Foods high in BAD cholesterol

(Michael ) #21

Good point. I can’t get life insurance because my pancreas quit from alcohol so I’m not familiar with the BS connected with that

(Consensus is Politics) #22

Here’s a start. Here is a list of who sends them donations

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #23

By the way, there is no such thing as bad cholesterol. Cholesterol is an essential chemical for the existence of life as we know it, being the main constituent of cell walls. In human beings, cholesterol is also the raw material from which several other essential chemicals and hormones are manufactured. So if we eliminated all the cholesterol from our blood streams, we would quickly die; if we eliminated it entirely from our bodies, we would become bunches of messy liquid. Fortunately, we don’t need to eat cholesterol; our bodies quite handily make all they need, regardless of how much or how little of it we eat. The reason we demonize cholesterol is that it is found at the site of arterial plaque, where it is actually part of the repair process, not causing the damage. As various lecturers, including Dr. Phinney, like to point out, blaming cholesterol for cardiovascular disease is like blaming fire trucks for fires.

The good/bad part of the cholesterol story actually refers to the lipoproteins that carry the cholesterol around in our bloodstreams. The high-density lipoproteins return cholesterol to the liver for re-processing and a high amount of these in the blood is a good thing. Low-density lipoproteins carry cholesterol and triglycerides around to the cells that need them, and they are bad or good (or at least neutral) depending on their size. Small, dense lipoproteins that have given up most of their cholesterol and triglycerides can become a problem; the large, fluffy ones freshly produced by the liver and loaded up mostly with cholesterol (and not too many triglycerides) are fine. A high count of this size of lipoprotein in the blood, when combined with low triglycerides and high HDL is absolutely nothing to worry about.

(Consensus is Politics) #24

After the first couple of week, after losing the initial 40 pounds, my blood pressure was doing a lot better. About two weeks after that I took a risk, and stopped all meds. That being Metformin and metoprolol for hypertension. For about a month the BP was doing just fine. But it began to creep back up. So I put myself back on it. I suppose if I can loose a bit more weight I’ll get better results on my BP too.

(Richard Hanson) #25

Or you could simply ignore the LDL number as it has almost no predictive utility.

The only rational reason I could think of to “game” a blood test one is paying for instead of just saving the money by declining the test is the entertainment value of messing with your doctor’s head.

Keto for Life!

Best Regards,
Richard

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #26

Don’t let VLC.MD hear you say that! :grinning:

(Richard Hanson) #27

LoL,

I think VLC.MD would just mess with my head by refusing to react. He is in the “know”.

R

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #28

LOLZ :grinning:

(Crow T. Robot) #29

Have you seen the movie ‘Fathead’?

This was an awesome, brilliant read. I can’t even tell which part I liked best, so I’ll quote the last bit for truth:
“CSPI’s newsletter… is “opinionated, readable, and not to be taken seriously.””

(Randy) #30

We have been conditioned to treat doctors as authority figures, and it can be difficult giving up the idea that they only know what they were taught. And much of that is wrong…

#31

If you need insurance such as life or disability, you may not get it if your LDL is too high. Any test you take can be located if you are applying for insurance even if it was not done at the request of the insurance company. There is a central data base