Any Advice Welcomed! Just Diagnosed!

[Sangye]

Elephant, if your triglycerides and HDL are good there's no reason to do anything about a high total cholesterol.

[elephant]

Thanks Sangye, that makes me feel better. My triglycerides are always low and HDL is always above 70.

[Sangye]

That's excellent!

[Rose Cozzette]

If I cough up blood or see blood I go to the ER if is pretty bad. I am a big baby! Rose, How did you bring down your choleterol? Mine has been high for twenty year and I will not go on and meds to reduce it. BUt my HDLs are good.

oh you all are too funny,make my day! elephant, I dont know what I did except try to eat to help the diabetes, have cut back on the sweets and white foods and eat smaller servings so I was shocked to see such a big drop in all my scores. 186 triglycerides and 213 cholesterol, best scores in 30 years. I used to blame it all on menopause, but now that I have info on the preds and the adrenal glands, wonder if that has anything to do with it. ??

[Sangye]

Rose, you've made the exact dietary changes that impact triglycerides. Most MDs still spout nonsense about lowering your dietary intake of cholesterol and saturated fats (from animal products)--neither of which has been proven in decades of research. The body makes 80% of its cholesterol-- only 20% comes from food. Get rid of the sweets, white foods, and hydrogenated fats and increase veggies, fiber and good oils. Ba-da-bing--healthy heart.

[elephant]

I need to work on the sweets, but I do eat 80 percent good. Need to work on the other 20%.

[Sangye]

I think you're probably doing just fine, Elephant. Your numbers are great.

[Rose Cozzette]

Rose, you've made the exact dietary changes that impact triglycerides. Most MDs still spout nonsense about lowering your dietary intake of cholesterol and saturated fats (from animal products)--neither of which has been proven in decades of research. The body makes 80% of its cholesterol-- only 20% comes from food. Get rid of the sweets, white foods, and hydrogenated fats and increase veggies, fiber and good oils. Ba-da-bing--healthy heart.

well I had been told for years to cut back on sugar but didnt until the diabetes, but also when you have no taste from the meds, thats helps. lol but I have been doing this for almost 2 years and it just now dropped. ?? what a complicated body we have...

[Rose Cozzette]

I need to work on the sweets, but I do eat 80 percent good. Need to work on the other 20%.

dont we all! cont to decrease the preds, just more achy. having a big problem with the smoke from all the fires around the area, having to wear a maskin the house. yuck read up on the adrenal glands and they do a lot! no wonder we are a mess when they are shut down. no energy, irritable, etc. wonder if they ever come back fully.

[Sangye]

Yeah, the adrenal glands are considered your "battery pack" in holistic terms. Do they ever come back fully? It depends. Many people's might from a medical perspective, but from a holistic perspective only a very small number would recover fully. The problem is that we aren't able to do a lot of the specific treatments to restore them without waking up the Wegs dog.