Erin Thole, CNHP - Functional Health Practitioner.

Part 4 in my cholesterol education series. If you missed parts 1-3 be sure to go back and watch those and follow me for more functional and holistic health education and tools.

Your HDL being 65+ matters more than your total cholesterol because it is what helps to keep inflammation down and your heart and body happy and healthy.

In the previous videos we talked more on why cholesterol rises in the first place and also on new research that is coming out showing that LDL cholesterol is actually brain protectant and we don’t want to push it down.

As a functional and holistic practitioner I am always asking why. The body doesn’t do something for no reason. High cholesterol is simply the body communicating with us.

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Key words: cholesterol levels, inflammation, women’s health, perimenopause, menopause, hormone health, liver health, high cholesterol, healthy cholesterol

Part 3: if you haven’t watch the past 2 posts about cholesterol and recent research on cholesterol I suggest going back and checking them out.

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Today I dive into a few more reasons for cholesterol to climb including chronic inflammation, estrogen hormonal shifts in perimenopause and menopause, chronic stress and nervous system dysregulation.

As a holistic practitioner I am alway using lab markers like cholesterol as clues to figuring out what the body is trying to tell us. What else is going on that could be causing cholesterol to climb? That’s what we want to address and then the cholesterol will correct itself.

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Part 2: reasons cholesterol starts to climb are rooted in protecting the body, chronic inflammation, liver stress and hormonal disruption.

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Don’t shoot the messenger! Cholesterol is a hormone made in the liver and it helps to protect us from inflammation damage. It’s brain and nervous system protectant, it helps patch weakened arteries and it’s a clue to liver and hormonal stress and dysfunction. Especially in woman as we start to go through perimenopause and menopause.

Don’t shoot the messenger! Let’s figure out why it’s going high in the first place.



Key words: inflammation, circulation, circulatory health, hormone health, hormonal health, perimenopause, menopause, high cholesterol, root cause

Part 1 - let’s talk about cholesterol shall we? Lately I have had quite a few clients come to me worried about their cholesterol levels.

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This is fun for me because it’s a great opportunity to nerd out and educate on what cholesterol is and how it helps our bodies.

Cholesterol is a hormone made in the liver that is a protector. Meaning it will rise when it needs toning in order to protect us from something: inflammation, infection, deterioration, etc.

Sometimes it will rise because the liver is bogged down BUT one or more of the above things will also be true so we need to look at the full picture.

We are starting to understand a lot more about cholesterol as I note in the video. But still, many doctors do not pay attention to up to date, new and evolving research. Big time bummer.

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Key words: women’s health, inflammation, heart health, cholesterol levels, healthy cholesterol, dementia, circulatory health, heart attack, hormonal health, hormone health

Something magical happens when women gather. Women regulate off the hormone oxytocin, aka the love and connection hormone. So it’s no surprise that women gathering together to learn and grow with the intention of regulation is so powerful.

We learned about holistic hormonal health tools and how to eat, move and rest for hormonal balance. The 18 women at the retreat took home valuable tools that will help set a strong foundation for their health for years to come.

They learned how to come down the nervous system ladder out of fight or flight easily and quickly in the moment with little regulation tools that take as little as 30 seconds.

They learned how to feel their body’s in time and space and get in tune with their breath and movement.

They got to relax and melt into their mat and release stress from every cell in their body.

It was a magically and uplifting day. Every woman left the event floating out the door on cloud 9 with tools she could easily implement in the real world.

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