of fats, carbohydrates, and proteins that can be found in a typical fast-food meal.<\/p>\n
Unsurprisingly, researchers quickly observed a thickening of the arteries of the unhealthy eaters. <\/p>\n
This damage did not occur only to the arterial walls, but all the way down to the individual cells that made up the arterial walls.<\/p>\n
They then measured the amount of LDL cholesterol and oxidized cholesterol in the arteries of these mice so that they could inject the same amounts into human arterial cells in a laboratorial setting to see what would happen.<\/p>\n
Just like oil that is placed on the shelf for too long and starts to smell, oxidized cholesterol is basically cholesterol that has become rancid.<\/p>\n
After applying these to human cells, they observed the same as in the mice: a thickening and hardening of arterial membranes. <\/p>\n
Like in the mice, the damage occurred all the way down to the individual cells from which the arteries were constituted.<\/p>\n
The oxidized cholesterol did a lot more damage than the LDL cholesterol. Even scarier, it only took a tiny amount of oxidized cholesterol to do substantial damage.<\/p>\n
The value of this study lies in the three following findings:<\/strong><\/p>\n 1. Oxidized cholesterol is more harmful than LDL cholesterol.<\/p>\n 2. The arterial damage that causes the thickening and hardening of arteries goes down to the cellular level.<\/p>\n 3. When LDL and oxidized cholesterol appear together, the damage is the greatest.<\/p>\n