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Your thyroid hormones help your body clear 'bad' cholesterol from the blood by turning up a cleanup system. That’s why people with an overactive thyroid tend to have lower bad cholesterol, and those with an underactive thyroid often have higher levels.
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When the woman’s overactive thyroid was treated and became normal, her ‘bad’ cholesterol went up, which shows that high thyroid levels help clear cholesterol from the blood.
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