re: What to do for high cholesterol?

First thing. Tell you Dr to do a NMR test. It's a better predictor of risk. I wouldn't put a ton of stock in your cholesterol #'s. Lipid panel is a 60 year old test that is wrong roughly 50% of the time.
Before taking pill, you can try diet and exercise.
Stop eating wheat

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First thing. Tell you Dr to do a NMR test. It's a better predictor of risk. I wouldn't put a ton of stock in your cholesterol #'s. Lipid panel is a 60 year old test that is wrong roughly 50% of the time. Before taking pill, you can try diet and exercise. Stop eating wheat

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Ding Ding Ding.

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Considering honey nut cheerios have 9g per serving, even with the sugar from the milk, that is just not accurate.

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A serving size is 3/4 of a cup. Who eats that little in a bowl? Most people eat double that.

22 grams of carbs in one serving x 2 = 44 grams of carbs

1 cup of whole milk equals 12 grams of carbs. Who eats 1 cup? Let's say 1.5 about average.

44+18= 62. I was off so youre right.

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Change your diet and eat healthier foods.

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Only helps one part of the cholestrol equation, which is why looking at total cholestrol is pointless. Your ratio of Triglycerides/HDL is the most important factor

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At 35 yrs old? Holy frick

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my total cholesterol level was almost 400 at 34 years of age. i was running multiple times a week and probably had around 15% body fat, mostly vegetarian diet with little eating poorly. that was almost a year ago.

should've seen the look on my doctor's face when he saw those numbers.

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Go get some red rice yeast supplements. Natural way to lower cholesterol,

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btw, red yeast rice is a low-level statin.

The Cholesterol Rx's will make your wiener limp

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How to cleanse your arteries

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and you can add 1 capsule of cayenne pepper to the list there...to roto root the veins

In September of 2010, my Triglyceride level reached 8,120. Eight Thousand one hundred and twenty.

Had pancreatis in the hospital for 4 days. Fasted for three days and the levels dropped to 2000. Pancreatis due to elevated triglycerides is no joke. More so than Cholesterol.

I take fish oil and trilipex and Vytorin. Plus, I was advised to walk 20-30 minutes per day. Over use of Alcohol can trigger pancreatis in some people. I don't drink though.

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First thing. Tell you Dr to do a NMR test. It's a better predictor of risk. I wouldn't put a ton of stock in your cholesterol #'s. Lipid panel is a 60 year old test that is wrong roughly 50% of the time. Before taking pill, you can try diet and exercise. Stop eating wheat

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Yep

I will add:

Dietary intake of cholesterol has no impact on your serum levels. Serum levels are produced endogenously (by the body) mainly due the facts below. OK to eat eggs, shrimp, grass fed beef and other high quality fats

Triglycerides and HDL are the most important metrics. Processed and excess carbs have the biggest impact on your triglycerides. Consider going on a carb restricted diet until a more proper body composition is obtained. At that point, add carbs back on days you exercise/train (feed your activity level)

To raise HDL (which is essentially a marker for insulin sensitivity), lay down as much healthy metabollically active tissue (muscle) while sacrificing the harmful metabollically active tissue (fat). High intensity exercise/strength training/ judicious cardio

A less inflammtory provoking diet also matters (higher ratio of omega 3s). The typical US diet is dominated by omega 6 (vegetable oil). Convert to using coconut oil (speller expressed which has minimal smell) for cooking and olive oil for topping things.

If you want a step by step primer on how to do it properly: Strong Medicine by Chris Hardy