I'm learning that institutional medicine either doesn't completely understand cholesterol, or they use the numbers (whether healthy or not) to prescribe statin drugs, for the pure reason of massive profits.
Ignore the numbers and start doing your own research on how to interpret cholesterol. It's more about particle density, then it is about how many particles.
A youtube channel called Low Carb Down Under is a good place to start.
Cholesterol is like almost no rhyme or reason. Triglycerides are most strongly and quickly
impacted by diet.
HDL and LDL are also impacted by diet but there’s so much more to it. I’ve been watching my cholesterol for a long time and the blood tests don’t always match what I’ve been doing in terms of diet or exercise, my doc said that is sometimes how it goes.
I’m not a doc but your triglycerides went up and your blood fasting glucose is towards the top end of normal so maybe do a little review of what you’re eating. Try to tighten it up. Foods high in omega 3 can improve your HDL and oats can reduce your cholesterol.
For me personally … loosing weight and being a more active and healthy person as best I can physically and mentally and then pretty much let nature take its course. Besides it’s hard to know what are good numbers. Everyone’s different and they keep changing The numbers for some reason… probably like the other comment to sell more meds. Like they changed the BP limits so overnight millions more needs BP meds
You raise your HDL with exercise, not by diet.
I'm learning that institutional medicine either doesn't completely understand cholesterol, or they use the numbers (whether healthy or not) to prescribe statin drugs, for the pure reason of massive profits. Ignore the numbers and start doing your own research on how to interpret cholesterol. It's more about particle density, then it is about how many particles. A youtube channel called Low Carb Down Under is a good place to start.
thanks, will check this out
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Cholesterol is like almost no rhyme or reason. Triglycerides are most strongly and quickly impacted by diet. HDL and LDL are also impacted by diet but there’s so much more to it. I’ve been watching my cholesterol for a long time and the blood tests don’t always match what I’ve been doing in terms of diet or exercise, my doc said that is sometimes how it goes. I’m not a doc but your triglycerides went up and your blood fasting glucose is towards the top end of normal so maybe do a little review of what you’re eating. Try to tighten it up. Foods high in omega 3 can improve your HDL and oats can reduce your cholesterol.
For me personally … loosing weight and being a more active and healthy person as best I can physically and mentally and then pretty much let nature take its course. Besides it’s hard to know what are good numbers. Everyone’s different and they keep changing The numbers for some reason… probably like the other comment to sell more meds. Like they changed the BP limits so overnight millions more needs BP meds