95% of bile is recovered before it leaves your colon. This means you normally only lose 5% of it to your toilet. However, psyllium is a key way to help lock up more bile for your toilet, rather than recovery. It seems the best time to take psyllium is about 20 minutes before you have enough fat to trigger bile release. Unfortunately, other fiber sources do not appear to have much ability to sequester bile. This is from information I have gathered elsewhere.
Combining fasting or exercise with subsequent fatty food and psyllium could be a quick way to optimize cholesterol removal, but this study only spoke to greater removal of cholesterol via increased bile production.
Americans ate incredibly high cholesterol diets throughout their history. Yet myocardial infarction wass was never common in America until the late 19th century thru the Nor was it described by the ancient medical writers who were great observers despite its dramatic clinical presentation. In fact heart attack as we know it was not described until 1906 in the Russian medical literature and then in 1918 in the JAMA. What happened? In 1879 the mass production of narrow cylindrical cigarettes was made possible by the invention of the automatic cigarette making machine. Soon people began smoking cigarettes in huge quantities. The result was a marked increase in blood carbon monoxide levels that no mammal was genetically equipped to cope.
IMHO cigarettes were the culprit, not cholesterol so much. Since the 1964 Surgeon General’s report and the huge decline in cigarette use, the numbers aod bona fide myocardial infarctions and their severity have dropped dramatically. This decline cannot be attributed to medications or invasive cardiac interventions.
but cholesterol is one of the staples of our body. Every single cell has cholesterol. Your brain is mostly cholesterol. There is no proof we need to get rid of any cholesterol. Its like getting rid of wood in your house. Sure wood burns in a fire. But its never the cause of the fire. You die without cholesterol. Worry about glucose levels. Worry about calcium plaque in your arteries.
If however, your diet is very bad, you eat junk and you rarely move, and you are heavier than you should be, then you will have problems. But cholesterol is not one of them.
Valuable information! Thanks!