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With this simple dichotomy, many physicians try to educate their patients of the risks to health implies a less-balanced diet rich in fats. For cholesterol to reach the cells before requires transport through the blood supply. To this end, two lipoproteins, LDL, low density, associated with ‘bad cholesterol’ and HDL, or high density, which is identified with the “good cholesterol“.

The problem of bad cholesterol or LDL is that excessively accumulates in the arteries and impedes the movement of oxygen through the blood, hindering the work of the heart and brain. The accumulation of these fats in the blood vessels called arteriosclerosis. Apart from the risks of stroke, other serious cardiovascular diseases linked to excess thereof.

For its part, the good cholesterol, or HDL, is not only necessary for the body but is recommended to increase their numbers in blood when there is risk of atherosclerosis, because it helps to synthesize the bad cholesterol that accumulates in the artery walls.

Other terms are familiar but difficult to explain. As the good cholesterol and the hormone DHEA.

Bad cholesterol or LDL has become the “bete noire” of doctors, who ruthlessly pursued their patients because it accumulates in the arteries and increases dramatically the possibility of heart disease.

By contrast, HDL cholesterol, LDL helps fight and prevent it from accumulating.

The hormone DHEA was baptized in the late twentieth century as the elixir of eternal youth, although the expectations placed on it have not-at least for now-expected results.

DHEA is short for dihidroepieandrosterona, a natural hormone produced by the adrenal glands and, in turn, can make hormones such as testosterone, estrogen and progesterone. These hormones decrease with age and their absence contributes to diabetes, dementia and cardiovascular problems in men, and obesity and vascular disease in women.

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