Blood pressure is often associated with cholesterol.  If you have high levels of blood pressure or cholesterol, then you are going to have problems with heart health and so on.  That’s something we all know, and people are always fighting to lower those.  They will stop eating as much salt, stay away from fats, etc, all in a mission to keep cholesterol and blood pressure down.  But what many don’t realize is that both those factors can actually get too low.  If blood pressure is too low, you can actually drink more water as that may be contributing to it.  But with cholesterol levels, it’s really something we don’t think about.  After all, if things aren’t building up in your arteries, isn’t that a good thing? 

The big thing to remember is that you want higher levels of good cholesterol.  Good cholesterol balances things out, and though you may not want to hear this, you do need a certain natural level of bad cholesterols.  Otherwise, it can also cause serious health problems.  Some have been placed on extremely high fat diets among other things to get low cholesterol levels up, and not just good fats.  Others have taken other measures.  But it can easily be just as serious as bad cholesterol.