Any help you can give me would be greatly appreciated. I am a 66 year old female who started keto WOE at the end of January 2018. A month prior to that I was doing Paleo but wasn’t losing much weight. SW-198, CW 179 GW 160
I have high cholesterol and was taking 5 mg Crestor, a statin, until my prescription ran out and I didn’t want to take them anymore. I stopped taking them a month before my last blood work. My bloodwork - taken 9/24/2018 has shown a dramatic increase in my cholesterol and my dr.wants me to now take 10 mg of Crestor. Overall cholesterol went from 188 to 291. HDL went from 72 to 88. LDL went from 105 to 189. Chol/helps ratio went from 2.6 to 3.3. Triglycerides went from 57 to71. I also asked for fasting insulin to be checked. Wasn’t checked in 2017. My C-Peptide combo is 5.3, my free thyroxinewas 1.13 and my Throxine was 8.5. TSH is 2.160 - I don’t understand any of this part. Also my glucose went from 104 to 113. Other changes were my carbon dioxide is considered low now at 21 a drop from 25. My RDW is high at 14.8 from14.2. If anyone can help me make sense of this I would so appreciate it. I love this WOE and don’t cheat at all - except a little in April when I was on vacation. TY in advance.
Need some help with my bloodwork
As far as the risk of cardiovascular disease is concerned, the number to look at is the ratio of triglyceride to HDL. A ratio under 2.0 is considered very low risk for CVD. Your ratio is 71 / 88, which is less than 1.0, so you’re golden. If your doctor had specified an NMR analysis of your LDL particles, it would have turned out to be Pattern A, which is another marker for low CVD risk. Cholesterol is not the cause of CVD, it is part of the body’s healing response. My favorite saying in this connection is that “blaming cholesterol for heart disease is just like blaming fire trucks for fires.”
If you want to know more about the body’s lipid system, and what it does with the triglycerides and cholesterol that your lipoproteins are ferrying around in your bloodstream, Dave Feldman has some fascinating information at www.cholesterolcode.com.
For more information on statins and heart disease, Professor David Diamond reviews the scientific literature in the following videos:
And for the professor’s take on the role of cholesterol in cardiovascular disease: