Full mechanism, in text

Does shrimp raise blood cholesterol?

1 · The body will not leave cholesterol to luck

Liver cells make cholesterol year-round, far more than you eat, and the cholesterol you eat and the in your blood are not the same thing.Every cell membrane uses cholesterol to set how stiff or soft it is, and bile acids and hormones start from it. Liver cells keep a making-line running year-round, far larger than what you eat.

Cholesterol you eat and in blood are not the same thing.

2 · Make less — and take the recovery ports down

Eaten cholesterol goes to the liver, and once stock rises the liver turns down its in-house line and takes down the recovery ports that grab from blood.What you eat is sent to the liver first. Once stock rises, two things happen at once: the in-house line is turned down, and the recovery ports are taken down.

Those ports grab from the blood. When the cell is no longer short, it stops rushing to scoop — fewer ports, and LDL stays in the blood a little longer.

3 · The compensation is a trade, not free

Making less pushes blood down and scooping less pushes it up, so eaten milligrams do not enter blood as they are, but that is no licence to eat freely.The make less side pushes blood down; the scoop less side pushes it up. The net is the little that remains after they offset.

So the milligrams on a label do not walk into the blood as they are; since the body compensates, eat as you please is equally wrong.

4 · Shrimp splits the two variables apart

Shrimp is not low in cholesterol yet has almost no saturated fat, and in a crossover trial it raised about 7% and about 12%, with ratios no worse.Shrimp is not low in cholesterol and almost empty of saturated fat — it splits the two variables. In a crossover trial, rose about 7%, also rose about 12%, fell, and the ratios did not worsen.

Read all three together. That does not support you must not eat it, and it does not prove eating shrimp is beneficial.

Full mechanism, in text

1 · The body will not leave cholesterol to luck

2 · Make less — and take the recovery ports down

3 · The compensation is a trade, not free

4 · Shrimp splits the two variables apart

Shrimp — the recovery ports come down too

Full mechanism, in text

1 · The body will not leave cholesterol to luck

2 · Make less — and take the recovery ports down

3 · The compensation is a trade, not free

4 · Shrimp splits the two variables apart

Shrimp — the recovery ports come down too