Help me defend these lab results

(TJ Borden) #21

:rofl::rofl::rofl::rofl:

I’ve heard people say “I’d kill for abs like that”, but I don’t think I’ve ever heard it in regards to trigs.

(Empress of the Unexpected) #22

No trigs = abs. I’ve been voted down on the forum by a few posters, but spare trigs go to the tummy. I just purchased the Six Week Cure for the Middle Aged Middle by the Eades. One-third of Americans have NAFLD? That’s scary. I used to have tiny trigs, and a tiny belly. Aspiring to that again.

(Empress of the Unexpected) #23

Check out my accountability thread. There is nothing left to eat but meat!

(Linda) #24

If it were me and this is one of those “Just Because” appointments, I’d cancel it and then forget to make a new one.

(Empress of the Unexpected) #25

I agree - doctors work for me - I don’t work for doctors. I never get sick, so just a physical every few years. Scary that some insurance companies require certain tests. I had never heard of that until my neighbor said certain tests were required or she would lose her insurance.

#26

OMG - I’ve done that so many times with so many other doctors (I have several doctors, unfortunately) and I do it often with my dental appointments! LOL

But this doc is responsible for a lot of the meds I’m on and if I start blowing her off, she won’t refill my scripts until I see her. But I DID seriously think about rescheduling it (she’s often booked out a year in advance for thorough physicals) so that I’d have time to get my cholesterol down before I have to see her. Oh hell, I’ll just go … I’m a big girl and can stand up for my own decisions and hope that she simply agrees to disagree. And from what many of you have said, my numbers aren’t that bad, damn it!
Sue

(Linda) #27

A year ago in March I went in for a Med Check. Got my scripts refilled (which is the only reason I went in) and then a few months later the office called me to come in for my annual Well Visit. This is unseemly to me. It feels like they have become like car salesmen. I declined. I had already cut my med doses in half several years ago without mentioning it, so I’m good for about 3 years now. HA! To me it’s like running into Safeway for a quart of cream and having them refuse to sell it to me unless I buy some FiIet Mignon. I know I sound very cynical. It’s because I am. I have a book’s worth of medical horror stories to tell but I won’t bore y’all with them here.

(Ron) #28

Sue, you might find these interesting-



(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #29

It looks from those charts that you fit the profile of Dave Feldman’s lean-mass hyper-responders. That being so, you can definitely manipulate the results for a retest. David Diamond, a neuroscientist, has a couple of video lectures on why worrying about cholesterol is nonsense. He cites several studies in the course of the lectures.

#30

Thanks, Paul… will watch them right now.
Sue

#31

Going to take me a while to get through these and, honestly, most of it is over my head and I’m getting lost in the scientific data. I prefer to KCKO without delving so deeply into why I’m getting these numbers. What I need is something I can print and take with me to the doc’s office… the videos, while informative, aren’t going to give me the ammo I need at my office visit next week. I need some reliable sources of documention that I can cut, paste and take with me. Oh, and if I could actually understand the argument I’m giving, it might make it more convincing. :smile:
Sue

(Alec) #32

Your numbers are excellent. And you might find that your Dr actually knows that the cholesterol research is shaky. I think there are many Drs out there that know this, but they are hamstrung because they have to play the party line, because if they don’t they could get sued. Essentially by following CW they are protected legally. If they don’t they are not. This is one of the many ways the CW gets upheld.
Cheers
Alec

#33

I was actually just thinking the same thing, Alec. She has pleasantly surprised me a few times in the past by being more open-minded than I assumed she would be, and on some things that I really thought she’d be adamant about, she’s listened to my debates and compromised with me. Here’s hoping that, even though she’s a vegan, she will see that meat is not necessarily evil.
Sue

(Alec) #34

And, Sue, to be really clear, the research actually says that high LDL is protective of all cause mortality, meaning the higher your LDL the less likely you are to die. Especiallly in women. This is why statins in general are a crime, but especially for women.

(Alec) #35

I guess it depends why she’s a vegan. If she an animal rights person you will be the devil incarnate!! :rofl::rofl:

#36

Now THAT is the kind of thing I want to cut and paste into a one-page document to take with me! Keep it coming! (please?) :wink:
Sue

#37

“Meat is inflammatory. Any meat products (bone broth) are inflammatory. All dairy is bad and should never be consumed by anyone over the age of 2.” She’s very big on a plant-based diet, and I tried that for 6 months but not only didn’t lose weight, but I never felt good, either.
Sue

(Alec) #38

Sue
Have you read Nina Teicholz’s book? In there she provides all the evidence you need. In fact, I would suggest you refer your Dr to that book, because it is a blooming good read: it lays out all the history of why we are where we are and why it is wrong.

There are specific references to the studies focussing on women in there.

(LeeAnn Brooks) #39

She was also vegan for some time, wasn’t she? I thought I recall her saying that on a recent podcast.

(You've tried everything else; why not try bacon?) #40

She was, for about 20 years, as I recall, and she stopped being vegan when she began to write a restaurant column for a low-budget New York newspaper and had to take whatever the cook sent out for her to try. She noticed that her waistline began to shrink on all the rich, fatty meals she was eating, and wanted to know why.