Hyperlipidemia is a medical condition of abnormally high levels of cholesterol and fat in the bloodstream.
The condition is normally known as high blood cholesterol in the general population.
Cholesterol is a waxy substance produced by the liver. In a moderate amount, it helps to improve the gastrointestinal tract in food digestion, builds strong cell membranes, and produces vitamin D and steroid hormones.
High blood cholesterol is the most common cause of hyperlipidemia. According to statistics provided by the CDC, more than 12% of adults age 20 and older are living with high blood cholesterol with a total cholesterol higher than 240 mg/dL. and more than 18% had high-density lipoprotein (HDL, or “good”) cholesterol levels less than 40 mg/dL.
In other words, hyperlipidemia has a high prevalent ratio that affects over 100 million Americans and the condition is increasing at an alarming rate due to overweight and obesity.
Believe it or not, only half of the people with high blood cholesterol benefit from taking the lowering blood cholesterol medicine.
The healthy ratio of low-density lipoprotein (LDL)/high-density lipoprotein (HDL) is numbers that are less than 4.
There are many risk factors that cause the onset of hyperlipidemia, such as people with diabetes, overweight gain, physical activity, and smoking.
Some researchers suggested the promotion of a high-fat diet over the past decades may be one of the silent causes of hyperlipidemia in the Western world.
Dandelion is a herbaceous perennial plant, genus Taraxacum, belongings to the family Asteraceae, native to temperate regions of the world. It has been used in traditional and herbal medicine to treat gout, eczema, acne, gall bladder, kidney, liver, and urinary disorders, hypoglycemia, dyspepsia with constipation, edema, blood pressure, and heart weakness, chronic joint, skin diseases, etc.
In finding a natural ingredient for the prevention and treatment of high blood cholesterol, scientists examined the possible hypolipidemic and antioxidative effects of dandelion root and leaf in rabbits fed with a high-cholesterol diet.
The study included a group of 28 male rabbits that were divided into four subgroups; a normal diet group, a high-cholesterol diet group, a high-cholesterol diet with 1% (w/w) dandelion leaf group, and a high-cholesterol diet with 1% (w/w) dandelion root group.
After the treatment period, researchers found that dandelion root and leaf positively changed plasma antioxidant enzyme activities and lipid profiles in cholesterol-fed rabbits.
In other words, dandelion root and leaf exerted potential hypolipidemic and antioxidant effects in animals fed with a high-fat diet.
Furthermore, dandelion root and leaf also protected against oxidative stress linked to atherosclerosis and decrease atherogenic index.
Taken altogether, dandelion may be considered an antioxidant remedy for the prevention of hyperlipidemia, pending the confirmation of the larger sample size and multicenter human study.
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(1) Hypolipidemic and Antioxidant Effects of Dandelion (Taraxacum officinale) Root and Leaf on Cholesterol-Fed Rabbits by Ung-Kyu Choi,1 Ok-Hwan Lee,2,* Joo Hyuk Yim,3 Chang-Won Cho,3 Young Kyung Rhee,3 Seong-Il Lim,3 and Young-Chan Kim. (PMC)
(2) C57Bl/6 N mice on a western diet display reduced intestinal and hepatic cholesterol levels despite plasma hypercholesterolemia by Charles Desmarchelier,
1 Christoph Dahlhoff,1,2 Sylvia Keller,3 Manuela Sailer,1Gerhard Jahreis,3 and Hannelore Daniel. (PMC)
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