Will a Low Thyroid Cause High Cholesterol?
Researchers now know that there is a connection between high cholesterol and thyroid problems. There are potentially tens of millions of Americans with undiagnosed thyroid problems causing their high cholesterol. Some even speculate that low thyroid hormones specifically, are the number 2 cause of high cholesterol. This connection is explained by the metabolic role of your thyroid gland. In short, when the thyroid slows down hormone production (hypothyroidism), your liver would then have a harder filtering the blood and removing the cholesterol. This is important to know for those with high cholesterol, because if you happen to be one who has hypothyroidism problems, then you may not respond to any of the cholesterol treatments (except diet and exercise of course, as those also help thyroid problems). Unfortunately, thyroid hormone levels aren’t usually tested during blood testing, and yet cholesterol levels are. And many doctors don’t test thyroid levels when there are cholesterol pro
