A good analogy for cholesterol?

Ok, then how do you get rid of the bumpy roads?

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Ok, then how do you get rid of the bumpy roads?

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That is the logical question. The answer seems to be to abstain from things that cause inflammation. This is the path I wish research would go down

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Unfortunately, that isn't where they make money.

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Unfortunately

Thanks. I've always wondered about this issue. My doc has me on statins but i exercise regularly and eat NOVA 1. I wonder if i really need them. I will bring it up again during my next check up.

That's a fair analogy of how cholesterol clogs up arteries but its not 100% correct.

For many decades MDs and more specially, cardiologist were taught the 'plumbing model' of CL and the arteries. Much like a kitchen sink that gets clogged up with grease.

Medical research in the last 25 years has revealed that the LDL Cholesterol molecule , when it becomes oxidized, will burrow into the artery cell walls, causing blockage.

Most folks don't realize that our bodies produce cholesterol, mostly in the liver. Our bodies could not function without cholesterol.

Most lipid test just focuses on LDLs, HDLs, and Triglycerides.
Request advanced lipid testing.
Many people who were deemed healthy as a horse whose cholesterol seemed great either had a heart attack or stroke.

Medical reseach is starting to reveal more and more markers to heart disease:

A doc advised me to get these checked as well:
Get an ankle-brachial index test to look for PAD(peripheral artery disease ).
Its a very simple test that takes just a few minutes.

Get or request advanced lipid testing.
Most standard lipid test just focus on triglycerides, LDLs & HDLs.
Medical research is revealing other markers that can lead to coronary diseases, heart attacks and strokes.
The 'widow maker' heart attack has been linked to LipoA(Lipoprotein A) that is a must to checked.
Also ApoB(Apolipoproten B) needs to be checked.





This a good sight to read about cholesterol: LINK

BTW, I am not a medical professional.

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Thanks. I've always wondered about this issue. My doc has me on statins but i exercise regularly and eat NOVA 1. I wonder if i really need them. I will bring it up again during my next check up.

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I got my dad off statins. He has high cholesterol, but he doesnt have high blood pressure at all. He told his doc no thanks.

Timely thread

Just had 2 stents yesterday.

Time to get more educated as all they wanted to talk about was statins and blood thinners

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Can you people start defining what this actually means?

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Fair question. Id say a food that must go through many steps to make it into its final edible form and/or shelf stable. They will contain salts, sugars and fats not normally used in an average kitchen(high fructose corn syrup, seed oils, food dyes etc)

Its definitely an arbitrary and overused(im guilty as anyone) term but generally it refers to the shelf stable foods at grocery store(cereal, box dinners, candy, etc)

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You're right....technically the really bad stuff is "ultra-processed foods". But what I colloquially mean is: 1.shop the perimeter of the grocery store/avoid center aisles where the "processed" food lives 2. foods with 5 or less ingredients/foods with more than 5 likely have chemicals, stabilizers, emulsifiers, etc 3. foods with 1 ingredient (ie whole foods)/see above 4. avoid added sugar (which is in processed foods): most people walk around with sugar spikes (thus insulin spikes) and never even know it until they have pre-diabetes or diabetes 5. oats=not good for anyone with insulin resistance, especially if they do not contain the whole oat with the outer fiber shell

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^^^^Pretty much this^^^^

I know may sound Captain Obvious but just about ALL restaurant food can be listed.
Even all those 'heart healthy' foods they pawn like chicken nuggets.

Anything with hydrogenated or pre-hydrogenated on the label.

Most all store bought breads, even the 'wheat' bread you see on the labels.

Sugar is the HUGE one and is a big stinker.
Big 'food' knows that sugar is highly addicting and add it many of the foods they hawk to keep folks coming back to buy their stuff.
Big 'food' knows that more and more folks are aware of this and they hid it by using many many different names.

By some accounts, there are at least 250 different names for sugar.

Here are just a few commons names that may be found on labels:

1.Agave juice
2.Agave nectar
3.Agave syrup, all varieties
4.Beet sugar
5.Blackstrap molasses
6.Brown rice syrup
7.Brown sugar
8.Buttered syrup
9.Cane juice
10.Cane juice crystals
11.Cane sugar
12.Cane syrup
13.Caramel
14.Carob syrup
15.Castor sugar
16.Coconut sugar
17.Confectioners’ sugar
18.Corn glucose syrup

Many other alias' can be found at this link:
Names for sugar